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DIRTY DANCING IN CONCERT
TO TOUR ACROSS NORTH AMERICA AND CANADA

The global live-to-film concert tour celebrates the classic film in more than 40 cities

December 3, 2023
Aronoff Center – Procter & Gamble Hall

Tickets on sale Friday, May 12 at 10:00 AM 

(Cincinnati, OH) – Relive the timeless love story of Baby and Johnny as global content leader Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), GEA Live, Karl Sydow, and Innovation Arts & Entertainment announce Dirty Dancing in Concert – celebrating the film favorite on a full-size cinema screen with a band and singers live on stage. With a soundtrack that defined a generation, Dirty Dancing in Concert promises to bring a new thrilling experience to the ‘80s classic! Dirty Dancing in Concert comes to the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall on Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 7:00 PM.

Tickets go on sale Friday, May 12 at 10:00 AM at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center and Music Hall Ticket Offices. Group discount tickets for 10 or more are available by calling (513) 977-4157.

Audiences attending Dirty Dancing in Concert will experience the hit film in a unique and unforgettable way. A complete screening of the digitally remastered film will play as a five-piece band and vocalists perform the songs live, in sync with the film. Stay for the encore party and continue to sing and dance along with the band to your favorite Dirty Dancing songs.

Dirty Dancing in Concert will tour in the Fall of 2023 stopping in 42 cities. Fans will have a new way to immerse themselves in the world of Dirty Dancing while celebrating the classic they know and love.

Dirty Dancing, written by Eleanor Bergstein, directed by Emile Ardolino, and starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in their most iconic movie roles, was a worldwide box-office sensation when it was released in 1987. Its soundtrack generated two multi-Platinum albums and multiple singles, including the Academy Award®-winning best original song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.” Grossing more than $213 million worldwide, Dirty Dancing captured the hearts of audiences everywhere.

Set in the summer of 1963, Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey) and her family vacation to the beautiful Catskills resort, Kellerman’s. Intrigued by the staff’s dance instructor, Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), and the vastly different lifestyle of others, Baby finds herself learning to dance while having the time of her life and falling in love. It is a summer she’ll never forget.

The 2023 Dirty Dancing in Concert Tour:

• • Hartford, CT                    October 17, 2023
  • Syracuse, NY                   October 18, 2023
  • Erie, PA                            October 19, 2023
  • Indianapolis, IN               October 20, 2023
  • Toledo, OH                      October 21, 2023
  • Cleveland, OH                 October 22, 2023
  • Grand Rapids, MI            October 24, 2023
  • Des Moines, IA                October 25, 2023
  • Fargo, ND                        October 26, 2023
  • Winnipeg, MB                 October 27, 2023
  • Edmonton, AB                 October 29, 2023
  • Saskatoon, SK                  November 1, 2023
  • Medicine Hat, AB            November 2, 2023
  • Calgary, AB                      November 3, 2023
  • Penticton, BC                  November 4, 2023
  • Victoria, BC                     November 6, 2023
  • Nanaimo, BC                   November 7, 2023
  • Billings, MT                      November 10, 2023
  • Cheyenne, WY                November 11, 2023
  • Denver, CO                      November 12, 2023
  • Salt Lake City, UT            November 14, 2023
  • Butte, MT                        November 15, 2023
  • Spokane, WA                  November 16, 2023
  • Seattle, WA                     November 17, 2023
  • Eugene, OR                      November 18, 2023
  • Portland, OR                   November 19, 2023
  • San Jose, CA                    November 21, 2023
  • Pasadena, CA                  November 22, 2023
  • Lubbock, TX                     November 24, 2023
  • San Antonio, TX              November 25, 2023
  • Oklahoma City, OK         November 28, 2023
  • Little Rock, AR                 November 29, 2023
  • St. Louis, MO                   November 30, 2023
  • Kansas City, MO              December 1, 2023
  • Joliet, IL                           December 2, 2023
  • Cincinnati, OH                 December 3, 2023
  • Dayton, OH                      December 5, 2023
  • Knoxville, TN                   December 6, 2023
  • Bowling Green, KY          December 7, 2023
  • New Orleans, LA             December 10, 2023
  • Fort Myers, FL                 December 12, 2023
  • Lakeland, FL                    December 13, 2023

Dirty Dancing in Concert’s tour joins a series of live-to-film concerts touring internationally based on Lionsgate properties, including the highly successful La La Land in Concert, with more than 125 performances in 25 countries to date.

For more information, visit Dirtydancinginconcert.com.

About Lionsgate
Combining the STARZ premium global subscription platform with world-class motion picture and television studio operations, Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B) brings a unique and varied portfolio of entertainment to consumers around the world. Its film, television, subscription, and location-based entertainment businesses are backed by a 17,000-title library and the largest collection of film and television franchises in the independent media space. A digital age company driven by its entrepreneurial culture and commitment to innovation, the Lionsgate brand is synonymous with bold, original, relatable entertainment for the audiences it serves worldwide.

GEA is a live entertainment company that designs and delivers creative projects of all sizes and disciplines. Recent projects of GEA that toured the world include the arena tours of the late legend Ennio Morricone, a career retrospective tour of Hollywood composer James Newton Howard, the first ever live tour of Grammy Award-winning music producer Giorgio Moroder, and film in- concert presentations of blockbuster titles such as The Godfather, Titanic, La La Land, The Hunger Games, and Paddington. GEA is currently producing worldwide tours of Immersive Exhibitions Imagine Monet and Imagine Van Gogh, Ennio Morricone – The Official Concert Celebration, and Netflix’ Our Planet.

About Karl Sydow
In 2018, Karl produced Sting’s The Last Ship on Tour in the UK and Ireland, Alan Ayckbourn’s The Divide with The Old Vic and Edinburgh International Festival, Davit Hare’s The Moderate Soprano at the Duke of York’s Theatre and Sketching by James Graham at Wilton’s Music Hall, as well as Red Joan, a film featuring Dame Judi Dench which premiered at Toronto film Festival. Karl has produced Dirty Dancing – the Classic Story on Stage across the UK and around the world since 2004.

About Innovation Arts & Entertainment
Innovation Arts & Entertainment brings world class theatrical experiences and dynamic live engagements to theaters and performing arts venues across North America. IAE is also the creator of the Beach Road Weekend Music Festival on Martha’s Vineyard and the Martha’s Vineyard Concert Series. IAE provides uncompromising dedication to artists and clients, integrity, artistic vision, marketing innovation, and an unrivaled intensity to do things right the first time.

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CINCINNATI, OH – Who will be voted Cincinnati’s best celebrity dancer?  Which stars have the right moves to rule the dance floor?  Find out on Saturday, April 22, 2023 when the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) celebrates season fifteen of its annual fundraiser Dancing for the Stars at the Music Hall Ballroom to benefit CAA’s Overture Awards (the nation’s largest locally run high school arts scholarship competition) and arts education programs. 

Inspired by the hit ABC-TV show Dancing with the Stars, Dancing for the Stars will feature eight Cincinnati celebrities paired with some of the area’s finest professional dancers in a competition program at which the audience will vote for its favorite celebrity dancer. The competitive dance for the evening will be the Disco, and each dance pair will have ninety seconds to woo the crowd and the judges.

In addition, Dancing for the Stars will feature:

• Dance music by guest on-air DJ “JD Hughes” from 103.5 WGRR-FM
• Pre-event reception and wine tasting
• Open dancing before and after the competition
• Lite bites provided by some of Cincinnati’s finest restaurants and caterers
• Cash bar

In addition to the winner of the dance competition, Dancing for the Stars will crown a Fundraising Champion – the celebrity dancer who raises the most revenue toward the event’s fundraising goal through table/ticket sales and donations. Fans may add a donation under their favorite celebrity’s name at the time of their ticket purchase, or simply make a donation if they cannot attend the event. These direct donations (outside of the event ticket price) will help one of the fans’ favorite celebrities win the Dancing for the Stars Fundraising Champion award (announced the evening of the event) and are 100% tax deductible.

Tickets are currently on sale at the following levels (a portion of the ticket price is tax-deductible):

• $150 – Patron (pre-event reception and two drink tickets)
• $1,500 – Corporate Table (ten Patron level tickets and a half-page program ad)
• $2,000 – Celebrity Circle Table (premium “first-row” viewing of competition area, ten Patron level tickets, full-page program ad, recognition on event signage)

RESERVATIONS AND INFORMATION:

• www.cincinnatiarts.org/dfts2023
•  (513) 977-4188 

THE STARS:

• David Kapor (Founder & Managing Partner – Kapor, Davis & Associates, LLC)
• Frank Marzullo (Meteorologist – FOX19 NOW)
• Diana Nguyen (Owner – Deluxe Nail Salon & Spa)
• Morgan Owens (Entrepreneur, Author, Consultant, Speaker, and Brand Ambassador)
• Tom Parker (Director of External Communications – Lindner Center of Hope)
• Erin Rolfes (Director of Communication & Media Relations – The Kroger Co.)
• Litsa Spanos (President – ADC Art Design Consultants, Inc.)
• Britton Spitler as Brock Leah Spears (Project Manager – ADM) 

THE PROS (WITH STAR PAIRING):  

• Amanda Barraza (Independent Dance Instructor) – Britton Spitler
• Bonita Brockert (Independent Dance Instructor) – David Kapor
• Alaine Glick (Independent Dance Instructor) – Frank Marzullo
• Jeremy Mainous (Arthur Murray Dance Studio – Cincinnati) – Diana Nguyen
• Andrea Stefano (Independent Dance Instructor) – Litsa Spanos
• Josh Tilford (Independent Dance Instructor) – Morgan Owens
• Rostislav Toporski (Independent Dance Instructor) – Erin Rolfes
• Melissa Vaughn (Arthur Murray Dance Studio – Cincinnati) – Tom Parker 

THE HOSTS:  Chris O’Brien & Janeen Coyle (“Married With Microphones,” 103.5 WGRR-FM) 

EVENT COMMITTEE:  Michael Betz, Amal Daoud, Terry Foster, Jill Jansen, Ginger Loftin, Rosemary Schlachter, Phil Schworer, and Tracey Skale

EVENT SPONSORS:  TriHealth – Presenting Sponsor, Arthur Murray – Cincinnati, Amanda Barraza, Bonita Brockert, Alaine Glick, Andrea Stefano, Josh Tilford, Rostislav Toporski 

FOURTEEN YEARS OF DANCING FOR THE STARS WINNERS:

• 2007:    Dr. O’dell Owens (former Hamilton County Coroner)
• 2008:    Jenell Walton (former WCPO-TV9 Anchor and Reporter)
• 2009:    Phil Schworer (past President – Cincinnati Bar Association; Environmental Lawyer – Frost, Brown and Todd)
• 2010:    Donna Speigel (Owner – The Snooty Fox)

• 2011:    Dr. Tracey Skale (Chief Medical Officer – Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services)

• 2012:    Regina Russo (former Director of Marketing and Communications – Cincinnati Art Museum)
• 2013:    Chris Seelbach (former Cincinnati City Councilman)

• 2014:    Neal Schulte (Founder & President – Schulte Financial Group, LLC)

• 2015:    Johnny Chu (Owner – AmerAsia Kungfood Restaurant)

• 2016:    Jay Lame (Financial Analyst – Lenox Wealth Management)
• 2017:    Rohan Hemani (former Intrapenuer – Procter & Gamble Fabric Care)

• 2018:    Dr. Marcia Bowling (Gynecologic Oncology – Oncology Hematology Care, Inc.)
• 2019:    Halle Quinn (Community Volunteer)
• 2022:    Sebastian Castillo (General Manager – Prime Cincinnati)

CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION’S ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS

CAA’s Education Department promotes life-long learning through its programs, which are diverse, multidisciplinary, and accessible to all ages and cultural groups. SchoolTime presents a series of programs that feature nationally-recognized artists at CAA’s two venues (the Aronoff Center and Music Hall), and Artists On Tour brings the finest local artists in the region to Tri-state schools for interactive arts experiences aligned with the curriculum.

The Overture Awards Scholarship Competition is the largest locally run arts scholarship competition in the country. The program annually provides a $3,000 scholarship to six area high school students for education and training, with 18 finalists each winning a $1,000 scholarship. Each year, nearly 400 students are nominated by their schools to compete in one of six artistic disciplines: Creative Writing, Dance, Instrumental Music, Theater, Visual Art, or Vocal Music. There are three levels of competition: Regional, Semi-Finals, and Final.

The Overture Awards was developed to recognize, encourage, and reward excellence in the arts among Tri-state students in grades 9-12. It also provides students an opportunity to share their talents and interests among their peers in a supportive environment outside of their individual schools. Now in its twenty-seventh year, The Overture Awards was launched by the Cinergy Foundation and Leadership Cincinnati (a Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber program).

Founded in 1992, the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) is a not-for-profit organization that oversees the programming and management of two of the Tri-state’s finest performing arts venues – the Aronoff Center for the Arts and Music Hall – and is dedicated to supporting performing and visual arts. Each year, CAA presents a diverse schedule of events; serves more than 600,000 people in its venues; features the work of talented local, regional, and national artists in the Weston Art Gallery (located in the Aronoff Center); and supports the work of more than one dozen resident companies, including Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Symphony/Pops Orchestras, May Festival, and Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Cincinnati, presented by TriHealth. Since the inception of its acclaimed arts education programs in 1995, CAA has reached nearly two million students and adults.

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Hit Musical Rock ‘n’ Rolls this Holiday SeasonMILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS
December 20, 2022
Aronoff Center – Procter & Gamble Hall

Tickets on sale Friday, September 23 at 10:00 AM

[CINCINNATI, OH] – The original team behind the Tony® Award-winning Broadway hit reunites with MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS, the brand-new, heartwarming, holiday rock ‘n’ roll musical coming to the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 7:30 PM. The musical is part of the Cincinnati Arts Association’s 2022-23 Season.

Tickets go on sale Friday, September 23 at 10:00 AM at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office. Group discount tickets for 10 or more are available by calling (513) 977-4157.

There’s no place like home for the holidays, and Sun Records is just that for rock ‘n’ roll newcomers and soon to be legends – Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley. In a fortuitous twist of fate, all four musicians stop by their famous Memphis recording studio alma mater on the same wintry evening, unbeknownst to them that they had the front seat to a revolution.

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS brings that momentous homecoming to life with an electrifying tale of family, nostalgia, faith, humor, heartbreak, and revelry. Journey through a story of Christmas past, present, and future, jam packed with unforgettable performances of classic holiday hits and favorite chart toppers such as “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Blue Christmas,” “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” “Ring of Fire,” “Santa Baby,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “Run Run Rudolph,” and more.

The show is directed by Scott Weinstein and features a book by Colin Escott. Orchestrations and additional arrangements are by Chuck Mead. The design team is led by Kimie Nishikawa (Scenic Design), Izumi Inaba (Costume Design), Ryan O’Gara (Lighting Design), and Diego Garzón (Sound Design).

Scott Weinstein (Director) is an award-winning director and writer based in New York City. His work as a director has been seen at major regional theaters around the country, and he recently won the Joseph Jefferson Award for his actor-musician, chamber-style reconception of Ragtime with Griffin Theatre, where he is an ensemble member. Scott was the Associate and Resident Director for the Broadway National Tour, and the Las Vegas and Chicago productions, of the hit musical Million Dollar Quartet. He has developed new work at the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Pittsburgh CLO, The American Music Theatre Project, The Marriott Theatre, Route 66 Theatre, The Rev, Norwegian Creative Studios, and others. Scott is a graduate of Northwestern University and a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. He is represented by William Morris Endeavor. www.ScottGWeinstein.com

Chuck Mead (Music Supervision/Arrangements/Orchestrations) is best known for being one of the founding members of three-time Grammy-nominated, Country Music Association Award-winning country music group BR5-49. Between 1996 and 2005, the band released seven successful records before disbanding. In 2006, he started work as Music Supervisor/Director of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet. A member of the original creative team, he shaped the music for the Chicago, Broadway, West End, Las Vegas, and National Tour productions of MDQ while touring the world with his band and releasing four critically acclaimed solo albums. In 2017, Mead oversaw the music for the CMT television series Sun Records, and in 2021 worked as Music Supervisor for the upcoming feature film Neon Highway.

For more information, visit www.MillionDollarQuartetChristmas.com, www.tiktok.com/@mdqchristmas, www.facebook.com/mdqchristmas, www.instagram.com/mdqchristmas, or www.twitter.com/mdqchristmas.

CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION SPONSORS

SEASON SPONSORS:  AMERITAS (Founding Season Sponsor), FIFTH THIRD BANK (Lifetime Endowment Partner), CINCINNATI-NORTHERN KENTUCKY HONDA DEALERS, LOCAL 12 WKRC-TV, The P&G FUND of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

SEASON PRESENTING SPONSORS:  21C Museum Hotel, Cincinnati Herald, CityBeat, Fairfield Inn & Suites Cincinnati Uptown/University Area, Graphic Village, Heidelberg Distributing, Kinley Cincinnati, L2Source, Ohio Valley Wines, Pepsi, Skyline Chili, TriHealth

MEDIA PARTNER:  103.5 WGRR-FM

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CALENDAR INFORMATION

WHAT: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS

WHEN: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 – 7:30 PM

WHERE: Aronoff Center – Procter & Gamble Hall

PRICE: $89.00 | $69.00 | $59.00 | $49.00 | $39.00. Additional service fees may apply.

INFO: There’s no place like home for the holidays, and Sun Records is just that for rock ‘n’ roll newcomers and soon to be legends – Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley.  Journey through a story of Christmas past, present and future, jam packed with unforgettable performances of classic holiday hits and favorite chart toppers such as “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Blue Christmas,” and more

TICKET INFORMATION – on sale Friday, September 23 at 10:00 AM

• www.CincinnatiArts.org
• (513) 621-ARTS [2787]
• Aronoff Center Ticket Office
• Group sales (10 or more): (513) 977-4157