April 2018 - NEohioPAL - lists.neohiopal.org

Summer Modeling Camp Is filling up!!
by Barbara Stitzer 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Summer Modeling Camp!!! Give your child her Best Summer Ever!! This year’s themes include Kindness and Anti Bullying , Body Positive, Defining Beauty... she will love the skin she’s in, feel great about herself, make friends, have fun, and take scores of gorgeous pictures!! Summer dates are June 5-8 and July 16-20, divided by age. Don't see the dates you want here? Let me know!! We'll try to work something out! Dm, email barb(a)barbstitzer.com or give me a call/text for more info at 330.714.6261! -- All my best, Barb Stitzer Barb Stitzer Photography Stalk Me! www.barbstitzer.com 330.714.6261 "Like" me on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Barbara-Stitzer-Photography/453257… follow me on Instagram Http://www.instagram.com/barbstitzerphotography

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Stocker Arts Center Presents “Nugget and Fang”
by Allison Jack 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Stocker Arts Center Presents “Nugget and Fang” Lorain County Community College’s Stocker Arts Center presents “Nugget and Fang” at 9:45 and 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday, April 10 as part of the Student Matinee Series at the Hoke Theatre of Stocker Arts Center. ArtsPower’s colorful new musical tells the story of Nugget, a minnow, and Fang, a shark, who get along swimmingly — until Nugget’s first day of minnow school. There, Nugget learns that minnows are supposed to be afraid of sharks. To regain Nugget’s trust, Fang takes desperate and hilarious measures. Nothing goes as planned. Fang is moping in deep waters when he notices that Nugget and his minnow schoolmates are caught up in some big trouble (and one very big net). The show runs 55 minutes and is geared toward children in kindergarten through grade two. Tickets for the Stocker Arts Center Student Matinee Series events are $5 each and are available for schools and the general public. For more information about the Stocker Student Matinee Series, visit www.lorainccc.edu/stocker/event-categories/student-matinee-series<http://www.lorainccc.edu/stocker/event-categories/student-matinee-series>. The Stocker Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 60 minutes prior to Student Matinee Series events. Call (440) 366-4040 for tickets or for a season calendar. Tickets are available at www.stockerartscenter.com<http://www.stockerartscenter.com>. Stocker Arts Center is located on the campus of Lorain County Community College at 1005 North Abbe Road, Elyria, Ohio. Parking on campus is free. Allison Jack Writer & Project Coordinator Marketing & Communications Lorain County Community College (440)366-7082 Regular office hours: Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. For immediate assistance for urgent needs while not in office, please contact Steve Sefchik at (440)366-7601 or email ssefchik(a)lorainccc.edu<mailto:ssefchik@lorainccc.edu>.

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AUDITIONS for GHOSTLIGHT: Original Musical written for Sandusky Bicentennial
by Marilyn Forster 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

*Casting Call for Original MusicalGHOSTLIGHTBook and Lyrics: Marilyn Forster Music: Michael Shirtz Directed by James Fleming Musical Direction: John Kustec Choreography: Kirsten HallAudition Dates: Saturday, May 5, 10-12 and 1-3: Sunday, May 6, 1-3; Callbacks, 3-5 Video submissions also accepted.Audition Location: Trinity United Methodist Church: 214 E Jefferson Street, Sandusky, Ohio 44870Audition Information:Registration at SignUpGenius <http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0b4ca4aa23abf49-ghostlight> is preferred to reserve an audition time. Link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0b4ca4aa23abf49-ghostlight <http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0b4ca4aa23abf49-ghostlight> In-person registration will begin 30 minutes prior to audition start time. Be prepared to stay for the duration of each audition session. Those auditioning should prepare a side from the script (found here <https://ghostlightmusical.wordpress.com/audition-sides/>) and prepare a 32 bar cut from the swing era with sheet music in your vocal key. Auditions will not be permitted a cappella or with electronic accompaniment. Dress for movement and bring a headshot or current photo. Also be prepared to cold read from the script.Video Submissions: Email SanduskyStateGhostlight(a)gmail.com <SanduskyStateGhostlight(a)gmail.com> with your resume and headshot, as well as a video file of one of the sides from the script and a song as described above as a video file (MP4), or upload to YouTube or Vimeo and send link. Sides can be found at this site: https://ghostlightmusical.wordpress.com/audition-sides/ <https://ghostlightmusical.wordpress.com/audition-sides/>Rehearsals begin: July 28, 2018.Performance Dates August 23, 24, 25, 2018. Sandusky State Theatre 107 Columbus Ave, Sandusky, Ohio 44870 GHOSTLIGHTAll the drama of opening night unfolds, as the State Theatre opens Oct. 21, 1928. This “Million Dollar Theatre” is the first in the area to feature Vaudeville performers, and all are “headliners”.Amidst the conflicts of sibling rivalry, jealous lovers, and ships colliding, a ghost with a tragic past leads the way. Bubbling with the energy and music of the prohibition era, this city on the bay is in full swing with its history. GHOSTLIGHT brings it to life.Cast: 5 WOMEN: Sadie; 18-28; This is her story as she struggles with loss and identity. Sylvia; 20-35; Sadies’ sister; A vaudeville headliner; Sophie; 40-60; Their deceased mother, who died in a tragic theatre accident; Nancy and Laverne Ross; 20-45; Headliners as Tap Dancing Duo. 7 MEN: Ben; 20-30; Local fisherman; Phillip 20-30 Local shipping magnate, Ben’s friend; Oscar; 20-35; local steamboat captain; friend of Ben and Phillip; Leon; 40-60; Theatre Stage Manager; must dance: Julius 25-45 Headliner Magician; ENSEMBLE: (Director’s Discretion) Vaudeville performers, townspeople, dockside seamenQUESTIONS: Call: 419-656-8092 Email: SanduskyStateGhostlight(a)gmail.com <SanduskyStateGhostlight(a)gmail.com>Website: Ghostlightmusical.wordpress.com <https://ghostlightmusical.wordpress.com/> *

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Adjunct Faculty Position for Fall at Ashland University
by Teresa Durbin-Ames 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Ashland University Department of Theatre seeks Adjunct Acting Instructor to teach one or more sections of Acting for Non-Majors for Fall 2018. Teaching is currently scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday mornings. MFA or MA in a performance area required. College teaching experience preferred. Submit a letter of application, resume, and a list of references to crowlan1(a)ashland.edu Review of applications will begin immediately. Questions, contact: Dr. Thomas Reed*, *Chair, Departments of Music and Theatre, at 419.289-5158 or treed(a)ashland.edu Ashland University meets fully its obligation of nondiscrimination under federal and state laws and is actively committed to diversity in its workplace. Employment will require a criminal background check. www.ashland.edu -- [image: AUseal_sig_300.png] *Dr. Teresa Durbin-Ames* Associate Professor & Artistic Director Department of Theatre | 235 Center for the Arts (w) 419.289.5821 tdurbin(a)ashland.edu

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TORCH SONGS BY TWILIGHT 27 April 8pm Bop Stop
by Carol A. Leslie 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

*CAROL LESLIE, Scottish import and jazz vocalist*, will be performing her concert, *"Torch Songs by Twilight"* featuring pianist/composer Drene Ivy, bassist/educator Aidan Plank, drummer/percussionist Sunceray Tabler, *Friday, 27th April, 8pm, *at Bop Stop @ The Music Settlement, 2920 Detroit Road, Cleveland, 44113. Come enjoy luxurious melodies, songs made famous by Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Amy Winehouse, Melodie Gardot, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Roberta Flack, and more! The Bop Stop is an excellent listening room, serves small plates, has a full bar with proceeds going to the Music Settlement to provide music lessons for children, free parking. -- *(216)-763 1806*

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Tips for Staying Creative
by Irene Honora 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

The late effects of winter got you down? Feeling creatively drained? Ready for spring? You’re not alone! Late winter can feel like a grind, and we find that our creativity and energy is sapped this time of year. Over the years we develop certain activities to help jumpstart our creativity and reawaken our brains. If you’re getting the late winter blues, check out The Movement Project’s blog for some tips to revive your creativity and find your groove. Though these tips are geared towards dancers, any art form can benefit from them! Click on the link below to take a look: http://www.themovementproject.org/blog/2018/3/26/how-to-keep-the-creative-p… -- *Irene Honora* Professional Dancer The Movement Project http://www.themovementproject.org/

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REVIEW: CHICAGO the Musical, at Players Guild Theatre
by Tom Wachunas 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Sizzlin’ Swagger By Tom Wachunas Here’s a curiousprequel to the riotously titillating Players Guild Theatre presentation of Chicago, directed here by Jon Tisevichand, by the way, now sold out for its entire run through April 22. Even as we of the audience are busy findingour seats in the Guild’s downstairs arena space - and before a scripted wordwas spoken, a song sung, or dance danced – ensemble performers are casuallystretching, bending, pacing, and posing inside the effectively stark setdesigned by Joshua Erichsen. (We would later see them again in the samescenario during the intermission.) Some of them look lost in thought. Somewhisper to each other furtively. Others peer out at us with a lascivious grin,or a yearning glance, or a threatening stare. It feels as though they’ve been living therelong before we arrived, caged in a cloudy light behind rows of thick chains hangingdown like prison bars from the ceiling. They seem poised to break out. Andbreak out they do, in a manner of speaking. These marvelously talentedperforming artists, along with the sizzling offstage orchestra conducted bySteve Parsons, go on to topple theatre’s proverbial fourth wall with all theaplomb, polish, and panache you’d see and hear in a Broadway production. This musical ode to1920s Chicago is set against the backdrop of local tabloid headlines screamingscandal and judicial system corruption. It’s a relentlessly biting look atcriminal celebrity wherein we meet Velma Kelly in the iconic introductory song,“All That Jazz.” She’s a vaudevilleshowgirl confined to the women’s block of Cook County jail, awaiting trial for murderingher husband and sister after she found them together in bed. As we hear duringthe gleeful writhing and stomping of “Cell Block Tango,” performed with severalother “merry murderesses”, they had it comin’. Heidi Swinford isdevilishly commanding as Velma. With a strong, dynamic singing voice and dancemoves to match, she gives us a deftly composed portrait of connivingdesperation, driven by a viperous ego colored with gritty sarcasm. Things getdecidedly dicey when another vaudevillian murderer, Roxie Hart, shows up andsteals Velma’s thunder. An equally gifted singer - and electrifyingly lithedancer - Keitha Brown, as Roxie, delivers a compelling picture of giddycomplexity. For all of her fetching naïvete, she’s fiercely determined tobecome a vaudeville star at any cost. It’s a pursuit she brings to light in ariveting confessional soliloquy that accompanies her lusty, slinky chorusnumber, “Roxie (the Name on Everyone’s Lips)”. How can anyone be so decidedlychildish and deliciously malicious at the same time? Fascinating. Speaking ofmalicious, Aaron Brown plays the debonair crooner and defense lawyer, BillyFlynn, with memorable relish. He’s a smooth-talking shark, a money-mad,narcissistic media manipulator. One of the evening’s most hilarious scenestranspires in “We Both Reached For the Gun,” featuring the attorney as aventriloquist puppeteer happily pulling Roxie’s strings. Other highlynoteworthy performances include Kathy Boyd as Matron ‘Mama” Morton. She’s theearthy cell-block supervisor who glibly admonishes her residents, “In thistown, murder is a form of entertainment.” With a big heart and infectiousswagger in her voice, she promises reciprocal loyalty in her song, “When You’reGood to Mama.” Meanwhile, on the outside, Allen Cruz iswholly endearing as Roxie’s gentle, neglected husband, Amos. His innocentdemeanor recalls the fumbling awkwardness of a young James Stewart. Hispoignant and funny song bemoaning his social and marital invisibility, “Mr.Cellophane,” is the evening’s most tender moment. And then there’s Micah Harveyplaying Mary Sunshine, a gushy gossip columnist in drag. Miss Sunshine goesunabashedly overboard in her sympathy for Roxie. Harvey sings “A Little Bit ofGood” with all the gut-splitting earnestness of a dubiously-trained sopranobelting out an aria. It may be very bad opera, but it’s gloriously entertainingnonetheless. Throughout the evening, the choreography by Michael LawrenceAkers is a character unto itself. Akers has successfully melded the jazzyspirit of Bob Fosse with a unique, sensual intricacy that is at times ferocious. While Chicagotreads salaciously along a border between satire and parody, somehow it doesn’tfeel right to think of it as mere farcical escapism or irrelevant fiction.Maybe it’s a piquant metaphor. Real life these days seems more than ever drivenby insatiable social appetites for debauchery and scandal, or for therationalizing of our celebrities’ moral turpitude, or the self-congratulatorypleasure we take in witnessing their demise. Is the audience for such things ascomplicit as the perpetrators? Is Chicago,after all, an indictment of all of us? Yikes. Maybe I’moverthinking. Then again, leave it to the supremely skilled artistry present inthis Players Guild Theatre production to offer something so thought-provokingthat it resonates long after we’ve gone home laughing. For othercommentaries by Tom Wachunas on the performing and visual arts in the greaterCanton area, please visit his blog, ARTWACH.

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BACKSTAGE PASS to ELEPHANT MAN in 2 WEEKS!
by fctheatre 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

French Creek Theatre is pleased to present... BACKSTAGE PASS: THE ELEPHANT MAN Thursday, April 19 7:00PM-8:30PM Witness the behind the scenes action of putting a show on its feet! Participants will sit in on a rehearsal of The Elephant Man, then enjoy a Q&A forum with members of the cast and production team. Light refreshments provided. Pre-register here<https://reservations.metroparks.cc/programs/48907/> or by calling (440) 949-5200 by 4/17 THE ELEPHANT MAN By Bernard Pomerance Directed by Ismael Lara In 1886, a horrifically deformed sideshow attraction named John Merrick is taken in by a young English surgeon named Frederick Treves. As Treves endeavors to civilize him by introducing him to London's elite, Merrick dreams of being like other men. But when manners and propriety leave Merrick dissatisfied, Treves begins to question his own altruistic pursuits. Achingly poignant and poetic, discover our shared humanity with The Elephant Man. PERFORMANCES May 4-20, 2018 Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30PM Sundays at 3:00PM TICKETS Adult: $15 Youth: $10 Call (440) 949-5200, purchase online<http://metroparks.cc/french-creek-theatre-tickets.php> or visit the FCT Box Office, open 10AM-6PM daily. French Creek Theatre<http://metroparks.cc/theatre.php> is located within the French Creek Nature & Arts Center / 4530 Colorado Ave / Sheffield Village / 44054

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Dark Room at CPT Tuesday, April 10th - Open Mic and Free Beer!
by Mindy Herman 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

*The Dark Room at CPT * *Tuesday, April 10th* *This Month: Open Mic! *The Dark Room is a place where writers take center stage and their work has a chance to grow. The Dark Room is an ongoing event held on the second Tuesday of each month. The Dark Room affords emerging and veteran playwrights the space and resources to develop new works. It offers a venue to workshop plays, novels, poems, or any other written work in a supportive, yet critical environment. *Tuesday, April 10th* *The Church at CPT* (Just east of the Gordon Square Theatre Box Office) Cleveland Public Theatre 6415 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102 *FREE Great Lakes Beer!* *7:00pm: *Sign-up begins for writers and actors (space is limited). Writers can bring up to 10 pages of work to be read; actors will be cast on the spot! *Actors* *must arrive by 7:15pm* to be considered. *7:30pm: *Open Mic Session readings begin Suggested donation of $5 is welcomed at the door, but not required. Open session readings are first come, first serve until all slots have been allotted. All submissions should be made to Mindy Herman at herman.mindy(a)gmail.com <https://remote.cptonline.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1f797af3010b4ab1922624e9b2fd9…> or to John Busser at jpbusser(a)gmail.com <https://remote.cptonline.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1f797af3010b4ab1922624e9b2fd9…> See you in the Dark Room! -- Mindy Childress Herman www.mindychildress.com herman.mindy(a)gmail.com

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Cleveland Shakespeare Auditions Start This Weekend!
by keith kornajcik 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Afternoon Auditions: Sunday, April 8 from 1pm – 4pm Evening Auditions: Monday, April 9 from 7pm – 10pm Auditions will be held at: Ensemble Theatre 2843 Washington Blvd. Cleveland Hts. OH 44118 Callbacks will be Wednesday, April 11 at 7pm We are seeking a company of intelligent, energetic and imaginative actors of all races and ethnicities for two productions that will tour a variety of outdoor venues across Cuyahoga and Lake Counties. Twenty years ago, we started with a simple notion – the Bard belongs to the people, and the people deserve to hear his works in the open air as intended and free of charge. This summ er, we are proud to present TROILUS AND CRESSIDA and TWELFTH NIGHT. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA – directed by David Hansen Performance Dates June 15 – July 1 Rehearsals begin May 7 TWELFTH NIGHT – directed by Anne McEvoy Performance Dates July 20 – August 5 Rehearsals begin June 18 No appointment necessary. Artists will be seen in the order of sign in. There are no AEA contracts available. No housing is provided. All actors and production staff are paid a stipend. Actors may participate in either one or both productions. Performances travel to a variety of outdoor venues - actors will be required to help with load-in and strike/load-out. Prepare two contrasting monologues. Total delivery time of both monologues combined should not exceed three minutes. At least one of your two monologues must be from the works of Shakespeare. For consideration, bring TWO COPIES of each - head shot & resume, and please also bring any & all possible known conflicts between the dates of May 7 & July 20 AND Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays through August 5. For more information about CSF, visit our website at www.cleveshakes.org. <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.cleveshakes.org/&h=ATM9FDflnF-sWi…> If you have questions, are interested in volunteering or joining us in any other capacity, please email info(a)cleveshakes.org.

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