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April 28, 2014 · 6:33 pm

Middletown Lyric Theatre’s 2014-2015 Season

MLT_logoMIDDLETOWN LYRIC THEATRE
2014-2015 SEASON

September 19, 20, 26 & 27 Auditions: June 8, 9 & 10

SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM – Music by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein and Jule Styne and Richard Rodgers and Mary Rodgers Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Continuity by Ned Sherrin

DIRECTED BY: Charley Shafor

VOCAL DIRECTION: Julia Abanto-Bethune
PIANIST: Jay Mills

This dazzling array of some of Sondheim’s best-known songs features numbers from landmark shows that revolutionized the musical theatre with their masterful craft and astounding creativity

 

October 24, 25, 31 & November 1 Auditions: July 14, 15 & 16

BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE – By: Martin McDonagh

DIRECTED BY: TBA

Tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman, and Mag, her manipulative aging mother, whose interference in Maureen’s first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the play’s terrifying dénouement.

 

December 5, 6, 12 &13 Auditions: August 11, 12 & 13

THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO – By: Alfred Uhry

DIRECTED BY: Charley Shafor

We’re in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta’s elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Especially concerned is the Freitag family. The family gets pulled apart and then mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations along the way.

 

March 6, 7, 13 &14 Auditions: November 2, 3 & 4

PICASSO AT LAPINE AGILE – By: Steve Martin

DIRECTED BY: Nathan Greer

This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. The show plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century’s achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious dizziness.

April 17, 18, 24 & 25 Auditions: January 5, 6 & 7

FORBIDDEN BROADWAYS: GREATEST HITS – Created by Gerard Alessandrini

DIRECTED BY: Ryan Heinrich

VOCAL DIRECTION: Ryan Heinrich

In this long-running Off-Broadway hit musical revue, Broadway’s greatest musical legends meet Broadway’s greatest satirist in this hilarious, loving, and endlessly entertaining tribute to some of the theatre’s greatest stars and songwriters.

 

May 29, 30 & June 5, 6 Auditions: February 15, 16 & 17

NOVEMBER – By: David Mamet

DIRECTED BY: Claire LaNicca

It’s a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith’s chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money’s running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff has thrown in the towel and his wife has begun to prepare for her post-White House life, Chuck isn’t ready to give up just yet. November is a scathingly hilarious take on the state of America today and the lengths to which people will go to win. (this play does contain strong adult language)

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April 10, 2014 · 12:14 pm

MLT Change in Season

MLT_logoMiddletown Lyric Theatre announces a change in the season:

PAINTING CHURCHES by Tina How scheduled to be the final production of the MLT season is being replaced with:

COMEDY TONIGHT: AN EVENING OF FARCE directed by Michael Schlotterbeck & Charley Shafor

The evening will include short plays written by Christopher Durang & David Ives. Scheduled are:

  • FOR WHOM THE SOUTHERN BELLE TOLLS
  • TIME FLIES
  • VARIATIONS ON THE DEATH OF TROTSKY
  • UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
  • THE ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE

The show runs: May 30, 31 & June 6 & 7, 2014

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March 27, 2014 · 12:27 pm

100 SAINTS YOU SHOULD KNOW Runs April 25-May 3

MLT_100 Saints You Should Know100 SAINTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Presented by Middletown Lyric Theatre
April 25-May 3
Middletown

Directed by Charley Shafor

Cast: Claire LaNicca as Theresa, Cassidy Estridge as Abby, Gale Rudolph as Colleen, Joey Becker as Garrett & Jason Easter as Matthew

Theresa is estranged from her family and working as a cleaning woman when she finds herself surprised by the unexpected desire to learn how to pray. Matthew, the priest whose rectory she cleans, is stunned and heartbroken by the realization that he no longer knows how to talk to God. When he disappears one day, Theresa feels compelled to track him down, and her search changes both of their lives. This production contains strong adult language and mature themes.

  • Fri-Sat, April 25-26 at 8pm
  • Fri-Sat, May 2-3 at 8pm

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February 24, 2014 · 1:17 pm

Casting Call for MLT’s PAINTING CHURCHES

MLT_logoMIDDLETOWN LYRIC THEATRE
1530 Central Avenue, Middletown, Ohio
513-425-7140 Middletownlyric.org

AUDITIONS for PAINTING CHURCHES by Tine Howe
Directed by: Charley Shafor

BY APPOINTMENT
Contact Charley at cshafor@middletownlyric.org
Performances: May 30 & 31 & June 6 & 7

CHARACTERS

  • Gardner Church: an aging Pulitzer Prize-winning poet slowly losing his mental abilities, and in the sometimes sharply toned conversations between mother and daughter. (Age 60’s to 70’s)
  • Fanny: is a slightly eccentric, tart-tongued Boston Brahmin who loves her doddering husband but fears and resents the loss of their cultured life. (Age 60’s to 70’s)
  • Margaret (Mags): fled to New York and a career as a painter. An infrequent visitor home, she wants to paint a definitive portrait of her parents while she has the chance; the work also allows her an opportunity to get a good look at them, to use the artist’s objectivity with her subjects to see them as people and not just her parents. (Age 30’s)

SYNOPSIS
Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter, Mags, to come home and help them move. Mags agrees, for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of artistic celebrity herself and hopes, by painting her parents, to come to terms with them and they with her. Mags triumphs in the end as Fanny and Gardner actually step through the frame and become a work of art ineffable and timeless.

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February 10, 2014 · 5:55 pm

MLT Announces Auditions for PAINTING CHURCHES

MLT_logoAUDITIONS for PAINTING CHURCHES by Tine Howe
Directed by: Charley Shafor

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2014 at 7pm

Performances: May 30 & 31 & June 6 & 7

CHARACTERS

  • Gardner Church: an aging Pulitzer Prize-winning poet slowly losing his mental abilities, and in the sometimes sharply toned conversations between mother and daughter. (Age 60’s to 70’s)
  • Fanny: is a slightly eccentric, tart-tongued Boston Brahmin who loves her doddering husband but fears and resents the loss of their cultured life. (Age 60’s to 70’s)
  • Margaret (Mags): fled to New York and a career as a painter. An infrequent visitor home, she wants to paint a definitive portrait of her parents while she has the chance; the work also allows her an opportunity to get a good look at them, to use the artist’s objectivity with her subjects to see them as people and not just her parents. (Age 30’s) 

SYNOPSIS
Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter, Mags, to come home and help them move. Mags agrees, for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of artistic celebrity herself and hopes, by painting her parents, to come to terms with them and they with her. Mags triumphs in the end as Fanny and Gardner actually step through the frame and become a work of art ineffable and timeless.

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