October 2015 - NEohioPAL - lists.neohiopal.org

BOGO for Last Five Years!
by Ted Larsen via NEohioPAL 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Buy One Ticket, Get One Free! The praise and response for Strongsville Community Theatre's production of "The Last Five Years," starring Rachel Anderson and Rick McGuigan, is flying in, and audiences are enthralled. We are so proud of this production, directed by Allison Naso with music direction by Bryan Bird. We want audiences to see it. So, we're offering a deal for tomorrow's performance only (Sunday, October 18 -- curtain at 2:00 pm) Buy one ticket, get one ticket free! Just print this message -- or simply write "SCT BOGO" on a slip of paper -- and present it at the box office to get 2-for-1! This deal applies toWALK UP CUSTOMERS ONLY, and when the show is sold out, it's sold out! If you would prefer to be certain of getting a seat, tickets are still available (with no BOGO option) online -- go tohttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-last-five-years-tickets-18538521216 to purchase your tickets now. This really is the show you'll remember.

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Theatre 8:15 announces auditions
by Dawna Kornick via NEohioPAL 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Theatre 8:15 is happy to announce auditions for "Jingle Bell Follies" and "How Granny Saved Christmas from the Dragon" CAST: Puppeteer/Voice of Dragon - High School/Adult King - Adult Granny - Female Adult Olaf - Male/High School/Adult Hulga - Female - 10 & Older Narrator - 10 & Older Chorus - Ages 8 – Adult Auditions: Wednesday, October 21 and Thursday, October 22 7:15 - 9:00 pm Performance Dates: December 4 - December 13, 2015 Friday and Saturday @ 8:15 pm Sunday @ 2:15 pm - - - - Theatre 8:15 4740 Massillon Road (Rt. 241) Green, OH 44232 www.theatre815.com

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ADULT AUDITIONS- BROADWAY REVIEW, SINGERS< ACTORS< DANCERS WANTED IN TWINSBURG
by Shonna Nitzel via NEohioPAL 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

*At the Corner of Broadway * *and Twinsburg* Audition Information ------------------------------ *Direction by-Shonna Talley Nitzel, Jim Volkert & Chelsea Selvaggio* A wonderful review and celebration show of the best theatre has to offer. Your favorite songs and scenes from Broadway and beyond all in one quick moving show! Adult Auditions (ages18+) Saturday Oct 24th 3:00-4:00 Sunday Oct 25th 1:00 Auditions will be held at Twinsburg Community Center 10260 Ravenna Rd, Twinsburg Ohio 44087 Callbacks will be by appointment only Auditions Information: Singing and reading only for most. Come ready to sing an acapella song or two of one minute or less, and be ready to read if auditioning for an acting role only. Dancers may prepare a 1 minute dance to perform to their own music. A song list for solo work is available on the www.MyTwinsburg.com website under Parks & Recreation Community Theatre, as well as an FAQ page, and audition forms. Please bring an adult audition form with you and a headshot or regular photo. Performances: Shows: January 16,17,18,23,24,25th 2016. Sundays are matinees at 2:00pm. All rehearsals and performances are held in the City of Twinsburg, Ohio. Casting Information: This is a rare opportunity for talented adults to perform in a show with limited rehearsal time. Each scene is freestanding so you can choose to be in the show for only a few scenes if you wish as a featured soloist, actor, or dancer. We will do our best to accommodate your schedule, as long as you are prepared to perform. All performances and tech week rehearsals are required. Tech week is Jan 12-15th. The song list of solos, duets, and featured roles can be found at our website at www.mytwinsburg.com under the Parks & Recreation Community Theatre link. Most of the greatest songs and roles from musical theatre are there! There will also be some large group songs that are not listed, as well as some comedic acting needs. This will a fully produced show in a 1000 seat auditorium. Please read the FAQ page for further information, or contact Artistic Director- Shonna Talley Nitzel at tburgtheatre(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tburgtheatre(a)gmail.com');> or 330-571-8099 with further questions on roles available. It will soon be cold in Ohio and life can be hard, so you might as well sing and dance the winter away! Don't be shy, be dramatic! :) See you in Twinsburg!

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Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen at BW
by Adam Heffernan via NEohioPAL 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY Presents THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN By William Shakespeare & John Fletcher Directed by Adam Heffernan Based on Chaucer's "A Knight's Tale," this neglected masterpiece of the Jacobean stage matches the young theatrical powers of Fletcher with the last words Shakespeare ever wrote for the theatre. With a tale drawn from the relationship between Venus and Mars, Shakespeare returns to themes explored much earlier in his career to create a rich drama of obsessive love. October 22-24, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in the William Allman Theatre<http://www.bw.edu/about/location/directions/index>? FREE (ticket required for admission) For tickets and more information, visit www.bw.edu/tickets<https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=bdwun>. Performance Schedule: Thursday-Saturday, October 22-24, 7:30 p.m., Preview Wednesday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m.

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Clague Playhouse AUDITIONS for PROOF October 20-21 2015
by Alex Nalbach via NEohioPAL 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Auditions for PROOF at CLAGUE PLAYHOUSE October 20 & 21, 2015 A drama by David Auburn Directed by Anne McEvoy 2 Males 2 Females Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, “Proof” is the story of Catherine, a troubled young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant yet mentally unstable father. Now, upon his death, she seeks to find authorship of a landmark mathematical proof discovered among his papers. But the question remains – how much of her father’s genius has she inherited, and how much of his madness? Show dates: January 15 – February 7, 2016 Rehearsals begin November 19th. (Starting early to allow for some time off at the holidays.) Clague Playhouse, 1371 Clague Road, Westlake, OH 44145 Please come prepared with a short monologue (2 minutes max.) and be prepared to read from the script. Headshots and resumes are always welcome and most helpful. There will be callbacks only if necessary. All auditions begin at 7:30 pm, unless otherwise noted. No appointment is required. Auditioners will be asked to do cold readings from the script. Perusal scripts for all shows are available at the Clague Playhouse Box Office for a $10 refundable deposit. Box Office hours are Wed.-Sat. from 1-6 PM, 440-331-0403. Characters: Catherine (25-ish): A complex young woman who inherited much of her father’s mathematical genius, and possibly, she fears, his “instability” as well; she gave up her life and schooling to take care of her father until his recent death. Robert (50’s – 60’s): Catherine’s father. A recently deceased mathematician praised for his groundbreaking work in his youth, but whose later years were plagued by delusional mental illness; he is seen in Catherine’s imagination and in flashbacks. Claire (late 20’s): Catherine’s older sister, a practical and business-minded woman who has been comfortably successful in her work and relationships. She left Robert and Catherine behind, distancing herself from the run-down family home of her youth to make a new life for herself in New York City. Harold (Hal) Dobbs (late 20’s): One of Robert’s last Ph.D. students during the one year his idol and mentor’s illness went into remission, at least enabling Robert to teach, if not continue his own creative mathematical work.

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Professional Headshots
by Gregory Pendolino via NEohioPAL 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

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Review of Macbeth at Rubber City Shakespeare Company by Kerry Clawson
by Chris Bizub via NEohioPAL 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

A Rubber City twist Theatergoers still have four chances to see Rubber City Shakespeare’s bloody, bewitching production of *Macbeth *at Summit Artspace, 140 E. Market St., Akron*. *(Cost is $14, senior citizens and students $12, student rush tickets $5. Times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Seewww.rubbercityshakes.com.) <http://www.rubbercityshakes.com.%29/> The production, directed by Dane Leasure, features Michael Laymon in the title role and Cait McNeal as his “fiendish queen,” Lady Macbeth. It’s often difficult to understand Laymon’s quick speech and he doesn’t have the Shakespearean rhythm that most of the rest of the cast does. But the role of Lady Macbeth is perfect for the highly dramatic McNeal, who’s demonic as she’s egging her husband on to slaughter the King Duncan and is scarily unhinged in her infamous “Out, damned spot!” scene, in which the sleepwalking queen, clad in a pristine white nightgown, reveals her deep guilt as she maniacally tries to rub unseen blood off her hands. Also of note are Elizabeth Allard, Kate Klika and Michele McNeal as the three witches, who create a spooky chorus of “weird sisters.” Matthew Wheeler also makes a memorably ghastly appearance at Macbeth’s dinner table as the ghost of Banquo, with a slit throat. Leasure has set the tragedy in a rubber factory, RCS Rubber Company, to be exact, in the time period between the end of World War I and the Great Depression. But if you hadn’t read that information beforehand, you wouldn’t recognize the conceit running throughout the story, other than in costume pieces that include suspenders and knickers, groups of stacked tires in the staging area, and the use of wrenches and pipes as weapons. The tires are used ingeniously as legs for a board to be placed upon for a table, and especially when they create a cauldron into which the witches add glowing ingredients. The theater has taken its raw space on the second floor at Summit Artspace and flipped the playing space around for this show. The actors use more cool yet simple props as Prince Malcolm and Macduff’s forces strike sticks together to represent Birnam wood (forest) coming to Dunsinane, a happening signifying Macbeth’s undoing. Arts writer Kerry Clawson may be reached at 330-996-3527 or kclawson(a)thebeaconjournal.com. Like her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/kclawsonabj or follow her on Twitter @KerryClawsonABJ.

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Event Listing
by Tim Tavcar via NEohioPAL 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

WordStage Literary Concerts presents "Poe And Fiends" Tales and Poems of Mystery and the Macabre! “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was best known to his own generation as an editor and critic. His poems and short stories commanded only a small audience. But to some extent in his poems, and to an impressive degree in his tales, he pioneered in opening up areas of human experience for artistic treatment at which his contemporaries only hinted. Readings of the macabre prose and poetry include works by Poe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, H.P.Lovecraft, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost, and Ray Bradbury. This spine-tingling compilation of phantasmagoric poetry and prose will be interpreted by members of the WordStage Company - Skip Corris, Marci Paolucci and Tim Tavcar and will be underscored and enhanced by eerie and atmospheric music, played by the Lakewood Presbyterian Church’s resident organist, Michael Petrosh. Friday, October 30, 2015 at 7:30 PMThe Wright Chapel at the Lakewood Presbyterian Church14502 Detroit Ave. at Marlowe - Lakewood , OH Admission by Free Will Donation - An informal reception will follow the performance. The Wright Chapel is ADA Accessible For more information, please visit our web site - www.wordstageoh,com Or call 216-712-6926 submitted by Tim Tavcar -

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The Hilarity Continues Tonight with "Nunsense"
by Wanda Wareham via NEohioPAL 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Kevin Joseph Kelly http://tpography.com/ laughed A LOT at The Fine Arts Association's Production of "Nunsense" By Dan Goggin Directed by Sandy Kosovich Peck Five nuns from The Little Sisters of Hoboken stage a variety show fundraiser to raise money to bury the rest of the sisterhood who were accidentally poisoned by Sister Julia, Child of God's vichyssoise. This hilarious production won four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Off Broadway Musical in its original New York production. (rated PG-13) Performance Dates October 9-25, 2015 7:30 pm Friday & Saturday/2 pm Sunday Venue Corning Auditorium at The Fine Arts Association 38660 Mentor Avenue, Willoughby, Ohio 44094 Tickets $25/adults; $23/seniors and students Discounted rates for groups of 10 and more Student rush tickets 30 minutes before curtain ($12.50 each) For complete performance details and to purchase tickets online visit http://www.fineartsassociation.org/theatre/performance.html Tickets can also be purchased by calling (440) 951-7500 x100 and at the door (seating based on availability) The Fine Arts Association 38660 Mentor Avenue Willoughby, OH 44094 www.fineartsassociation.org<http://www.fineartsassociation.org> Like Us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/TheFineArtsAssociation> Follow Us on Twitter<https://twitter.com/TheFineArtsAssn> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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The Shop @ CPH Opens for Cleveland Play House’s 100th Season
by Natalie Ault via NEohioPAL 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

The Shop @ CPH Opens for Cleveland Play House’s 100th Season The Shop @ CPH, Cleveland Play House’s new gift shop, is now open! Located in the Fasenmyer East Lounge inside the Allen Theatre Lobby, The Shop @ CPH provides a lovely array of products ranging from t-shirts and mugs to posters and hats. Cleveland Play House Subscribers will receive a 10% discount on purchases throughout the season. Please visit us during Cleveland Play House productions one hour before the show begins until after the show ends. Make sure to visit often to enjoy all our 100th season has to offer!

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