September 2015 - NEohioPAL - lists.neohiopal.org

Set design/ Master carpenter position available
by Leslie Haynam via NEohioPAL 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Northwest High School in Canal Fulton is still in need of a set designer/master carpenter for our 2015-2016 season. Our show dates are February 26, 27 & 28. Duties would include: collaborating with directors on show concept, designing the set, constructing some props, purchasing and transporting materials, directing the set construction, collaborating with the Master Painter and supervising the strike. If you are interested in working with our team, please email Leslie Haynam at Haynam.L(a)northwest.sparcc.org Please share this message with your staff. Thanks Leslie R. Haynam Northwest Local Schools District Media Specialist 330-854-2205 ext. 5503

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CASSIDY THEATRE - FALL CLASSES!
by Jenna Messina via NEohioPAL 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

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Opening Friday - YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
by Jenna Messina via NEohioPAL 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

CASSIDY THEATRE presents the youth production "YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN" Director: Jenna Messina Music Director: Matt Dolan Friday, September 11th at 7pm Saturday, September 12th at 3pm and 7pm Sunday, September 13th at 3pm All tickets are $10 This production is recommended for all ages. Reservations are strongly suggested. Call the theatre box office at 440-842-4600 or go to www.cassidytheatre.com to reserve your tickets today! Cassidy Theatre 6200 Pearl Road Parma Hts., OH 44130 440-842-4600 www.cassidytheatre.com

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College Audition Prep Class!
by Lauren Berry via NEohioPAL 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

*COLLEGE AUDITION PREP CLASS!* Olmsted Performing Arts is offering a class this fall to prepare high school students for college theatre and musical theatre auditions! You will learn a tailor made audition package that displays your strengths and will help you to nail the important auditions ahead of you! Follow the link for more class information or to register for this class and many others! http://www.olmstedperformingarts.com/theater-classes-fall-catalogue/ About the Instructor: Shane Patrick O’Neill has recently moved back to Northeast Ohio after spending four years in New York City, and is very excited to begin teaching at OPA. He holds a Masters of Music in Vocal Performance with a specialization in Musical Theatre from NYU Steinhardt and a BA in Musical Theatre from Ashland University. His favorite regional credits include: *Legally Blonde* (Emmett Forrest), *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee *(Chip Tolentino), *I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change* (Man 2), *The Scarlet Pimpernel* (Chauvelin), *Godspell* (John/Judas). NYU: *Sweeney Todd* (Sweeney Todd), *The Light in the Piazza *(Giuseppe), and *Baby* (Nick). In New York he was featured in the orchestral premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s *Songs for a New World* (Man 2), and also performed the male lead in the New York City reading of the new musical *Babes at Sea* (Jinx Jamieson).

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Now Enrolling for Weathervane Playhouse's Fall Theatre Class
by Sarah Bailey via NEohioPAL 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

NEWS RELEASE CONTACT: Sarah Bailey SBailey(a)weathervaneplayhouse.com<mailto:SBailey@weathervaneplayhouse.com> Fall Theatre Classes September 19th-November 21st Weathervane Playhouse 1301 Weathervane Lane * Akron, Oh 44313 www.WeathervanePlayhouse.com/youth<http://www.WeathervanePlayhouse.com/youth> Imagine That: Superheroes and Villains Jump over a building in a single bound, fly to new adventures and enrich your little one's life with Theatre. This class specializes in storytelling through creative movement using improvisation, dramatic play and music. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Ages 3-5 Tuition: $140.00 Places, Please Take your drama to the stage with this introduction to theatre class. Students will explore wacky characters, exciting stories, and learn the basics of performing on stage. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Ages 5-8 Tuition: $170.00 Star Struck Is your child full of drama? Don't worry-we have the perfect place for them. This class will focus on script work, creating characters with motivation, and performing on stage. You will be amazed and dazzled! Saturdays, 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Ages 8-11 Tuition: $170.00 Only 6 Spaces Left! Enter Stage Right To be or not to be is the question and Weathervane Playhouse is the answer! Each student will work on individual and group acting technique through improvisations and scripted work. Students will also learn self-confidence and how to take direction in a theatrical setting. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Ages 11-14 Tuition: $170.00 Musical Theatre, Act One Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance-Gotta Take Musical Theatre. Students will sing, dance, and act their way to Broadway with this fun and interactive class. Children will focus on group singing, creative and choreographed movement and beginning acting technique. Saturdays, 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Ages 5-8 Tuition: $180.00 Only 5 Spaces left Musical Theatre, Act Two Looking for a toe-tapping good time? We have just the class for you. Students will cover the objectives in Act One and will be challenged with more complex choreography, solo singing, and acting technique. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Ages 8-12 Tuition: $180.00 Broadway Tap Are your toes feeling blue? Come tap your troubles away with this beginning/intermediate face-paced class. Students will learn tap technique so they can really "shuffle off to Buffalo." Saturdays, 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Ages 7-14 Tuition: $105.00 2 NEW CLASSES FOR FALL! Advanced Musical Theatre This class is designed for students with previous class and/or stage experience. This class is designed to hone your talents and make you a true triple threat. Students will focus on advanced acting, singing, and dance technique. Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Ages 10-16 Tuition: $200.00 Advanced Acting This class is designed for students who have had previous class and/or stage experience. Students will be challenged with new monologues and script work aimed at creating complex characters. Refine your talents and be the actor you have always dreamed of. Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Ages 12-16 Tuition: $180.00 WeathervanePlayhouse.com/youth<http://www.WeathervanePlayhouse.com/youth> ### Sarah Bailey Director of Education and Resident Director Weathervane Playhouse 330-836-2626 Ext. 35 sbailey(a)weathervaneplayhouse.com<mailto:sbailey@weathervaneplayhouse.com>

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VOLUNTEER SOUND DESIGNER NEEDED
by Jeremy Benjamin via NEohioPAL 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

LCCC Theatre is looking for a sound designer for our upcoming production of The Diviners by Jim Leonard Jr. Production Dates are November 19-21, 2015. This is a volunteer position and a great opportunity to gain valuable experience/resume credits. The production sound needs are recorded sound effects and music only. If interested, please contact LCCC Director of Theater Jeremy Benjamin at the email and/or phone number below for detailed information. Jeremy K. Benjamin Director of Theatre Production Manager/Technical Director/Designer Lorain County Community College (440) 366-7120 jbenjami(a)lorainccc.edu -- ³Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, That¹s why we call it ³The Present.² Anonymous

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LCCC THEATRE AUDITIONS "THE DIVINERS"
by Jeremy Benjamin via NEohioPAL 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Lorain County Community College Theatre Department announces Auditions for "The Diviners" by Jim Leonard Jr. Directed by Dave Cotton Audition Dates: Sunday, Sept. 13, 2 - 5 pm Monday. Sept. 14, 7 - 10 p.m. LCCC¹s Cirigliano Studio Theater Performance Dates: November 19-21, 2015 According to the Samuel French catalogue, ³this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism. They descend on the event and, in the confusion, the boy drowns.² Monologues are welcome, but the focus of the auditions will be on cold readings of scenes from the script. Please plan on staying for the entire audition session. Those wishing to audition should email or call Director of Theatre Jeremy Benjamin (jbenjami(a)lorainccc.edu - 440-366-7120) indicating which date they plan to audition. A copy of the script is on reserve at the LCCC Bass Library circulation desk. The following roles are available. Nothing has been precast. BUDDY LAYMAN an idiot-boy. Buddy is 14 years old. He needs to be physically fit and very agile. Ideally, the actor playing this role will be small of stature. JENNIE MAE LAYMAN his sister. Jennie Mae is 16 years old. She has been shouldering the burden of keeping the house since the death of her mother. FERRIS LAYMAN their father, a mechanic. Late 40¹s - early 50¹s. He is good hearted, opinionated and not much of a disciplinarian. C.C. SHOWERS a backsliding preacher. C.C. is 30. For 12 years he has been a hellfire and damnation preacher in Kentucky. He discovered that ³thinking and preaching don¹t mix² so he left that life and has been walking and thinking for three months searching for a new life. NORMA HENSHAW owner of the Hoosier Dry-Goods, a true believer 40¹s - 60¹s. She is a very determined woman. She knows what¹s right and she will do everything in her power to see that it happens. DARLENE HENSHAW her niece. 17-18 She is anxious to get out and live life in spite of her aunt¹s oppressive ways. GOLDIE SHORT owner of the Dine-Away-Café. 40¹s - 60¹s. She is more interested in business than religion, but she is as devout as she can be. BASIL BENNETT a farmer, the local doctor of sorts. 50¹s - 60¹s. He is full of solid, country wisdom. He cannot tolerate new-fangled machines like tractors and automobiles. LUELLA BENNET his wife, a doubter. 40¹s - 60¹s. She is an eternal skeptic, but follows the crowd. MELVIN WILDER a farmhand. 21 - 22 A young man who ³knows it all². After all, he has been through the Army¹s basic training - twice! DEWEY MAPLES a young farmhand. 17 - 18 Young , impressionable. He is easily led by Melvin. Jeremy K. Benjamin Director of Theatre Production Manager/Technical Director/Designer Lorain County Community College (440) 366-7120 jbenjami(a)lorainccc.edu ³After all of our studies we acquire only that which we put into practice.² -Goethe

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AUDITIONS FOR A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM TOMORROW & THURSDAY!
by TrueNorth via NEohioPAL 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

TrueNorth Cultural Arts in partnership with Lorain County Metro Parks is pleased to announce auditions for the 2015-2016 Family Life Series production of... A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare Directed by Brian McNally Shakespeare's comedic masterpiece comes to life for the first time on a TrueNorth stage! The classic tale of reckless romance, mistaken identity and magic spells is one of Shakespeare's most celebrated works, and this abridged version is the perfect introduction to the Bard! Mischief and hilarity reign supreme when four young lovers get tangled up with disapproving parents, royal fairies and amateur actors! As winter fast approaches, warm up one last time with A Midsummer Night's Dream! PERFORMANCE DATES November 6th - 15th, 2015 Friday & Saturday at 7:00pm Sunday at 3:00pm REHEARSALS Generally Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday between 5:00pm - 9:00pm based on actors' availability. Possibility of some Sunday morning/early afternoons. AUDITION DATES Wednesday, September 9th 5:30pm-7:30pm Thursday, September 10th 5:30pm-7:30pm Auditions are in 10-minute increments; please call (440) 949-5200 ext 221 to reserve a timeslot. CASTING All roles available for actors grade 6 through adult. PREPARATION Once you've scheduled your audition, you will receive an email confirmation containing sides from the script to study, as well as an audition form to be completed prior to your audition. TrueNorth Cultural Arts is located within the French Creek Nature & Arts Center / 4530 Colorado Ave / Sheffield Village / 44054

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Theatre Auditions for Kent State University at Stark's "Almost, Maine"
by WILLIAMS, CYNTHIA via NEohioPAL 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Kent State University at Stark Theatre announces auditions for Almost, Maine Kent State University at Stark Theatre has announced open auditions for the first theatrical production of the season, Almost, Maine, written by John Cariani and directed by Kent State Stark Assistant Professor of Theatre and Theatre Director Brian Newberg. Auditions are open to everyone, including students and community persons. On a cold winter's evening, under the magnetic magic of the northern lights, several couples in the sleepy, mythical town of Almost, Maine experience love's joys and perils through a series of romantic, whimsical, unpredictable and often hilarious vignettes. Hearts are embraced, bruised, broken and mended - almost - leaving the people of this remote town forever changed. Auditions for Almost, Maine will be held on September 8 and 9 at 6 p.m. in the theatre of the Fine Arts Building, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. Roles for this production are flexible. Male and female actors of various ages will be required to play multiple characters. No children. Those auditioning have the choice of working from sides (selected scene excerpts) or they may perform a prepared monologue. The director may also choose sides for people. For more information, visit www.kent.edu/stark/theatre-auditions<http://www.kent.edu/stark/theatre-auditions>. The production will be performed on November 13-15 and 20-22 in the Kent State Stark Theatre. Rehearsals commence on September 13 and will take place five evenings a week until opening. Scripts (and audition sides or scene excerpts used for the auditions) are available for perusal for periods up to 24 hours from the secretary (330-244-5151) of the Fine Arts Building, Monday through Friday, during business hours (8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.). Audition appointments are recommended, but not required. Scripts and audition sides will also be available in the reserve area of the Stark Campus Library.

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Cleveland IndieClub September 20, 2015 FREE MEETING
by Johnny Wu via NEohioPAL 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Come to watch films, network, socialize and eat some great Chinese food (not mandatory)! The Cleveland IndieClub, founded in 2003, 11th year serving the community in Cleveland, is free of charge and for those who have the passion for making movies using film or video (whether it is in acting, directing, producing, writing, lighting or any other skill) and are looking for others who have similar interests. Cleveland IndieClub is part of the national network with over 30,000 members, check out www.facebook.com/groups/clevelandindieclub/ for more information. Cleveland IndieClub Meeting - September 20th. Last of the 2015! As we moving to next year! Let me know if you want to show something (less than 25mins, trailer, music video, etc) DVD or Bluray (or FAT32 USB drive if you know what to do with it) https://www.facebook.com/events/967098853332721/ The Cleveland IndieClub monthly meeting: Sunday, September 20, 2015 Time: 6:30pm sharp and usually last for 3 to 4 hours. Li Wah Chinese Restaurant 2999 Payne Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114 (216) 696-6556 (Plenty of parking spaces, right on corner of East 30rd and Payne Avenue, please go into the restaurant which is located in the Plaza and then tell the people there that you are there for IndieClub meeting. A minor request, please patronize the restaurant in buying food; they also have overhead cost to cover for us to have our meeting there free.) ***************** In addition, we will show and discuss short films, scenes, and trailers, and others from Ohio filmmakers that will be participating (if you would like to show your project, please make sure it is less than 28 mins, DVD/Bluray playable, bring an extra copy, and you must be in person to talk about your project). You can also provide Apple TV mp4 format on a FAT32 USB Flash Drive (it may not work with fat32 drives) Currently planned shown films include: - Johnny Wu's T.R.A.C.E. - A Doctor Who Fan Film Webisode Episode 3-4 - Nick D'Amiico's Cleveland Classic Cinema - and many others ------------------ NOTE: If you have a movie on DVD that you would like to have it raffled, bring it to the meeting to have it raffled off to the participants. If you have short films (no longer than 30 mins) that you would like to present and talk about it for future meetings, please email me (first come first serve) ------------------------- Johnny Wu O: 216.539.4634 Dynamic Multicultural Branding Video Production Branding <http://www.mdifilm.com/> www.mdifilm.com inducted into The International Indie Filmmakers Hall of Fame for Outstanding Achievements in Film Editing 2013 Minority Business Entrepreneurs Award Recipient AsiaTown Voice Radio - Sundays 7pm at 88.7FM or listen online at <http://www.ocagc.org/imagetv> www.ocagc.org/imagetv VP of Organization and Public Relations OCA-Cleveland Chapter "Embracing the Hopes and Aspirations of Asian Pacific Americans" OCA Image TV- reaching over 200 million viewers each month OCA AsiaTown Voice - 88.7FM Sundays 7pm-8pm, reaching 9000 listeners monthly worldwide OCA Interactive Kiosk - Interactive Tablet at several AsiaTown locations to promote AsiaTown. <http://www.ocagc.org/> www.ocagc.org Co-Founder/Co-Chair Executive Committee Cleveland Asian Festival <http://www.clevelandasianfestival.org/> www.ClevelandAsianFestival.org Administrator Cleveland IndieClub <http://www.clevelandindieclub.com/> www.clevelandindieclub.com <http://www.facebook.com/groups/ClevelandIndieclub> www.FaceBook.com/groups/ClevelandIndieclub St. Clair Superior Development Board Member Cleveland Museum of Art's International Cleveland Community Advancement Task force AsiaTown Masterplan Inducted into International Karate and Kickboxing Hall of Fame Inducted into World Head of Family Sokeship Council 2014 Legendary Master of the World Head of Family Sokeship Council

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