[NEohioPAL] "Tintypes" at Rabbit Run Theater

[Rabbit Run]

FOR:               Rabbit Run Community Arts Association

                        P. O. Box 235, 49 Park St.

                        Madison, OH  44057

 

CONTACT:    Karen Ziegler, Publicist

                        440-428-5913

 

DATE:            May 31, 2011

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Rabbit Run Theater Opens 2011 Season with Tintypes

 

Rabbit Run Theater in Madison opens its 31st consecutive summer season with
the musical Tintypes.  Conceived by Mary Kyte with Mel Marvin and Gary
Pearle, Tintypes is a delightful musical revue that chronicles the
exuberance and monumental growth of turn-of-the century America, through the
music of the times.

 

Told through the eyes of five socially diverse characters, Tintypes gives
the audience a snap-shot view of America during this tumultuous time of
great expansion, patriotic optimism, industrialism and class conflict.  

 

Much of the music is familiar and well loved featuring songs by Scott
Joplin, George M. Cohan and John Philip Sousa.  You're a Grand Old Flag,
America the Beautiful and Alexander's Rag Time Band tempt the audience to
sing along.  Throughout the show over 50 musical numbers are tied together
with charming pantomime skits in a Charlie Chaplin-like fashion accompanied
with ragtime tunes.   

 

Appearances by Teddy Roosevelt, anarchist Emma Goldman and entertainer Anna
Held, wife of Florenz Ziegfeld of Ziegfeld Follies are interspersed through
the show.  These famous person vignettes give the audience a real feel for
the passions and popular sentiments of the times.  

 

Theater veteran Sandy Kosovich Peck is the director for Tintypes.  Peck
began performing at the age of ten and has participated in over one hundred
productions as either an actor, director, choreographer, or stage manager.
She has performed or directed at numerous areas theaters including Chagrin
Valley Little Theater, Lakeland Civic Theatre, Fine Arts Association and
Rabbit Run Theater.  Peck is a member of Fine Arts Association's theatre
faculty and is the director of their Theatre Arts Camp and Young Actors
Ensemble as well as the coordinator of Chili Con Comedy improv troupe.

 

"Tintypes is just a sweet, gentle show that reminds us all of our roots as
Americans", said Peck.  "Many of the songs in the show are familiar, but
forgotten, and the show is a nice remembrance of where we have come from,
what it was like for our forefathers and where we are going as a nation."

 

"No one actor shines above another in Tintypes.  They truly all shine; I'm
fortunate to have a cast with such a depth of experience and talent.  At one
point in the show they sing America, the Beautiful, and the resonance and
blending of their voices is an absolute joy to hear."

 

Unlike the cast requirements for many musicals, Tintypes utilizes the
talents of only five actors.  Looking at the talent of the five actors
assembled for this production, only five are needed.  Heather Arata, Maria
Thomas Lister and Lindsey Sandham are the female performers with Brian
Altman and Lincoln Sandham providing the male vocals.  All five are seasoned
actors.

 

Arata, a naturalist by day for Lake Metroparks, has appeared in Rabbit Run's
productions of Once on This Island, Titanic, the Musical and The Light in
the Piazza. Lister has appeared in shows at Great Lakes Theater Festival,
Lakeland Civic Theatre, Fine Arts Association and Rabbit Run.  Altman played
Smudge at Pickwick and Frolic's production of Forever Plaid in 2010.  He has
also made appearances at Erie Playhouse, The Beck Center for the Arts,
Lakeland Civic Theatre and Rabbit Run.

 

Lindsey Sandham, a 2010 graduate of Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music,
has performed at The Beck Center for the Arts, Cain Park, The Fine Arts
Association, Geauga Lyric Theater, and Lakeland Civic Theatre and Rabbit
Run.  Sandham has also performed as a vocalist at Trinity Cathedral in
Cleveland for its weekly concert series, the Cleveland Natural History
Museum, and the Cleveland Indians.

 

Lincoln Sandham, a home schooled high school student, is a seasoned
performer despite his youth having acted at The Beck Center for the Arts,
Cain Park, Fine Arts Association as well as Rabbit Run.

 

Musical direction is provided by Ed Leonard.  Sarah Ruple is the show's
choreographer, and Ray Beach is the technical director.

 

Tintypes  runs from Friday, June 3, through June 11.  Tickets are available
by calling the box office at 440-428-7092, Wednesday through Sunday, 3 to 7
p.m.  Tickets may also be reserved on line at
<http://www.rabbitrunonline.org/> www.rabbitrunonline.org.  All shows begin
at 8 p.m.  Rabbit Run Theater is located at 5648 W. Chapel Rd., Madison, and
is one of the few remaining barn theaters in Ohio.  

 

The production is made possible in part through the generous support of
Fredon Corporation, Phoenix Residential, SFI Electrical, NPR radio WKSU and
the Ohio Arts Council.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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