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Annual fundraiser features casino gaming, dancing, costumes, food, and champagne toast

This New Year’s Eve, get your fedoras and flapper dresses ready for the 7th Annual Know Theatre CityBeat NYE Speakeasy Party! Attendees can look forward to raucous back room games, tasty appetizers, and two bars serving up classic martinis, and a champagne toast at midnight! Entry to the event is $15 in advance and $25 beginning December 24 at noon. All proceeds support Know Theatre of Cincinnati’s mission of creating a playful artistic community where artists can collaborate and grow. This December 31, the party starts at 8pm and jazzes away into the New Year, or until 1am.

Sponsored by CityBeat, this annual celebration is the place to be this New Year’s Eve. With coppers cracking down on the bootleggin’ be sure you’re not followed to the secret speakeasy and get ready to party like its 1923. When the clock strikes midnight, a live feed of Times Square will take over the big screens on both floors, and everyone can enjoy a free champagne toast, but remember not to be too loud as a cop raid could happen at any moment. The jail house is no place to spend the most happenin’ night of the year! Our bartenders will be servin’ up Manhattans, Sidecars, and Martinis to all you dappers and dolls! Join in on the buzzin’ games of Black Jack, Roulette, and Red Dog Poker, but don’t bet all of your clams in one place! Our DJ upstairs will keep the swingin’ tunes going and the live band downstairs will help you feel the love with your sweetheart at midnight!

Last year, the Know Theatre CityBeat NYE SpeakEasy was the New Years event to beat. Over 350 people attended and had a roarin’ good time! Advance reservations are recommended, the event has sold out in advance every year. Save the date now! With coppers seeking out speakeasy locations, this party is bound to fill up quick.

For more information visit our website at www.knowtheatre.com or call 513-300-KNOW (5669)

Info:

The Know Theatre CityBeat NYE Speakeasy Party
December 31, 2012 8 pm – 1 am
1120 Jackson Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513.300.5669 (KNOW)

Admission: $15 in advance, $25 after December 24 @ 12:00pm
Theme: Speakeasy, suggested attire: roaring 20’s wear, fedoras, flapper dresses (not required for entry)
Activities: Martini Bar, Casino Gaming, Dancing, Food, DJ, Live Entertainment, Champagne Toast

Know Theatre of Cincinnati is supported, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign. The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Know Theatre with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. Know Theatre is supported by the National Theatre Company Grant from The American Theatre Wing, dedicated to supporting the most promising emerging theatre companies from around the country. Know Theatre of Cincinnati also receives support from The Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, helping to change our communities for the better through collaboration and innovation.

Our mission is to create evocative and explosive live entertainment.
Our vision is a world awakened to its collective possibility.
We value a playful artistic community where artists can collaborate and grow.

Join us to celebrate the end of days with the variety show to end all variety shows

The world is coming to an end. The sky will catch fire, the rivers will rise, and the ground will shake! Where will you be when it all comes crashing down? Instead of roaming the streets creating havoc, eating all of your Twinkies, running for the hills, crying with your cat, or cowering in your basements, why not spend your last forsaken moment with your friends at Know Theatre? No one is really sure the exact moment, method, or duration of our path to judgment day, but one thing is for sure, Know Theatre will tell you what to expect when you are expecting…the end of the world.

On December 20 and 21, 2012 at 9pm, join Know Theatre to celebrate the end of days with a performance so big, so loud, so funny, and so righteous, that it might just bring about the end of days. Our house band, The Rapture Brothers will provide the righteous tunes, our cast of the chosen few will provide the laughs to ease your pain, and don’t worry, the bar will be open. Your money’s no good after the river of molten metal swings through Cincinnati, so be sure to bring it all with you.

THE APOCALYPSE SHOW! is directed by Know Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director Eric Vosmeier, and has been created, scene by scene, and song by song, by your end of the world creative team; Chris Wesselman, Eric Vosmeier, Steve Schofield, Annie Kalahurka, and Harper Lee. THE APOCALYPSE SHOW! incorporates sketch comedy, our live band The Rapture Brothers, predictions, secrets revealed, gratuitous drinking, and answers to all of your apocalypse FAQ’s.

What happens if the world doesn’t end? On Saturday December 22 from 1-3pm, if all doesn’t go according to plan, join us at Know Theatre for The Apocalypse Show Potluck! Bring your favorite post-apocalyptic dish to share and we’ll celebrate the Mayan’s lack of foresight. Hopefully we won’t see you there!

THE APOCALYPSE SHOW! cast of the chosen few is comprised of several familiar faces from Know Theatre past productions and one first timer! Lauren Bailey is appearing at Know Theatre for the first time. Lauren is the Artistic Coordinator at the Cincinnati Opera and has appeared on stage with the Falcon Theatre locally. Randy Lee Bailey has performed with Know Theatre in Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party and was an understudy in Collapse last season. Matt Hill, a current musical theatre major at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) recently appeared in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at Know Theatre. Annie Kalahurka, has recently appeared at Know Theatre in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party, The Dragon, and Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Derek Snow, a member of longest Cincinnati Fringe participant Performance Gallery, last performed with Know Theatre in Top Dog/Underdog in 2007. Chris Wesselman, currently the Associate Producer for the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, has recently been seen in The Naughty List, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, A Wrinkle in Time, Adding Machine: A Musical, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, and Vigils.

Tickets

• The Mayans VIP Package
  VIP Package Tickets* are $50 each and includes free food from Mayberry and Skirtz & Johnston and two drink tickets.
• The Cockroaches General Admission
  General admission tickets are $15 in advance & $18 on the week of the show, beginning Monday December 17 @ 12pm.

Tickets can be purchased by visiting knowtheatre.com or calling 513.300.5669. Flex-passes are valid for this event.

*Remember your money will be worth nothing the next day, so bring it all with you.

Know Theatre of Cincinnati is supported, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign. The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Know Theatre with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. Know Theatre is supported by the National Theatre Company Grant from The American Theatre Wing, dedicated to supporting the most promising emerging theatre companies from around the country. Know Theatre of Cincinnati also receives support from The Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, helping to change our communities for the better through collaboration and innovation.

Our mission is to create evocative and explosive live entertainment.
Our vision is a world awakened to its collective possibility.
We value a playful artistic community where artists can collaborate and grow.