[NEohioPAL] Fwd: Ashtabula Arts Center concert: "...two for the show!"

[Douglas Anderson]

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From: Theatre Ashtabula Arts Center <aac2928 at yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Subject: Order tickets today for Sunday's "...two for the show!"
Order tickets today for this weekend's "....two for the show!"

The Ashtabula Arts Center will be presenting "...two for the show," a
Sunday afternoon musical concert on September 28 at 2 p.m.  Tickets
are $10 per person and can be purchased by visiting or calling the
Arts Center at (440) 964-3396.

The concert will feature local singers Will Venable of Kingsville and
Bob Godfrey of Madison. The afternoon's program will include many
favorite Broadway hits from productions such as "Fiddler on the Roof,"
"Sweeney Todd," "How to Succeed in Business," "Brigadoon,"
"Footloose," "My Fair Lady" and more.  Also included will be a number
of favorite classics by Bernstein, Strauss, Handel, Mozart and more.

Venable is a retired school psychologist and a member of the Cleveland
Orchestra Chorus.  He toured Europe with the COC in 2005 and will be
performing at Carnegie Hall next February.  Previously he sang with
the Ohio State Men's Glee Club, the Ohio State Symphonic Choir and the
Erie Philharmonic Chorus.  He has much experience in college and
community theater including playing leading roles in Rossini's "The
Count Ory" and two separate productions of Cole Porter's "Kiss Me,
Kate" in which he played the dual roles of Fred and Petruchio.  He has
performed with the Erie Opera Theatre as Benoit, Alcindore and
Parpignol in La Remendado in "Carmen," Don Curzio in "The Marriage of
Figaro," Borza in "Rigoletto" and more.  He has performed as King
Kaspar annually since 1991 in the Erie Opera Theatre production of
"Amahl and the Night Visitors."

Godfrey has a Masters degree in voice from Kent State University and
is director of Choral Activities at Perry High School and Perry Middle
School.  He has appeared in opera and musicals in northeastern Ohio
for many years. Godfrey has played several roles in Cleveland Opera
productions at the State Theatre in Playhouse Square.  Locally, he has
been featured soloist in productions of "Encore" and the
Disney/Stephen Schwartz Review, played the demon barber of Fleet
Street in Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," played his favorite role of Tevye
in "Fiddler on the Roof," and has played in numerous other
productions.  He has performed in productions of Handel's "Messiah" at
Lake Erie College, Kent State University and Heidelberg College, his
alma maters.  In addition, he has recorded "Messiah" and two Gilbert
and Sullivan operettas on CD.

The singing duo will be accompanied on piano by Deborah Inks of
Windsor.  Inks is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace College Conservatory
of Music, did post graduate work in piano and worked under the baton
of Robert Page of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and the Robert Page
Singers.  She is a K-8 teacher at St. Vincent de Paul School and St.
Patrick School in Cleveland.  She has spent 34 years as a piano
instructor at Educator's Music Studio in Lakewood and the Western
Reserve Fine Arts/Rabbit Run Community Arts Association and has served
8 years as vocal instructor at Rabbit Run.  Inks has done voice
coaching for the Cleveland Opera Singers and the Robert Page Singers
and also served as professional accompanist for the Robert Page
Singers.  She has served as accompanist and musical director on a long
list of community theater and school theatrical productions.
Presently she is also teaching voice and piano at the Ashtabula Arts
Center and is the musical director of the Arts Center's children's
choir, "The Spotlight Singers."

The Ashtabula Arts Center is located at 2928 West 13th Street.

For more information, contact the Arts Center at (440) 964-3396.

The Arts Center is funded in part by the Ohio Arts Council.