June 2023 - NEohioPAL - lists.neohiopal.org

Stage Manager needed for Fall production of Jesus Christ Superstar
by Denise Astorino 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

[image: tiny.JPG] Willow's Edge Creations is looking for a* stage manager *to join their production team for their fall production of Jesus Christ Superstar. The show will be held at the Cultural Arts Center of Disciple's Christian Church in Cleveland Heights with rehearsals beginning August 14th and the show opening on September 21st. It will run Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights until October 7th. This is a non-traditional productional with a non-traditional cast in a non-traditional space. :) We are looking for an experienced stage manager who can keep us on track! Everyone involved in the project will be paid a stipend at the end of the run. If you are interested in being considered, please email me at Denise.willowdedgecreations(a)gmail.com. Thank you! Denise Astorino Director / Co-Producer

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RED BARN YOUTH THEATER presents "Beatrix Potter" June 23- June 25, 2023
by Clague Playhouse 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

RED BARN YOUTH THEATER presents... *Beatrix Potter*by Stephanie Kramer *and* *Happy Birthday Beatrix Potter* by Jennifer Reif Directed by Dr. Greg Dziama Friday, June 23 and Saturday, June 24 at 7pm, and Sunday, June 25 at 2pm Our show will open with Stephanie Kramer’s one-woman show, *Beatrix Potter*. As Beatrix, she will tell wonderful stories about her life as an author, artist and conservation activist. Our youth, directed by Dr. Greg Dziama, will present the lively and sweet story, *Happy Birthday Beatrix Potter*, in which many of Beatrix’s favorite animal friends surprise her when they learn she has been forgotten on her birthday. Reserved seat tickets are $12 for 12 and under; $15 for 13 and older and may be purchased by calling the Box Office at 440-331-0403 Wednesday through Saturday from 1-6 p.m. or visiting https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=178952. Clague Playhouse is located at 1371 Clague Road in Westlake. - - - - - - - - - Clague Playhouse, Inc. 1371 Clague Road Westlake, OH 44145 news(a)clagueplayhouse.org 440-331-0403 www.clagueplayhouse.org *Follow us on **Facebook* <https://www.facebook.com/ClaguePlayhouse/>*!*

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COSTUMES FOR SALE
by Linda Bedenk 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

* 4 Great Costumes for Sale* Great for dance solos, Ballroom competition and Theater. Size small. To see photos and very reasonable prices text 440-350-9969.

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Casting Call - Short Film Looking for Teenage Actors
by Liz Conway 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

*Cleveland Indie Film Incubator Casting Call* We are still accepting video auditions for "Periods, Puberty and the Paranormal" *Please email your submissions to incubator(a)clevelandcamerarental.com <incubator(a)clevelandcamerarental.com>* Scripts and sides are linked below with the password: incubator. Scripts & Sides can be found here. <https://www.dropbox.com/sm/password?cont=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fsc…> *"Periods, Puberty and the Paranormal"* Still accepting video submissions!* ‍ *Storyline:* Being a tween girl is confusing and vulnerable. Going through puberty and learning about sex can while simultaneously fighting off sexual advances can be really confusing and scary. I wanted to create a coming-of-age horror comedy that delves into all the discomfort and tension. Valentina is just trying to be the little girl she's always been, but parties, periods, boys, and monsters are all thrusting her into young adulthood. Shoot Dates: August 19th & 20th Available Roles: VALENTINA HERNADEZ (F/12) Valentina is an awkward preteen. Prideful, hot-headed, and individualistic, she’s caught between her childish nature, and the irresistible urge to fit in as a teen. She has grown distant from her lifelong “BFF” Suzie and is unsure whether to hang tight or let go. Uncomfortable in her own skin and beginning to feel like an outsider everywhere, she struggles to figure out who she is and where she fits in the most confusing stage of life. SUZIE JACKENFIRE (F/13) Suzie projects self-confident extroversion believing she is winning the whole puberty game. She and Valentina have been friends as long as they can remember, but Suzie’s newfound affinity for makeup and boys drives her into new social circles. Under the glam surface beats the heart of a loyal friend and future marine biologist obsessed with anything to do with the ocean. Since she enjoys her new self-assured persona, she stands at a crossroads between pressures to either maintain the deep friendships and interests that have formed her or leave them behind to enjoy the privileges of hanging with the cool kids. ‍ ALEX (M/14) He’s a charming and popular jock who flirts with younger girls because their inexperience is easier to manipulate. A “nice guy” who uses acts of friendship and basic social etiquette with the ulterior aim of progressing to a romantic or sexual relationship.‍ HARVEY HANLEY (M/14) Harvey Hanley is captain of the swim team and the most popular boy in 7th grade, but he can’t help but feel like his friends only like him for his cool basement and his parent's lack of supervision. He’s confused why girls he’s known since kindergarten now get all giggly and weird around him. * If you are interested in any of these roles, please email your video submissions to incubator(a)clevelandcamerarental.com <incubator(a)clevelandcamerarental.com>*

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Review of Rent @ Cain Park
by Laura Kennelly 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

--Through 6/26 Cain Park kicked off the summer season with *Rent, *Jonathan Larson’s now classic (and Pulitzer-Prize-winning) musical about creative artists trying to survive in New York City. Today, the storyline is less startling than it was in 1996 (we’ve moved on from AIDS to Covid to whatever), but the heart and the feels are still there. We see, once again (as Puccini made clear in *La Bohème*, the opera *Rent* is modeled after*)*, being a starving artist isn’t fun. Despite its focus on tragedy, the Cain Park version of *Rent* offered tremendous opportunity for emotional solos, rebellious anthems, and general celebration of youth, diversity, and spunk. The talented 17-member cast, under the guidance of guest director Nathan Henry, told the story with spirit. full review at Cool Cleveland https://coolcleveland.com/2023/06/theater-review-rent-cain-park-by-laura-ke…

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Walking to Buchenwald continues this weekend, when Playwright Tom Jacobson joins the audience
by Cory Molner 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Walking to Buchenwald by Tom Jacobson at convergence-continuumThrough June 24th A soon-to-be-married couple, Schiller and Arjay, take Schiller's parents on their first trip to Europe. Using his personal experience as a jumping off point, playwright Tom Jacobson takes the audience on an ominously comic journey during which guinea pigs play cricket, dead bodies talk, and the two couples learn what it means to be American in a world that no longer admires the U.S. "Walking to Buchenwald generates plenty of laughs from its sitcom-certified collection of stock jokes about ugly-American tourism and always hilarious geezers..." Christine Howey, Cleveland Scene "The five person cast did themselves proud, getting numerous laughs..." Roy Berko "Quirky, pointed, multi-layered humor with much darkness bubbling beneath." Robert Hawkes “A story told with humor, subtlety, and emotional impact featuring characters you and I can recognize and identify with in a world gone increasingly mad, WALKING TO BUCHENWALD makes for yet another Tom Jacobson winner.” —Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA “Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In life, death, and in playwright Tom Jacobson’s world view, these familiar five stages to acceptance are missing the one that is most important for survival: Laughing. Life is funny. People are funny. If God exists, He, She, They, or It must have a sense of humor—however twisted and brutal. The ‘shattering comedy’’ Jacobson promises in the press notes for Walking to Buchenwald sneaks up on you … We know Jacobson has a deeper story simmering … The fractured core of the show’s universe reveals itself gradually. Naturalistic scenes and behaviors take on increasingly surrealistic elements. We start to wonder what exactly is going on. Is this the end of the world? Figuratively, the answer is yes. Literally? We’re not sure. But all bets are off. And yet … somehow, in a final, quiet, awful, loving gesture of human generosity, Jacobson gives us hope — and a lot to think about. BUCHENWALD is about identity. It takes a wide, nonjudgmental look at what it means to be a parent, a spouse, a child; what it feels like to be in a relationship with a partner who is your temperamental opposite; to be a liberal in a Red State; an American in a Trump-like western world; someone dying in a world obsessed with hollow positivity; and what it means to be a European shackled to an America teeming with reemerging nativism. Jacobson doesn’t seek to determine who is to blame for anything. None of us is to blame. All of us are to blame. Blame God. Whatever. This is our world. The way we live now, and the way we die. BUCHENWALD lingers long after the final curtain, its puzzles working their way into your dreams.” —Samuel Garza Bernstein, Stage and Cinema Walking to Buchenwald features Emery Cohen, Nanna Ingvarsson, John Peters, John J Polk and Carolyn Todd. Directed by Brian Westerley Approximate runtime of 90 minutes with intermission. Join us Saturday, June 17th when the Playwright, Tom Jacobson is in attendance! Cory MolnerExecutive Artistic Director, convergence-continuum Theater(He/Him/His)

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Shining Star CLE - 2 Weeks Left to audition!!
by Kate Martin 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Shining Star CLE 2023 AUDITION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2023 11:59 PM Don't miss YOUR opportunity to audition for the 7th Annual Menorah Park Foundation Shining Star CLE 2023<https://www.menorahpark.org/donate/shining-star-cle/overview>. Please submit an audition video<https://shiningstarcle.submittable.com/submit> today. The Menorah Park Foundation Shining Star CLE is a competition awarding more than $18,000 in college scholarships, and students have an opportunity to sing on stage at the prestigious Mimi Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square. THE AUDITIONS -Upload an audition video on our secure website<https://shiningstarcle.submittable.com/submit>. * All auditions must be submitted by 11:59 PM on Friday, June 30, 2023 * Students with 2024-2027 graduation dates from Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, Stark, Summit and Wayne counties are eligible! * All genres of music are welcome. There is no fee to enter. THE FINALS PERFORMANCE: Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023 | 7 PM | Mimi Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square THE SCHOLARSHIPS * 1st Place Winner - $10,000 college scholarship plus an opportunity to perform with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra * 2nd Place Winner - $5,000 college scholarship * 3rd Place Winner - $2,500 college scholarship * 4th Place Winner - $1,000 college scholarship * Bonus: $2,500 to the high school music department of the 1st place winner THE CAUSE Music and memories share a special connection and Shining Star CLE is a benefit to provide an array of memory care services and programs. Best Regards, Connor O'Brien Jane Furth Artistic Director, Shining Star CLE Director, Annual Campaign & Outreach shiningstarcle.director(a)gmail.com<mailto:shiningstarcle.director@gmail.com> jfurth(a)menorahpark.org<mailto:jfurth@menorahpark.org> Kate Martin, Special Events and Campaign Coordinator Menorah Park Phone 216-839-6635 (e) kmartin(a)menorahpark.org MenorahPark.org<http://www.menorahpark.org/> 27100 Cedar Road, Beachwood, Ohio 44122 [https://www.menorahpark.org/files/photosets/donate.jpg?1490724717]<http://www.menorahpark.org/donate> [https://www.menorahpark.org/files/photosets/emailphoto2.jpg] This email and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential and proprietary information. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this email, please notify the author by replying to this email, and then delete the email. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, or print this email.

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Fiddle Merit Scholarships at TMS
by Paul Kirk 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

The Music Settlement will be conducting Community Scholarship Auditions on July 31, 2023. The awards can be for the 2023-2024 school year. This is an excellent opportunity to study old-time fiddle with Paul Kirk at The Music Settlement. "*Paul Kirk has been playing bowed string instruments since 1980 and has been teaching them privately in classroom settings and workshop formats since 1988. He studied music theory, composition, music education, music history, and musicology at Cleveland State University. While at CSU, Paul played violas da gamba, krummhorns, and recorders in early music ensembles. He was a founding member of Good Company: A Vocal Ensemble and has founded many of his own bands over the years including A Hundred Thousand Welcomes Celtic Ensemble, Knives and Forks English Country Dance Ensemble, and Down the Road Old-Time String Band. He has composed over 500 folk tunes in a variety of styles.* *Paul has closely studied the music of Appalachia, the history of American old-time fiddling, source fiddlers, as well as the social aspects of the music. Since July 1, 2018, he has been creating and sharing videos each Sunday through his Old-Time Tune of the Week series <https://youtu.be/4c2utaMLn4E> on YouTube. Paul puts a great focus on fiddle bowing patterns and techniques and has devised practical methods for teaching with excellent results. One of his specialties is teaching old-time fiddle to crossover students, especially those coming from a background in classical violin and other musical traditions.* *In 2022, Paul was designated as a master old-time fiddler and received a Traditional Arts grant from the Ohio Arts Council to work with an apprentice of his choice.* *Paul taught viola, choir, music history, and assisted with drama and art for ten consecutive summers at orchestra and fine arts camps for The Music Settlement when it was known as the Cleveland Music School Settlement*." For audition information see: https://www.themusicsettlement.org/events/2023/07/31/community-scholarship-…

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IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR PIANIST
by Diana Tyler 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

North Eaton Christian Church is seeking a pianist to help us sustain and grow our worship life. We are accustomed to excellence in music ministry, and we'll continue to reach for excellence as we receive candidates for the role of Pianist. Skills needed: . Excellent pianist and accompanist . Capable of leading the congregation's hymn-singing from the keyboard . Confident sight-reader . Collaborative leader, working with church staff and volunteers . Clear communicator Responsibilities: 1. Perform music (hymns, incidental music, accompaniment of soloists and ensembles) during Sunday worship services on the piano and/or another keyboard. Singing is not required, but a strong sense of musical leadership is critical. 2. On occasion, rehearse for special services or solo/ensemble accompaniment, including weekday evenings or Sunday mornings prior to or following worship service. 3. Provide music at church weddings and funeral/memorial services when available. The Pianist has the right of first refusal on all weddings and funeral/memorial services held at the church (and shall receive any honorarium provided). 4. Be available for special services during the course of the year, such as Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Blue Christmas, Christmas Eve, Community Services. Some of these are evening events. 5. Coordinate with the Pastor regularly in planning, preparing, and playing appropriately for the liturgical season or day. 6. Advise the office on the condition of instruments, as needed. Schedule: Weekly worship services are presently at 9 a.m. Rehearsal times will need to be appropriately scheduled and reported weekly. Compensation: The position will be a maximum of 8 hours/week. Wages are competitive for this position at $20/hour. Send cover letter and resume to: Pianist Search Committee North Eaton Christian Church 35895 Royalton Road Grafton, OH 44044 Or materials may be emailed to neccpastor(a)gmail.com (Posting on behalf of NECC: Diana Tyler)

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"Meet Me At The New Musical" Podcast episodes now available
by Terry Bojanowski 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

If you enjoy musical theatre, if you work with a professional, educational or community theatre producing musicals, if you've written a musical or are thinking about writing a musical, Meet Me At The New Musical Podcast, sponsored by TND Musicals (LicensingMusicals.com) will give you insight into the process of creating musicals and the people who make them happen all over the country. If you have a story to tell, we'd like to consider it for a future podcast. Contact tnd(a)LicenSINGMUSICALS.com Podcasts now available: *S1 E1* - *Celebrate National Sherlock Holmes Day* (May 22) with a new Sherlock Holmes musical mystery <https://open.spotify.com/show/2nSOjVovYHi4ZAr6b0tjYP> *S1 E2 - **Host Teresa Lyncheski interviews Cheryl Best*, New Jersey Educator, Director and Choreographer about her career and an exciting new theatre company, Stagecoach Productions, presenting at the Millstone Performing Arts Center in Millstone, NJ. <https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/45IQunUxBAb> -- *Mrs. Terry Bojanowski* Managing Director, TND Musicals, LLC Website: <http://goog_1062029550>https://www.LicenSingMusicals.com <https://www.licensingmusicals.com> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TNDMusicals E-mail: TND(a)LicenSINGMusicals.com 11300 Bean Rd. Chardon, OH 44024 440-299-7822

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