From Thackaberr at aol.com Mon Sep 16 08:20:07 2002 From: Thackaberr at aol.com (Thackaberr at aol.com) Date: Mon Sep 16 08:20:07 2002 Subject: [NEohioPAL]Rave Review of Grand Night for Singing at Actors' Summit Message-ID: <19e.8ba7985.2ab71932@aol.com> --part1_19e.8ba7985.2ab71932_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Actors' Summit offers night of great songs Rodgers and Hammerstein revue filled with romance, nostalgia By Kerry Clawson Beacon Journal staff writer Actors' Summit's Rodgers and Hammerstein revue, A Grand Night for Singing, doesn't have a lot of pizzazz, but it's full of romantic, nostalgic classics that make for a pleasant evening. The 1994 Broadway revue, nominated for two Tonys, celebrates the work of these famous collaborators, featuring tunes from Oklahoma, Cinderella, The King and I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Allegro, Pipe Dream, Carousel and Flower Drum Song. The Actors' Summit production is a fast-paced performance with seamless transitions. Four actors/singers are backed by an excellent four-member band, led by music director/pianist Marc Baker, obviously a consummate musician. Baritone Greg Violand is the anchor in this musical production, as a soloist, in duets and in ensemble numbers. He's the most accomplished singer of the four, having sung with Cleveland Opera Company and in a number of Northeast Ohio musicals. The rest of the singers have generally enjoyable voices. The charming Violand excels in the lovely We Kiss in a Shadow and as the lead singer in Honey Bun, one of the most delightful numbers of the evening. Here, he begins with a cute verbal disclaimer to this song that extols a woman's great figure: `No offense to anybody. It was the times, you know.'' In this bouncy, jazzy number, the rest of the cast serves as a girl backup band, dancing and miming playing instruments. Other lively songs include That's The Way It Happens with MaryJo Alexander, Violand and Wayne Turney and the ensemble's perfectly polished show stopper, Kansas City. Alexander and Maryann Nagel also offer a lot of fun in the jazzy, lounge-style I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair. Too often, alto Nagel and tenor Turney sound a bit forced and flat. That pairing makes their duet, Shall We Dance, one of the show's weakest numbers. All of these cast members are good actors, though. They offer very honest emoting in Alexander's tender Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful and Turney's painful Love, Look Away. Director Neil Thackaberry has added a number of niceties to the show, including plenty of cute patter between numbers. There's a good flow of actors from different entry points into the stage area, and choreography is simple yet effective. Costumer Alexander presents a beautiful array of gowns for both her and Nagel, adding great elegance to the show. Rodgers and Hammerstein lovers will want to tap their feet and hum along with some of this revue's best-known numbers. The actors all look starry-eyed in their finale, Impossible/I Have Dreamed, which features beautiful four-part harmony. Theater critic Kerry Clawson may be reached at 330-996-3527 or by e-mail at kclawson at thebeaconjournal.com. --part1_19e.8ba7985.2ab71932_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Actors' Summit offers night of great songs

Rodgers and Hammerstein revue filled with romance, nostalgia
By Kerry Clawson
Beacon Journal staff writer

Actors' Summit's Rodgers and Hammerstein revue, A Grand Night for Singing, doesn't have a lot of pizzazz, but it's full of romantic, nostalgic classics that make for a pleasant evening.

The 1994 Broadway revue, nominated for two Tonys, celebrates the work of these famous collaborators, featuring tunes from Oklahoma, Cinderella, The King and I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Allegro, Pipe Dream, Carousel and Flower Drum Song.

The Actors' Summit production is a fast-paced performance with seamless transitions. Four actors/singers are backed by an excellent four-member band, led by music director/pianist Marc Baker, obviously a consummate musician.

Baritone Greg Violand is the anchor in this musical production, as a soloist, in duets and in ensemble numbers. He's the most accomplished singer of the four, having sung with Cleveland Opera Company and in a number of Northeast Ohio musicals. The rest of the singers have generally enjoyable voices.

The charming Violand excels in the lovely We Kiss in a Shadow and as the lead singer in Honey Bun, one of the most delightful numbers of the evening.

Here, he begins with a cute verbal disclaimer to this song that extols a woman's great figure: `No offense to anybody. It was the times, you know.''

In this bouncy, jazzy number, the rest of the cast serves as a girl backup band, dancing and miming playing instruments.

Other lively songs include That's The Way It Happens with MaryJo Alexander, Violand and Wayne Turney and the ensemble's perfectly polished show stopper, Kansas City.

Alexander and Maryann Nagel also offer a lot of fun in the jazzy, lounge-style I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair.

Too often, alto Nagel and tenor Turney sound a bit forced and flat. That pairing makes their duet, Shall We Dance, one of the show's weakest numbers.

All of these cast members are good actors, though. They offer very honest emoting in Alexander's tender Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful and Turney's painful Love, Look Away. Director Neil Thackaberry has added a number of niceties to the show, including plenty of cute patter between numbers. There's a good flow of actors from different entry points into the stage area, and choreography is simple yet effective.

Costumer Alexander presents a beautiful array of gowns for both her and Nagel, adding great elegance to the show.

Rodgers and Hammerstein lovers will want to tap their feet and hum along with some of this revue's best-known numbers. The actors all look starry-eyed in their finale, Impossible/I Have Dreamed, which features beautiful four-part harmony.

Theater critic Kerry Clawson may be reached at 330-996-3527 or by e-mail at kclawson at thebeaconjournal.com.






--part1_19e.8ba7985.2ab71932_boundary-- From oiff-News-owner at yahoogroups.com Mon Sep 16 08:20:19 2002 From: oiff-News-owner at yahoogroups.com (oiff2001) Date: Mon Sep 16 08:20:19 2002 Subject: [NEohioPAL][OIFF-News] NEW MEMBER BENEFITS AT INDEPENDENT PICTURES Message-ID: ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/MVfIAA/W4IolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> NEW MEMBER BENEFITS AT INDEPENDENT PICTURES For Immediate Release: September 16, 2002 Contact: Annetta Marion or Bernadette Gillota, Co-Artistic and=20 Executive Directors, (216) 651-7315 CLEVELAND, OHIO-Independent Pictures, which presents the annual Ohio=20 Independent Film Festival, unveiled a membership program at its=20 Summer Crush Fundraising Benefit to further assist in the artistic=20 and professional pursuits of regional filmmakers. 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Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/=20 From johnny at mdifilm.com Mon Sep 16 10:58:02 2002 From: johnny at mdifilm.com (Johnny Wu) Date: Mon Sep 16 10:58:02 2002 Subject: [NEohioPAL]A night of untold stories - Free lecture Message-ID: <003d01c25d80$e22dbac0$0100000a@johnny5> For immediate release Contact: Johnny Wu, VP of Administration Telephone: 216-623-0822 Fax: 216-623-0244 Email: Johnny at mdifilm.com Website: http://www.ocagc.org or http://community.cleveland.com/cc/ocagc OCAGC presents a free evening lecture: "The Untold Stories of WWII in Asia (1931-1945)" (Cleveland, Ohio, September 12, 2002) The Organization of Chinese Americans of Greater Cleveland is presenting a FREE evening lecture on the untold stories in Asia during World War II with guest speaker, Mr. Eugene L. Wei, founder of the American Museum of Asian Holocaust WWII (1931-1945) located in Falls Creek, Pennsylvania. This free lecture is an educational program to learn about the past history in order to avoid repeating the same errors again. Did you know that during WWII, out of ten American POWs who died, nine of them died in Japanese captivity while only one out of ten died in the German Nazi captivity? Did you know that over 30 million Chinese men, women and children were killed by the onslaught of the Japanese soldiers from 1931 to 1945 and at least 200 million Chinese people were made homeless refugees? Did you know that the atrocities committed during WWII in China by the Japanese soldiers and officers have not been taught in high school history curriculum across America? Mr. Wei's lecture and photos of forgotten stories of heroes during the WWII will help us understand the untold history of our past. He will talk about some tragic stories as well as heart-warming stories about heroics of that period of time in Asia, like the first American airman who died for justice against Japanese fliers in China; the story about Minnie Vautrin who saved more than 10,000 Chinese women from being raped or killed; American and Chinese POWs as slave laborers; the defense of Bataan peninsula by both American and Filipino soldiers and many others. A photo exhibit on the anthrax attack in China (1942-44) by the Japanese military will be shown. The free lecture will be held from 6pm to 8pm on Thursday, October 10, 2002 at Asia Plaza's Conference Room (2nd Floor), 2999 Payne Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44114. Tea refreshment will be provided. Limited seating, RSVP is suggested. For more information, please call 216-623-0822 or email Johnny at mdifilm.com. About Eugene L. Wei. Eugene was a refugee from the Rape of Nanking three years before he was born. His parents escaped from Nanking just 3 weeks before Dec.13, 1937. In 1949 they escaped again from Mao to Taiwan and later immigrated to Chicago, Illinois. He received his Science Master's degree from M.I.T. in 1965. Mr. Wei is a permanent member of the Chinese American Environmental Protection Assoc. (CAEPA); a member of the Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War (APTSJW), former vice chair; and on July 26, 2002, he founded the American Museum of Asian Holocaust WWII (1931-1945). He has given lectures at high schools and colleges including UC Davis, California State University, at Hayward, S.F. City College, Stanford University, UCLA, Oregon State U. and Georgetown University in D.C. For more information about the museum, visit http://www.geocities.com/amahwwii/ About OCAGC. The Organization of Chinese Americans of Greater Cleveland (OCAGC) is a non-profit, non-partisan civic rights and educational organization. We are dedicated to promoting cultural heritage, active participation in civic and community affairs, securing justice, and equal treatment and equal opportunity for all Americans of Chinese and Asian/Pacific Islander descent. "Embracing the Hopes and Aspiration of Chinese and Asian Pacific Americans in the United States" From terrysandler at hotmail.com Mon Sep 16 11:01:00 2002 From: terrysandler at hotmail.com (terry sandler) Date: Mon Sep 16 11:01:00 2002 Subject: [NEohioPAL]CVLT opens their season with "Camping with Henry and Tom" Message-ID:

Greetings and Salutations!

 You're INVITED to see our show.

You might just learn a little,

Of facts you?d never know.

 

If this at all seems boring,

Don?t hold back your yawn.

For you?re about to embark on,

A trip with Henry and Tom.

 

Now Tom we have to thank,

For all of those things we care.

The light bulb, the telephone, the cinema,

The electric bills we so despair.

 

And Henry with his boat on wheels,

sailing down the road.

With a beep . . .

And a squeak . . .

And a black shiny streak . . .

America?s now in the mode.

 

Henry and Tom go camping,

annually each year.

But, this camping trip is different,

As they smack into a deer!

 

Another guest will accompany us,

along with the two major greats.

Warren G. Harding is 29th ,

Among the Presidents of the United States.

 

So this is where I leave you,

Take caution of certain conditions.

You may want to feed the wild life,

DON?T FEED THE POLITICIANS!

 

Make sure you bring your sleeping bag,

Your toothbrush, and your song.

To dance around the campfire,

With Warren, Henry and Tom.

   ---Terry M. Sandler, Director

 

CHAGRIN VALLEY LITTLE THEATRE

Presents:

Camping with Henry and Tom!

By Mark St. Germain

Directed by Terry M. Sandler

When

September 20-October 12 (Fridays & Saturdays, 8pm)

Box Office

(440)-247-8955 (40 River Street, Chagrin Falls)



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