[NEohioPAL] "The Sound of Music" opens July 12 at Rabbit Run Theater!

[RRCAA]

FOR:               Rabbit Run Community Arts Association
                        P. O. Box 235, 49 Park St.
                        Madison, OH  44057

CONTACT:    Karen Ziegler, Director of Marketing
                        440-428-5913

DATE:            July 1, 2013


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - The Sound of Music opens at Rabbit Run Theater


While Madison has few hills to boast of, the Township will soon be alive
with the sounds of music as Rabbit Run Theater presents one of the world's
favorite musicals, The Sound of Music, opening Friday, July 12.

With music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, The Sound of  Music is based on the true
story of the Von Trapp family who fled their home after the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation> annexation of
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria> Austria into
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany> Nazi Germany in 1938.  


Since the show's opening on Broadway over 50 years ago, many of the
musical's familiar melodies like Adelweiss, Do-Re-Mi, and Climb Every
Mountain have become standards in the American musical experience.

Newly widowed and left with seven children Captain von Trapp engages the
services of a young postulant, Maria, as the new governess for his children.
Unpretentious, unpredictable and possessing a heart of gold, Maria changes
the lives of the children and their father forever.


The Sound of Music opens Friday, July 12, and runs through Sunday, Aug. 3.
The show is directed by Sandy Kosovich Peck with musical direction by Scott
Posey, choreography by Jennifer Leinweber Ritz and orchestra conduction by
Alice Cable.


Playing Maria Von Trapp is Caitlin Van Niel.   Van Niel has been involved in
a number of area theaters including The Cleveland Play House, Cain Park the
Fine Arts Association and Rabbit Run Theater both as an actor and a costume
designer and has designed over 100 shows as a freelance costume designer. 


David Malinowski is portraying Captain von Trapp.  Over the past few years
at Rabbit Run, Malinowski has had lead roles in The Mystery of Edwin Drood,
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Doubt, a Parable and
Frost/Nixon.  He has also performed at The Fine Arts Association, Geauga
Lyric Theatre Guild and the Chagrin Valley Little Theater.


Other lead roles in the show are Evie Koh as Baroness Shraeder, Roger
Principe as Max, Lincoln Sandham as Rolf and Ingrid Balstad as the Mother
Abbess.  The von Trapp children are played by, in order of age, Stephanie
Harden, Bryan Daly, Chrisanna Sandham, Stephen Sandham, Genevieve Urban,
Lauren Wiertel and Brynna Wright.


Wednesday, July 24, is a special Sing-A-Long performance.  Theater patrons
are welcome to sing their favorite songs along with the cast during the
show.  Lyrics will be provided.  Light refreshments will also be provided,
beginning at 7:30 p.m., prior to the performance.  

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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