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January 19, 2018 · 11:12 am

2018-2019 Season Announced by The Carnegie

TC_logo_newTHE CARNEGIE ANNOUNCES 2018-19 THEATRE SEASON

COVINGTON, KY– Groundbreaking music, thrilling romances, and escapes from reality are just a few of the themes patrons can expect in The Carnegie’s 2018-19 Theatre Season.

The Carnegie’s 2018-19 season opens in August with R&B dreams and schemes in DREAMGIRLS. The emotional journey of female singing trio, the Dreams, features favorite songs from the 2006 motion picture of the same name. In November monsters and romance take center stage for IN LOVE AND WARCRAFT, a new award-winning play that examines love in the age of the Internet. Families can experience Disney magic in January with THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. The family-friendly musical pairs the Victor Hugo novel and classic songs from the Disney movie with new songs from award-winning composers, Menken and Schwartz. The season concludes in March with SWING!, a celebration of music and the dance movement that swept the world, that includes favorite songs like “It Don’t Mean a Thing,” “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “In the Mood,” and many more.

The Carnegie’s 2018-19 Theatre Series

DREAMGIRLS
Book and Lyrics by Tom Eyen
Music by Henry Krieger
Original Broadway Production Directed and Choreographed by Michael Bennett
Playing August 11-26, 2018

Based on the stories of real life music icons, The Supremes, James Brown, and others, DREAMGIRLS offers a behind-the-scenes look at the music industry of the 60s as it tells the story of R&B group The Dreams. Starting out as a trio of singers and friends, Effie, Deena, and Lorrell are determined to make it big in the vibrant music landscape of the 1960s. But as the band’s success grows, their relationships deteriorate.

Featuring such songs as “Dreamgirls,” “And I’m Telling You,” and “One Night Only,” this In Tony Award-winning musical was adapted into the 2006 motion picture starring Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce, Jamie Foxx, Edie Murphy, Danny Glover, and Anika Noni Rose.

Eight Performances:
Saturday, August 11, 7:30pm ● Sunday, August 12, 3pm
Friday, August 17, 7:30pm ● Saturday, August 18, 7:30pm ● Sunday, August 19, 3pm
Friday, August 24, 7:30pm ● Saturday, August 25, 7:30pm ● Sunday, August 26, 3pm

DREAMGIRLS is presented by arrangement with TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022.


IN LOVE AND WARCRAFT
By Madhuri Shekar
Playing November 3-18, 2018

Evie Malone, a college senior and gamer girl, has it all figured out. She commands a top-ranked guild in World of Warcraft with her virtual boyfriend, and makes money writing love letters for people having relationship problems. She makes game plans, employs strategies, and doesn’t take stupid risks…until she falls in love in real life. No amount of gaming expertise will help her out when she finds herself with a non-virtual, totally real, and incredibly cute boyfriend.

A rom-com for the digital generation, IN LOVE AND WARCRAFT is a new take on society and romance in the age of the Internet with plenty of fantasy, adventure and humor.

Eight Performances:
Saturday, November 3, 7:30pm ● Sunday, November 4, 3pm
Friday, November 9, 7:30pm ● Saturday, November 10, 7:30pm ● Sunday, November 11, 3pm
Friday, November 16, 7:30pm ● Saturday, November 17, 7:30pm ● Sunday, November 18, 3pm 

IN LOVE AND WARCRAFT is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.


THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Peter Parnell
Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney film
Originally developed by Disney Theatrical Productions
Playing January 17 – 27, 2019

Quasimodo, the misshapen bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral longs to join the city of Paris during the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his devious caretaker, the Archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, he escapes for the day and joins the boisterous crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but the beautiful gypsy, Esmeralda. Quasimodo isn’t the only one captivated by her free spirit, though – the handsome Captain Phoebus and Frollo are equally enthralled. As the three vie for her attention, Frollo embarks on a mission to destroy the gypsies – and it’s up to Quasimodo to save them all.

The beloved musical, based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name, features an Academy Award-nominated score from the Disney film, including “Out There” and “God Help the Outcasts” along with and new songs from famed composers Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Tangled) and Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Wicked).

Ten Performances:
Thursday, January 17, 7:30pm ● Friday, January 18, 7:30pm ● Saturday, January 19, 2pm & 7:30pm ● Sunday, January 20, 3pm
Thursday, January 24, 7:30pm ● Friday, January 25, 7:30pm ● Saturday, January 26, 2pm & 7:30pm ● Sunday, January 27, 3pm

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MIT). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MIT. http://www.MTIShows.com

 

SWING!
Original Concept by Paul Kelly
Original Direction and Choreography by Lynn Taylor-Corbett
Playing March 30 – April 15, 2019

High energy beats and fast paced dance moves are hallmarks of swing music, which exploded out of pre-war Harlem’s hotbed of youth culture and became a worldwide phenomenon. The genre crossed racial and cultural barriers to bring us popular dances like the Lindy Hop, the Jive and more. SWING! celebrates this remarkable diversity to the beat of the most exhilarating songs of the period. But as this enthralling song-and-dance show makes abundantly clear, swing was never a time or place – it has always been a state of mind.

Eight Performances:
Saturday, March 30, 7:30pm ● Sunday, March 31, 3pm
Friday, April 5, 7:30pm ● Saturday, April 6, 7:30pm ● Sunday, April 7, 3pm
Friday, April 12, 7:30pm ● Saturday, April 13, 7:30pm ● Sunday, April 14, 3pm

SWING! Presented through special arrangement with R&H Theatricals

Ticketing

Subscriptions for the 2018-19 Theatre Season are currently on sale. Single tickets go on sale Friday, April 13 ,2018 at noon. Tickets may be purchased through The Carnegie Box Office at (859) 957-1940, open Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5pm, or online at www.thecarnegie.com.

About The Carnegie Theatre Series
The Carnegie Theatre Series produces professional, innovative stagings of an eclectic range of theatrical works. Striving to unite the greater Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati theatre community through partnerships and collaborations, the series engages and nurtures both emerging and established talent, including working professionals, committed part-time theatre artists, university performing arts students and younger students. The Carnegie Theatre Series productions bring together these forces to provide quality theatre for Northern Kentucky and the Greater Cincinnati area.

About The Carnegie: The Carnegie is Northern Kentucky’s largest multidisciplinary arts venue providing theatre events, educational programs and art exhibitions to the Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati community. The Carnegie facility is home to The Carnegie Galleries, the Otto M. Budig Theatre, and the Eva G. Farris Education Center.  More information about The Carnegie is available at www.thecarnegie.com or by calling (859) 491-2030.

The Carnegie receives ongoing operating support from Cincinnati Wine Festival, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Kenton County Fiscal Courts, the Kentucky Arts Council and the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr. / US Bank Foundation. The Carnegie is also supported by the generosity of more than 40,000 contributors to the ArtsWave Community Campaign.

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January 14, 2018 · 10:39 am

2018-2019 Seasons Announced for The Covedale Center and The Incline Theatre

WFIT_Sign at nightThe 2018/2019 District Series at THE WARSAW FEDERAL INCLINE THEATER includes:

NEXT TO NORMAL
October 4 – 21, 2018
Music by Tom Kitt; Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey

NEXT TO NORMAL, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next to Normal was named “one of the year’s ten best shows” by critics around the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.

Dad’s an architect; Mom packs lunches and pours cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens in a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal; mother has been battling manic depression for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, with deep love and sympathy. An emotional powerhouse encompassing grieving a loss, bewildering psychiatry and modern life.

THE GRADUATE
January 24 – Feb. 10, 2019
A Play Adapted by Terry Johnson; Based on the Novel by Charles Webb
And the Motion Picture Screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
By Special Arrangement with StudioCanal

Benjamin Braddock is a confused young man. Having spent four years crafting a brilliant scholastic record, he finds himself adrift upon graduation, uncertain about his future, disconnected from his purpose, and increasingly alienated from the upper-class, suburban, “plastic” world of his parents. Fighting panic and boredom, he is deeply conflicted but ultimately willing when Mrs. Robinson, the unhappily married, alcoholic, and dangerously charismatic wife of his father’s business partner, tempts him into an affair. Benjamin’s tenuous existence of lazy days and stolen nights falls apart when he falls in love — with Elaine, Mrs. Robinson’s upbeat, optimistic daughter. Terry Johnson’s stage adaptation of The Graduate, based on the novel and the iconic 1967 film, is a bitterly hilarious dark comedy, full of rapid fire dialogue between fascinating and horrifying characters. This play explores family dysfunction, parental expectations, crumbling marriages, and the naive, yet disillusioned, dichotomy of youth, against the backdrop of 1960’s America.

THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS
March 21 – April 7, 2019
Book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson
Music and Lyrics by Carol Hall Based on a story by Larry L. King

THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS is a rollicking hootenanny of a musical based on the true story of a legendary Texas brothel, which operated from the 1840s to 1973. Protected by a friendly sheriff and frequented by politicians, football teams, and others, the “Chicken Ranch” thrived in the small town of Gilbert, Texas. Girls came from all over to work at the ranch and make a little extra cash. However, a crusading do-gooder Houston radio commentator and his conservative audience expose the Chicken Ranch, forcing it to shut its doors forever. Great songs include: Dolly Parton’s Hard Candy Christmas, The Aggie Song and Twenty Four Hours of Lovin’. The hit movie featured Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds!

 

CCPAThe 2018/2019 Marquee Seaon at THE COVEDALE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS includes:

A FEW GOOD MEN
September 13 – October 7, 2018
By Aaron Sorkin

This Broadway hit about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on stage. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea bargain and a cover-up of what really happened. Prodded by a female member of his defense team, the lawyer eventually makes a valiant effort to defend his clients and, in so doing, puts the military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial.

THE WIZARD OF OZ
October 25 – November 18, 2018
By L. Frank Baum
With Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg; Background Music by Herbert Stothart Dance and Vocal Arrangements by Peter Howard; Orchestration by Larry Wilcox; Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Based on the 1939 movie with Judy Garland.

Dorothy Gale, a young girl living on a Kansas farm with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, dreams of escaping her mundane life. So when witchy old Miss Gulch threatens to impound Dorothy’s dog Toto, Dorothy runs away with her pet, only to be whisked away to the Land of OZ in a terrifying cyclone. Looking for her way back home, she and her new friends sing some of the most iconic songs ever, including “If I Only Had a Brain/Heart/Nerve”, “Munchkin Land”, “Follow The Yellow Brick Road” and the classic “Over the Rainbow”.

A CHRISTMAS STORY
November 29 – December 23, 2018
By Philip Grecian. Based on the movie A Christmas Story, Written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark

“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!” Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in 1940’s Indiana, follows Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case to his mother, his teacher and Santa Claus himself at Goldblatt’s Department Store. All the elements from the beloved movie are here – the family’s temperamental furnace, the school bully Scut Farkas, the boys’ bet concerning a wet tongue on an icy lamppost, the Little Orphan Annie decoder ring; and Ralphie’s father winning “a major award” – the lady’s leg lamp in a fishnet stocking! A Christmas Story has become a theatrical holiday classic!

ALMOST HEAVEN, SONGS OF JOHN DENVER 
February 14 – March 10, 2019
Conceived by Harold Thau with orchestrations, vocal arrangements, and music supervision by Jeff Waxman

ALMOST HEAVEN weaves together the songs of John Denver to create a uniquely theatrical narrative that reflects upon the country during the years in which he wrote them. Twenty-nine of Denver’s songs – including “Rocky Mountain High,” “Sunshine on My Shoulders,” “Annie’s Song,” “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” “Calypso” and more – are rediscovered and reinvented, performed against a backdrop of stunning visual images of America in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s,a time of political upheaval, yet great beauty and hope.

42ND STREET
April 4 – April 28, 2019
Music by HARRY WARREN; Lyrics by AL DUBIN; Book by MICHAEL STEWART & MARK BRAMBLE Based on the Novel by BRADFORD ROPES Original Direction and Dances by GOWER CHAMPION Originally Produced on Broadway by DAVID MERRICK

The ultimate show-biz musical, 42ND STREET celebrates Broadway, Times Square, and the people who make the magic of musical theatre. Aspiring chorus girl Peggy Sawyer comes to the big city from Allentown PA, and soon lands her first big job in the ensemble of a glitzy new Broadway show. But just before opening night, the leading lady breaks her ankle. Will Peggy be able to step in and become a star? The score is chock-full of Broadway standards, including “Dames,” “We’re In the Money,” “Lullaby of Broadway,” “Shuffle Off to Buffalo” and “Forty-Second Street.”

Subscriptions are on sale now!
Subscription renewal deadline is Monday, July 2, 2018
Subscription package tickets will be mailed Friday, July 20, 2018
Single tickets go on sale, Monday, July 23, 2018

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January 5, 2018 · 9:41 am

2018 Productions Announced by Northern Kentucky Community Theater

NKYCT_logoAfter hearing overwhelmingly positive feedback; selling out all five shows; and receiving numerous requests to bring back HORIZONS OF GOLD, Northern Kentucky Community Theater will continue our 2017-18 season with a reprise of this inspiring new musical presented August 24–September 2, 2018!

Then, just in time for the holidays, NKYCT will present the heartwarming new musical IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE November 29–December 2, 2018.

Both productions will take place at the Anderson Center in Anderson Township, OH.

Auditions for Horizons of Gold will be held in spring 2018.

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December 28, 2017 · 1:49 pm

2018-2019 Season Announced by Beechmont Players

BPI_logoBeechmont Players is proud to announce their 2018-2019 season:

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
Adapted by Marisha Chamberlain from the story by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Steve Phelan
July 27, 2018 to August 4, 2018

WIDDERSHINS
By Don Nigro
Directed by jef brown
October 19-27, 2018

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, THE RADIO PLAY
Adapted by Joe Landry
Directed by Jerry Wiesenhahn
December 14, 15, 16, 2018

FATHER OF THE BRIDE
By Caroline Franke
Directed by Jim Waldfogle
February 15-23, 2019

OVER THE TAVERN
By Tom Dudzik
Directed by Richard Zenk
May 3-11, 2019

All performances will be at the Anderson Center, 7850 Five Mile Road in Anderson Township.

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December 13, 2017 · 9:10 am

2018-2019 Season Announced by Dayton Playhouse

DPH_logoThe year was 1958. Charles de Gaulle was Time magazine’s Man of the Year. Doris Day, Lana Turner and Marilyn Monroe were big stars of the time. Super Glue and the Hula Hoop were invented and the Dayton Playhouse laid the groundwork to begin entertaining audiences in the Dayton community.

To celebrate their 60th anniversary, the Dayton Playhouse announces a stellar season. Fans of musicals, mystery and classic literature will be thrilled. The 2018-19 season kicks off with the musical My Fair Lady directed by Brian Sharp. When Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady opened on Broadway, it collected six Tony Awards including Best Musical. The film version took home eight Oscars including Best Picture. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady is the tale of a cockney flower girl transformed into a lady. The musical features some of the best-known tunes including “The Rain in Spain”, “I Could Have Danced All Night”, and “Get Me to the Church on Time”. Production dates are Sept. 14 – 30, 2018. Auditions are July 23 and 24, 2018.

Mystery and intrigue will be featured in Murder on the Nile by Agatha Christie and directed by Tim Rezash. In classic Agatha Christie-style, Kay Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth and a new husband, Kay embarks on a honeymoon voyage down the Nile. Fatal circumstances await when the idyllic surroundings are shattered by a shocking and brutal murder. Under scrutiny is a multitude of memorable passengers, all with a reason to kill. The tension and claustrophobia build as a shocking and audacious conspiracy is laid bare. Murder on the Nile will run Nov. 2 through 11. Auditions are Sept. 10 and 11.

There’s nothing like a sassy, sultry musical to chase off those winter blues. Ain’t Misbehavin’ is a musical celebration of legendary jazz great, Fats Waller with a knockout cast of five triple threat actors. Audiences will tap their toes to such fabulous tunes as “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” and “It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie”. Directed by Kip Moore, Ain’t Misbehavin’ will run Jan. 18 through Feb. 3, 2019. Auditions are Nov. 5 and 6.

Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird was an instant success when it was published in 1960. Director Matthew Smith will bring this poignant look at racism in Maycomb, Alabama to the Dayton Playhouse stage March 8 through 17, 2019. Auditions are Jan. 21 and 22. Young Scout Finch manages to live a rather carefree life, insulated from racial issues until her father, Atticus Finch, defends an innocent man, Tom Robinson, against a potential death sentence. To Kill a Mockingbird is now considered an American masterpiece about the power of childhood, innocence, morality and love.

The Dayton Playhouse will wrap up its diamond anniversary season with a multiple Tony Award-winning musical. Due to contract negotiations, the Dayton Playhouse can’t announce the name of this musical yet but rest assured audiences will be on their feet by the end of the show. Richard Lee Waldeck will direct this show which will run May 3 through 19, 2019. Auditions are set for March 20 and 21.

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