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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.75pt;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)"><b>On Monday, April 25, the
Baldwin Wallace Music Theater’s Junior Class will do a tribute to Stephen
Sondheim</b> at the black box
theater on the campus of Beaumont School in Cleveland Heights. There
will be one show at 7:00 pm and tickets are $15 per person. Directed
by Vicky Bussert, the program will include songs from Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd,
Gypsy, Assassins and more. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.75pt;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)">On the heels of those tap
shoes <b>just 11 days later, the Baldwin Wallace Senior Class will do their
signature Senior Showcase on Friday, May 6,</b> also at Beaumont. For
months, the seniors have <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">been rehearsing an
original, exciting, tightly-choreographed, non-stop theatrical production
to showcase each student in front of more than 200 Broadway casting
directors and agents who have the power to put them on stage in regional
touring productions, cruise ships, TV shows and movies - and the ultimate
goal for many - on the Broadway stage.</span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The <strong><span style="font-weight:normal">Senior
Showcase</span></strong> formally takes place in Manhattan in April,
but the students will reprise this program at Beaumont Friday, May 6 at
6:30 pm, repeat that show 8:30 pm -- and at the very end, when they all
join hands and take that final bow, it will be the last time this group of
students ever appear together on a single stage. </span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">For more than 15 years, the Senior Showcase
was done on the Nighttown stage, always an emotional experience for the
kids, their parents – and the audience, too. This is a show you won't
want to miss. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.75pt;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Both programs are joint
productions of the Baldwin Wallace Music Theater Department, Beaumont
School and JWP Productions. Both programs will also feature an
opening act. To buy tickets, click <a href=" https://mailchi.mp/00ebd49f072e/nighttown-newsletter-music-still-alive-1239748?e=026f634855">here</a>. </span><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt">For group sales (minimum 10 tickets): call Bruce at 216-978-2047. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.75pt;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Additional
Background Information</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(32,32,32)">For
more than a decade, Nighttown in Cleveland Heights was an integral part of
the Baldwin Wallace Music Theater Department’s curriculum, giving students
the opportunity to perform in a nightclub setting before a live audience,
similar to the experience they would encounter as working artists. When
Nighttown closed in 2020, it looked as though these budding theater
professionals might lose the opportunity to hone this important aspect of
their performance skills. By luck and with connections, those students
have now found a new venue to test their craft: Beaumont School.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(32,32,32)">One of Cleveland's best-kept secrets is the fact that
Beaumont School, the all-girls Catholic high school in the Ursuline
tradition that educates women for life, leadership and service, located in
Cleveland Heights, houses a 147-seat "black box" theater, with
professional sound and lights. When Beaumont was contacted about the
possibility of using the space as a training ground for B-W’s musical
theater students, Wendy Hoke, president of Beaumont, readily agreed, noting
the importance of American musical theater and the Great American Songbook.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(32,32,32)">Jim Wadsworth and his JWP Productions, which handled
all the music at Nighttown, has been producing music events at a variety of
venues in Cleveland and Akron since Nighttown closed. He notes the
move to Beaumont continues the Nighttown-Baldwin Wallace tradition, and
again brings these students to Cleveland’s east side.</span><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;text-align:center"> </span></p>
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