[NEohioPAL] Rabbit Run Theater's Production of "My Way, a Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra" opens Friday

[Rabbit Run]

Rabbit Run Theater's, My Way, a Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, opens
Friday! 

 

In an encore performance, Rabbit Run Theater presents My Way, a Musical
Tribute to Frank Sinatra at Lakeland Civic Theatre.  Celebrating Sinatra's
musical career that spanned more than 50 years, My Way opens Friday, Mar. 23
and runs through Sunday, Apr. 1.

The show, conceived by David Grapes and Todd Olson, is a review of 56 of
Sinatra's greatest hits, including New York, New York, High Hopes and My
Way.  Although no one actor portrays Sinatra, the score brilliantly presents
his lifetime career using the talents of two male and two female vocalists
set in a nightclub-like setting.

My Way was produced in 2010 at Rabbit Run Theater and played to near
capacity houses each night.  The same four actors who performed in 2010 are
performing in this encore production.

Playing the male vocalists are Brian Altman and James Penca.  Altman has
appeared at Pickwick and Frolic's production of Forever Plaid and has
performed in a number of theaters in the region including the Beck Center
for the Arts, Lakeland Civic Theatre, Erie Playhouse and Rabbit Run Theater.
Penca, a Musical Theater major at Baldwin Wallace College, is currently
appearing in The Beck Center's production of Spring Awakening and has
performed in a number of productions at Rabbit Run and at Baldwin Wallace.

The two female vocalists are Nicole Groah and Lindsey Sandham Leonard.
Groah, currently the choral director at Madison High School, has appeared
previously at Rabbit Run in Ragtime and The Secret Garden.  She has
performed in area theaters including Lakeland Civic Theatre and the
Ashtabula Arts Center.  Leonard is currently pursuing her Masters of Music
in Vocal Performance at Kent State University.  She is the 2011 winner of
the KSU concerto competition in the graduate division and is a 2010 graduate
of Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music.   Leonard has appeared in
productions at The Beck Center for the Arts, Cain Park, the Fine Arts
Association, Rabbit Run and Lakeland Civic Theatre.  

"The show is pure musical entertainment," said Brint Learned, director of
the production.  "With nearly 60 songs all considered popular music
standards, the audience will likely be humming along with the actors
throughout the evening.  The music is truly the star in the show.  Four
wonderful singers and an onstage instrumental trio performing some of the
most engaging popular music of our time make for a delightful evening of
entertainment."  

 

"While there is no 'storyline' the actors do talk about Sinatra and his
life.  Both the narration and the music touches on major points in his
career, including his time as a band singer, his recording years with
Capitol Records, his film career and the concerts from later in his life.
Even the younger members of the cast are thrilled to be singing this music.
As it happens, each of the singers chosen for the production feels they have
a particular affinity for Sinatra and his music.  For them it has been a
labor of love."

 

Learned is the executive director at Rabbit Run Community Arts Association,
a comprehensive fine arts association in Madison.   He has extensive
theatrical experience having directed and performed in area theaters
including the Lakeland Civic Theatre, the Fine Arts Association, the Beck
Center, Lake Erie College and Ashtabula Arts Center.

 

Ticket reservations alone may be made online at www.rabbitrunonline.org
<http://www.rabbitrunonline.org/>   or by calling 440-428-7092, Wednesday
and Thursday, noon to 6 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, noon to 3 p.m.
Tickets may be picked up at Lakeland Civic Theatre the night of the
performance beginning at 6:30 p.m.  Show tickets are $19/adult; $17/senior,
student.  All performances begin at 7:30 p.m.  

 

Lakeland Civic Theatre is located on the grounds of Lakeland Community
College, 7700 Clocktower Dr., Kirtland.  Rabbit Run Theater is operated by
Rabbit Run Community Arts Association, a non-profit comprehensive fine arts
association offering instruction in all the major disciplines of the fine
and performing arts.  RRCAA receives partial funding from the Ohio Arts
Council.

 

 

 

 

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