[NEohioPAL] "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opens at Rabbit Run Theater

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FOR:   Rabbit Run Theater

P. O. Box 235

Madison, OH  44057

            440-428-7092 (box office)

            440-428-5913 (office)

 

DATE:  June 10, 2013

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Hits the Boards at Rabbit Run Theater

Before Dunder-Mifflin and before Mad Men, there was J. Pierrepont Finch, the
lead of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, opening Friday,
June 14, at Rabbit Run Theater in Madison.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying has had three successful
runs on Broadway, most recently featuring Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter
fame in a 2011 revival.  Winner of seven Tony Awards and the 1962 Pulitzer
Prize for Drama, the show comes to Rabbit Run as this summer's Young Adult
Production, featuring some of northeast Ohio's most talented actors, 21 and
under.

Young and ambitious J. Pierrepont Finch, or "Ponty", does not know much
about corporate skullduggery, but he becomes a quick learner when he happens
upon the "how to" book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and
decides to act upon the book's advice.

Entering the World Wide Wicket Company in search of a job, he accidently
bumps into company president, J. B. Biggley, and secures a position in the
mailroom.  Following the book's step-by-step guidelines, Ponty has a riotous
and meteoric rise on the corporate ladder making lots of friends and a few
enemies along the way.   

How to Succeed is based on the book of the same title by Abe Burrows, Jack
Weinstock and Willie Gilbert with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser.  The
show is directed by Brint Learned, and musical direction by Roberta Whitely
and choreography by Jennifer Leinweber Ritz.

"This is the 50th anniversary of the original Broadway production", said
Learned.  "It seemed a perfect time for Rabbit Run to offer a production,
and the show seems particularly well suited to our young cast.  The
choreography is tremendously challenging and their youth and endurance are a
definite plus in meeting the demands of the production.  They have done
their homework as well and watched movies from the early 1960's to get a
sense of the period, clothing styles, and even slang."  

Playing the lead, J. Pierrepont Finch, is Mentor High student Jason
Goldston.  Goldston has performed in Rabbit Run's productions of The Mystery
of Edwin Drood and Urinetown, the Musical.  Lake Catholic senior Paige
Heidrich is playing Rosemary, Finch's love interest.  Heidrich is a familiar
face at Rabbit Run and has appeared in the theater's productions of Chicago,
Urinetown, the Musical, Oliver! and A Christmas Carol.

Mr. Biggley is portrayed by Matt Super, a junior drama major at Kenyon
College, with Lincoln Sandham as Bud Frump, Biggley's nephew.  Super has
performed in numerous productions at Rabbit Run including Urinetown, the
Musical, Chicago, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver!
Sandham not only performs regularly at Rabbit Run but has appeared in
productions at The Beck Center, The Fine Arts Association as well as other
theaters in Northeast Ohio.

The show runs from Friday, June 14 through Sunday, June 30.  Tickets for all
performances are available by calling the box office at 440-428-7092,
Wednesday through Sunday, 3 to 7 p.m. or on line at
<http://www.rabbitrunonline.org> www.rabbitrunonline.org.  Tickets are
$21/adult and $19/senior, student.  For group packages and rates call
440-428-5913.

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.  Rabbit
Run receives partial funding from the Ohio Arts Council. 

 

 

 

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