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November 14, 2018 · 10:37 am

2019-2020 Season Announced by Beavercreek Community Theatre

bctFREAKY FRIDAY a New Musical
A Main Stage Production
Book by Bridget Carpenter, Music by Tom Kitt, Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Based on the novel “Freaky Friday” by Mary Rogers and the Disney Films
Production Dates: August 30 – September 8, 2019
Audition Dates: July 8 & 9, 2019

Edgar Allan Poe’s – NEVERMORE
A Main Stage Production
Music by Matt Conner, Lyrics adapted from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Book by Grace Barnes
Production dates: October 25 – November 3, 2019
Audition dates: August 27 & 28, 2019
Directed by Matt Smith

HOW HANS, CHRISTIAN, & ANDERSON MELTED THE SNOW QUEEN
A BCT Youth Production
By Lisa Like-Stokely
Production Dates: December 6 – 15, 2019
Audition Dates: October 6 & 7, 2019

THE HUMANS
An Edge of the Creek Production
By Stephen Karam
Production Dates: Jan. 24 – Feb. 2, 2020
Audition Dates: November 11 & 12, 2019
Directed by Aaron Brewer

A MID-SUMMER NIGHT’S TEXAS-SIZED NIGHTMARE
A BCT Youth Production
By Burton Bumgarner
Production Dates: February 28 – March 8, 2020
Audition Dates: January 19 & 20, 2020

IT’S ONLY A PLAY
An Edge Of The Creek Production
By Terrance McNally
Production Dates: April 24 – May 3, 2020
Audition Dates: March 2 & 3, 2020
Directed by Debra Kent

IF/THEN
An Edge Of The Creek Production
Music by Tom Kitt, Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Production Dates: June 19 – 28, 2020
Audition Dates: April 27 & 28, 2020
Directed by Doug Lloyd

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October 17, 2018 · 10:55 am

2019-2020 Season Announced by Mariemont Players

MPI_logoMariemont Players Inc. excited to announce our 19-20 season!!!

Is He Dead?
Adapted by David Ives
Directed by Michele Mascari
September 13-29, 2019
Comedy

Jean-Francois Millet, a young painter of genius, is in love with Marie Leroux but in debt to a villainous picture-dealer, Bastien Andre. Andre forecloses on Millet, threatening debtor’s prison unless Marie marries him. Millet realizes that the only way he can pay his debts and keep Marie from marrying Andre is to die, as it is only dead painters who achieve fame and fortune. Millet fakes his death and prospers, all while passing himself off as his own sister, the Widow Tillou. Now a rich “widow,” he must find a way to get out of a dress, return to life, and marry Marie.

Broadway Bound
By Neil Simon
November 8-24, 2019
Directed by Jerry Wiesenhahn
Comedy

Part three of Neil Simon’s acclaimed autobiographical trilogy finds Eugene and his older brother Stanley trying to break into the world of show business as professional comedy writers while coping with their parents break-up and eventual divorce. When their material is broadcast on the radio for the first time, the family is upset to hear a thinly-veiled portrait of themselves played for laughs.

Evelyn in Purgatory
By Topher Payne
Directed by Jennifer Keith
January 10-26, 2020
Dark Comedy

When a complaint is filed against one of the 70,000 teachers in New York’s public schools, they’re sent to a Reassignment Center, one of a series of empty offices in the Department of Education Building. There, they sit and wait for their case to be reviewed. Usually for months. Sometimes for over a year. A claim of improper behavior by a failing student lands Evelyn Reid in “the rubber room,” where she encounters a group of teachers, some guilty, some not, who have long since lost any hope of returning to a classroom. Over the course of the school year, these colleagues form an unlikely alliance, reminding each other of forgotten passions, emerging to face life outside in unexpected new directions. They also learn French and workshop a screenplay.

Earth and Sky
By Douglas Post
Directed by Jef Brown
March 13-29, 2020
Thriller

EARTH AND SKY is a poetic thriller about a would-be poet and part-time librarian named Sara McKeon whose lover of ten weeks, David Ames, is found dead one hot August morning in the city of Chicago. It appears that David, owner and manager of an expensive art-deco restaurant, may have been involved in several illicit activities including kidnapping, rape and murder. Unable to believe that the man she gave her heart to was a killer, and outraged that the police seem to have closed the book on the case, Sara begins her own investigation of the crime and is led deeper and deeper through the urban labyrinth into the contemporary underworld. As the detective story moves forward in time, scenes from the love affair take us back to the moment when Sara and David first met. Finally the plots converge, and Sara finds herself face to face with the person who murdered her beloved.

The Art of Dining
By Tina Howe
Directed by Laura Gossett
May 8-24, 2020
Comedy

Cal and Ellen are the owners and sole staff of a small, elegant gourmet restaurant. Cal’s main preoccupation is paying back the $75,000 it cost to start it up, and that means packing in the customers. Chef Ellen is preoccupied with the food’s quality and stopping Cal from sampling the ingredients. The diners act out their own private dramas over dinner and their conversations are exquisite burlesques of contemporary attitudes. There’s a sensual middle aged couple who go into paroxysms of ecstasy just reading the menu and then there’s three crass chic young career women. Finally, there’s Elizabeth, a maladroit, shy and neurotic writer who’s dining with her prospective publisher. Her actions and conversation are unintentionally hilarious and a delicious example of how not to act and what not to talk about while dining.

Somewhere in Between
By Craig Pospisil
Directed by Dan Maloney
July 10-26, 2020
Romantic Comedy

Told in ten scenes, the play begins in the dark, as Jasper confesses his feelings of isolation to the audience. But he becomes unnerved in the dark and calls for lights. In the first scene, Jasper is stuck between floors on an elevator with a claustrophobic man, who goes quickly and hilariously over the edge. At work, a sleazy coworker gives him farcical advice on how to pick up women, and that night Jasper goes to a bookstore and tries to pick up a pretty clerk, Holly. He strikes out badly, but is picked up by another woman, who takes him home…where she lives with her boyfriend. A ride on the subway turns into a comic free-for-all as he and other riders enthusiastically give advice to a lost tourist. Jasper crosses paths with Holly again at a party and gamely starts a conversation, hoping she won’t recognize him, but she does and teases him flirtatiously. On their first date, Jasper and Holly go to a cozy restaurant for quiet conversation, but the couple seated on one side of them erupts in a battle of the sexes, while the couple on the other side engages in passionate verbal foreplay. Later, Jasper walks Holly home and their conversation seems mundane, but their fantasies about each other are anything but. A chance encounter with a homeless man forces Jasper to gain some perspective on his life. Back at work, Jasper snaps when a friend tells him Holly is dating someone else. He loses his cool, kicks a chair, breaks his foot, and gets fired. Feeling suddenly liberated, he hobbles to Holly’s bookstore and asks her if she is seeing someone else. She isn’t. They kiss—and leave immediately for the hospital. In the end, Jasper briefly talks to the audience again, understanding he must accept life’s uncertainties, which aren’t all bad, and make the best of things.

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September 26, 2018 · 9:41 am

Subscriptions to the First-Ever Family Performance Series to Go on Sale Monday

MEC_logoThe Madcap Education Center is one step closer to opening its doors.

Cincinnati Landmark Productions/Madcap Puppets announced today the first Family Performance Series at the new arts education scheduled to open later this fall in Westwood.

Construction on the Center has been underway since February and is on schedule (and on budget!) to open in November. The six-show Family Performance Series is the first of many events to be announced at the much-anticipated new space.

Whole season subscriptions to the Family Performance Series – just $48 each – are available starting Monday, October 1 at 11am. Tickets to single shows go on sale October 15 and will be $10 each.

The inaugural 2018-19 Family Performance Series line-up includes:

  • THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ , November 3-4
  • A MADCAP CHRISTMAS CAROL, December 22-23
  • RUMPELSTILKSKIN: A Puppet Musical, January 12-13
  • PUPPETS KapOw!, February 2-3
  • THE GREAT SPACE CAPER, March 9-10
  • MR. PUNCH AND THE BABYSITTER, April 13-14

Performances are scheduled for Saturday at 11am and 1pm and Sunday at 1 and 3pm, on the dates listed. Subscribers can exchange tickets to another performance of the same show (pending ticket availability) for free. Subscribers also get the best seats at the best price. All subscriptions can be purchased over the phone at (513) 241-6550 or in person at either the Covedale Center or Warsaw Federal Incline Theater box office locations.

ABOUT THE MADCAP EDUCATION CENTER
The TriHealth Performance Hall at the Madcap Education Center is a state-of-the-art theater built with kids in mind. With only 135 seats, the space is intimate and comfortable and provides great sight-lines for audience members of any age.

The Madcap Education Center will be home to exciting life-size puppet performances, a jumping off point for show tours but also a hub for classes, camps and performing arts education opportunities – in the heart of Westwood’s revitalized business district.

The Madcap Education Center will host:

  • Children’s programming in its 135-seat theater
  • One-on-one vocal and instrument training in its small studio spaces
  • Dance classes for a variety of skill levels in its two dance studios
  • Acting and improv classes
  • Puppet making and other arts/crafts classes in its art studio space
  • Distance learning programming in its technology center
  • Birthday parties
  • Senior arts classes opportunities
  • Neighborhood meetings and special events
  • The new home base for Madcap Puppets touring operations

For more information about Cincinnati Landmark Productions, visit www.clpshows.org or call (513) 241-6550.

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September 26, 2018 · 8:54 am

2019-2020 Season Announced by The Drama Workshop

TDW_VERTThe season line up is:

NANA’S NAUGHTY KNICKERS by Katherine DiSavino
Directed by Judy Berrens
Aug. 9-25, 2019

BLITHE SPIRIT by Noel Coward
Directed by Gina Kleesattel
Oct. 11-27, 2019

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE A RADIO PLAY adapted by James W. Rodgers
Directed by Adam Drake
Dec. 6-22, 2019

A CATERED AFFAIR by Harvey Fierstein (rights pending)
Directed by Dan Maloney
Feb. 21-March 8, 2020

RING OF FIRE by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Directed by Linda Abbott
May 1-17, 2020

Plan to join us. It’s going to be an amazing season!

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September 13, 2018 · 10:00 am

Cincinnati Music Theatre Announces Its 2018-2019 Season at the Aronoff Center for the Arts

cmt_logoCINCINNATI, OH – Cincinnati Music Theatre (CMT), a resident company of the Aronoff Center for the Arts, is pleased to announce its 2018-19 Season, including two full-scale musical productions in the intimate Jarson-Kaplan Theater, two cabaret-style studio shows in the Fifth Third Bank Theater, and a master class with a Drama Desk Award-nominated Cincinnati native.

Season tickets and single tickets are on sale now for the mainstage productions and the master class at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office.  On sale dates for the Studio Cabaret Series will be announced.

After wrapping a successful mainstage season of Sister Act and Camelot, and two sold-out runs of its premiere Studio Cabaret Series, including Love is Love and Nothing Like a Dame, CMT continues to build on its achievements at the Aronoff Center. From two large-scale musicals based on hit movies to a musical parody about musicals to an original work of musical theatre created by a local Cincinnatian, CMT continues to excite audiences with popular musical theatre and fabulous local talent, and to delight them with new and original works. 

2018-19 MAINSTAGE SEASON

MY FAVORITE YEAR
Book by Joseph Dougherty, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Aherns
November 9-17, 2018
Aronoff Center – Jarson-Kaplan Theater    

A classic musical comedy with a heart of gold, My Favorite Year features a tuneful score by the incomparable Tony-winning songwriters, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and is based on the hit Peter O’Toole film of the same name. It’s 1954, and Benjy Stone, writers’ assistant on TV’s ‘King Kaiser Comedy Cavalcade’, is assigned the daunting task of babysitting the veteran Hollywood swashbuckler, Alan Swann. The reckless Swann is in town to do a live guest appearance on the show and his antics and alcoholism nearly get Benjy fired. When Benjy is given an unexpected glimpse into Swann’s broken heart, though, he begins to discover a thing or two about life and love. Directed by Douglas Berlon.

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, Book by Peter Parnell
May 10-18, 2019
Aronoff Center – Jarson-Kaplan Theater

From the Academy Award-winning team of Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz comes a lushly scored retelling of Victor Hugo’s epic story. Set in 15th century Paris, this powerful musical focuses on Quasimodo, the misshapen but gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame, who is held captive in the bell tower by his devious caretaker. On the day of the Feast of Fools, Quasimodo manages to escape and join the boisterous crowd of revelers. He is treated cruelly by all except the beautiful and free-spirited gypsy, Esmeralda. During his one day “Out There,” Quasimodo must strive to find love, acceptance, and what it means to be a hero. Directed by Skip Fenker.

2019 STUDIO CABARET SERIES

THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL!)
By Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell
February 8, 9, 15 & 16, 2019
Aronoff Center – Fifth Third Bank Theater  

THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL!) is a musical about musicals! In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. The basic plot: June is an ingénue who can’t pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man come to the rescue? The variations are: a Rodgers & Hammerstein version, set in Kansas in August, complete with a dream ballet; a Sondheim version, featuring the landlord as a tortured artistic genius who slashes the throats of his tenants in revenge for not appreciating his work; a Jerry Herman version, as a splashy star vehicle; an Andrew Lloyd Webber version, a rock musical with themes borrowed from Puccini; and a Kander & Ebb version, set in a speakeasy in Chicago. Directed by Dennis Murphy.

HOME
Conceived and written by CMT board member Mark D. Motz
June 7, 8, 14 & 15, 2019
Aronoff Center – Fifth Third Bank Theater 

Home explores many facets of the title location through song. Featuring 20-plus tunes from Broadway, movies, pop culture, and more, we welcome audiences into our home at the Fifth Third Bank Theatre for an evening of music. Home is more than just four walls and a street number, it’s a place imprinted on hearts and minds. We will look at home at different times in our lives and what home can mean. How it’s both welcoming and a place to which many want to escape. Home is sweet nostalgia. Home is painful. Home is a goal. Home is traditional. Home is unconventional. Home is a launching point. Home is an anchor. Home is what you make it, where you make it, when you make it. We’ll go from the places we grew up to the places we still seek. Directed by Michele Mascari.

2018-19 SEASON EXTRA

Master Class with Richard Oberacker
October 12, 2018 – 7:30 PM
Aronoff Center – Fifth Third Bank Theater  

Join us for an intimate master class with Broadway’s Richard Oberacker, composer and co-lyricist/librettist of the Tony Award-winning musical Bandstand, and the musical conductor Cirque Du Soleil’s KA at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This unique experience is open to the public and will offer a rare view inside the process of performing, dissecting, analyzing, and directing a musical theater song at the professional level. In traditional master class format, individual singers will present a song and work one-on-one with Cincinnati-native Richard Oberacker. All proceeds from the master class will benefit the Cincinnati Music Theatre Scholarship Fund. The master class will be accompanied by Steve Goers. 

TICKETS & INFORMATION – Mainstage Series and Master Class on sale now.  Studio Cabaret Series on sale dates to be announced.

  • www.CincinnatiArts.org
  • (513) 621-ARTS [2787]
  • Aronoff Center Ticket Office
  • Group Discount Tickets (15 or more):  (513) 977-4157
    *Additional ticketing fees may apply.  Ticket prices and fees subject to change.

Aronoff Center Ticket Office Hours

  • Monday-Friday:  9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
  • Saturday:  10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
  • Through intermission of the last show on performance days

Cincinnati Music Theatre
One of Cincinnati’s oldest and most successful community theaters, CMT is proud of its long history of presenting popular, large scale, award-winning musicals to enthusiastic audiences from across the Greater Cincinnati area. For more information, visit www.cincinnatimusictheatre.org, LIKE us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cincinnatimusictheatre, and follow us on Instagram @cincinnatimusictheatre.

My Favorite Year and The Hunchback of Notre Dame are presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 www.MTIShows.com.

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

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