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15 Year Old is “CARRIE”
in Showbiz Players production of “CARRIE: THE MUSICAL”

Melissa Campbell. Photo by Jesse Fox.

15 year old Melissa Campbell will be playing the title role of CARRIE in the Showbiz Players production of the regional premiere of CARRIE: THE MUSICAL. Melissa is a sophomore at Wyoming High School and has been participating in musical theater since the age of 9. She will play the part of Carrie White, a bullied and abused teenager who discovers within her the power to strike back. It is based on the classic novel by horror master Stephen King and has gone unproduced since its notorious 1988 Broadway production. Now, fully revised and re-imagined for a new era, CARRIE now hews close to its source material. Melissa was drawn to CARRIE when she heard the off-Broadway CD and is very excited to be playing the role of Carrie White along with an outstanding cast.

CARRIE will play September 20-29 at the Carnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington, Ky. Tickets are $20.50 Adults/$18.50 Seniors & Students and can be purchased on line at http://www.showbizplayers.com or by calling 859-957-1940.

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Showbiz Players, Inc. is one of the premiere community theatre companies in Cincinnati. Spanning a history of 26 years, Showbiz Players, Inc. has won a multitude of national, state and local awards for their productions.

SHOWBIZ PLAYERS PRESENT
“SPRING AWAKENING”

Show Opens 5/31 – Tickets On Sale Now

Steffen Whorton as Melchior & Emily Rowekamp as Wendla. Photo by Showbiz Players.

Showbiz Players, Inc. proudly announces that tickets are now on sale for SPRING AWAKENING, which plays May 31st – June 8th at the Carnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington, Ky. 41011.

Tickets are $20.50 Adults/$18.50 Seniors & Students and can be purchased online at www.thecarnegie.com or by calling 859-957-1940. For more information, go to www.showbizplayers.com.

SPRING AWAKENING takes its inspiration from Frank Wedekind’s play of the same name; one of literature’s most controversial masterpieces – a work so daring in its depiction of teenage self-discovery, it was banned from the stage and not performed in its complete form in English for nearly 100 years.

It’s Germany, 1891. A world where the grown-ups hold all the cards. The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body, and wonders aloud where babies come from. Elsewhere, the brilliant and fearless young Melchior interrupts a mind-numbing Latin drill to defend his buddy Moritz – a boy so traumatized by puberty he can’t concentrate on anything.

Spring Awakening’s tragic love story between innocent Wendla and bookish Melchior is a hard-hitting commentary on social repression that resounds plenty in the modern day, but with intense alternative rock music by Duncan Sheik, it’s also potent, electrifying theater.

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Showbiz Players, Inc. is one of the premiere community theatre companies in Cincinnati. Spanning a history of 26 years, Showbiz Players, Inc. has won a multitude of national, state and local awards for their productions.