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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center for the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">presents<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">The New Mel Brooks Musical<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FFC000">YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Original Direction and Choreography by Susan Stroman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Directed by Scott Spence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Musical Direction by Larry Goodpaster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Choreographed by Martín Céspedes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">~ $10 PREVIEW NIGHT ~<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">Thursday, July 10<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">8 p.m. / Mackey Main Stage<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 11 – August 17<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">8 p.m. Fridays & Saturdays<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">3 p.m. Sundays<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mackey Main Stage<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Young Frankenstein
</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Preview Night admission is $10. Advance tickets go on sale online at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, July 10 and at the Beck Center box office 10 a.m. Thursday. Tickets may be purchased at the door based on availability.
General admission seating. Doors open approximately 15 minutes prior to curtain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Preview Night tickets go on sale online at 12:01 a.m., July 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To purchase tickets online with a credit card, click here:
<a href="http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=BECKCENTER">
<span style="color:blue">http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=BECKCENTER</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To purchase tickets from the Beck Center Box Office after 10 a.m., call: 216.521.2540 x10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ABOUT THE SHOW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nominated for three Tony Awards and awarded Best Musical by the Outer Critics Circle, this monstrously entertaining musical comedy is based on Mel Brooks’ parody
of classic horror movies. Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are now on sale.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mel Brooks</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> and
<b>Thomas Meehan</b> have done it again! From the creators of Broadway’s record-breaking sensation
<i>The Producers</i> comes this scientifically proven good time. <i>The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein</i> tells the story of young Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (that’s FRAHN-ken-steen) as he attempts to complete his grandfather’s work by bring a corpse
back to life – but not without scary and quite often hilarious consequences. The
<i>LA Times</i> called this musical comedy “delightfully nutty! Glittering, buoyant fun that tickles its audience into high spirits…Classic Brooks!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“Mel Brooks was an important part of my growing up. All his early movies had great power over me,” said Director
<b>Scott Spence</b>. “His irreverent, afraid-to-go-nowhere style made his movies irresistible to me.” With musical direction by<b> Larry Goodpaster
</b>and choreography by <b>Martín Céspedes</b>, the talented cast of 26, including Equity actors
<b>Jamie Koeth</b> as Frederick and <b>Lindsey Mitchell </b>as Elizabeth, will present the funniest singing and dancing laboratory experiment this town has ever seen.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This production of<i> The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein</i> is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI), sponsored
by the John P. Murphy Foundation and Ulmer & Berne LLP, and is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and the Ohio Arts Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Celebrating its 80th anniversary, Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions on two stages,
arts education programming for all ages and abilities, including Creative Arts Therapies for individuals with special needs, outreach education, and free gallery exhibits featuring local, regional, and international artists.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cast of Characters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Inspector Kemp - John Busser<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Frederick Frankenstein - Jamie Koeth*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Elizabeth - Lindsey Mitchell*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Igor - Alex Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Inga - Leslie Andrews<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Frau Blucher - Amiee Collier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Victor/Hermit - Mark Heffernan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Monster - Christopher Aldrich<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Male Ensemble<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Patrick Carroll, Joe Fornadel, Andrew Kotzen, David Lenahan, Robert Pierce, Andrew Rawlings, Adam Shimko, Cody Zak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Female Ensemble<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Megan Brautigam, Barb Dragony, Becca Frick, Llenelle Gibson, Stephanie Harden, Holly Kay Harris, Kate Leigh Michalski, Callee Miles, Elise Pakiela, Carleigh Spence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*Actor appears courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association (AEA), the union of actors and stage managers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Production Staff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Artistic Director/Director - Scott Spence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Musical Director - Larry Goodpaster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Choreographer - Martín Céspedes**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stage Manager - Libby White<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Assistant Stage Managers - Hayley Baran, Cameron Cerny<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Assistant to the Director - Jenna Fink<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Costume Designer - Aimee Kluiber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Scenic Designer - Cameron Caley Michalak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lighting Designer - Trad A Burns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Associate Lighting Designer - Benjamin Gantose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sound Designer - Carlton Guc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Video Designer - Ian Hinz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Special Effects Designer - The Monster - P.J. Toomey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Technical Director - Joseph Carmola<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Technical Assistant - Dan Folino<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dance Captain - Holly Kay Harris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">**Member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Orchestra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conductor - Larry Goodpaster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keyboards- Larry Goodpaster, Bryan Bird, Ryan Bergeron<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Reeds - Kim Coxe, John Dokler, Karen Langenwalter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trumpets - Juan Ingram, Matt Ralph, Matt Wirfel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">French Horn - Meredith Evans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trombone - Vince Guenter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Violins - Clara Engen, Bruce Erwin, Henry Jenkin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bass - Kevin Aylward, Cody Lumsden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Percussion - Chris Andrews, Bill Hart, Andrew Pongracz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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