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“We all fall down the same way”

RUDE NIGHTS AT THE MIDLAND Summer Concert Series Featuring Premedicated Murder (formerly known as The Vicious Shrews) LIVE! In concert at the Midland Theater’s basement in downtown Newark, Ohio, with special guest opening appearance from local ska-punk garage-band The Water Cycle’s Gay (formerly known as be right back, I gotta skank out a NUCLEAR PHART!)

A New Musical written and directed by Timothy Andrew Leonard
Thomas More Theater
July 16-19 at 7:30

FEATURING (in alphabetical order)

• Bri Willingham as Erin
• Claire Lefton as Desiree
• Cohen Rice as Cammy
• David TR Goble as Chris
• Dylan Waters as Mark
• Freddie Caldwell as Keith
• Jeff Centrello as Horton
• Joe Mitchell as Max
• Kayla Centrello as Shannon
• Kayleigh Tamborski as Val
• Maxx Ruth as Darren
• Nicole Grace as Callie
• Peyton Leonard as Jamie
• Taylor Mattingly as Claire
• Troian Butler as Trevor
• Val Allen as Jessie

Lauren Davidson: Stage Manager
Joe Mitchell: Assistant Director
Sam Blair: Music/Sound Director
Anna Hazard: Intimacy Director @ahazardhopes
Leen Leonard: Visual/Art Director @sterleen_
Leo Jenkins: Lighting Designer @oh_no_its_leo
Jamie Swisshelm Costume/Prop Designer @jamieswisshelm
Production Photography by @gmarkphotography

With a title like that, who needs a plot description!?!?
All you need to know, is that Trevor and Jessie used to date, but she ran off after they broke up with a punk rock band, leaving her sister Jamie pregnant and alone with Mark, her trailer park baby daddy, with nothing but their old high school ska band. Well, Jessie’s headed back to Newark to play a hometown concert with her new girlfriend and their world famous band, she just doesn’t know that her manager has booked her ex’s high school band to open for them. What could go wrong?

A brand new musical inspired by the themes and dialogue of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, RUDE NIGHTS AT THE MIDLAND is a frank and honest look at the weight you carry as you come back home: Small town, Midwest USA, where everyone is broke as hell and dumb as sin. What’s more (ska)punk than that?

“If music be the food of love, Play On…”

TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare
June 18-21 at 7:00
Thomas More University’s Observatory Lawn

Directed by Phillip Webster
Payton Parson : Stage Manager
Hannah Wolke : Assistant Stage Manager

1. Natalie Hayslett – Viola
2. Madelynn Meredith – Olivia
3. Loften Cooper – Orsino
4. Dan Robertson – Sebastian
5. Christine Gallagher – Antonio
6. Isabella Keyes – Feste
7. Aidan Garrison – Malvolio
8. R Graham Rogers – Toby Belch
9. Gavin Borchers – Andrew Aguecheek
10. Liz Carman – Maria
11. Loretta Rubin – Fabian
12. Enzo Battaglia – The Sea Captain
13. Paige Nielander – Valentine
14. Isabelle Rowe – Curio

We’re gonna assume you know this one. Shipwreck, cross-dressing, lonely mourning courtship, mistaken Identity, sword-fights, 200 margaritas, and bright yellow cross-garters.

Join us on the Observatory Lawn at Thomas More University for a fresh new take on Illyria, where they spend more time on their rim salt than their day jobs.

Don’t let yourself waste away, cause this time, there is way more to blame it on!