[NEohioPAL] It's Tribe Time with Carousel's Damn Yankees

[Sarah Lance]

It's time to PLAY BALL at Carousel in this classic musical, which gets a
new Tribe Twist! Carousel rewrites this "All American" musical based on
America's favorite past-time, Baseball, to bring you a show everyone
will love. It's the Cleveland Indians versus those Damn Yankees with an
all-star lineup of Broadway stars and NYC actors portraying the actual
1958 team. Cheer for your home team as the Tribe takes on the Yankees in
the fight for the American League pennant! Winner of 7 Tony Awards, this
smash hit includes the songs "Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)," "Those
Were the Good Old Days" and "Shoeless Joe." Don't miss the home opener
at Carousel April 30 playing through June 28.

 

Middle-aged baseball fanatic, Joe Boyd, sells his soul to the devil to
become a young baseball player in hopes of leading his hapless home
team, the Cleveland Indians, to an American League pennant victory.
Selling his soul and leaving his wife to be the player his team needs
causes Joe do to some serious thinking about his true desires, which may
not be what he thought. Seductress Lola pulls out all the stops in an
attempt to keep Joe from breaking his pact with the Devil through an
escape clause. Originally based on the Washington Senators, Carousel
brings an exciting new twist to this classic musical by teaming up with
the Indians against the team everyone loves to hate... those Damn
Yankees! The show New York Times calls "a mostly breathless recollection
of a kind of sophisticated, slightly bogus Broadway innocence that still
charms." It is easy to see why it remains one of America's favorite
musicals.

 

The cast features Broadway veterans Jim Corti as Mr. Applegate (the
Devil) and Ashlee Fife as the seductress Lola. An experienced veteran,
Jim Corti has appeared on Broadway as Harry Houdini in the original
Broadway cast of Ragtime. Corti has also appeared in other Broadway
productions such as A Chorus Line and Candide, and National Tours of
Urinetown, Cabaret and Dancin'. Corti has received Chicago's Joseph
Jefferson award for his role in Grand Hotel. Ashlee Fife, a Broadway
actress, has been seen in the production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as
well as New York City shows The Merry Widow, Follies and The Day Before
Spring as well as the National Tours of The Scarlet Pimpernel and Some
Like It Hot. She spent 7 years as a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, and
some of her regional production highlights include roles in Annie, It's
a Wonderful Life, Violet Bick, 42nd St., Peggy Sawyer and She Loves Me. 

 

All 2008 season tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online at
www.CarouselDinnerTheatre.com <http://www.carouseldinnertheatre.com/>
or through the Carousel Box Office at 330.724.9855 or 800.362.4100. 

 

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For additional information contact:

SARAH L LANCE
Marketing Manager
Carousel Dinner Theatre
1275 E Waterloo Rd | Akron | 44306
330.724.9855 x 150 | 800.362.4100
slance at carouseldinnertheatre.com
<mailto:slance at carouseldinnertheatre.com>  
www.carouseldinnertheatre.com <http://www.carouseldinnertheatre.com/>  

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