[NEohioPAL] Brooklyn The Musical at Playhouse Square This Weekend

[Cindi Szymanski]

Check out BROOKLYN THE MUSICAL this weekend at Playhouse Square, May 1-3.  See the Broadway stars of tommorrow as Baldwin-Wallace College students perform in this regional premiere.  Tickets are just $20.

Playhouse Square and the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music (B-W) have partnered to present the regional premiere of BROOKLYN The Musical.  The show will feature current students in the Baldwin-Wallace Music Theatre Program under the direction of nationally acclaimed director Victoria Bussert, head of the music theatre program at B-W.  The show has been double cast and features music theatre students from freshman through senior year.  Casts will perform in a rotation.  Seniors, Patty Lohr and Cassie Okenka play the title role of Brooklyn and seniors Phil Carroll and Mike Russo are also featured in the production.

About BROOKLYN The Musical
>From the heart of Brooklyn comes a band of soulful street-corner singers and storytellers. With a mix of pop and soul, they set their stage and tell a wondrous sidewalk fairy tale about a young girl searching for fame and the father she never knew. With just one clue to lead her, she lands in the city that bears her name...BROOKLYN.

Reviews for the Broadway production of BROOKLYN The Musical proclaim...
"BROOKLYN will have a revered place in music-theatre history as the landmark musical of the first decade of the third millennium." -Tony Brown, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A full throated rhythm and blues musical filled with roof raising showstoppers..."  - Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News
 "...a diverse score packed with raw funk, hard rock and sizzling gospel numbers..." - Peter Santilli, Associated Press

The regional premiere of BROOKLYN The Musical, will be performed May 1-3 at the 14th Street Theatre at Playhouse Square.  Performances are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. with a special twilight performance on Saturday, May 3 at 10:00  p.m. All tickets are $20.00 and are now on sale by calling 216-241-6000, online at www.PlayhouseSquare.org<http://www.playhousesquare.org/>, or at the Playhouse Square Ticket Office.




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