[NEohioPAL] PRESS RELEASE: "Durang/Durang" and "The Producers" bring summer laughs to Chagrin

[Chagrin Valley Little Theatre]

  *PRESS RELEASE*
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: 6-18-10

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Contact: Andrew Rothman
From: Chagrin Valley Little Theatre

40 River Street
Chagrin Falls, OH 44122
Phone: 440-247-8955
E-mail: cvlt at cvlt.org <mailto:cvlt at cvlt.org>
Website: www.cvlt.org <http://www.cvlt.org/>


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    "Durang/Durang" and "The Producers" bring summer laughs to Chagrin

CHAGRIN FALLS, OH - Following on the heels of a highly successful 
three-day visit from comedic legend Tim Conway, Chagrin Valley Little 
Theatre is poised to keep the laughter rolling through the summer 
months, rounding off its historic 80th season with wild one-acts by 
Christopher Durang and Mel Brooks' powerhouse musical comedy /The 
Producers/.

Opening on July 9th and playing Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM through 
July 24th is /Durang/Durang/. This evening of five one-act plays by 
critically-acclaimed satirist Christopher Durang includes "For Whom the 
Southern Belle Tolls" (a twisted take on "The Glass Menagerie"), 
"Wanda's Visit" (the story of a couple whose lives are turned upside 
down by the husband's ex), "Nina in the Morning" (an Edward Gorey-esque 
tale of a narcissistic socialite with a spotty past), and "Business 
Lunch at the Russian Tea Room" (a playwright attempting to flesh out the 
absurd concept of a Hollywood hotshot). Dan Sekanic directs the show, 
which includes actors Yvonne E. Pilarczyk, Harriet DeVeto, Andrew 
Parmelee, Robert A. Branch, Andrew Gorgeny, Melvin Mason, Kacey Durbin, 
and Natalie Dolezal. /Durang/Durang/ is staged at CVLT's River Street 
Playhouse (56 River Street). Tickets are $10.

At the end of July, CVLT will become the first community theater in 
northern Ohio to present Mel Brooks' smash hit /The Producers/ - the 
record-breaking Tony Award winner based on his 1968 film. The hilarious 
plot involves washed-up theater producer Max Bialystock (Tom Hill) and 
his mild-mannered accountant Leo Bloom (Nathan Earley), who hatch a plan 
to produce the most notorious flop in the history of Broadway, thereby 
allowing them to keep their investors' money for themselves. Along the 
way, they enlist the help of New York's most awful director, a crazy 
Nazi-sympathizer playwright, and Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen 
Hallen Svaden Swanson, a Swedish bombshell. Brooks, whose signature 
brand of over-the-top shtick created such classics as /Young 
Frankenstein/, /Blazing Saddles/ and /Spaceballs/, comes through with 
musical numbers like "I Wanna Be A Producer," "When You Got It, Flaunt 
It," "Springtime for Hitler," and "Prisoners of Love." Director J.E. 
Ballantyne, Jr. helms the production, which runs Fridays and Saturdays 
at 8 PM July 23rd through August 21, with 2 PM matinees on 8/1 and 8/8. 
Tickets are $18 regular admission, $14 for students and seniors

For tickets to all Chagrin Valley Little Theatre productions and events, 
call 440-247-8955 (Mon-Sat, 1-6 PM) or visit www.CVLT.org for 
information and online ticketing at no extra charge. Chagrin Valley 
Little Theatre is located at the end of River Street (40 River Street) 
in downtown Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The River Street Playhouse stage is 
located at 56 River Street, just west of the main building.

Chagrin Valley Little Theatre is generously funded by Cuyahoga County 
residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. The Ohio Arts Council 
helped fund Chagrin Valley Little Theatre with state tax dollars to 
encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural 
enrichment for all Ohioans.

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