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July 14, 2015 · 11:40 am

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Runs July 31-Aug. 8

Back row: Jacob Spicer, Joey Nicoletti, Brandon Besl, Jenni Stadtmiller & Patrick Brems. Front row: Lauren Sprague, Kayla Burress, Emma Fox & Corey Watzek.

Back row: Jacob Spicer, Joey Nicoletti, Brandon Besl, Jenni Stadtmiller & Patrick Brems. Front row: Lauren Sprague, Kayla Burress, Emma Fox & Corey Watzek.

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
The Ohio Stage Company
July 31-Aug. 8
Hamilton

Directed and produced by Skip Badonsky
Music directed by Pat Brems and Maria Palassis

Cast: Jacob Spicer, Joey Nicoletti, Brandon Besl, Jenni Stadtmiller, Patrick Brems, Lauren Sprague, Kayla Burress, Emma Fox & Corey Watzek.

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home life, the tweens spell their way through a series of [potentially made-up] words hoping to never hear the soul crushing, pout inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! At least the losers get a juice box.

  • Fri-Sat, July 31-Aug. 1 at 8pm
  • Sun, Aug. 2 at 3pm
  • Thu-Sat, Aug. 6-8 at 8pm

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July 13, 2015 · 9:10 am

9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL Runs Aug. 12-30

WFIT_9 to 5 promo

Michelle Wells as Judy, Cheryl Salzman, Courtni Nicolaci as Doralee & Allen R. Middleton as Franklin Hart.

9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL
Warsaw Federal Incline Theatre
Aug. 12-30
East Price HIll

Directed by Karie-Lee Sutherland
Music directed by Doug Schmutte
Choreographed by Dee Anne Bryll

Cast: Cheryl Salzman as Violet, Michelle Wells as Judy, Courtni Nicolaci as Doralee, Allen R. Middleton as Franklin Hart, Lauren Carr as Roz Keith, Colin Cranston as Tinsworthy/Co. President/ensemble, Jack Williams as Joe, Corey Meyer as Josh/ensemble & Stephen Welch as Dwayne/ensemble
Ensemble: Philip Krinsky, Jeremy Cox, Anne Schneider, Kyndra Dyanne Wilkins, Lesley Hitch, Torie Pate & Amanda Reiber

Three unlikely friends take control of their office and learn there is nothing they can’t do, even in a man’s world. 9 To 5 The Musical, is set in the late 1970s this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking, and even a little romantic. Pushed to the boiling point, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy – giving their boss the boot! While Hart remains “otherwise engaged,” the women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?

  • Wed-Thu, Aug. 12-13 at 7:30pm
  • Fri-Sat, Aug. 14-15 at 8pm
  • Sun, Aug. 16 at 2pm
  • Wed-Thu, Aug. 19-20 at 7:30pm
  • Fri-Sat, Aug. 21-22 at 8pm
  • Sun, Aug. 23 at 2pm
  • Wed-Thu, Aug. 26-27 at 7:30pm
  • Fri-Sat, Aug. 28-29 at 8pm
  • Sun, Aug. 30 at 2pm

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July 9, 2015 · 10:29 am

THE COMPLETE TOM: 3. ABROAD Runs July 17-26

QCF_Abroad logoTHE COMPLETE TOM: 3. ABROAD
Presented by Queen City Flash
July 17-26
Various

Directed by Bridget Leak

Cast: Dave Powell, Rico Reid & Trey Tatum

Join your favorite characters on a trans-Atlantic voyage in this family-friendly production as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Jim set sail in a Jules Verne-like airship. This production includes original artwork by Cincinnati native Daniel Beard, Boy Scouts of America founder and Mark Twain illustrator. THE COMPLETE TOM: 3. ABROAD reunites the works Tom Sawyer Abroad with another adventure found in Life On the Mississippi and related footnotes from Twain’s Chapters from My Autobiography.

  • Fri-Sun, July 17-19 at 8pm
  • Fri-Sun, July 24-26 at 8pm

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July 7, 2015 · 8:43 am

MARY POPPINS Runs Aug. 7-8

VOI_Mary Poppins logoMARY POPPINS
Voices of Indiana
Aug. 7-8
Lawrenceburg

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The jack-of-all trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family how to value each other again. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren’t the only ones she has a profound effect upon. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that “Anything can happen if you let it.”

  • Fri-Sat, Aug. 7-8 at 7pm

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July 6, 2015 · 3:55 pm

2.5 MINUTE RIDE on July 13

QCQTC_2point5 minute ride logo2.5 MINUTE RIDE
Queen City Queen Theatre Collective
July 13
Below Zero Lounge in Over-the-Rhine

Directed by Abby Rowold

Cast: Caitlin McWethy

Staged reading. A poignant and funny journey, rich in anecdotal detail, through the Kron family album. Among Lisa’s eccentric relations, for example, are the grandmother who stuffed her house with cosmetics because she felt sorry for the Avon lady, and the brother who, residing among wall-to-wall Gentiles in Lansing, Michigan, had to resort to the Internet to find a Jewish bride. And there’s Lisa’s father, 74-year-old Walter, who, in spite of near-blindness, diabetes and a heart condition, insists on family trips to Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, the world capital of roller coasters, to take breathtaking rides such as the Demon Drop and Iron Dragon with Lisa. But this isn’t her only journey with her ailing father. Walter, a German-born Jew who attended school with boys in Hitler Youth uniforms and escaped Nazi Germany as a teenager by Kindertransport only to return as an American soldier assigned to interrogate captured German personnel following the war. His parents, however, were unable to escape. In an effort to better understand her father’s personal history, Lisa accompanies Walter to Auschwitz, where his parents were killed, and where she understands more clearly the joys and sorrows of her father’s heart. With wit and compassion, Lisa creates a complex, startling and searingly funny meditation on how human beings make sense of tragedy, grief, and everyday life.

  • Mon, July 13 at 7:30pm

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