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<h1 style="font: normal 12pt sans-serif; color:#C00;
text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: -30px"><strong>PRESS
RELEASE</strong><br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h1>
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;" align="right">Date:
7/29/2019</p>
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align="center">
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;">Contact: Andrew
Rothman<br>
From: Chagrin Valley Little Theatre </p>
<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal;font-family:
arial, sans-serif; color:#000000;">40 River Street<br>
Chagrin Falls, OH 44122<br>
Phone: 440-247-8955<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:cvlt@cvlt.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">cvlt@cvlt.org</a><br>
Website: <a href="http://www.cvlt.org/"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.CVLT.org</a><br>
(Attached image - Kyle Burnett as Gordon, Diana Nabring
as Mimi)<br>
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<h3 style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#000; font-size:12pt;">CVLT's River Street
Playhouse gets "A New Brain" in August</h3>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">CHAGRIN
FALLS, Ohio - William Finn has composed two "Best
Musical" Tony-nominees - "The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee" and "Falsettos" (winner of Best Musical
1992 and Best Revival 2017 among others). Between these
two hits, he composed the eccentric and
semi-autobiographical musical A NEW BRAIN with
Tony-winner James Lapine. Chagrin Valley Little
Theatre's intimate River Street Playhouse opens a
three-weekend run of A NEW BRAIN on August 2, with
Friday and Saturday performances at 8 PM and a Sunday
matinee at 2 PM on August 11. The play is directed by
Will C. Crosby, who also directed Mel Brooks' "Young
Frankenstein," which is playing concurrently to critical
applause on CVLT's Main Stage next door.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">
Finn based A NEW BRAIN loosely on his own near-death
experience following surgery for a rare malformation of
the veins and arteries in his brain. It follows a young
composer named Gordon (Kyle Burnett), who collapses
face-first into his meal and awakens in the hospital.
There he is surrounded by his maritime-enthusiast lover
(Jason Alan Salamon), his loving yet unstable mother
(Diana Nabring), his best friend and agent Rhoda (Alicia
Pedraza), the doctor (Elliott Ingersol), and the nurses
(David Rusnak, Mikayla Myers).</p>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">Gordon's
diagnosis forces him to grapple with his career, his
relationships, his mistakes, and his mortality. The
ordeal is complicated by hallucinations of the
children's television frog he had been composing songs
for when he fell ill (Patrick Hanlon), a minister (Jeff
Centrello) who tries to impose Protestant beliefs on the
Jewish Gordon, and a homeless woman (Braelin
Andrzejewski).</p>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">A
NEW BRAIN is more than a hospital drama set to joyous
and powerful music. It is a probing and unconventional
narrative about the healing powers of art and love, told
with plenty of laugh-out-loud humor and a fair share of
adult content. As one reviewer of the 2015 NYC revival
put it, "What do we make of our time here? If your brain
is wired for it, you make music."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">
Tickets for A NEW BRAIN are $13 general admission.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at CVLT.org or by
calling (440) 247-8955 between 1-6 PM, Monday -
Saturday. Walk-up tickets are cash only. CVLT's River
Street Playhouse is located at 56 River Street in
Chagrin Falls, just west of the main CVLT building.
Parking is limited - advanced arrival is highly
recommended.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt">
CVLT is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents
through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and supported by the
Ohio Arts Council. </p>
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