[NEohioPAL]The Eugene S. And Blanche R. Halle Theatre Announces the 2003-200 4 Mainstage Season!

[Barnes, Kris]

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Jewish Community Center of Cleveland
			26001 South Woodland Road, Beachwood OH  44122 *
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			3505 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, OH  44118 *
(216) 382-4000  * fax (216) 382-5401  

For Immediate Release
Contact:  Chris Fox, (216) 831-0700 Ext. 334
Evenings:  (216) 991-1726
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The Eugene S. and Blanche R. Halle Theatre Announces the
2003-2004 Mainstage Series


May 8, 2003....The Eugene S. and Blanche R. Halle Theatre is pleased to
announce its 2003-2004 Season.  The productions are as follows:

The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Written by Alfred Uhry
Directed by Fred Sternfeld
October 25 - November 9, 2003

To Know Him, Written by Albi Gorn
Directed by Michael Simmons
January 17 - February 1, 2004

Kindertransport, Written by Diane Samuels
		Directed by Sarah May
		March 13 - March 28, 2004

Groucho:  A Life in Revue, Written by Arthur Max and Robert Fisher
		Directed by and starring Tom Vazzana as Groucho and Sheri
Gross in all of the women's roles
May 15 - May 30, 2004

All performances are in the Eugene S. and Blanche R. Halle Theatre in the
Jewish Community Center Mayfield Building, 3505 Mayfield Road, Cleveland
Heights. To purchase tickets or for additional information, please contact
the Halle Theatre Box Office at 216-382-4000 ext. 274.



About The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Winner of the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play! Once again, playwright Alfred
Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) takes us to his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.  It
is December of 1939. Gone with the Wind is having its world premiere and
Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist assimilated German Jewish
community is consumed with who is going to Ballyhoo, the Jewish answer to a
debutante ball.  Enters, Joe; Brooklyn born, from Eastern European heritage
and several rungs below the Freitag family on the social scale.  These are
the "other kind."  This is a story with plenty of comedy, romance and
insight into the prejudices within the Jewish community back in the 30's.
"Everything falls into place in this...winning new play...wonderfully
crafted script." -Variety. 

About To Know Him

The World Premiere of the Winner of the 2002 Dorothy Silver Playwriting
Competition.  Seldom has a play emerged from the competition with such
creativity, wit, humor and insight into relationships as To Know Him.  A
major hit with the audience at the staged reading, it cried out for a fully
staged production!  In this three-character play, a young female rabbinical
student assigned to a hospital chaplaincy bounces into the room of a
middle-aged man with all her do-good intentions.  Irritated by her and
consumed with his illness, he rebuffs her attempts to cheer him.  Determined
to make a difference, she persists and a relationship develops around a
common interest- the movies!  And as the relationship grows, certain secrets
emerge about who they are and their relationships with their fathers.  
"World premieres are always an occasion of great excitement, and this one
has that rare blend of comedy and content that will move and entertain at
the same time!"- Dorothy Silver 

About Kindertransport

Inspired by the real-life evacuation of 10,000 Jewish children from prewar
Nazi Germany and their subsequent placement in English foster homes,
Kindertransport chronicles the emotional predicament of a woman who has
sublimated her painful childhood only to be confronted with it by her own 20
something daughter who has discovered her mothers secrets in an attic trunk.
Diane Samuels' artfully sculpted play simultaneously depicts two epochs in
the woman's now normal English life.  Evelyn (nee Eva Schlesinger) has spent
a lifetime reinventing herself in an attempt to forget the pain only to find
that by confronting it, she finds release.  This is a play that in the end
will buoy your soul. 

About Groucho: A Life in Revue

A salute to all the wonderful Jewish comedians that made us laugh and made
us forget about our problems. Groucho and the zany Marx brothers were part
of the parade that included Jack Benny, George Burns, Milton Berle, Sid
Caeser,  Henny Youngman, Fanny Brice,  Sam Levenson, Myron Cohen and others.
In Groucho: A Life in Revue, you get to know him as the Marx Brothers were
struggling to make it in vaudeville to their rise to stardom and their
eventual breakup.  This is one show that promises you a fun evening of
theatre--You bet your life!  "An absolutely hilarious evening."-N.Y. Post

For more information, please contact:
Kris Barnes, Box Office Manager
216-382-4000 ext. 274

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Kris Barnes
Box Office Manager 
The Eugene S. & Blanche R. Halle Theatre
kbarnes at clevejcc.org 
216-382-4000 ext. 274