Covedale Center for the Performing Arts Announces the 2013 -2014 Theatrical Season
Season Subscriptions on sale now!
The Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Avenue, expanded its Subscription Series from 3 weeks to 4 weeks in 2011! The 2013 – 2014 shows will again run for 16 performances each.
“The response to our expanded season last year was phenomenal!” said Tim Perrino, Covedale Artistic Director. “But we still have some great seats to offer new subscribers in 2013. Come join the crowd.”
The Covedale 2013 -2014 subscription series features the music of Johnny Cash, Dracula, a holiday classic, a fast-paced whodunit, a salute to the music of Tony Bennett and the world’s most famous stripper too!
Come enjoy great theatrical entertainment – at a great price! Where else can you get six wonderful shows at the low, Subscriber – only price of $19.00 per ticket? The Covedale will now have plenty of great subscriber seats available with great views of the stage – for renewing subscribers and new patrons alike! New subscribers are encouraged to get their seats now, for best seating choices.
Cincinnati Federal Savings is back as the Covedale Season sponsor! Cincinnati Federal is a real partner for the surrounding community and their generous support keeps the development of the Covedale on track for the year ahead.
The Covedale Center for the Performing Arts features the best in local performers and performances. “We’ll now feature a full theatre season and enough shows and seats for our expanding patron base.” The coming season will again see “the Covedale” grow as the region’s most exciting theatrical venue!
Show titles, dates and descriptions are as follows:
Ring of Fire – The Music of Johnny Cash
September 5 – 29, 2013
Created by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Conceived by William Meade
Orchestrations by Steven Bishop and Jeff Lisenby
A set of gifted singers and instrumentalists sing through some of the greatest songs of one of America’s most brilliant singer/songwriters, Johnny Cash. Though he is never impersonated, his remarkable life story is told through his music, climaxing in a concert that will both move and exhilarate!
Dracula
October 17 – November 10, 2013
By John L. Balderston, Hamilton Deane & Bram Stoker
Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night sucking blood from its victims. The vampire is at last found to be a certain Count Dracula, whose ghost is at last laid to rest in a striking and novel manner. Pure escape and great fun.
A Christmas Carol
November 29 – December 22, 2013
Book and Lyrics by Tim Perrino, Music by Jeremy Helmes, Based on the book by Charles Dickens
Come enjoy a fresh take on a Christmas classic. Share the holidays with thousands of Covedale patrons for this special musical version of Dickens’ all time favorite tale. Our holiday haunter has yuletide ghouls and merrymaking a-plenty! We’ll “Bring Back Christmas” with the not-so- “Dear, Mr. Scrooge”, while Bob Cratchit counts his heavenly “Christmas Treasure” and Tiny Tim chimes in with “God Bless Us Everyone!” It’s “Christmas First of All” at the Covedale!
The 39 Steps
January 23 – February 16, 2014
Adapted By Patrick Barlow, from the novel by John Buchan From the movie of Alfred Hitchcock
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony® and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance! The 39 Steps was Broadway’s longest running comedy, and played its 500th performance on Broadway, May 19th, 2009.
I Left My Heart
February 27 – March 23, 2014
A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett
Created by David Grapes and Todd Olson
I LEFT MY HEART sports a thrilling score of 40 standards all recorded by Bennett, including “Because Of You,” “Stranger In Paradise,” “Top Hat, White Tie And Tails,” “The Best Is Yet To Come,” “On Green Dolphin Street,” “When Will The Bells Ring For Me,” “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams,” “I Wanna Be Around,” “The Good Life,” “Rags To Riches,” and his best-known hit, “I Left My Heart In San Francisco.”
Gypsy
April 10 – May 4, 2014
Book by Arthur Laurents; Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Suggested by memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee
Original Production by David Merrick & Leland Hayward; Originally directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins.
GYPSY is the ultimate story about an aggressive stage mother. Join Rose, June and Louise in their trip across the United States during the 1920’s, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. Jule Styne’s music and Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics include: “Let Me Entertain You”, “Some People”, “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”, “If Momma Was Married”, “All I Need Is the Girl”, “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”, “You Gotta Get A Gimmick” and “Together Wherever We Go”. This is one of the greatest Broadway shows of all time!
Subscriptions: Just $114.00 for the Six-Show Series
Single Tickets: Just $21.00 for Student/Seniors; $24.00 for Adults
Tickets available at the Box Office, 4990 Glenway Avenue, by phone at 513.241.6550 and online at http://www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com
NEWPORT (KY.) – Tickets are now available for the world premiere production of the new musical VARIABLES – running Feb. 21, 23, 28 and March 2, 2013 – at Thompson House Newport, Greater Cincinnati’s live music and creative hub.
