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2012 FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS
Presented by Human Race Theatre Company
Aug. 3-5
Dayton

Local media coverage: Dayton Most Metro article | Dayton Daily News article |

The Human Race’s Musical Theatre Workshops program is designed to develop original musicals, to provide an avenue for that very important “second production” and to encourage appreciation of rarely produced musicals. Through a process of residencies, workshops and staged readings, The Human Race not only contributes to the art form, but builds an audience for the new musical.

This marks The Human Race’s fifth annual festival that showcases musicals in development, and the second year of including a new work from Encore Theater Company.

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DANI GIRL
A beautiful, touching and unexpectedly humorous story of a 9-year old girl battling leukemia. Her incredible imagination takes her on a fantastical quest to get her hair back when she loses it to chemotherapy. With the help of a fellow patient, 10 year-old Marty, and her imaginary friend, Raph, she confronts “Cancer” and asks him, “Why?”

Directed by Marya Spring Cordes
Music directed by Scot Woolley

Cast: Abby E. Cates as Dani, Brendan Plate as Marty, Jamie Cordes*+ as Raph/Cancer/God/Father & Katie Pees*+ as Mother

• Fri, Aug. 3 at 7pm
• Sat, Aug. 4 at 2pm

RED-BLOODED, ALL-AMERICAN MAN
Tucker, our main guy, has a beautiful fiancée and a good job – but he’s not happy. His mind wanders – with the help of the rock band he has in his head that comments on everything. Sometimes, getting everything you wish for is not as great as one imagines.

Directed by Kevin Moore+
Music directed by Jay Brunner
Vocals directed by Scott Stoney+

Cast: Todd Lawson* as Tucker, Amy Leigh as Jenny, Paige Dobkins as The Fantasy Girl/Mimi, Scott Stoney*+ as The Utility Man & Sara Mackie* as The Utility Woman

• Fri, Aug. 3 at 10pm
• Sun, Aug. 5 at 7pm

35MM: A MUSICAL EXHIBITION
Presented by Encore Theatre Company
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, but what about a song? Can one picture inspire a song? How about fifteen photos? In 35MM, each photo creates a different song completely disconnected from the other creating fifteen different and unique moments frozen in time; a glimmer of a life unfolding, a glimpse of something happening. This stunning new multimedia musical explores a groundbreaking new concept in musical theatre. With music and lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver (Composer of Disney Theatricals’ upcoming stage musical Freaky Friday) and the contemporary photography of Matthew Murphy, this intricately woven collection of stories told through song re-imagines what the modern American musical can be.

• Sat, Aug. 4 at 7pm
• Sun, Aug. 5 at 2pm

TRIPTYCH by Kaye Carlile.

BAND GEEKS!
Presented by Human Race Theatre Company
May 31-June 17
Dayton

Reviews: Talkin’ Broadway | Dayton City Paper | Dayton Most Metro |

A new musical. The Cuyahoga Marching Beavers are 75 trombones short of a Music Man, and there’s only one cornet left, but while the band may be close to extinction, its spirit isn’t. BAND GEEKS! is a rousing Glee with instruments, a tribute to the tribulations of the millions who have spent football halftimes pounding out Sousa-like renditions of “Maria.” If you were ever in a school band, ever knew someone in a school band, even ever heard a school band, you’ll recognize the woes and revel in the fun of Band Geeks!

Directed and choreographed by Greg Hellems
Music directed by Scot Woolley
Produced by Kevin Moore

Cast: Sarah Agar as Nicole, John Robert Armstrong as Mr. Hornsby, Tyler J. Baranski as Alvin, Dane C. Becker as Understudy, Richard Cerato as Spitz, Zach Cossman as Jake, John Fisher as Stewart, Liz Fye as Natalia, Jennifer Joplin as Principal Dixon, Mykal Kilgore as Elliot, Katie Klaus as Laura, Jon Kovach as Kyle & Jennifer Roehm as Molly

• Thu-Sat, May 31-June 2 at 8pm
• Sun, June 3 at 2pm & 7pm
• Tue, June 5 at 7pm
• Wed-Sat, June 6-9 at 8pm
• Sun, June 10 at 2pm
• Wed-Sat, June 13-16 at 8pm
• Sun, June 17 at 2pm

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GEM OF THE OCEAN
Presented by Human Race Theatre Company
March 29-April 15
Dayton

Reviews: Dayton City Paper | Dayton Most Metro |

Each of the ten plays in the late August Wilson’s famed “Pittsburgh Cycle” covers a different decade of the 1900s in an urban African-American neighborhood, and Gem, while the next-to-last written, is the first chronologically. It’s set in 1904, an age when slavery no longer exists but oppression remains all too real, and where the problems of the residents seem overwhelming. At the core of the story is Aunt Ester, whose 285 years of life include a journey to America on a slave ship, and who uses her experiences to bring moral guidance to new generations.

Directed by Mark Clayton Southers

Cast: Bryant Bentley as Caesar Wilks, Kevin Brown as Eli, Alan Bomar Jones as Solly Two Kings, Dwandra Nickole as Aunt Ester Tyler, Jonathan Berry as Citizen Barlow, Scott Stoney as Rutherford Selig & Marva Willians as Black Mary Wilks

• In preview, Thu, March 29 at 8pm
• Fri-Sat, March 30-31 at 8pm
• Sun, April  at 2pm & 7pm
• Tue, April 3 at 7pm
• Wed-Sat, April 4-7 at 8pm
• Sun, April 8 at 2pm
• Wed-Sat, April 11-14 at 8pm
• Sun, April 15 at 2pm

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Local media coverage: Dayton Most Metro article |