[NEohioPAL] THIS WEEKEND! "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" closes, "The Last Five Years" opens at CVLT!

[Chagrin Valley Little Theatre]

  Chagrin Valley Little Theatre


    CLOSING THIS WEEKEND!


    */Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    <http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/jekyllandhyde.php>/*

*FRIDAY and SATURDAY at 8*

*A Drama by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by Daniel Takacs *

*TICKETS: *$16, $12 student/senior

*Buy tickets online at
CVLT.org/81stSeason/jekyllandhyde.php 
<http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/jekyllandhyde.php>
or call 440-247-8955*

CVLT presents Jeffrey Hatcher's drama /Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde/, an 
inventive adaptation of the 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson tale which 
premiered in 2008 and was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America 
for an "Edgar Award" for Best Play.

/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde/ is an examination of the gray area between 
good and evil. Dr. Henry Jekyll (played by Dale Van Niel) is a 
gentlemanly scientist who takes a special concoction he's created that 
turns him into the vile criminal Mr. Edward Hyde, a man free to commit 
the sins that Jekyll himself is too reserved to comprehend. Dr. Jekyll 
becomes increasingly conflicted and unbalanced while discovering the 
frightening truth behind his black-outs and the experimental drugs that 
cause them.

Meanwhile, the affection denied to Dr. Jekyll falls to Hyde (played at 
varying moments in the play by Craig Gifford, Tiffany Ricci, Jerry 
Schaber and Clay Von Carlowitz). He is loved by the bold Elizabeth (Leah 
Frires), who loves the creature in spite of the evil she knows he is 
guilty of. Jekyll's struggle to save his research, convert Elizabeth to 
his own, and separate himself from the creature he has increasingly 
become turns into a cat-and-mouse game that leaves the audience to 
question just which side of the man they should be rooting for.

*Don't miss your final chance to see the most controversial and unusual 
drama seen on CVLT's stage in years!*

	


    OPENING THIS WEEKEND!


    */The Last Five Years <http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/lastfiveyears.php>/*

*Fridays & Saturdays at 8
October 29 - November 13 *

at CVLT's River Street Playhouse <http://www.cvlt.org/riverstreet.php>
56 River Street, across the parking lot from CVLT's main building

*Directed by Jacqi Loewy*

*TICKETS: *$10  (not recommended for younger audiences)

*Buy tickets online at
CVLT.org/81stSeason/lastfiveyears.php 
<http://www.cvlt.org/81stSeason/lastfiveyears.php>*
or call 440-247-8955

>From Jason Robert Brown, the Tony Award winning composer behind 
/Parade/, /Songs for a New World/, /Urban Cowboy/ and /13/, comes this 
intimate musical about the rise and fall of a modern relationship, 
performed with two actors (Andrew Rothman and Rebecca Marks) and a piano 
(Dan Kamionkowski) in CVLT's smaller River Street Playhouse venue.

Jamie Wellerstein is an up-and-coming novelist who left Columbia 
University to pursue his literary career in NYC. Cathy Hiatt is a 
struggling theater actress from New Jersey. Their story is, at face 
value, a classic arc; Jewish boy meets Catholic girl, they fall in love, 
marry, and eventually fall apart.

But in /The Last Five Years/, the composer lays out his story through an 
unusual twisting of the timeline; Cathy tells her side of the 
relationship starting with the post-mortem, while Jamie begins his 
telling of the story with the first date. The two characters move in 
opposite directions through time, alternating dove-tailed solo musical 
performances, only meeting to sing as a duo for a moment in the middle 
of the play. The unique bi-directional storytelling style balances the 
soaring highs of fresh love with the crushing lows of the breakup 
through fifteen memorable songs.

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


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