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Stage Right Presents ANNIE

SRMTC_AnnieBringing the classic musical comedy to life

Williamstown, KY – Stage Right Musical Theatre Company’s production of “Annie” will open January 26 and run through February 4th at the brand new Williamstown Performing Arts Center.

The company of Annie stars Adalynn Coleman as the titular redhead, with Joshua Van Nort as Oliver Warbucks. Annie Schneider, Mary Vosseberg, Trey Finkenstead, Cassidy Perme fill the respective roles of Grace, Miss Hannigan, Rooster, and Lily St. Regis. The ensemble consists of Scout Grass, Jackson Greene, Madisyn Kelley, Mckinley Grace Lustenberg, Kelli Philips,
Heather Mizer, Ivy Mizer, Leighton Holladay, Brett Price, Garry Zink, and Rachel Gardner.

The orphans of Annie will be played by Catherine Bergstrom, Lilian Crowe, Echo Mizer, Jaclyn Crousey, Maggie Zink, Elaine Becker, Sky Drawdy, Kendyl Nickell, and Evelyn Heubach.

The production is helmed by John Siedenberg II, with stage management by Shannon Eaton, Music direction by Kristi Hiner, Choreography by Shelby Coleman, costume designs by Emily Carroll, and production design by John Siedenberg Sr.

The presenting sponsor of this production is the Grant County Tourism & Convention Commission.

“The Sun’ll come out…tomorrow! The classic hit musical Annie comes to brilliant life this winter. Everyone’s favorite redhead charms everyone she meets in 1930s New York City. Dropped on the doorstep of an orphanage years ago, Annie longs to meet her true parents while escaping the wrath of orphanage owner Miss Hannigan. When the gruff billionaire Oliver
Warbucks invites Annie to join him for Christmas, her dreams of family come to life in unexpected ways, befriending President Franklin D Roosevelt, foiling Miss Hannigan, and finding home in unexpected places. Annie the Musical is the perfect musical for the entire family.”

Annie performances:

  • January 26 and February 2, 3 at 7:30
  • January 27 at 3:30
  • January 28 & February 4 at 2:30

Tickets are on sale now at www.StageRightMTC.org

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Cincinnati Ballet Presents DON QUIXOTE, Feb. 16-25

CB_Don QuixoteBanish the winter blues with a sunny trip to Spain 

CINCINNATI, OH (January 24, 2024) – Cincinnati Ballet opens choreographer Anna Marie Holmes’ Don Quixote February 16, with live music performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. With performances at Music Hall through February 25, Don Quixote is inspired by Cervantes’ literary masterpiece and features an elaborate production, more than one hundred roles and of course, a windmill! With a host of dynamic characters, including Don Quixote and his trusted squire Sancho Panza; the flirtatious Kitri; her love interest, the barber Basilio; and many more, Don Quixote is considered ballet’s original romantic comedy.

The production is family-friendly and includes young dancers from the Cincinnati Ballet Otto M. Budig Academy. The production includes romance, laughs, bullfights, travelers, and more.

In addition to virtuoso ballet, the production features energetic Flamenco as well. “It’s an incredible, colorful, funny, high-spirited classical ballet,” said Cervilio Amador, Interim Artistic Director. “It has a delightful story, humor, and energy that will have the audience on their feet. Cincinnati Ballet has not performed this classic work in many, many years, so this will be a fresh theater experience I am betting they will want to see again and again.” Anna-Marie Holmes, the first American dancer to train and dance in Soviet Russia, has staged this production, based a few chapters from Miguel de Cervantes classic novel that tells the tale of the quintessential dreamer, Don Quixote. The Don, with his trusted confidante, Sancho Panza, embarks on an adventure to find his ideal love, Dulcinea. Their paths cross with Kitri and Basilio, a pair of young lovers, as well as a colorful cast of toreadors and travelers!

Don Quixote includes one of the most well-known dances in the ballet repertory: the pas de deux between lovers Kitri and Basilio, as well as the notoriously challenging ‘Kitri jump.’ The music is from the score by Ludwig Minkus, performed live by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Tickets are on sale now, starting at $29 at cballet.org. 

PERFORMANCE DATES AND INFORMATION

WHO:         Cincinnati Ballet
Choreography: Anna Marie Holmes
Music: Ludwig Minkus, performed with the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra

WHAT:       Don Quixote

WHEN:      

  • Friday, February 16 – 7:30 pm
  • Saturday, February 17 – 2:00 pm
  • Saturday, February 17 – 7:30 pm
  • Sunday, February 18 – 1:00 pm
  • Friday, February 23 – 7:30 pm
  • Saturday, February 24 – 2:00 pm
  • Saturday, February 24 – 7:30 pm
  • Sunday, February 25 – 1 pm

WHERE:      Music Hall – 1241 Elm St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

Cincinnati Ballet 2023-2024 Season Sponsors:
PNC, Margaret and Michael Valentine, ArtsWave, H.B., E.W. & F.R. Luther Foundation, Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund, Ohio Arts Council, The Austin E. Knowlton Foundation

About Cincinnati Ballet
Since 1963, Cincinnati Ballet has been the cornerstone professional ballet company of the region, presenting a bold and adventurous array of classical, full-length ballets and contemporary works, regularly with live orchestral accompaniment. Cincinnati Ballet is a creative force within the larger dance community, commissioning world-premiere works and exploring unique collaborations. With a mission to enrich, expand, and excel in the art of dance through performance, a high-caliber academy, and impactful education and community engagement in local to global communities, Cincinnati Ballet reaches beyond the stage in programs that allow every person in the region to be part of the continued evolution of dance. To that end, Cincinnati Ballet presents exhilarating performances, provides extensive education and community engagement programs, and offers top-level professional ballet training at Cincinnati Ballet Otto M. Budig Academy.

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‘America’s Got Talent’ Finalist Performs at the Fairfield Community Arts Center on Feb. 9

FCAC_CatapultMAGIC SHADOWS
Presented by Catapult Shadow Dance Company

FAIRFIELD, OH – Enter the amazing world of Magic Shadows at the Fairfield Community Arts Center (FCAC) Friday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. Presented by Catapult Entertainment, an America’s Got Talent finalist, you won’t believe your eyes as you watch these incredible dancers transform their bodies into seemingly impossible shapes.

Tickets are $36. Call the FCAC Box Office at 513-867-5348 or purchase online at www.fairfieldoh.gov.tickets. This show is funded in part by the Ohio Arts Council.

In one instant they are a mouse and then a full-size elephant, a camel, a car with headlights, a house and not just a house but a house with a window and people inside the window. You will never figure out how they do it and you won’t know what they will make next – you will be surprised again and again.

Audiences are delighted by the apparently effortless transformations and applaud over and over as more and more unbelievable images appear on the stage. Not only is the show packed with hundreds of shape transformations but it is full of humor, emotion, and engaging stories.

Magic Shadows is comprised of eight fully realized stories that are told using only music and shadows. There is no language barrier – adults and children from any place on earth will follow and love these stories. The show also includes one very special shadow dance using cutting edge technology to create Color Shadows! No other shadow company has this technology.

Audiences leave this show dazed and happy and they will never look at their own shadow the same way again!

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One-Off Productions Debuts with ROMEO AND JULIET: A FOOL’S PARADISE

OOPs_Romeo and Juliet a Fools Paradise(Cincinnati, OH — January 22, 2023) One-Off Productions, an independent theatre initiative from Rupert Spraul, is set to premiere its inaugural production of Romeo and Juliet: A Fool’s Paradise at Gabriel’s Corner in OTR from February 8-17, 2024. One-Off aims to offer accessible, experimental theatre to the Cincinnati community and calls this production “a clown show–like Dean Martin chugged a beer, hit you upside the head with a salami, fell in love, then died!” Rupert Spraul, as lead producer, takes on direction; Hannah Gregory joins as production manager/co-producer; and Josh Reiter supports as co-producer. The cast boasts local favorites, as well as actors from Chicago, Virgina, and beyond, with CCM graduates Cameron Nalley and Olivia Buss taking on the titular characters, respectively.

Spraul says:

“Our production’s unique exploration of this story and its timeless humanity highlights the uproarious comedy of this story (that is often neglected) which resists giving way to tragedy…Until it does. I don’t think this is a play that needs, or wants, deep academic examination. It’s something that every adult understands: Youth is, or should be, a joyous-inconsequential-fantastical-clowshow, then you grow up and lose things you can’t get back, and the clown show ends.”

Romeo and Juliet: A Fool’s Paradise is a self-produced project; and with fair pay being a cornerstone of One-Off’s mission, crowdfunding is in full-swing to bring this show to life. Eighty percent of the budget is committed to actor payment, with the remaining twenty percent covering venue rental; set, props, and costumes; and technical elements.

The GoFundMe is live at https://gofund.me/52715367.

Romeo and Juliet: A Fool’s Paradise runs at Gabriel’s Corner  (1425 Sycamore, Cincinnati, OH, 45202) on:

  • Thursday, February 8 at 7:30pm
  • Friday, February 9 at 7:30pm
  • Saturday, February 10 at 7:30pm
  • Wednesday, February 14 at 7:30pm
  • Thursday, February 15 at 7:30pm
  • Friday, February 16 at 7:30pm
  • Saturday, February 17 at 7:30pm

Suggested parking includes Ziegler Park Garage, surrounding metered street parking, or free parking on select streets north of Liberty St in OTR.

About One-Off Productions:
One-Off Productions (OOPs) is a grassroots independent theatre initiative in Cincinnati Ohio, making impactful, accessible, professional, experimental theatre.

Find us on Instagram at @one.off.productions

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Big Laughs and High Seas With SHIPWRECKED! AN ENTERTAINMENT

HRTC_ShipwreckedTo shake off the winter doldrums, join The Human Race Theatre Company in a comedic adventure on the high seas with Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Donald Margulies’ frothy  2008 play Shipwrecked! An Entertainment – The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougement (As Told by Himself). 

Inspired by a true story, Shipwrecked! sets sail on a tongue-in-cheek, round-the-world adventure. Louis de Rougemont weaves an awe-inspiring, sometimes unbelievable tale, as he takes you through his mesmerizing journey of survival, bravery, and fame. It’s not just a story; it’s a theatrical spectacle that promises laughter, thrills, and a touch of magic.

“This family friendly tall tale explores the ideas of theatrical creativity and imagination and how we can be in a London lecture hall in one moment, and riding a sea turtle through the waves in the next,” says Artistic Director Emily N. Wells. “While on the surface, Margulies shares a whimsical comedy that is magical and delightful; but when you begin to dig deeper, Shipwrecked tests how far we are willing to go for fame and fortune.”

Greg Hellems directs resident artists Bruce Cromer (I Am My Own Wife, The 39 Steps) as Louis, Andrew Ian Adams (Deadline, Airness), and newcomer Shonita Joshi in her debut at The Human Race Theatre Company, most recently seen in Cincinnati as Belle in Cincinnati Playhouse in the Parks’ A Christmas Carol. Joshi and Adams play an entire company of roles as Player One and Two.

Rounding out the production team are: D. Tristan Cupp, Scenic Design; John Rensel, Lighting Design; Molly Walz, Costume Design; John Gromada, Sound Design; Sarah Gomes, Props; Carolyn Fast, Production Stage Manager.

Shipwrecked! An Entertainment will play in the Loft Theatre in downtown Dayton, February 22 – March 10, 2024.  Tickets are on sale at www.humanracetheatre.org or through the Dayton Live box office at 937-228-3630.  For press ticket requests, please contact Tiffany Countryman, Engagement and Learning Coordinator at tiffany@humanracetheatre.org

The Human Race Theatre Company continues its commitment to high quality theatre with access points for all through ticket initiatives sponsored by Morris Furniture Company: two sections of $20 seats available at any time through the box office, and ten $10 rush seats available 90 minutes before any performance.

Special Nights at The Loft:   

  • Pay What You Can – Wednesday, February 21, 8pm – Enter with donation for Dayton Rowing Club or non-perishable food item for Dayton Food Bank
  • Inside Track – Thursday February 22, 7:15pm – preshow conversation
  • Sawbuck Sunday – Sunday, February 25, 7:00 – $10 tickets 90 minutes before curtain
  • While We’re On the Subject – Sunday March 3, 2pm – Post Show discussion
  • Parent’s Day Out – Saturday, March 9, 2 pm – Kids Separate Activities (5-12yo)

The Human Race expresses gratitude for the public and private support which makes these productions possible:  Loft Season Sponsor: Jack W. and Sally D. Eichelberger Foundation;  Sustainability Sponsors:  Anne F. Johnson, Steve and Lou Mason, and Morris Furniture Company;  Additional Season support:  Emma R. Catterton Trust, Funds at The Dayton Foundation and The Toulmin Fund, Sam Levin Foundation, Virginia F. Kettering Foundation,  The Shubert Foundation;  Organizational support:  Culture Works, Montgomery County, Ohio Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Dayton Region Arts Renewal Grant. Media Sponsor: WDPR Discover Classical, WYSO, Key Ads. Pay What You Can Sponsor: Enterprise Holdings Foundation. Parent’s Day Out: Rabbit Hole Books/Dayton Book Fair

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