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EDDIE IZZARD: FORCE MAJEURE
WORLD TOUR COMING TO THE U.S.
MAY 28, 2014 – ARONOFF CENTER

Tickets Go On Sale Tuesday, February 4, 10 AM 

“Sheer Comic Genius. He is the most brilliant stand-up comedian of his generation.” – The New York Times 

“The funniest man in, well, pretty much all of the known universe”
– The Los Angeles Times 

“The greatest British standup comedian of his generation”
– The London Sunday Times 

“A national treasure” – The Guardian 

Eddie Izzard Force Majeure Tour.

January 27, 2014 — Eddie Izzard will bring his massive Force Majeure world tour to the U.S., visiting 32 cities through the spring with more dates to be announced later this year. The much-anticipated tour plays Cincinnati’s Aronoff Center on Wednesday, May 28 at 8:00 PM. Tickets range between $47-$60 and go on sale Tuesday, February 4 at 10:00 AM at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office.

Presented by WestBeth Entertainment, a full list of U.S. tour dates with links to tickets is available at www.EddieIzzard.com. Follow Eddie here.

Force Majeure is the most extensive comedy tour ever; launched in March of 2013, the tour will take Izzard to 25 countries on five continents. From Cardiff to Kathmandu and Moscow to Mumbai, Force Majeure will play throughout Europe, Africa, Russia, the U.K., Canada, the U.S., India, Nepal, The Far East, and Australia. Izzard recently completed runs in France, performing entirely in French, and in Berlin, performing entirely in German.

One of the most acclaimed comedians of his generation, Izzard’s unique, tangential, absurd, and surreal comic narratives are lauded for their creativity and wit, earning him a New York Drama Desk Award and two Emmy® Awards for Dress to Kill, two British Comedy Awards for Top Stand-Up Comedian, and an Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement.

In the U.S., Izzard is the first solo stand-up comedian to perform at the Hollywood Bowl; has sold-out three consecutive nights at Radio City Music Hall, and toured arenas throughout the U.S., including a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden.

On TV, Izzard most recently guest starred in the series, Hannibal, on NBC. He starred in and served as a producer on the critically acclaimed FX Network Show, The Riches, opposite Minnie Driver, guest starred in the final season of Showtime’s United States of Tara, and his 2010 documentary, Believe:The Eddie Izzard Story, received an Emmy® nomination.

His long list of film and stage credits includes Valkyrie opposite Tom Cruise, Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Thirteen and Ocean’s Twelve opposite George Clooney and Brad Pitt, David Mamet’s Race and The Cryptogram, the title role in Marlowe’s Edward II, and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in London and on Broadway, which won him a handful of awards, including a Tony® nomination for Best Actor.

WESTBETH ENTERTAINMENT is a producing organization that has successfully and consistently produced critically acclaimed, financially successful, groundbreaking entertainment for 30 years. WestBeth has produced, presented, and managed diverse productions and tours that have played such venues as Madison Square Garden, Broadway, Radio City Music Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Toronto’s Massey Hall, San Francisco’s Curran Theatre, Chicago’s United Center Arena, the Chicago Theatre, and many music and performing arts centers around North America.

WestBeth is currently producing La Soirée in New York City and an upcoming Australian tour of Puppet Up! – Uncensored.

Recent productions include the Canadian tour of Eddie Izzard’s Force Majeure, and Dylan Moran’s Yeah, Yeah in cities across the U.S. and Canada. WestBeth also produced the six-week off-Broadway run of South African comedian Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime; Eric Idle’s What About Dick at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles; and the national tour, Off-Broadway, and 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival runs of Puppet Up! – Uncensored (aka Stuffed & Unstrung) with The Jim Henson Company.

Other notable productions include John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown on Broadway and in the West End and Colombia, South America; British comedian Simon Amstell’s one man show NUMB in New York and other cities around the county; Billy Connolly’s tour The Man Live in New York and San Francisco; Eddie Izzard’s Dress To Kill, Circle, Sexie, Stripped—a 35-city U.S. tour and tour of Canada, Stripped Too: US Arena tour, Stripped to the Bowl, Stripped to the Shore; Billy Connolly’s Too Old To Die Young tour in America and Canada; and Lewis Black’s Nothing Sacred show at New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, as well as Lewis’ Dual Citizenship Tour in Canada and ‘In God We Rust’ at City Center in New York.

Bill Cosby Makes a Rare Appearance
at the Aronoff Center, Saturday, June 14 in
Comedy Central’s “Far From Finished Tour

Tickets go on sale, Friday, Jan. 31 at 10:00 AM at
www.CincinnatiArts.org, (531) 621-ARTS (2787), and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office.

Bill Cosby.

Cincinnati, OH (Jan. 24) – One of America’s most beloved comedians of all time, Bill Cosby, whose comedy transcends age, gender, and cultural barriers, is making a rare appearance at the Aronoff Center, Saturday, June 14 at 8:00 PM. Cosby has captivated generations of fans with his comedy routines, iconic albums, and best-selling books, including Fatherhood, Time Flies, and his current bestseller, I Didn’t Ask to Be Born, (But I’m Glad I Was).

Tickets range between $36.50 – $66.50 (plus applicable fees) and can be purchased at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (531) 621-ARTS (2787), and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office.

Bill Cosby broke television’s racial barrier with I Spy, becoming the first African American to co-star on a television series, while winning three consecutive Emmys® Awards. He created and produced the Emmy®-winning animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, which began airing in the 1970s and was made into a film in 2004. The show, based upon Cosby’s childhood in Philadelphia, was designed to educate and entertain.

The former Navy serviceman’s illustrious list of accomplishments includes roles on the children’s educational show Electric Company and creating and producing the Emmy® Award-winning Little Bill, which is based on his bestselling book series. Cosby has received the Kennedy Center Honors, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (America’s highest civilian honor), the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and the Marian Anderson Award. Among his many awards for his stand-up comedy albums are five Grammy® Awards, and eight Gold and five Platinum records.

Perhaps Cosby’s greatest contribution to American entertainment and culture is The Cosby Show, about a close-knit, upper-class black family. Cosby said his intent was to portray an American family. Time magazine called the show “an encouraging sign of maturity in matters of race.” The Cosby Show dominated the No. 1 spot for years, earning nearly unanimous critical praise. Life magazine described the program as “a gentle, whimsical, warmhearted” show whose “delicious ordinariness of pleasures and tribulations has given millions a fresh, laughter-splashed perspective on their own domestic lives.”

Don’t miss the iconic Bill Cosby at the Aronoff Center on his Comedy Central “Far From Finished Tour,” Saturday, June 14 at 8:00 PM! Purchase tickets at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (531) 621-ARTS (2787), and the Aronoff Ticket Office

Get your tickets while they last!

Official website: www.billcosby.com

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 12, 2014 when the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) presents its eighth annual 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.

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 their favorite celebrity dancer. The competitive dance for the evening will be Swing, and each dance pair will have 90 seconds to woo the crowd and the judges.

In addition, Dancing for the Stars will feature:

• Silent auction
• Showcase performance by a 2014 Overture Award finalist in dance
• The swinging sounds of Sound Body Jazz Band
• 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

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

The event will benefit the stars of tomorrow – the talented high school artists who participate each year in CAA’s Overture Awards. The Dancing for the Stars committee includes: Dr. Tracey Skale (chair, Dancing for the Stars 2011 winner), Phil Schworer, Christina Bolden, Terry Foster, Sue Gilkey, Jim Howland, Ginger Loftin, and Rosemary Schlachter.

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

• $100 – Patron (includes pre-event reception and two drink tickets)
• $1,000 – Corporate Table (ten Patron level tickets and a half-page black-and-white program ad)
• $1,500 – Celebrity Circle Table (premium “first-row” viewing of competition area, ten Patron level tickets, full-page black-and-white program ad, recognition on event signage) 

RESERVATIONS AND INFORMATION:

• (513) 977-4104
• Aronoff Center Ticket Office
• www.CincinnatiArts.org 

THE STARS:

• Linda Bessey (Faux Painter)
• Devinder Mangat, MD, FACS (Founder, Mangat -Kuy-Holzapfel Plastic Surgery Centers)
• Britney Ruby Miller (Director of Operations, Jeff Ruby Culinary Entertainment)
• Rick Pawlak (Managing Director, Ultimate Air Shuttle)
• Neal Schulte (Founder & President, Schulte Financial Group, LLC)
• Kay Smith-Yount (Philanthropist; Wife of The Cincinnati Herald Editor-in-Chief, Dan Yount)
• Christianna Stephens (Philanthropist; Wife of Mercy Health-West Market Leader and President, Michael Stephens)
• Keith Wilson, MD, FACS (Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, UC Health) 

THE PROS with Star pairing:

• Leigh Bradshaw (Cincinnati Ballroom Company) – Neal Schulte
• Bonita Brockert (Independent Dance Instructor) – Devinder Mangat, MD, FACS
• J. Patrick Clements (Step-n-Out Studio) – Britney Ruby Miller
• Grace de Guia (Dare to Dance) – Rick Pawlak
• Brian McNamee (Cincinnati Ballroom Company) – Christianna Stephens
• Jeremy Mainous (Arthur Murray Dance Studio – Cincinnati) – Linda Bessey
• Desiree Mainous (Arthur Murray Dance Studio – Cincinnati) – Keith Wilson, MD, FACS
• Jozsef Paragh (Independent Dance Instructor) – Kay Smith-Yount 

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

THE JUDGES:

• Douglas Beal (Independent Dance Instructor)
• Doreen Beatrice (Step-n-Out Studio)
• Dr. Michael Leadbetter (Cosmetic Surgeon, Plastic Surgery Group; Dancing for the Stars 2012, star) 

EVENT SPONSORS: Stock Yards Bank & Trust, Arthur Murray – Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ballroom Company, Dare to Dance, Step-n-Out Studio, Bonita Brockert, and Jozsef Parragh.

THE OVERTURE AWARDS
The Overture Awards Scholarship Competition is the largest locally run arts scholarship competition in the country. The program annually provides a $3,500 scholarship to six area high school students for education and training, with 18 finalists each winning a $750 scholarship. Each year, more than 450 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 18th year, The Overture Awards was launched in 1996 by the Cinergy Foundation and Leadership Cincinnati (a Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce program).

CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION
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 700,000 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 Back Broadway in Cincinnati. Since the inception of its acclaimed arts education programs in 1995, CAA has reached more than 1.3 million students.