[NEohioPAL] Final Weekend: Anyone Can Whistle

[Martin Friedman]

" The work, though full of hot air, is worth consideration, if mostly to hear a young Sondheim flexing brilliant muscles. . . . However uneven the material may be, the production's leads are impossible to resist. Amiee Collier savors the fine line between giddiness and hysteria that fuels the machinations of the buxom mayoress, Cora Hoover Hooper, and belts her numbers to the rafters. . . . Katherine DeBoer, does a mean impression of a French floozy, who's actually rigid nurse Fay Apple under the red wig. . . . DeBoer makes every moment count, whether she's oozing Gallic sexiness or winning hearts in the wistful title song. . . . The visitor who falls for Fay is J. Bowdin Hapgood, a sort of Harold Hill of mental illness . . . . Dan Folino plays the role for all its dapper and enterprising worth, investing Hapgood with enough charm to fool all of the people some of the time."
                                        - Don Rosenberg, The Cleveland Plain Dealer 
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>>"The end result is a very discombobulated musical, but one that Friedman and his creative team miraculously turn into a wonderful ride.  They realize full well that this play is a beautiful mistake and run with it the way misguided children might run with scissors—full of carefree exhilaration and headlong into awaiting disaster."                                         
>>-Bob Abelman ,  The News-Herald, Times, The Morning Journal, Geauga Times Courier
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>>“In director Martin Friedman's innovative take, the show's principal weakness, a muddled plot, takes a back seat to the wonderful music, exceptional leads, an energetic and hardworking ensemble, and a phenomenal set that plays a key role in keeping the show rolling. Friedman deftly proves that the sum of the production is greater than its individual components. The Lakeland production … is so pleasurable that it isn't long before the wacky storyline ceases to be as important. . . .”
>>-Fran Heller, Cleveland Jewish News
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>>" Were I a less inhibited creature, I’d spend the next month hurling roses at the Majestic Theatre…You have no idea how many breath-taking surprises are in store for you in the musical. At a time when even the good musicals look a little or a lot like something out of a recent season, it is exciting to encounter one so spectacularly original." 
>>-The New York World Telegram & Sun  April, 1964
>> Lakeland Theatre
>>Presents 
>>ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
>>Music and Lyrics by
>>Stephen Sondheim
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>>Book by
>>Arthur Laurents
>> Featuring
>>Dan Folino*  
>>Aimee Collier  Katherine DeBoer
>>Directed byMartin Friedman  
>>  Set and Lighting Design byTrad A Burns
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>> Musical Direction byLarry Goodpaster
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>> Choreography by  Jennifer Justice
>>    Costumes Designed byHarold Crawford
>>Sound Designed byEric Simna
>> Production Stage ManagerJoel Rathbone
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>> *Courtesy of Actor's Equity Association
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>>THE PLAY: 
>>Where to start.Anyone Can Whistle is a musical about political corruption and the very fine difference between sanity and conformity. The Mayoress, Cora Hoover Hooper, has led her town into bankruptcy. To save the town she creates, with the help of her merry band of corrupt city workers and politicians, a miracle which she hopes will attract paying tourists to her city. Unfortunately for her during the tourist rush, the inmates of the local asylum for the socially pressured, called the Cookie Jar, escape and 'mix' with the tourists. A doctor named Hapgood surfaces and claims to be able to identify the ‘cookies’ from the sane members of society. Nurse Fay Apple, who let her ‘cookies’ escape by accident, reappears as a consultant from Lourdes. Hapgood and Apple hook up; maybe. Does the Mayoress's plan work? Will hilarity ensue? Perhaps one of the bravest shows Stephen Sondheim has written (along with Assassins.... and Sweeney Todd....
 and Pacific Overtures and..Follies and... oh never mind). Whistle contains a wonderfully haunting score and book that will resonate more today than when first produced in 1964. This will be the first professional production of Anyone Can Whistle since it was done in the early seventies at Cain Park. Please join our wonderful creative team of designers, actors and technicians in checking out Anyone Can Whistle.  
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>>Our Grand Cast: 
>>The Company: 
>>Jeremy Jenkins  Bernadette Hisey  Dominic Fedele Jenna Messina Tasha Brandt Cara Corrigan Troy Bruchwalski
>>Fay Apple: Katherine DeBoer
>>Cora Hoover Hooper: Amiee Collier
>>J Bowden Hapgood: Dan Folino*(courtesy of Actor's Equity Association)
>>Chief of Police Magruder:Aaron Elersich
>>Treasurer Cooley:Thomas Hill
>>Comptroller Schub:Trey Gilpin
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>>Production Dates:
>>Anyone Can Whistle will open on Friday, February 3 and run through February 19, 2012:
>>Friday February 17 @ 7:30pm
>>Saturday, February 18 @ 7:30pm
>>Sunday, February 19 @ 2:00pm
>>Tickets: $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $7 for all students. For ticket reservations and information call 440-525-7526 or 440-525-7134. 
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>>For more information please feel free to email me, Martin Friedman, at martinfriedman98 at yahoo.com. 
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>>DIRECTIONS TO LAKELAND: Take I90 east and exit at the second exit, Route#306. Turn right (south) on Rt. #306. Turn left into the Lakeland Community College, the first light. Get in the right lane in this access road. Turn right at the stop sign. Turn right at the next stop sign. Turn left into the faculty/staff parking lot. Parking in the Faculty/Staff parking lot is free after 7:00pm. The gate will open at 7:00pm. Park at the other end of the parking lot. The PAC is just past and to the left of the Clocktower. PARKING IS FREE.
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