[NEohioPAL] Local Playwright Honored. Ruby Fox Tribute at "PlayActs" Performances, Fri. 5/21. Tickets Available.

[sue holland johnson]

Tickets Available . . . Order, Now!

WAKE UP And LIVE‘s        
Evening of Entertainment and Celebration
“PlayActs” Performance
A
Robert ”Ruby” Fox
Tribute
Playwright – in- Residence
1925 – 2009
New Plays! New Actors!  New Directors! New Playwrights!
  
Friday, May 21, 2010   
7:30 P
Brooks Theatre . Cleveland Play House
8500 Euclid Avenue
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  Featuring   
.  Celibacy Odyssey, by Ruby Fox.
                                                                                                  A one-act comedy performed off-Broadway
                                                      .   Wednesdays with Hilda, by Ruby Fox.
                                                                And
                                                      .   Sailing,by Michael Laurenty  .  Two Words, by Michael Laurenty .
                                                      .   If I Arrive Before I Leave, by Tom Raber
                                                      .  TV Divas, by Gary Webster .
                                                      .   Rate a Date, by Gary Webster
 
               Poetry!            Music!                   Dance!
Shaylawnda Davis       Gina Kish Pilotti, Vocals       Rainey Institute Dance Ensemble
                                                                Mariama Whyte, Vocals
 
The Company
.    Rob Alexander  .  Sapphire DeFranco  .  Samantha Fay  .  Chris Fortunato.
.    Mary Lu Franks   .   Linda Gross   .   Jocelyn Harris   .   Rasool “Monty” Jackson
.    Nora Kellogg  . Beverly Kristy  .   Calvin Lane   .   Marvin L. Mallory.
.   James McGilbray  .   Pam Morton   .   Gary Webster
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               Tickets: $19.00 ($17.00 Seniors/Students)  .    To order: wakeup4664 at aol.com .       
                                                                                               wakeupandlives.org
             Make checks payable & mail to: WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio . 
                                                             P.O. Box 201524 . Shaker Hts . OH . 44120
             Credit card orders via PayPal or wakeup4664 at aol.com to make arrangements to process.
                Donations to the “Ruby Fox PlayActs Playwrights’ Project” go to www.wakeupandlives.org
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About Robert “Ruby” Fox,Playwright-in-Residence 
     In 2005, Ruby Fox, Playwright –in – Residence, had a big year. He celebrated his 80th birthday with a huge surprise birthday party given by his wife, Donna, and his family, where he saw his original one-act plays, Wednesdays with Hildaand Celibacy Odysseyperformed at the Cleveland Play House. He was featured in the Cleveland Jewish News as an “elder” person and playwright of distinction. The WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studiodedicated its 2005-06 season of “PlayActs”to Ruby. In September, 2005, Ruby and Celibacy Odyssey headed to the Big Apple, where Celibacy Odyssey, “a farcical fantasy romp,” was performed off-Broadway at the Studio Theatre. 
     Ruby, a resident of University Heights, was considered a late bloomer. He chose the field of writing for live theatre, because of his admiration for live performances and their writers. He was in his late sixties when he began and discovered a hidden talent that he didn’t realize he had. Since, he had written two movies, Shanghai Journey, and Murrow’s Children, which had consideration for production.  
His plays have been read at the Cleveland Playhouse, Cuyahoga Community College and Ensemble Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio. Ruby always thanked his wife Donna, for the continuing encouragement that she always gave him.
     The WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio has performed numerous plays by Ruby, at many staged readings from Borders Books to Cuyahoga Community College, to the Cleveland Play House, including the periennial audience favorite, Four Queens which had the senior citizens’ audience “rolling in the aisles” after its recent April 
performance at the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Community Center.  Over the years, Ruby had written such diverse pieces as Wednesdays with Hilda which addresses race relations and touches the heart with Jewish heritage and, Sophie’s Legacy, which takes an improbable look at “creative pregnancy.”  In 1993, Ruby took his first playwriting course with Bob Noll, another prominent local playwright, at the Cleveland Play House.  He was hooked!  Eventually, Ruby responded to a “Call for Playwrights Submissions” for WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio and from there, a wonderful relationship was begun and continued to grow until his unexpected, untimely passing, October 25, 2009.  
 
     In honor of Ruby’s contribution to Wake Up And Live’s Actors’ Studio and the entire artistic community, “PlayActs” Performances and PlayActs . . . To Go! (touring productions), 2010 has been dedicated to his memory and to establishing the “Ruby Fox Playwrights’ Project.” 
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