[NEohioPAL] PRESS RELEASE: Jeff Baron's award-winning VISITING MR. GREEN to play CVLT's second stage

[Chagrin Valley Little Theatre via NEohioPAL]

  *PRESS RELEASE*
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: 10/25/16

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Contact: Andrew Rothman
From: Chagrin Valley Little Theatre

40 River Street
Chagrin Falls, OH 44122
Phone: 440-247-8955
E-mail: cvlt at cvlt.org <mailto:cvlt at cvlt.org>
Website: www.cvlt.org <http://www.cvlt.org/>

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      *Jeff Baron's award-winning VISITING MR. GREEN to play CVLT's
      second stage*

CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio - Chagrin Valley Little Theatre's 65-seat River 
Street Playhouse stage is perfect for intimate stagings with smaller 
casts. While CVLT's main 262-seat theatre stages the colorful Lloyd 
Webber musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor™ Dreamcoat" (Nov 18 - 
Dec 18), the cosier space next door will present Jeff Baron's more 
introspective VISITING MR. GREEN. The play opens under the direction of 
Carol Jaffee Pribble on November 25 for a three-weekend run, with 
performances at 8 PM on Friday and Saturday nights through December 10, 
and matinee on Sunday, December 4 at 2 PM. Tickets are $12, general 
admission.

VISITING MR. GREEN stars veteran actor Don Edelman as Mr. Green, an 
elderly, grumpy, devoutly Jewish widower who wanders into New York City 
traffic, nearly being hit by the car of 29-year-old finance executive 
Ross Gardiner (played by Krystopher Perry). As a community service 
sentence, Gardiner is ordered to assist Mr. Green, visiting him weekly. 
What starts as a comedy about two men who do not want to be in the same 
room together becomes a gripping, moving drama as they get to know each 
other, opening old wounds they've been hiding and nursing for years.

MR. GREEN is Baron's best-known play, earning numerous awards around the 
world, including the KulturPreis Europa, of which Baron was the first 
playwright and the first American recipient. It was a Best New Play 
nominee for the Moliere Award in France, and was nominated for both the 
A.C.E. and the Clarin Awards in Argentina for Best Play. The playwright 
was invited to present a reading of the work at the United Nations in 
1999, and the script has been translated into 22 languages, with 500 
productions in 46 countries.

"Families are the same everywhere," explains Baron. "Everyone knows 
someone like Mr. Green and everyone knows someone like Ross. Their 
specific characteristics make the story interesting, but their 
human-ness and the struggles they're each going through, make the play 
personal for almost everyone." The play touches on several universal 
themes, including aging, religion, and marriage.

Tickets to VISTING MR. GREEN are $12, available by phone at 440-247-8955 
or online at CVLT.org. The River Street Playhouse is located at 56 River 
Street, just west of the main CVLT building in downtown Chagrin Falls. 
Seating and parking are limited, and early reservations and arrival are 
recommended.

CVLT is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga 
Arts and Culture and supported by the Ohio Arts Council. CVLT is a proud 
member of the American Association of Community Theatre.

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