[NEohioPAL] Class by the Glass - food, wine & Cabaret show at PlayhouseSquare

[Lora Workman]

The PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement & Education Department is presenting Class by the Glass - Cabaret Saturday, November 12. Building upon the success of the department's Cabaret 101 classes, Class by the Glass is a new program designed to pair entertainment with education.
"We're so excited to be able to offer new programming in our district," says Colleen Porter, Director of Community Engagement & Education at PlayhouseSquare.  "The Class by the Glass program allows us to partner with restaurants in the PlayhouseSquare District and promote the genre of Cabaret style performance. And, who doesn't like a nice glass of wine?"

Class by the Glass combines food, wine, and entertainment to create a fun, casual and unique experience. Guests receive two wine pairings with an appetizer and dessert while enjoying a La Cage themed cabaret show featuring local performers. Wine and food provided by Bricco. Immediately following, guests can take their class ticket to Bricco and enjoy $4 glasses of select wines.

The cabaret performers include:
Charles Eversole, of Richmond Heights, has served as musical director and/or supervisor for over fifty musical theater productions including national tours of The Who's Tommy and A Grand Night For Singing, and nationwide performances for the musical satire company The News In Revue. Local cabarets include Miss Gulch Returns and Those Seven Little Words at Kennedy's, and For the Love of Mike and Let's Kiss and Make Up at the Cleveland Playhouse Club. His compositions are featured on You Heard It Here First, Melissa Barber's CD of music written by Northern Ohio composers. As a singer/actor, Charles has performed with The Cleveland Opera, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Lyric Opera Cleveland, and in the wedding band for Tony and Tina's Wedding. Currently, Charles is the Music Director of the Singing Angels, and teaches and coaches voice privately on the West Side.

Amiee Collier, of Lakewood, has performed a one-woman cabaret for Cleveland Public Theater's Pandemonium for the past two years and even expanded it to an hour long version entitled Peccadilloes Galore. Amiee likes to theater hop, so you might have seen her at The Beck Center, Cain Park, Cleveland Public Theater, Lakeland, Cassidy, Tri-C West, Tri-C East/JCC, or Stuart Street Playhouse in Boston, MA. Next, Amiee will subject her skin and body to torture and be painted green while flying around Fine Arts in Willoughby as the Wicked Witch of the West. Please visit her website at amiee-collier.com to keep track of upcoming performances.

Audrey Audette is a former Radio City Rockette who now is proud to call Parma her home. Ms. Audette was the featured performer in the infamous Rockette number Who's Your Little Who-zis and was part of the annual Kickathon in 1983 where she earned the distinction of performing 3,782 fan kicks without a break. Vocally, Audrey is featured on the CD Life's a Drag with her rendition of Shipoopi! After a nasty fall off the Tower City stage while attempting a blind-folded pas de deux ended her career as a dancer, she now devotes her time to crafting toilet paper cozies for area nursing homes.

Rob Gibb, of Lakewood, has traveled around the world several times, drinking the entire way.  When not savoring distilled or brewed libations, Rob is an award-winning actor and director.  To pay his bar tab, he works for as a Technology Training Specialist for an international law firm.  Rob is known for his well-made Cosmopolitans and Caprahinias.  Having imbibed ports in Portugal, shochu in Tokyo, vodkas in Moscow, countless beers in London and Brussels, endless wines in Sonoma, the Finger Lakes, and Sydney and exotic liqueurs throughout the Caribbean, he is now sharing his vast experience in this first Class by the Glass show!  Pray his liver holds up!
Monica Olejko remembers in April of 1961, during her final First Holy Communion rehearsal at St. Stanislaus in Lorain, Ohio, getting the hiccups.  All her classmates laughed.  That afternoon on the playground a miracle happened.  Being a bright albeit short child, little Mo realized her sudden popularity was because she made her classmates laugh.  She was hooked. Over the next four decades, she became an actor and her dad went on to become the Mayor of Lorain.  Both noble professions. She sang and danced her way through Ohio, won some awards and went on to "strut her stuff" at the Malemute Saloon in Fairbanks, Alaska. She also performed at the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe, Africa.
Class by the Glass Cabaret takes place Saturday, November 12 from 10:30-11:30 p.m. at the E. 14th Street Theatre. Tickets are $25. To purchase, call 216-241-6000 or visit playhousesquare.org.

PlayhouseSquare understands its vital role as an educator in our community, and is committed to providing arts learning opportunities of the highest quality to enrich the lives of students, families, teachers and adults.  PlayhouseSquare's Community Engagement & Education Department is unique in the performing arts industry for the variety of programs it offers, the partnerships it initiates and the access it provides students, educators and aspiring artists to performing arts professionals.  Since its inception in 1998, the Community Engagement & Education Department has offered thousands of events, workshops, classes and more, most with minimal or no fees, to people of all ages from all areas of Northeast Ohio.  The generous support of individual and corporate donors and foundations makes it all possible.

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Lora Workman
Educators'/Community Liaison
PlayhouseSquare
1501 Euclid Ave.
Suite 200
Cleveland, OH 44115
216.771.4444, ext 3244
www.playhousesquare.org/artseducation<http://www.playhousesquare.org/artseducation>
workmanl at playhousesquare.org<mailto:workmanl at playhousesquare.org>



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