[NEohioPAL]Kulas Foundation Sponsors Live Cello Music at The Mai

[Marjorie Preston, PR/Marketing Director]

For Immediate Release:			Contact: Marjorie Preston, Dobama Theatre
PR/Marketing, (216) 932-6838
Email: mpreston at dobama.org
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Kulas Foundation Sponsors Live Cello Music at Performances of Marina Carr’s
The Mai at Dobama Theatre

Dobama Theatre’s December production of Marina Carr’s The Mai has received a
generous sponsorship from the Kulas Foundation which supports live cello
music before each performance.  Dobama Theatre has chosen to feature
accomplished student musician Joshua Roman on cello.  Roman performs live
cello pieces one-half hour before curtain every evening the play is
performed.  He also provides music during the production, playing behind a
scrim while action is taking place on stage.

Roman is a junior at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has been playing
the cello for more than fifteen years.  He gave his first full length solo
recital at the age of eleven in Oklahoma City, and since then has performed
many times, in Oklahoma City, Cleveland, and other cities in the Mid-West
and South.  Roman has also won prizes in competitions, including the
Rosemary Scales Prize for Best Cello Concerto atthe 1999 Kingsville
International Young Performers Competition, and second prize in the
orchestral instrument division of the same competition.He made his debut as
a concerto soloist in the spring of 1999 with the Oklahoma City
Philharmonic, and since then has performed with several other orchestras.
Roman recently returned from California, where he sat as principal cellist
of the Music Academy Festival Orchestra for their final concert of the
summer.

Only two more weekends to see The Mai.  The play’s final performance is
scheduled for 2:30 p.m. December 22nd.

THE MAI
By Marina Carr
Performances:
November 30-December 22
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday 12/1, 12/15 at 7:30 p.m., 12/8, 12/22 at 2:30 p.m.

For more information, call Dobama Theatre at (216) 932-6838.
For reservations, call Dobama’s box office at (216) 932-3396.

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Marjorie Preston
PR/Marketing Director
Dobama Theatre
(216) 932-6838
www.dobama.org

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"Persuasive and provocative … discloses a rich poetic landscape, fused with
gentle humour, lyrical romanticism and harboured rage." Variety

Dobama Theatre is proud to present "The Mai" by Marina Carr, November
30-December 22!

Set in Ireland, this love story is told in the Irish folklore tradition as
music underscores the joy and sorrow of the Mai.

Upcoming productions:
THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST’S WIFE
By Charles Busch, Directed by Fred Sternfeld
January 17-February 9

IN THE BLOOD
By Suzi Lori Parks, Directed by Sonya Robbins
March 7-30

RAISED IN CAPTIVITY
By Nicky Silver, Directed by Russ Borski
April 25-May 18

For reservations, call Dobama's box office line: (216) 932-3396.