February 2019 - NEohioPAL - lists.neohiopal.org

announcing the SENSATIONAL CAST for Tuck Everlasting at French Creek Theatre. There are still open roles.
by Fred Sternfeld 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

*I am pleased to announce the TUCK EVERLASTING cast (thus far) at French Creek Theatre <https://www.facebook.com/FrenchCreekTheatre/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARBPSdGYgmdon1w…>. There are great roles still available!* *MORE AUDITIONS will be held in late March for the open roles. Those auditions will be announced in the near future. In the meantime, those who are interested can email director Fred Sternfeld at fsternfeld(a)gmail.com <fsternfeld(a)gmail.com> - please include picture and resume, if available.* *Check out this link <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Am2GJSc9las34KhPDCJg-KUWxR5remB6cxOVJLh…> to see who is in the cast thus far and what roles are still open.* -- Fred Sternfeld http://www.fredsternfeld.com 216-496-6087

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*Auditions* March 11 & 12 - "The Ladies Foursome" by Norm Foster (4w, 30-45)
by Chagrin Valley Little Theatre 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

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Become a more versatile performer and expand your creativity - Improv Comedy Class In March
by Michael Busch 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

LONGFORM IMPROV COMEDY CLASS Become a more versatile performer and expand your creativity - Level 1 Improv Class beginning March 9th is now open! The skills you'll learn in this class will make you more confident in auditions, performances, and every day interactions. Whether you have some improv experience and want to expand your skillset, become a more well-rounded actor, or just have some fun and stretch your creative muscles, this class is for you. Each week we'll focus on a different fundamental through exercises and scene work. Classes are Saturdays 12-2pm at Mahall's in Lakewood. For more information and to sign up, please visit https://www.themichaelbusch.com/improv-1-fun-fundamentals or email michaelbuschclasses at gmail with any questions. Michael Busch has studied and performed improv at IOWest and UCB in Los Angeles. He's appeared in TV shows such as Conan, Pretty Little Liars, and Glee, as well as dozens of national commercials. -- For class information please visit: https://www.themichaelbusch.com/classes

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Looking for a lawyer regarding tenant issue
by Evie Morris 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Good morning, A few years ago, I was helped by a NEOPAL member/lawyer regarding a rental property issue for one of my daughters. I cannot remember his name, but I know he was an actor on this list. If that is you, please contact me again. Much thanks, Evie Morris

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AUDITIONS! Paid jobs available - Murder Mysteries
by pommyryan2016＠gmail.com 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Linda Ryan Productions will be holding open auditions this coming Saturday afternoon, with a view to finding actors to appear in upcoming Mysteries by Moushey entertainments. There are several mysteries lined up and we are looking for interested, talented actors. If cast, all actors will be paid $100 for each mystery. We have only five or six rehearsals for each mystery (all held in West Akron). SATURDAY, February 23, 2019 from 4pm to 6pm at PANERA Fairlawn (2855 West Market Street, Fairlawn - in the Target Plaza). Any questions email Linda at pommyryan2016(a)gmail.com <mailto:pommyryan2016@gmail.com> or call her at 330-801-0610.

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Musical theatre jazz class at Verb ballet
by Jailyn Harris 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Musical theatre jazz class. Saturday’s at verb ballet from 1:30-2:30. Formerly taught by David Alvarez from Broadway’s billy Elliot. Drop in classes are $16 for non shaker residents/14 for shaker residents. Class is being subbed by Jailyn Sherell Harris. Credits include Pippin, Freaky Friday, sister act, and suds at American Repertory Theatre Sent from my iPhone

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MEDEA @ Baldwin Wallace University
by sara＠sarawhale.com 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

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Meridian Dance Concert
by Meredith Bruch 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

*CWRU Meridian* This spring, the Department of Dance at Case Western Reserve University will continue its 2018-2019 season with Meridian, a thesis concert featuring dance works by MFA candidate Yizhen Hu, with additional works by guest artists and CWRU alumni Karlie Budge and Yidi Lin. Performances are March 28, 29, 30 at 8 p.m. and March 31 at 2:30 p.m. at Mather Dance Center on the Case Western Reserve University campus. Yearning, a solo work choreographed by Hu, explores the experience of people who are trapped by cultural and social restrictions, and find themselves enduring intense external pressure. As they find ways to overcome these forces in order to exert their own viewpoint, the result is finding their own paths and making their own choices. A duet for two men, Synergism, explores two males who both struggle in executing certain movements. Once they come to realize that one person can facilitate another to achieve the movements that the other cannot do, they cooperate and assist each other. Hu’s Amalgamation is an abstract group piece featuring an ensemble of undergraduate and graduate students. With music by Rob Power, the work displays the process of creating a movement idea, developing it, and then reducing it back to the original. Returning to the Mather Dance Center stage is Inevitable, which explores the emotional experiences of death and loss. Hu’s choreography investigates the struggles of grief and the frustrations of helplessness, along with the realization of the unavoidable mortality of human life. Between Us, choreographed by alumni Karlie Budge and Yidi Lin, is a duet in five sections - Sneaking, Frisking, Fleeting, Floating, Seething - portraying the forming and falling out of a relationship. Budge graduated in 2016 earning her BA in dance and Lin graduated in 2016 earning her MFA in dance. The work will be performed by Yizhen Hu and Katie Nabors. Meridian runs March 28, 29, 30 at 8 p.m. and March 31 at 2:30 p.m. All performances take place at Mather Dance Center, 11201 Bellflower Road, on the Case Western Reserve University campus. Tickets are $7 for students with ID, $10 for adults 60+ and CWRU personnel, and $15 for general admission. Reservations are recommended, and may be made by calling (216) 368-5246, or online at dance.case.edu/reservations.

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REVIEW: NEXT TO NORMAL at Players Guild Theatre
by Tom Wachunas 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Rising From the Wreckage By Tom Wachunas “…Who's crazy? Theone who's uncured, or maybe the one who's endured; the one who has treatmentsor the one who just lives with the pain …” - lyrics by Brian Yorkey Could any of usever experience hope without first floundering in despair? Or savor lightwithout first tasting darkness? These vexing questions and their complexrepercussions resonate throughout Next toNormal, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical from 2010, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, and music by Tom Kitt. Inaddressing them, this deeply engaging story about the damaging effects of amother’s mental illness on her whole family goes far beyond any gentle tuggingat your heartstrings. It relentlessly yanks and twists them into torturousknots. For this PlayersGuild production, Jonathan Tisevich set a very high bar for himself in hisdouble-duty as director and actor. But he and his marvelously adroit castmembers have successfully joined to become a dynamic entity. Together, they’rean astonishing family unit in their own right, telling their anguished talewith practically operatic force driven by a profound and riveting emotionalintensity. They elevate Yorkey’s lyrics – which on paper might at times seemlike so much cosmetic sentimentality – to a level of startling sincerity. Inthe process, this courageous ensemble becomes empathy itself. The tiered setdesigned by Joshua Erichsen, with its pixelated images of a house and faces onpanels floating in the air, is a stark metaphor for the fractured anddysfunctional life that has crippled the Goodman family for 16 years. Theever-shifting moods and textures of that life are sharply reflected in themusic, which is an edgy pastiche of idioms flavored with rock, countrified melancholy,and dreamy lyricism, and all superbly articulated by the small yetplush-sounding live orchestra conducted by Steve Parsons. Diana Goodman is a housewife diagnosed withsevere bipolar disorder, and hopelessly imprisoned in a futile cycle of painmanagement protocols including an arsenal of drugs, psychoanalysis, and evenelectro-convulsion treatments. The merciless progression of her disease ispresented in such a way that we don’t learn about the shattering event thatfirst triggered it until after we’ve witnessed a number of scenes with herhusband Dan (Jonathan Tisevich); daughter Natalie (Hallie Walker) and herboyfriend Henry (Devin Pfeiffer); son Gabe (Dominic Iudiciani); and DoctorsMadden and Fine (Michael Burke). In the dauntingcentral role of Diana, Keitha Brown is an uncanny embodiment of unmitigateddramatic power in the way she makes us vicarious participants in herbrokenness. With exceptionally powerful singing, she draws us deep into hercharacter’s ravaged psyche, her wounded heart, her ferocious groping for areality that makes some sense. Yet, caught as she is in her numbing inwardspiral of tears and terror, she’s not so far gone that she can’t see or dreamof a reasonable way to reclaim her real self, as she reflects with tender andurgent yearning in the song, “I Miss the Mountains.” To her role ofdaughter Natalie, Hallie Walker brings a poignant credibility that’s equalparts sardonic and sad. There’s an understandably bittersweet yet visceral qualityto her singing when she reveals Natalie’s feelings of invisibility, as if herlife at home has been erased. Her heart has been hardened by too many years ofneglect from her mother who has been in turn pathologically focused on herother child, Gabe. In that role, Dominic Iudiciani is intriguingly stealthy andlithe as he basks in his mother’s constant fawning, particularly when he sings“I’m Alive” with all the panache of a rock’n’roll star. Meanwhie, Nataliebegins to find some solace in her slow-growing affection for her charismaticstoner classmate, Henry. Devin Pfeiffer conveys all of Henry’s amiablequirkiness with delightful aplomb. And then there areDiana’s two therapists. Both are played by Michael Burke, who deftly conveystheir frustrating if not humorous cluelessness in identifying the precisenature of the affliction they’re trying to treat. Jonathan Tisevich can be both breathtaking anddownright excruciating to watch in his role of Diana’s beleaguered husband,Dan. In the face of Diana’s terrible pain, he’s an eminently loyal mantrying to be an anchor, a present haven of comfort and “normalcy” – whateverthat means anymore. It’s a sublime depth of passion and searing expressivitythat Tisevich brings to this production. As the husband and wife in this storyappear to be inexorably fading away from each other, Dan’s desperate graspingat even the faintest glimmer of hope for recovery grows all the more. That’sthe point of the show’s thunderous, ebullient closing number, simply called “Light”– the stuff that untangles our knotted heartstrings. And what I most wantto know is, where on earth, if on earth at all, did Tisevich go to get thatsinging voice of his? I’d like to visit there for a while, then come back andsing to you all about it. NEXT TO NORMAL, atCanton’s Players Guild Theatre on the William G. Fry stage, 1001 Market AvenueN., Canton, through March 3rd/ performances on Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:00 PM, Sundays @ 2:00 PM, as wellas Thursday, February 28th at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $32.00 for adults, $29.00 for seniors and $25.00 for those17 and younger / purchase online at www.playersguildtheatre.com or at the Players Guild Box Office,located in the Great Court of the Cultural Center for the Arts, 1001 Market AveN. Tickets may also be purchased by phone: 330-453-7617. For other commentaries by Tom Wachunas on the performing andvisual arts in the greater Canton area, please visit his blog, ARTWACH, at www.artwach.blogspot.com

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AUDITION for one Male actor for THE PRIDE at convergence-continuum
by Cory Molner 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Open auditions will be held on Saturday, February 23rd from 10:30 am - 1 pm for the role of Oliver in The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell at Convergence-continuum, directed by Jonathan Wilhelm. All other roles have been cast. Looking for male actors late 20's - early 40's. Oliver is a leading role comprising two characters with the same name. Both characters are British. 1958 Oliver is a closeted gay man having a secret affair with a friend's husband. 2008 Oliver is an out gay man who has fidelity issues. Strong and sexual language, one scene of sexual violence. Actors will be asked to read from the script. No prepared monologues necessary. Rehearsals begin immediately and the production runs Thurs-Saturday March 29th - April 20th. All actors receive a stipend for their roles. Auditions will be held at Convergence-continuum: 2438 Scranton Rd. Cleveland, OH 44113 in the main space. | | | | | | | | | | | Convergence-continuum Convergence-continuum, Cleveland, OH. 1.1K likes. Cleveland's up-close cutting-edge theatre, located in the hist... | | | Cory MolnerExecutive Director, convergence-continuum Theater

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