Playhouse South 2015-2016 Season
Aug. 7-16
THE MUSIC MAN
Directed by Kim Warrick
Sept. 24-Oct. 4
FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS
Directed by Aaron Brewer
Nov. 6-15
AMERICAN IDIOT
Directed by Carrie Thurston
March 4-13
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Directed by Jim Spencer
May 6-15
THE SECRET GARDEN
Directed by Matt Kuntzman
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The Loveland Stage Company’s 2015-2016 season includes musical shows that are exciting, entertaining and new to the Loveland stage.
The season starts with the children’s summer workshop production of PETER PAN, the original British musical version. Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish playwright J. M. Barrie. A mischievous boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang, the Lost Boys. Peter interacts with mermaids, Native Americans, fairies, pirates, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland. Piers Chater Robinson wrote the book, music and lyrics for the musical (British) version. Robinson wrote thirteen catchy, up-tempo songs for the show such as “What happens When You’re Grown Up?”, “You Gotta Believe” and “Don’t Say Goodbye”. In the last 14 years, the musical has enjoyed many box-office record-breaking seasons in British and European theatres (including London’s West End). It has also been performed in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Dubai, Japan, Mexico, India, Sri Lanka and South Africa.
The Loveland Stage Company’s PETER PAN is being directed by Glenna Knapp, a veteran director and Ohio ACT (Association of Community Theater) Orchid winner. Co-producers of the children’s summer workshop are Sue Lundy, Ginger Kroncke and Susan Reese. Other veterans and ACT Orchid winners include Music and Vocal Director Jack Hasty and Choreographer Marjory Clegg.
Audition schedule for children ages 8 to 18 years is May 16, 2015 from 2:00 to 4:30 PM and May 17 from 2:00 to 4:30 PM at the Loveland Stage Company. Hopefuls should bring shoes suitable for dancing. Call Glenna Knapp at 513-543-2358 for information about rehearsal dates.
Show Dates for PETER PAN are July 9 through July 12 and July 15 through 18, 2015. Visit www.lovelandstagecompany.org and like The Loveland Stage Company on Facebook for information on buying tickets.
The Loveland Stage Company is proud to be producing JEKYLL AND HYDE The Musical this fall. This stage musical is based on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson in which a London doctor accidentally unleashes his evil alternate personality in his quest to cure his father’s mental illness. The musical features a thrilling score of pop rock hits from multi-Grammy and TONY nominated Frank Wildhorn and double Oscar and Grammy-winning Leslie Bricusse.
The Loveland Stage Company’s JEKYLL AND HYDE is being directed by Richard Lee Waldeck and co-produced by Becky Cole and Tom Cavano. ACT Orchid winners Music and Vocal Director Jack Hasty and Choreographer Marjory Clegg will be guiding the audio and visual interpretation of the musical lyrics and score.
Auditions are scheduled for August 2, 2015 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM and August 3, 2015 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Candidates should come prepared with no more than 32 bars of music (not from the show) with sheet music clearly marked for piano accompanist and appropriate shoes for the choreography portion of the audition. More information about rehearsal dates may be obtained from Richard Lee Waldeck at 513-344-2583, Becky Cole at 513-891-7971 or Tom Cavano at 513-235-7821.
Show Dates for JEKYLL AND HYDE The Musical are on three weekends beginning November 6 and ending November 22, 2015. Visit www.lovelandstagecompany.org and like The Loveland Stage Company on Facebook for information on buying tickets.
In December, Director and Choreographer Marjory Clegg and Producer Pat Furterer and their cast and crew will presenting 30 minutes of musical entertainment for the whole family during the “Christmas in Loveland” festivities. Jack Hasty is the Music Director for this Holiday Show called “Say It with Music”. Audition date is October 10, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:00 PM for candidates from 16 years and older. Show date in the Loveland Stage Company Theatre on Second Street in the heart of Loveland is December 12, 2015 with performances at 5:00, 6:00 and 7:00 pm.
The Loveland Stage Company will be producing an exciting and entertaining musical, THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES: A Life in Review next spring. The musical is a show about Will Rogers, a unique American, who became the biggest, most popular, and highest paid star of every existing medium of his time — stage, screen, radio, newspapers, and public appearances. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that he may be the greatest star this country has ever produced. The original New York production was directed and choreographed by Tommy Tune. The book was written by Peter Stone with music composed and arranged by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The musical opened on Broadway, May 1, 1991 and played for 981 performances at the Palace Theatre winning six Tony Awards for Musical, Score, Director, Choreographer, Costume Designer and Lighting Designer.
The Loveland Stage Company’s THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES: A Life in Review is being directed by ACT Orchid winner Pat Furterer and produced by K Buckler also an ACT Orchid winner. Music and Vocal Director Jack Hasty and Choreographer Marjory Clegg will be bringing another award winner to the audio and visual interpretation of the musical lyrics and score as they did in the production of 42nd Street.
Auditions are scheduled for December 13, 2015 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM and December 14, 2015 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM. Please come prepared with a song and appropriate shows for dancing. More information about rehearsal dates may be obtained from Pat Furterer at 513-683-9687 or K Buckler at 513-683-0130.
Show Dates for THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES: A Life in Review are on three weekends beginning March 4 and ending March 19, 2015. Visit www.lovelandstagecompany.org and like The Loveland Stage Company on Facebook for information on buying tickets.
The Loveland Stage Company is dedicated to bringing quality theater to the community. We select plays and musicals which are both instructive to our members and entertaining to our audiences. With on-stage quality as a goal, we strive to keep a friendly, healthy atmosphere in our productions. Our members, volunteers all, are then afforded the best opportunities to exercise their interests and talents, while our club provides the best amateur theater our community can produce.
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Falcon Theatre is proud to announce a change to our 2015-2016 season. We have just secured the rights to product SILENCE! The Musical.
SILENCE! The Musical
Music and Lyrics by Jon Kaplan & Al Kaplan
Book by Hunter Bell.
This unauthorized parody of Silence of the Lambs premiered in 2005 as part of the New York International Fringe Festival and went on to an Off-Broadway run, garnering awards, including Time Magazine’s Top 10 Plays of 2011 and the 2012 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical.
Falcon will open our season with SILENCE! The Musical in September 2015 and we’re thrilled to be the first in the area to produce this musical. “Falcon has been following the amazing journey that SILENCE! The Musical has taken from a New York Fringe Festival piece to Off-Broadway, and we’ve been excited about the prospect of bringing this show to the Greater Cincinnati area from the very beginning. We’ve waited through the show’s meteoric rise in New York and, now that we’ve finally been able to bring the show to our stage, we knew it was a perfect season opener” says Ted Weil, Falcon’s Artistic Director.
In case you need your musical fix earlier, don’t forget that ASSASSINS, the classic Sondheim musical, wraps up our 2014-2015 season starting May 29 and running through June 13 2015.
Don’t forget the rest of our 2015-2016 Season:
SILENCE! The Musical
NEXT FALL
THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LENANNE
PRELUDE TO A KISS
THE MYSTERY PLAYS
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ENSEMBLE THEATRE CINCINNATI ANNOUNCES THE 2015-2016
OTTO M. BUDIG FAMILY FOUNDATION 30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
(Cincinnati, OH) Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) is thrilled to announce its 2015-2016 Season, which also marks the theatre’s 30th Anniversary Season. The season features an exciting selection of four regional premieres including: a sharp-eyed contemporary drama focusing on one of most complicated and controversial American social institutions; an hysterical new comedy fresh off its chart-topping run Off-Broadway; and a spellbinding, ripped-from-the-headlines award-winning one-woman drama. Additionally, 2015-2016 will welcome back the return of one of ETC’s beloved holiday musicals.
About the Plays
Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati’s thirtieth anniversary season opens with the regional premiere of Luna Gale (September 8-27, 2015) by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rebecca Gilman. The Los Angeles Times called this powerful, haunting drama about the difficulty of knowing how to do good in the world “one of this year’s most valuable additions to American drama.” Caroline, a veteran social worker, thinks she has a typical case on her hands when she meets Peter and Karlie, two teenage drug addicts accused of neglecting their baby. But when she places their infant daughter in the care of Karlie’s mother, Caroline sparks a family conflict that exposes a shadowy, secretive past—and forces her to make a risky decision with potentially disastrous consequences. Powerful and arresting, Luna Gale is a heartbreaking and unforgettable tale of love and betrayal.
The season continues with the regional premiere of Jonathan Tolins’s acclaimed Off-Broadway hit Buyer and Cellar (October 13-November 1, 2015), which will star Cincinnati native Nick Cearley (Next to Normal, The Great American Trailer Park Musical). This outrageous one-man comedy swept the Best of 2013 Theatre lists including The New York Times, Associated Press, The Hollywood Reporter, New York Post, NPR, Newsday, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, and Entertainment Weekly, among many others. What’s a renowned diva to do with decades of memories that light the corners of her mind? And where to put the acres of memorabilia bursting the seams of her lavish Malibu estate? If you’re Barbra Streisand, you enshrine them in a mini-mall in your basement where you can pretend to go shopping! Out-of-work actor Alex More can’t pass up the oddest of odd jobs—an offer to play shopkeeper for one tough customer who doesn’t let anyone rain on her parade. Soon it begins to take a toll on his patience, his love life, and his view of people (who need people).
For the holidays, ETC features the return of Cinderella (December 2, 2015-January 3, 2016) with book by Joseph McDonough, lyrcis by David Kisor, and music by Fitz Patton. Throw out that glass slipper and break out your library card, because ETC’s Cinderella is utterly spec-ta-cular! What do you get when you combine a nearsighted bookworm heroine, two fabulously self-absorbed stepsisters, one devilishly diva stepmother, along with a self-empowering Well-Wisher? A fresh, fun contemporary take on the classic fairy tale that demonstrates being smart is true beauty. When the king pressures his romantically challenged son to choose a bride from hundreds of “applicants,” a cross-country tour of the kingdom to reunite a missing sneaker—yes sneaker!—with its rightful owner ensues. From the creators of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, this enchanted and memorable musical will delight audiences of all ages this holiday season.
For winter 2015, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati will present the regional premiere of the award-winning, one-woman show Grounded (January 26-February 14, 2016) by George Brant. An unexpected pregnancy ends an ace fighter pilot’s career in the sky. Reassigned to operate remote-controlled military drones in the Middle East from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away. The pilot’s struggle to navigate her dual identities may be her toughest mission yet.
In the spring, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati will stage a regional premiere to be announced. Production dates for this show are scheduled to be March 22-April 10, 2016.
Finally, to close out the 2015-2016 Season, in honor of the 30th Anniversary, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati will bring back one of its previously staged productions, the acclaimed musical Violet, with music by Jeanine Tesori (Caroline Or Change, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek) and libretto by Brian Crawley, which won the Drama Critics’ Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical when it premiered off-Broadway in 1997. Originally presented by ETC in 1999, the production was well received, but few audiences had the opportunity to see it. Over the years, as ETC’s audience has steadily increased, this restaging will allow many more patrons the chance to attend, as well as the theatre to celebrate a past production. Scheduled dates for this production are May 3-22, 2016.
With a score of show-stopping anthems ranging from American-roots to folk to gospel, Violet tells the story of a young woman’s quest for beauty amidst the image-obsessed landscape of the 1960s. Facially disfigured in a childhood accident, Violet dreams of a miraculous transformation through the power of faith. Convinced that a televangelist in Oklahoma can heal her, she hops a Greyhound bus and starts the journey of a lifetime. Along the way, she forms unlikely friendships with her fellow riders, including a young, African-American Soldier whose love for her reaches far past her physical “imperfections.”
About ETC’s History
In 1986, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati drew back its curtains with the intended purpose of supporting local professional artists and a steadfast belief in the transformative power of the arts to create sustainable and attractive communities. After performing for two subscription seasons at Memorial Hall and following an extended search throughout the downtown area, the fledgling theatre moved to its present location at 1127 Vine Street in historic Over-the-Rhine with financial support from co-founders John and Ruth Sawyer and Ken and Mary “Murph” Taft Mahler. The theatre then secured a contract with Actors’ Equity Association and opened its doors in 1988 as a fully professional theatre, presenting a wide range of productions, including classics and contemporary theatre. Then, in 1996 ETC sharpened its mission as a theatre solely dedicated to producing new works and introduced several educational outreach programs focusing on economically disadvantaged children. Today, Ensemble Theatre remains the Greater Cincinnati area’s second largest professional theatre, with a subscription base of over 2,200 patrons and drawing nearly 30,000 attendees annually.
Subscriptions
Subscriptions to the 2015-2016 Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati season are available now in a variety of packages. Due to popularity, ETC will continue to offer a 5-show Tuesday evening Preview Subscription for just $125 (package excludes holiday production). Regular subscription prices are $180-$192 for seniors; adult subscriptions range from $192 to $210. The popular FlexPass is $202, which includes six flexible tickets to use for any show and in any combination.
Student Subscriptions
The 2015-2016 season will continue to offer a robust suite of affordable ticket and program options designed specifically for local area teens and students to experience professional theatre. This includes a $120 Student Subscription available for any performance and which provides a seat for each of the six productions during the season. Additionally, ETC will continue its $90 Teen Scene Subscription, a deeply discounted subscription option exclusively for students ages 13-19 (available select dates only).
Single Tickets
All single tickets for the 2015-2016 Season go on sale to the general public on Monday, August 3, 2015 at 10:00 am. Subscribers, however, may start making exchanges, purchasing additional tickets, or reserving their FlexPass dates during Subscriber Only Days, July 27-August 2, 2015.
Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is supported, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign.
The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati also receives funding from the Shubert Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is a professional theatre dedicated to producing world and regional premieres of works that often explore compelling social issues. We fulfill our mission through our stage productions and educational outreach programs that enlighten, enliven, enrich and inspire our audiences.
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Dec. 3-6, 2015
REALLY REALLY
By Paul Downs Colaizzo
A contemporary drama that pushes the edges and embraces the harsh reality of today’s youth. At an elite university, when the party of the year results in the regret of a lifetime, one person will stop at nothing to salvage a future that is suddenly slipping away. In this quick-witted and gripping comic tragedy about ‘Generation Me,’ it’s every man for himself.
March 24-27, 2016
REASONS TO BE PRETTY
By Neil LaBute
A love story about the impossibility of love, REASONS TO BE PRETTY introduces us to Greg, who really, truly adores his girlfriend, Steph. Unfortunately, he also thinks she has a few physical imperfections, and when he casually mentions them, all hell breaks loose. A hopelessly romantic drama about the hopelessness of romance, REASONS TO BE PRETTY is a gorgeous play.
For more information visit http://theplaygroundtheatre.org/
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