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May 8, 2012 · 10:38 am

Celebrate the Best From the 2011-12 Theatre Season

AT THE LEAGUE OF CINCINNATI THEATRES’ ANNUAL AWARDS GALA
MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012, 7 PM, JARSON KAPLAN THEATRE, ARONOFF CENTER

Tickets: $15 and $10 for working theatre professionals. Get your tickets online now (limited to 300) at www.cincinnatiarts.org.

Ticket includes admission to the party following the ceremony in the loge at the Aronoff Center with delicious bites, a cash bar, and even some live “Sherry-oke” Sing along fun with Sherry McCamley!

Enjoy a night of entertainment from this season (and “sneak peaks” of upcoming shows) and meet the area theatres’ best and brightest stars as presenters and entertainers from our exceptional theatres.

Our Theatre Arts organizations are truly a jewel in the Queen City’s Crown that retains our creative professionals, provides positive economic impact, while fostering culture, dialogue, and an awareness of issues that affective every part of our daily lives.

Meet our talented area theatre professionals at the LCT Awards Gala and you’ll have an idea why LCT and folks like Dr. Sandy Osher, are so happy to support our theatres’ inspirational work.

The LCT Awards are the only theater awards program in the U.S. that provides grants to theater education, theatre artists, and seasoned Actors Equity Association performers. Like Graeters, the Robling Bridge and Union Terminal, our awards are “One of a Kind.”

“It is organizations like the League of Cincinnati Theatre that keep Cincinnati such a theatrically vibrant city. It is so important that we value the arts in our city, and LCT does such a fantastic job at doing this. I know that this money is really going to help me when I move to NYC next week.” —Katie Johannigman, 2012 Recipient of LCT’s Rising Star Awards

Join the celebration Monday, May 21st, at 7 PM in the Jarson Kaplan Theatre and get your tickets now at www.cincinnatiarts.org. Remember space is limited to 300.

Please call me with any questions, or if you want to support the GALA by volunteering. Ask me how you can “Adopt a Rising Star” for $1,000 donation. Follow YOUR Rising Stars’ career to Broadway and beyond and encourage their bright future!

Cathy Springfield
League of Cincinnati Theatres, President
513-235-4292
cathy.springfield@gmail.com

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May 3, 2012 · 4:46 pm

LCT Gives 4 Awards to Playhouse’s THUNDER KNOCKING ON THE DOOR

League of Cincinnati Theatres Gives Four Awards to
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s THUNDER KNOCKING ON THE DOOR

David St. Louis as Marvell Thunder, Terry Burrell as Good Sister Dupree, Jennie Harney as Glory Dupree & Trent Armand Kendall as Jaguar Dupree, Sr. Photo by Sandy Underwood.

(CINCINNATI, MAY 1, 2012)– Panelists from the League of Cincinnati Theatres (LCT) have recognized Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s production of THUNDER KNOCKING ON THE DOOR with four awards for its ensemble, costume design, lighting design and band.

THUNDER KNOCKING ON THE DOOR is a fairy tale of love, family and the blues by Keith Glover, Anderson Edwards and Keb’ Mo’. Once upon a time, a mysterious stranger named Marvell Thunder arrives at the home of the Dupree family with a unique challenge: a cutting contest, in which guitars are the weapons of choice. If he has his way, the epic musical showdown will change everyone’s life. Thunder was produced at the Playhouse in 1999, and it became the theatre’s most popular musical of the last 20 years. Awards were given to the following:

  • Outstanding Ensemble, described by one LCT panelist as “the best I’ve seen on this stage.” The cast includes Terry Burrell, Jennie Harney, Trent Armand Kendall, David St. Louis and Timothy Ware;
  • Paul Tazewellfor his costume design. “Costumes were astounding,” said one panelist. “The shiny suits perfectly reflected the era and the characters in fabric and fit. Every character had great clothes with attention to detail.”
  • Thomas C. Hasefor the show’s lighting design, described as “a work of art, creating a fluid landscape for the various locales and brilliantly bridging the concert and theatre worlds”; and
  • Steve Ditzell (guitar),Art Gore (drums),Larry C. Humphrey (bass), Michael Leroy Peed (keyboards, music direction)and Billy Thompson (guitar and harmonica), the show’s musicians, for their specialized contributions to the production. According to one panelist, “I go yearly to the Cincinnati Blues Fest, and the band playing for this production is better than many of the bands I have heard. They were simply outstanding.”

Thunder Knocking on the Door continues through May 20. Tickets are available at www.cincyplay.com.

The League of Cincinnati Theatres was founded in 1999 to strengthen, nurture and promote Cincinnati’s theatre community. LCT provides its member companies and individual members with education, resources and services to enhance the quality and exposure of the theatre community in Cincinnati and increase community awareness, attendance and involvement. More information about the League can be found at www.leagueofcincytheatres.info.

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April 29, 2012 · 9:00 am

Jeremy Fischer & Tracy M. Schoster Earn LCT Awards for Falcon’s FROZEN

Tracy M. Schoster & Jeremy Fischer. Photo by Mikki Schaffner.

(CINCINNATI, APRIL 24, 2012)– The League of Cincinnati Theatres (LCT) has awarded Jeremy Fischer and Tracy M. Schoster with awards for leading actor and actress in a play for their performances in Falcon Theatre’s production of FROZEN. The drama by Bryony Lavery was a 2004 Tony Award nominee.

FROZEN is the story of three people whose lives are tied together by a single crime — the murder of a 10-year-old girl. The girl’s mother (Schoster), her killer (Fischer) and a psychiatrist studying the case are all emotionally frozen by it. But as their lives become intertwined through the repercussions of this horrible event, they also begin to experience the thawing effect of forgiveness.

According to one LCT panelist, “Falcon Theatre has gathered an amazingly talented ensemble for its chilling production of the play FROZEN. The two main characters played by Tracy M. Schoster and Jeremy Fischer are thoroughly developed and nuanced, giving the audience a great sense of empathy and emotional connection. It’s not often that audience members react to actors’ performances in such a physical and emotional way as I witnessed at the theatre.”

Fischer is making his Cincinnati theatrical debut. He holds an MFA from the Clarence Brown Theatre Conservatory at the University of Tennessee. Schoster is a Falcon veteran, who has appeared previously in the theatre’s productions of “Down the Road” and “Hamlet,” among others.

FROZEN continues through May 5. Details and ticket information can be found at falcontheater.net.

The League of Cincinnati Theatres was founded in 1999 to strengthen, nurture and promote Cincinnati’s theatre community. LCT provides its member companies and individual members with education, resources and services to enhance the quality and exposure of the theatre community in Cincinnati and increase community awareness, attendance and involvement. More information about the League can be found at www.leagueofcincytheatres.info.

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April 19, 2012 · 6:21 pm

LCT Recognizes Justin Baldwin for NET’s REASONS TO BE PRETTY

Justin Baldwin as Kent. Photo by Mikki Schaffner.

(CINCINNATI, APRIL 16, 2012)– Justin Baldwin has earned a League of Cincinnati Theatres (LCT) Award for his performance in New Edgecliff Theatre’s production of REASONS TO BE PRETTY. Baldwin was recognized in the category of featured actor in a play.

REASONS TO BE PRETTY is a darkly romantic drama by Neil LaBute that follows two couples as they navigate the conflicting loyalties of love and friendship. When Greg confesses to his girlfriend of four years that she’s not physically perfect, it not only affects their lives but the lives of their close friends Carly and Kent, played by Baldwin, whose relationship is far from perfect.

According to one LCT panelist, “Baldwin’s character is a male stereotype, but he was able to skillfully craft it so Kent did not come off as one-dimensional.” Another praised Baldwin’s “raw emotional truthfulness.”

Baldwin serves as the associate managing director at New Edgecliff. Earlier this year, he appeared in the LCT Award-winning ensemble of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial at Covedale Center for the Performing Arts. A 2008 graduate of Miami University, Baldwin spent three years with the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, where his credits included Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure and Pericles. He’s also appeared in The History Boys at New Stage Collective and A Christmas Carol with Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati.

Reasons to Be Pretty continues through April 28. Details and ticket information can be found at www.newedgecliff.com.

The League of Cincinnati Theatres was founded in 1999 to strengthen, nurture and promote Cincinnati’s theatre community. LCT provides its member companies and individual members with education, resources and services to enhance the quality and exposure of the theatre community in Cincinnati and increase community awareness, attendance and involvement. More information about the League can be found at www.leagueofcincytheatres.info.

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April 19, 2012 · 6:15 pm

Ron Shaw Earns LCT Award for Scenic Design of PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES

(CINCINNATI, APRIL 16, 2012)– The League of Cincinnati Theatres (LCT) has recognized Ron Shaw with an award for his scenic design in the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center’s production of PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES.

Shaw was praised for the show’s “delightful” setting: a shabby gas station, run by Jackson and L.M., which sits across from the Double Cupp Diner, managed by sisters Prudie and Rhetta Cupp. According to one LCT panelist, “I thought the set was perhaps the best designed and executed I’ve ever seen at the Carnegie.”

Shaw, an associate professor at Northern Kentucky University, last designed at the Carnegie in 2011 for the theatre’s production of The Odd Couple. He has worked as a set, lighting and costume designer at other venues including Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, ArtReach Touring Theatre, Charlotte Repertory Theatre and the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte.

PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES is a hilarious and heartwarming country western music revue, with original songs including “Farmer Tan” and “The Night Dolly Parton Was Almost Mine.” The show continues through April 29. Details and ticket information can be found at www.thecarnegie.com.

The League of Cincinnati Theatres was founded in 1999 to strengthen, nurture and promote Cincinnati’s theatre community. LCT provides its member companies and individual members with education, resources and services to enhance the quality and exposure of the theatre community in Cincinnati and increase community awareness, attendance and involvement. More information about the League can be found at www.leagueofcincytheatres.info.

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