[NEohioPAL] HBTI Summer Productions announced: SWEENEY TODD, CHARLIE BROWN, A CHORUS LINE

Fred Sternfeld fsternfeld at hb.edu
Mon Oct 21 14:08:20 PDT 2013


NEWS RELEASE
October 20, 2013
Shaker Heights, Ohio

*HATHAWAY BROWN THEATRE INSTITUTE** *
announces its 2014 summer production season

The Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute (HBTI) is excited to announce their
2014 summer production season.

HBTI’s second season will feature three fully produced musicals, including
a classic tale of revenge and tragedy, a family friendly musical featuring
Charles Shultz’s iconic Peanuts gang and a journey through the trials and
tribulations performers face throughout the audition process.  “We are
thrilled to be offering our students the opportunity to be involved in
these challenging, thought provoking and entertaining productions this
season,” says Fred Sternfeld, HBTI’s Executive Artistic Director.


*Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
Winner of multiple Tony & Drama Desk Awards, including BEST MUSICAL

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
>From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Originally Directed On Broadway by Harold Prince
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Originally Produced on Broadway by Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, Robert
Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards  in Association with Dean and Judy
Manos

Directed by Bob Russell
July 5-13, 2014

“Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd…” a chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding
masterpiece that tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who
returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge
who framed him and tore his family apart. His thirst for blood soon expands
to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of
the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves
with her mysterious new meat pie recipe!

Open auditions for students grade 7 – college will be announced in the near
future. In order for students to participate in this production they must
be enrolled for at least one 2 or 3 week summer session of training. In
addition, there is a production participation fee.

*You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown*
Winner of Outer Critic’s Circle and Drama Desk Awards including BEST MUSICAL

Based on the Comic Strip “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz
Book, Music and Lyrics by Clark Gesner
Additional Dialogue by Michael Mayer
Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Original Direction for this version of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown"
by Michael Mayer
Originally Produced in New York by Arthur Whitelaw and Gene Persson

Directed by Michael Dempsey
July 18-27, 2014

“Happiness is…”  Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang
come to life onstage in this musical for children of all ages.  Through a
series of scenes, typical of Charles Schultz’s Peanuts comics, Charlie
Brown seeks to find out what it means to be a “good man”.

Open auditions for students grade 3 – 8 will be announced in the near
future. In order for students to participate in this production they must
be enrolled for at least one 2 or 3 week summer session of training. In
addition, there is a production participation fee.

*A Chorus Line*
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and numerous Tony and Drama Desk
Awards including BEST MUSICAL

Conceived and Originally Directed and Choreographed by Michael Bennett
Book by James Kirkwood & Nicholas Dante
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics by Edward Kleban
Co-Choreographed by Bob Avian
Original Broadway production produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival,
Joseph Papp, Producer, in association with Plum Productions, Inc.

Co-directed by Fred Sternfeld & Bebe Weinberg Katz
August 1-10, 2014

A Chorus Line is a stunning musical-verite about a chorus audition for a
Broadway musical. It tells of the achingly poignant ambitions of
professional Broadway gypsies to land a job in the show, and is a powerful
metaphor for all human aspiration. It is a brilliantly complex fusion of
dance, song and compellingly authentic drama.

“One – Singular Sensation…”  A Chorus Line is a stunning musical-verite
about a chorus audition for a Broadway musical. It tells of the achingly
poignant ambitions of professional Broadway dancers to land a job in the
show, and is a powerful metaphor for all human aspiration. It is a
brilliantly complex fusion of dance, song and compellingly authentic drama.


Open auditions for students grade 9 – college will be announced in the near
future. In order for students to participate in this production they must
be enrolled for at least one 2 or 3 week summer session of training. In
addition, there is a participation fee.

The Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute was created by the Performing Arts
Department of the Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights for students
1stgrade – college.

HBTI offers winter and summer classes that involve coursework in drama,
dance and music.  The institute was created to give young people interested
in the performing arts a place to get high level training from working
artists and professional level production experiences.

Visit www.hb.edu for information on HBTI’s winter classes and for updates
on Hathaway Brown School’s many other summer offerings.

For more information, contact: Kathleen Osborne, Director of Communication
& Outreach, Hathaway Brown School, kosborne at hb.edu, 216-320-8785.



-- 
Fred Sternfeld, Executive Artistic Director - Hathaway Brown Theatre
Institute <http://www.hb.edu/page.cfm?p=1899>
personal website: http://www.fredsternfeld.com
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*Hathaway Brown School *19600 North Park Boulevard Shaker Heights, Ohio
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