[NEohioPAL]Spend the holiday weekend with your family at CPT!

[Dan Kilbane]

CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE’S
STUDENT THEATRE ENRICHMENT PROGRAM PRESENTS A TOUR OF
The Tale of the Emerald Bird
A tale of adventure for all ages!
April 9 and 10, 2004

Join us for a family-friendly piece of theatre, April 9 and 10 at CPT!
Created by local artists Raymond Bobgan, Mike Geither, and Holly Holsinger,
and directed by Raymond Bobgan and Chris Seibert, The Tale of the Emerald
Bird charms audiences with the magnificent journey of Princess Celine, who
must risk everything on the word of a horse when the Empress turns ill and
the land falls sick.  She begins a search for the healing song of the
Emerald Bird, and on her journey she encounters old friends in new
impossible guises and discovers an Ogre who keeps a secret in her belly.  It
is a tale of adventure for all ages!

CPT’s Upstairs Theatre, Friday April 9, at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, April 10, at
3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

STEP is a one-of-a-kind program created by Cleveland Public Theatre. Now in
its eleventh year, STEP offers low-income, Cleveland high school youth the
opportunity to explore the art of theatre while experiencing the rigors of
holding a job.  During the school year, students are paid to participate in
a 10-week after-school rehearsal process and a 9-week performance schedule
in which they learn skills that teach the beauty and elegance of theatre and
language, while increasing their employability in today’s competitive work
environment.  During the summer months, students attend a five-week training
program that culminates in a fully staged play written, designed, and
performed by the students themselves.

Presented through The City of Cleveland’s Youth Employment Opportunity
Program (YEOP), in partnership with the Cleveland Municipal School District
as well as generous contributions from private foundations, the program
skills learned include carpentry, set design, voice and movement skills,
acting, small group communication and management, enhanced literacy,
computer skills, conflict resolution, and writing and editing. The City of
Cleveland has awarded CPT’s Student Theatre Enrichment Program the
Outstanding Employment and Training Program Award of Distinction four years
in a row.

Friday, April 9, 7:00 p.m.
CPT Upstairs Theatre
6415 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102
216-631-2727

Saturday, April 10, 3:00 p.m.
CPT Upstairs Theatre
6415 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102
216-631-2727

Saturday, April 10, 7:00 p.m.
CPT Upstairs Theatre
6415 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102
216-631-2727

The mission of CPT is to inspire, nurture, challenge, amaze, educate, and
empower artists and audiences, in order to make the Cleveland public a more
conscious and compassionate community.  Located at 6415 Detroit Avenue, CPT
serves as a catalyst for urban development in the Detroit-Shoreway
neighborhood.

STEP and this production are supported by JAK PRINTS, Benjamin S. Gerson
Foundation, The City of Cleveland, The George Gund Foundation, Key
Foundation, Nathan L. & Regina Herman Charitable Fund, Wolpert Fund, Raymond
John Wean Foundation, Thomas H. White Foundation, The Workforce Investment
Act, and the Youth Employment Opportunities Program.  Special Thanks to City
Councilman Joe Cimperman, Nelson Cintron, Michael Dolan, Ed Rybka, Martin
Sweeney and Matthew Zone.

Cleveland Public Theatre and its artistic and education programs are funded
in part by funding from Cleveland Foundation, George Gund Foundation, Ohio
Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Nord Family Foundation, John
P. Murphy Foundation, Kulas Foundation, Theatre Communications Group, Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bruening
Foundation, Codrington Foundation, Giant Eagle Foundation, Thomas White
Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Lorain, Family Foundations of
Jewish Community Federation, Dolphin Trust, Saint Ann Foundation, Deaconess
Foundation, O’Neill Foundation, Stocker Foundation, Key Foundation, Nordson
Foundation, Wolf Foundation, The Doll Family Foundation, Raymond John Wean
Foundation, The Ellie Foundation, Cyrus Eaton Foundation, Forest City,
Alcoa, Third Federal, Huntington National Bank, National City Bank, and
other corporate and individual contributors.

Ticket Prices
Admission $5 for adults, children under 13 free when accompanied by an adult
For reservations for the CPT Upstairs Theatre performances ONLY, April 9 and
10, call 216-631-2727



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Dan Kilbane
Publicist
Cleveland Public Theatre
6415 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH  44102
tel:  216/631-2727 ext. 203
fax:  216/631-2575
www.cptonline.org
dkilbane at cptonline.org

BRING IT ON!