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Valley Little Theatre<br>
April 2012 News </u></font></h1>
<p><font style="font-size:13px; font-weight:bold"
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size="2"><a href="http://www.CVLT.org">www.CVLT.org</a>
• 440-247-8955<br>
40 River Street, Chagrin Falls OH 44022</font></p>
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<li> <b><font style="font-size:16px" color="#2D0D4E"
face=" Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"
size="3">Happening
in April...</font></b>
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<li><font style="font-size:13px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>NOW
- April 14:</strong> <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/drowsy.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012"><em><strong>THE
DROWSY CHAPERONE</strong></em></a></font></li>
<li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><strong>April 4:</strong> <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/gingame.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012"><strong><em>HEAR
WHO'S HERE</em>:</strong> Charles "Bud"
Deihl & Mary Hobbs</a></font></li>
<li><font style="font-size:13px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>April
14:</strong> Spring Youth Theatre begins - see <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/youth/index.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">CVLT.org/youth</a>
for details!</font></li>
<li><font style="font-size:13px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>April
19 - May 5:</strong> <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/gingame.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012"><em><strong>THE
GIN GAME</strong></em></a></font></li>
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<li> <b><font style="font-size:16px" color="#2D0D4E"
face=" Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"
size="3">Open Auditions in April...</font></b> <font
style="font-size:13px" color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">See <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/auditions.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">http://www.cvlt.org/auditions</a></font>
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<li><font style="font-size:13px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>April
9 & 10:</strong> <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/auditions.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">Auditions
for <em><strong>"A NIGHT IN PROVENCE"</strong></em></a>
(farce - 3 men, 3 women)</font></li>
<li><font style="font-size:13px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>April
22 & 23:</strong> <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/auditions.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">Auditions
for <strong><em>"A STEADY RAIN"</em></strong></a>
(drama - two men)</font> </li>
<li><font style="font-size:13px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>April
22:</strong> <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/auditions.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">Auditions
for <strong><em>"HAIRSPRAY"</em></strong></a>
(specific roles only)</font></li>
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<li> <b><font style="font-size:16px" color="#2D0D4E"
face=" Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"
size="3">Coming in May...</font></b>
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<li><font style="font-size:13px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>May
11-12:</strong> <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/cfso-mikado.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">Chagrin
Falls Studio Orchestra with Opera per Tutti - <strong>THE
MIKADO</strong></a></font></li>
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<h3><font style="font-size:16px" color="#2D0D4E" face="
Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3"><b>Spring
has fully sprung on the CVLT stages!</b></font></h3>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">March was quite a busy
month for us at CVLT! Our River Street Playhouse stage
hosted two sold-out performances of the headline -
making monologue</font><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2"> <em>THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS</em>,
we held the initial rounds of <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/auditions.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">auditions</a>
for the summer musical <em>HAIRSPRAY</em>, and we
kicked off the hit musical <strong><a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/drowsy.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012"><em>THE
DROWSY CHAPERONE</em></a></strong> which continues
through April 14th!</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">This month, in addition
to the continuing performances of </font><font
style="font-size:13px" color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong><a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/drowsy.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012"><em>THE
DROWSY CHAPERONE</em></a></strong></font><font
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2"> on the main stage and <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/auditions.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">auditions</a>
for our June and July productions, we're launching the
second year of the <strong><em><a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/gingame.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">HEAR
WHO'S HERE</a></em></strong> series. On the first
Wednesday in April, May and June we're presenting a talk
from local notables on our River Street Playhouse stage.
This month's presentation will be by artists Charles
"Bud" Deihl & Mary Hobbs. And at the end of the
month, D.L. Coburn's <em><a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/gingame.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012"><strong>THE
GIN GAME</strong></a></em> opens on our River
Street Playhouse stage, with a special fundraiser
preview on April 19th. Read on below for all of the
details!</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2">See
you soon,<br>
<i>Your Friends at CVLT</i></font></p>
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<h2 align="center"><font style="font-size:20px"
color="#000000" face=" Georgia, Times New Roman,
Times, serif" size="4"><b><i><a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/drowsy.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">The
Drowsy Chaperone</a></i></b></font></h2>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:16px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3"><b>NOW - April 14, 2012<br>
Friday & Saturday nights at 8 PM<br>
Sunday April 1 at 2 PM </b></font></p>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Book by Bob Martin and Don
McKellar <br>
Music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg
Morrison</font></p>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>TICKETS: </b>$18
regular, $14 student/senior</font></p>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>Buy
tickets online at <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/drowsy.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/drowsy.php</a>
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or call 440-247-8955</b></font></p>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Directed and Choreographed
by Marc C. Howard</font></p>
<p align="justify"><strong>"FILLED WITH
LAUGH-OUT-LOUD MOMENTS"</strong> - <em>Chagrin
Solon Sun</em></p>
<p align="justify"><strong>"THE DROWSY CHAPERONE IS
A WONDERFUL ESCAPE"</strong> - <em>News-Herald</em></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><em>THE DROWSY CHAPERONE </em>is
the Tony Award winning homage to American
musicals of the Jazz Age, examining the effect
musicals have on the fans who adore them.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">A modern day musical
theater addict known simply as "Man in Chair",
seeking to chase his blues away, drops the
needle on his favorite LP – a fictional 1928
musical comedy.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">From the crackle of his
hi-fi, the musical magically bursts to life
on-stage telling the tale of a pampered Broadway
starlet who wants to give up show business to
get married, her producer who sets out to
sabotage the nuptials, her chaperone, the
debonair groom, the dizzy chorine, the Latin
lover and a pair of gangsters who double as
pastry chefs. Man in Chair's love of "The Drowsy
Chaperone" speaks to anyone who has ever been
transported by the theater. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Starring: Alexandria
Marzullo, Brenda Willis, Clayton Minder, Don
Bernardo, Brian Heigel, Eric Oswald, Jerry
Schaber, John Hickman, Laurel Bryant, Libby
Merriman, Lisa Tarr, Mark Moore, Mark Snyder,
Michael Rogan, Ryan Bernstein, Suzanne Davis,
Tina Burgett-Krause and Tom Boehringer.</font></p>
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<h2 align="center"><font style="font-size:20px"
color="#000000" face=" Georgia, Times New Roman,
Times, serif" size="4"><b><i><a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/gingame.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">The
Gin Game</a></i></b></font></h2>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:16px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3"><b>April 19 - May 5, 2012<br>
Friday & Saturday nights at 8 PM<br>
Special fundraiser Thurs. April 19</b></font></p>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">A play by D. L. Coburn</font></p>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>TICKETS: </b>$10 all
tickets<br>
(Not recommended for children.) </font></p>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>Buy
tickets online at <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/gingame.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/gingame.php</a>
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or call 440-247-8955</b></font></p>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Directed by Eric Oswald</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer
prize winning <em>THE GIN GAME</em> is about a
woman in her twilight years, Fonsia Dorsey
(Linda Ryan), who enters a "home for the aged"
and is for a while saved from melancholy by the
crusty charm of Weller Martin (Steve Ryan). </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">The sardonic Weller cajoles
Fonsia into playing a series of games of Gin on
the home's sunlit porch. As they seemingly
become close companions, much is revealed about
their respective regret-filled lives -- to the
steady shuffling and playing of cards. Their
mutual need for solace is momentarily satisfied,
until Weller's pent-up rage, and Fonsia's subtle
needling, build to a terrible confrontation. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"> We are hosting a special
sneak preview of<em>THE GIN GAME </em>as a fund
raiser for the <a
href="http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/">National
Breast Cancer Foundation</a>. On Thursday,
April 19th, at 8pm we will have a Special
performance at $25 a seat. Tickets for this
special performance are AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
ONLY and will not be pre-sold. All proceeds that
evening (minus the performance rights) will be
donated to the <a
href="http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/">National
Breast Cancer Foundation</a>. Thank you for
helping us in the fight against breast cancer!</font></p>
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<h2 align="center"><font style="font-size:20px"
color="#000000" face=" Georgia, Times New Roman,
Times, serif" size="4"><b><i><a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/hwh-deihlhobbs.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">
Hear Who's Here:<br>
<span style="font-size:16px">Charles "Bud"
Deihl & Mary Hobbs</span></a></i></b></font></h2>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:16px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3"><b>April 4, 2012<br>
Wednesday night at 7 PM</b></font> </p>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>TICKETS: </b>$12 per
ticket<br>
(buy all three speakers for $6 off!)) </font></p>
<p align="center"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>Buy
tickets online at <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/hwh-deihlhobbs.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/hwh-deihlhobbs.php</a>
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or call 440-247-8955</b></font></p>
<p align="left"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">The "Hear Who's Here"
series will showcase the journeys and favorite
career highlights of Chagrin Falls area
professionals. These fascinating talks take
place on the first Wednesday of each month at 7
PM.</font> </p>
<p align="left"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"> This year's series
includes the painters Charles "Bud" Deihl and
Mary Hobbs on April 4th, independent filmmaker
(producer of <em>Take Shelter</em>) Tyler
Davidson on May 2nd, and author Cinda Williams
Chima on June 6th.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"> <strong>Charles "Bud"
Deihl</strong> holds graduate degrees in
painting and drawing (1963) and sculpture (1965)
from Michigan State University and was President
at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand
Rapids, Michigan and President of the Columbus
College of Art & Design in Ohio. His
paintings contain images that deliberately
mystify, prompting viewers to seek their own
understandings of the meaning.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><strong>Mary Hobbs</strong>
received a Bachelor of Arts degree, in 1958,
from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and
has been a fashion artist, illustrator and art
director for the likes of The Richman Brothers
Company, the May Department Stores Company, and
The Higbee Company. Her current work features
realistic and vibrant images of pets, children,
homes, florals, and family montages. She is a
longtime member of the Colored Pencil Society of
America (CPSA), which has bestowed honors and
recognition upon her work.</font> </p>
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<h2><font style="font-size:16px" color="#2D0D4E"
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"
size="3"> <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/82ndSeason/index.php?utm_source=monthlymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=apr2012">Still
to come in our 82nd Season... </a></font></h2>
<p><font style="font-size:13px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>MAIN
STAGE
PLAYS & MUSICALS:</b><br>
A Night in Provence (June 1 - 23, 2012)<br>
Hairspray (July 20 - August 18, 2012)</font></p>
<p> <font style="font-size:13px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>RIVER
STREET
PLAYHOUSE:</b><br>
A Steady Rain (June 29 - July 14, 2012) <br>
Belles: A play in two acts and thirty-nine phone
calls (August
10 - 25, 2012)</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size:13px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>SPECIAL
EVENTS:</b><br>
Hear Who's Here: Tyler Davidson, independent
filmmaker (May 2, 2012)<br>
Chagrin Falls Studio Orchestra's "The Mikado"
(May 11 & 12, 2012)<br>
Hear Who's Here: Cinda Williams Chima, author
(June 6, 2012)</font></p>
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face=" Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"
size="2"><b>GET YOUR
BRICK!</b></font></p>
<p> <font style="font-size:12px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Starting
at
just $75, you can get your own custom engraved
brick paver in
our front entrance sidewalk!</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size:12px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> A
unique way to commemorate a special occasion or
honor that person on your gift list who's hard
to shop for!</font></p>
<p><font style="font-size:12px" color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">We're
taking orders now for bricks to install when the
weather turns warm again, so visit <a
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<p align="center"><font style="font-size:13px"
color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2">Chagrin Valley Little
Theatre is generously funded by Cuyahoga County
residents through Cuyahoga
Arts and Culture. The Ohio Arts Council helps fund our
organization
with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth,
educational excellence
and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.</font></p>
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