THE SOLDIER SHOW
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
May 1
Aronoff Center – Jarson-Kaplan Theater [Downtown]
Book, music and lyrics by Fred Rothzeid
From 1963-73, the US military created a kind of in-house USO: troupes of performers toured installations entertaining their fellow troops. Fred Rothzeid’s new musical, The Soldier Show, is a fictionalized representation of one of those companies.
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SISTER CARRIE
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
April 3
Aronoff Center – Fifth Third Bank Theater [Downtown]
Written by Herb DuVal
Directed by Charles Goetz
Music directed by Jim Hart
Cast: Brooke Rucidlo, Joshua Steele, Susan Emerson & Charles Harper
An ambitious small-town girl heads for the big cities, first Chicago, then New York, and, entanglements with besotted males notwithstanding, makes it big on her own in theatre. DuVal, writer of the book and lyrics, styles Sister Carrie as “the first feminist musical.”
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WAITLISTED
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
March 20
Aronoff Center – Fifth Third Bank Theater [Downtown]
Written by Jonathan Singer
Nora coaches Polly for the interview phase of her application to a progression of medical schools. But neither coach nor interviewee anticipates the character of Polly’s interviewers and the nature—and relevance—of the questions they’re asking. Can Polly eventually “psyche ’em out”? (It only hurts when I laugh, Doctor….)
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HUMBLE PIE
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
Feb. 20
Aronoff Center – Fifth Third Bank Theater [Downtown]
Written by Barb Timmons
Valentine’s Day comes late for the owner of an Italian restaurant whose food is as good as its ambiance is lacking—facts pointedly pointed out by an attractive food critic. Owner and critic meet, at first not connecting the dots—or grease spots—about the critic’s pan. When they do figure out who’s who relating to the review, it’s too late: they’ve heated up a romantic mutual attraction.
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TESTING, TESTING, 1, 2, 3
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
Jan. 9
Aronoff Center – Fifth Third Bank Theater [Downtown]
Written by Roger Collins
Your guides: Health teacher Mr. Cobb, struggling with life-forming vocational issues, and his students Bobby, tortured by his soldier father’s perils in the Middle East combat, and Val, a slave to her hyperactivity. All try desperately to determine if “normal” and “sane” are the same thing, and to come down on the side of sanity, albeit caught in what is perhaps another-than-sane context of consequentially questionable values and chronic terrorism.
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