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2015-2016 Premier Health Broadway Series Announced at Victoria Theater

VTA_PippinThe Victoria Theatre Association has announced its 2015-2016 Season. Be sure to check out their Season Sizzel Reel video below.

  • PIPPIN (October 6-11, 2015)
    PIPPIN is Broadway’s high-flying, death-defying hit musical! Full of extraordinary acrobatics, wondrous magical feats and soaring songs from the composer of Wicked, PIPPIN will lift you up and leave you smiling. This unforgettable new production is the winner of four 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival. Hailed as “an eye-popping, jaw-dropping extravaganza” (NY1), it’s unlike anything Broadway has ever seen! Come experience PIPPIN, one young man’s journey to be extraordinary.
  • BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (November 3-8, 2015)
    Hailed by Time Magazine as “Musical Theatre Gold,” BULLETS OVER BROADWAY is the hilarious new musical comedy about the making of a Broadway show. Written by Woody Allen, with direction and choreography by Susan Stroman, and based upon the screenplay of the acclaimed film by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY is the story of a young playwright who, in desperate need of financial backing for his next show, accepts an offer he can’t refuse from a mobster looking to please his showgirl girlfriend. Don’t miss what The New Yorker exclaims as “a fun machine from start to finish!” Loaded with big laughs, colorful characters, and the songs that made the ‘20s roar, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY is bringing musical comedy back with a bang.
  • ONCE (January 19-24, 2016)
    Winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards including Best Musical, ONCE is a truly original Broadway experience. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actors/musicians who play their own instruments onstage, ONCE tells the enchanting tale of a Dublin street musician who’s about to give up on his dream when a beautiful young woman takes a sudden interest in his haunting love songs. As the chemistry between them grows, his music soars to powerful new heights…but their unlikely connection turns out to be deeper and more complex than your everyday romance. Emotionally captivating and theatrically breathtaking, ONCE draws you in from the very first note and never lets go. It’s an unforgettable story about going for your dreams and the power of music to connect us all.

  • RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA (February 9-14, 2016)
    The world’s most famous makeover story just got a makeover! RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA is the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical from the creators of The Sound of Music and South Pacific that’s delighting audiences with its contemporary take on the classic tale. This lush production features an incredible orchestra, jaw-dropping transformations and all the moments you love–the pumpkin, the glass slipper, the masked ball and more–plus some surprising new twists! Be transported back to your childhood as you rediscover some of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s most beloved songs, including “In My Own Little Corner,” “Impossible/It’s Possible” and “Ten Minutes Ago,” in this hilarious and romantic Broadway experience for anyone who’s ever had a wish, a dream…or a really great pair of shoes.

  • THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (March 15-20, 2016)
    One of the most romantic stories ever written, this irresistible, two time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical first captured the nation’s attention as a best-selling novel. This stunning new production features gorgeous, soulful music by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Last Five Years) that the Daily News hails as “one of Broadway’s best scores in the last decade.” With a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman (The Secret Garden, The Color Purple) and direction by Tony winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza), THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY is the unforgettable story of two people caught between decision and desire, as a chance encounter becomes a second chance at so much more.

  • DISNEY’S THE LION KING (June 7 – July 3, 2016)
    More than 70 million people around the world have experienced the phenomenon of DISNEY’S THE LION KING, and now you can, too, when Dayton’s best-loved musical returns to the Schuster Center. Winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, this landmark musical event brings together one of the most imaginative creative teams on Broadway. Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor brings to life a story filled with hope and adventure set against an amazing backdrop of stunning visuals. THE LION KING also features some of Broadway’s most recognizable music, crafted by Tony Award-winning artists Elton John and Tim Rice. There is simply nothing else like THE LION KING.

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VIDEO: FOUND A PEANUT Promo

MU_Found a Peanut logo2This coming of age comedy-drama depicts the backyard world of childhood, with its bullies and victims, leaders and outsiders, brats and tattle-tales, friendships and sibling interchanges, and of course, the games. As the children play, we watch as they suffer the indignities of name-calling, learning responsibility, and trying to fit in.

Click here for more information on the production.

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VIDEO: Buz Davis Discusses Directing AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

Kevin Crowley as Bill Fordham & Carol Brammer as Barbara Fordham.

Kevin Crowley as Bill Fordham & Carol Brammer as Barbara Fordham.

DIiector Buz Davis discusses the challenges of directing AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY in the intimate Clifton Performance Theatre.

About the show: The Weston sisters return to their Oklahoman homestead once their father Beverly goes missing. In the summer heat they’re forced to examine their own lives, their futures and their relationship with their sharp-tongued mother. Family secrets, generational conflict and repressed truths explode in this portrait of one of the most dysfunctional families the stage has ever seen. Family dysfunction unfolds as family secrets and decades of pain are slowly revealed.

Performances run Feb. 19-March 14. For more information and a complete cast list click here.

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VIDEO: Sunset Players Present A NICE FAMILY GATHERING

Jerry Yearout as Carl, Kent Smith as Jerry, Mike Burke as Michael, Amanda Borchers as Stacy, Marcia Grant as Mom, Dawn Lindsey as Jill & Harold Murphy as Dad. Photo by Angie Lipscomb Photography.

Jerry Yearout as Carl, Kent Smith as Jerry, Mike Burke as Michael, Amanda Borchers as Stacy, Marcia Grant as Mom, Dawn Lindsey as Jill & Harold Murphy as Dad. Photo by Angie Lipscomb Photography.

Funny & touching, A NICE FAMILY GATHERING is a ghostly love story about a man who loved his wife so much, he almost told her before he died. Now he’s a ghost on a mission, and his son Carl is the unlikely messenger on Thanksgiving Day. When mom’s date arrives for dinner, the bombshell announcements are made, hormones are out of whack, and hilarity ensues!

Performances run Feb. 20-March 7. For more information click here.

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VIDEO: CCM Alum Ty Olwin on CHICAGO FIRE

Ty Olwin in CCM's 2011 production of CORAM Boy.

Ty Olwin as Alexander Ashbrook in CORAM BOY.

Ty Olwin, CCM Drama 2013, appeared in this week’s episode of CHICAGO FIRE.

Titled “Call It Paradise,” Olwin plays a slightly frost-bitten character named Chris.

For his role as Alexander Ashbrook in the CCM 2011 production of CORAM BOY, Olwin was recognized as Outstanding Lead Actor by the League of Cincinnati Theatres.

To see his scene in CHICAGO FIRE, follow this link and jump ahead to the 14:00 mark.

The video below is a montage of photos from the CCM production of CORAM BOY.

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