[NEohioPAL]Berko: CPH 04-05 season, 'CINDERELLA, ' MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL

[Roy Berko]

COMING EVENTS:  CPH’S NEW SEASON, ‘CINDERELLA,’ AND
‘MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL’

Roy Berko

(Member, American Theatre Critics Association)

--THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS--

Lorain County Times--Westlaker Times--Lakewood News
Times--Olmsted-Fairview Times	

CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ANNOUNCES ITS 2004-05 SEASON

Cleveland Play House’s Artistic Director Peter Hackett
has announced the theatre’s 2004-2005 mainstage
season.  CPH’s 89th season includes two World
Premieres, a Pulitzer-Prize winner for drama, a
gospel-infused celebration, a tale about the perils of
coaching little league, and the return of ‘PLAID
TIDINGS.’  This is the last season of selections by
Hackett who is leaving CPH to re-enter the academic
arena.  

The 2004-2005 Cleveland Play House Season will be:

‘LEADING LADIES’
A World Premiere Comedy
Written and Directed by Ken Ludwig
September 7 – October 3, 2004, The Drury Theatre

Jack and Leo, two aspiring young actors, take their
two-man Scenes from Shakespeare to all the "big"
houses – like the Elks Lodge in Scranton. But, when
they learn of an opportunity to collect a very large
inheritance, they rush headlong into the
cross-dressing roles of a lifetime.

‘CROWNS’
A Gospel-Infused Drama
By Regina Taylor, adapted from the acclaimed book
Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats by
Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry 
October 5 – November 7, 2004, The Bolton Theatre

You can tell a lot about a woman by the kind of hat
she wears. Set in America’s South, ‘CROWNS’ presents
an oral history of African-American women
affectionately known as "hat queens." 

‘ENCHANTED APRIL’
By Matthew Barber
November 2 – 28, 2004, The Drury Theatre

Adapted from the book by Elizabeth von Arnim, this
2002 Best Play Tony Award Nominee is a tale of four
women who escape their sorrows in cloudless, sunny
Italy for a month’s holiday. There they find romance,
hope and, ultimately, liberation in an Italian villa
overlooking the sea. 

‘TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE’
A Drama
By Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher
January 4 – 30, 2005, The Drury Theatre

Mitch Albom is lucky. He has the chance to rediscover
his mentor, Morrie, his college professor from nearly
twenty years ago, in the last months of the older
man's life.  This regional theatre tour is a
co-production with Laguna Playhouse, San Jose
Repertory Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, and
Studio Arena.

‘THE PIANO LESSON’
A Drama
By August Wilson
January 25 – February 27, 2005, The Bolton Theatre

The past can either haunt you or set you free. Armed
with a plan to purchase the land his father
sharecropped for years, Boy Willie returns north to
sell his family's only heirloom, a piano decorated
with the beautifully carved faces of his ancestors.
His sister, Berniece, however, sees the piano as the
way her twelve-year-old daughter can get to know her
past while shaping her future..

‘ROUNDING THIRD’
A Comedy
By Richard Dresser
March 1 – 27, 2005, The Drury Theatre

Whether you were picked first or last, life-long
impressions of the experience linger.  As two
mismatched coaches struggle to communicate their
opposing philosophies, they reveal who they are,
ultimately exploring our culture’s definition of being
a man.  This is a co-production with Buffalo’s Studio
Arena Theatre.

‘RESTORING THE SUN’
A World Premiere
By Joe Sutton
March 22 –April 17, 2005, The Baxter Stage

Driven by their overwhelming need to believe, two
decorated men of science disregard years of experience
and suspend critical judgment to see only what they
want to see. An exciting new play from the Next Stage
Festival of New Plays.

‘BAD DATES’
A Comedy
By Theresa Rebeck
April 19 – May 15, 2005, The Drury Theatre
Meet Haley, a feisty single mother in New York City. 
After spending years away from the dating world to
raise her now pre-teen daughter, the play presents a
stream-of-consciousness look at relationships and one
woman’s quest for the perfect pair of shoes.

‘PLAID TIDINGS’
A Special Holiday Edition of "Forever Plaid"
Created and directed by Stuart Ross
November 23 – December 19, 2004, The Bolton Theatre

The now eternal teenagers of ‘FOREVER PLAID’ play
their very own Christmas special, featuring a
"two-minute" history of the Ed Sullivan Show, back-up
vocals for a video-projected Perry Como, and a host of
great holiday songs.

For information about subscription packages or
tickets, call (216) 795-7000, or visit on the web at
www.clevelandplayhouse.com.


HOUSTON BALLET PRESENTS ‘CINDERELLA’

>From April 29 through May 2, the Houston Ballet will
perform the enchanting ‘CINDERELLA.’   With live music
by Serge Prokofiev and choreography by Ben Stevenson
the show is a grand-scale production.  Reviewers have
called the production, “splendid,” “dazzling,” and
“exquisite.”

Ticket prices range from $15-56.  For tickets, call
216-241-6000 or call 800-776-6048 or go on-line to
www.playhousesquare.com.

‘ MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL’ OPENS NEW 14TH STREET THEATRE

A celebration of women who are on the brink of, in the
middle of, or have survived “the change, ‘MENOPAUSE
THE MUSICAL’ chronicles the meeting of four women at a
lingerie sale in Bloomingdales.  Fighting over a piece
of underwear, they realize how much they actually do
share…memory loss, hot flashes, night sweats,
chocolate binges, wrinkles, plastic surgery, hormones,
and much more.

The show, which has had a long New York run, began
performances at Playhouse Square Center’s 14th Street
Theatre, 2037 E. 14th Street on April 16 for an
open-ended run.   Performances are Tuesday through
Saturday evenings at 8:00 with matinees on Saturdays
at 4:00 and Sundays at 2:00.  Tickets for all
performances are $39.50.  For tickets call
216-241-6000 or 1-800-766-6048, go to the Playhouse
Square Center’s box office or online at
www.playhousesquare.com.  For further general
information about ‘MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL’ go on-line
to www.menopausethemusical.com.



	
		
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