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From Sue Johnson. Looking for Peter Fields, Filmmaker
by sue holland johnson 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Hello, Arts Supporters . . . Would like to contact Peter Fields, local filmmaker re: "Wake Up and Live With the Arts." Thanks . . Sue JohnsonDirector, Wake Up And Live's Actors StudioProducer, "Wake Up And Live With the Arts"wakeupandlives(a)gmail.com

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Berko review: TINY HOUSES @ Cleveland Play House
by Roy Berko 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

*•••••••••••••••••••••••••••* *CAPSULE JUDGMENT: “Tiny Houses” is one of those special pieces of modern theater that both delights and causes audiences’ to think. Is tiny better? Is minimalism good for society and individuals? Can we live deliberately? Was Thoreau all wrong, “a nut job,” in his search for authenticity? Whatever, go, see, be delighted, and learn how tiny houses are built!* *To read the entire review go to: **www.royberko.info* <http://www.royberko.info>*. ** To read the capsule judgements of the other Cleveland reviewers go to: **www.clevelandtheaterreviews.com* <http://www.clevelandtheaterreviews.com> *••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••*

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Acting coach
by Lara Mielcarek 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Lara Mielcarek is now accepting acting students. She coaches out of theatres on both the West and East side of Cleveland, providing down-to-earth classes to improve your acting skills or prepare for auditions. She is happy to work with anyone willing to put forth the effort- from the novice to the professional. Come expand your imagination through neutral mask exploration or work toward becoming proficient with Shakespeare's verse. $40/hour or $60 for a pair- bring an actor friend to work with you! Small groups welcome. "I have 14 years of experience performing Shakespeare and a proven track record of success in helping private students get into prestigious programs. I've taught Audition Technique at CSU for years and love to help put together your best package." Lara has been a member of Actors Equity since 2010. MFA-Penn State University/BFA-Kent. Cleveland Critics' Best Actress award 2015, 2017. Email- lara.mielcarek39(a)gmail.com with any questions or to schedule an appointment.

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Yelp Culture Club and Get Hep Swing offer FREE SWING DANCE LESSONS in Brecksville on Tuesday, April 9th
by Valerie Salstrom 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

Very excited about a dream project launching today. Remember when it was cool to get dressed up to experience culture and have a full night-on-the-town? Let's bring that back. Go behind-the-scenes of the Cleveland Opera Theater, learn to swing dance with champion Valerie of Get Hep Swing, fall in love with film at The Nightlight and so much more. All events are free and open to the public. RSVP now https://www.yelp.com/events/cleveland-yelps-culture-club-free-and-open-to-a… What/Why: Welcome to Yelp's Culture Club! Our first ever series dedicated to upping your artsy IQ while meeting some of Northeast Ohio's most interesting arts and culture spots. No art degree needed. Let's stop and appreciate the brilliance in our backyard and open our eyes to local world-class experiences! Beginning in March 2019, Yelpers in Northeast Ohio are invited to sign up for one-of-a-kind experiences to open your eyes to new cultural experiences. Learn to vintage swing dance from a champion dancer, experience indie cinema, go behind-the-scenes at the opera and much more! These events are FREE and open to anyone with a Yelp profile with a real name and clear face photo. We want real people joining us at events! RSVP INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Click on the individual event listings below and RSVP for FREE! You must visit each individual page to RSVP and receive a confirmation e-mail for every event. 2. No plus ones or walk-ups. Each guest must RSVP for themselves unless explicitly noted. Do you need an account? Sign-up for FREE here: yelp.com/signup 3. Check your email settings via Account Settings. If you have opted out of emails, you won't get your confirmation. E-mails go to the address associated with your Yelp account. **The below events and giveaways are private events and collaborations hosted by Yelp. For questions, e-mail cleveland(a)yelp.com, do not contact the business.** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EVENT SCHEDULE: Yelp's Swing Fling (learn to swing dance with a champion dancer) - ACCEPTING RSVPs Get Hep Swing (Lakewood) - (class at Brecksville Center for the Arts) - GROUP 1: Tuesday, April 9 | 7-7:45pm More info and RSVP: https://www.yelp.com/events/brecksville-yelps-culture-club-swing-fling-grou… Yelp's Swing Fling (learn to swing dance with a champion dancer) - ACCEPTING RSVPs Get Hep Swing (Lakewood) - (class at Brecksville Center for the Arts) GROUP 2: Tuesday, April 9 | 8:15-9pm More info and RSVP: https://www.yelp.com/events/brecksville-yelps-culture-club-swing-fling-grou…

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Berko review: THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN @ Karamu
by Roy Berko 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

*•••••••••••••••••••••••••••* *“The Velocity of Autumn” gets an acceptable production. Audiences should leave having both enjoyed themselves and come in contact with the issue of aging and its consequences. * *To read the entire review go to: **www.royberko.info* <http://www.royberko.info>*. ** To read the capsule judgements of the other Cleveland reviewers go to: **www.clevelandtheaterreviews.com* <http://www.clevelandtheaterreviews.com> *••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••*

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Auditions for "MAMMA MIA" at The MAD* Factory
by Amber Michalak 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

Come audition for MAMMA MIA at The MAD* Factory WHERE: THE MAD* FACTORY, 39 S. Main St. Ste. 310, Oberlin WHEN: Sunday, April 7 from 1-4 or Monday April 8 from 6-9 Please choose one day and plan to stay the entire time.Dress comfortably and be ready to move! There is a $50 materials fee to participate if cast. Callbacks will be Sun, April 14 from 6:30-9:30 WHO: Anyone ages 13 and up WHAT TO PREPARE: Please prepare one 32 bar cut. Have music in a binder.An accompanist will be provided. Performances July 19-28 The role of Donna has been cast. All other roles available. Teens 13-18 who are cast in the show will participate in our teen camp the week of June 12-16. This is a fun bonding experience for our teens. The fee is $100. CALL 440-774-7062 with any questions! Posted by Amber Michalak

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DAREN STAHL HEAHSHOTS & PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY
by beezersh＠aol.com 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

Hello NEOHIOPAL friends! I am Daren Stahl. Also known as “Helen Todd’s husband” if you are in the musical theater or opera scene in CLE☺️. If you are looking for new headshots or your first headshot. Or, if you need a production photographer, I have much of my work available for preview in the links below. Spring is HERE!! Why wait to look fabulous for your next audition ?! Bookings in and April AND MAY are available. Peace, blessings, budding flowers, ~Daren Stahl Photography Headshots$75 for a 1/2 hour session and up to 4 digitally retouched photos are yours to keep AS WELL AS print release on the rest of the session. Indoor, outdoor, B&W or color. “Daren, you really did an amazing job on these photos..... breath taking. You have no idea how happy and pleased I am. Thank you so much for capturing my beauty.” ~Lorrainna "This has been a most enjoyable experience" ~ Evelyn “You have perfectly captured his essence -- his warmth and friendliness...... we are so appreciative to have these images as we mark this big milestone” ~ Julie Contact Daren Stahl: beezersh(a)aol.com https://darenstahl.smugmug.com/Events/Production-Portfolio/ Production shots are one of the best ways to promote your theater’s product. Outdoor productions or indoor, I can help you get the word out for your next project . Schedule your company's production shots today! Daren has worked for: Mercury Theatre Company, Great Lakes Theater Actor-Teacher program, Heights Youth Theater, Theatre in the Circle, and more! Production Photography $275 for a full-company dress rehearsal. Full Gallery access, downloads, and prints made available. SMALLER ENSEMBLES PAY LESS!. "Thanks to Daren Stahl photography for the great pictures!" ~ Mercury Theatre Company To view Daren's pricing page and for longer portrait sessions, senior photographs and more, click below. https://darenstahl.smugmug.com/Site-Pages/n-p8xckD/Pricing To learn more about Daren and view his portfolio click below: https://darenstahl.smugmug.com/Events/Production-Portfolio/ Contact Daren Stahl: beezersh(a)aol.com OR you can contact through the Smugmug links. See you soon!Daren Stahl Photography www.darenstahl.smugmug.com

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Hiring Dance Instructors
by Heidi Glynias 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

The Dance Centre in Rocky River is hiring for summer and the 2019-2020 season. Teacher positions will be available for ballet, contemporary and preschool. We will gladly accept applications for other specialties. Prior teaching experience required. Must be organized, professional and passionate about teaching students. Contact Heidi:thedancecentrebyheidi@gmail.com216.252.4444website: www.thedancecentrebyheidi.com

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AUDITIONS for TUCK EVERLASTING directed by FRED STERNFELD
by fctheatre 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

French Creek Theatre<http://metroparks.cc/theatre.php> announces auditions for... TUCK EVERLASTING Book by Claudia Shear & Tim Federle Music by Chris Miller | Lyrics by Nathan Tysen Based on the novel by Natalie Babbitt Director - Fred Sternfeld Choreographer - Jen Justice Music Director - David Williams Set Designer - Derek Green Sound Designer - Stan Kozak Light Designer - Rob Peck Costume Designer - Inda Blatch-Geib Stage Manager - Charlene Hartley Dance Captain - Marlee Roberts Floyd The woods of Treegap, New Hampshire beckon eleven-year-old Winnie Foster to escape her humdrum, small town life. Once within, she discovers a spring with a powerful secret, and a boy with a mysterious past. Pursued by a strange man in yellow, she learns the truth about the connection between the boy's family and the water, and is forced to make a decision with everlasting consequences. PERFORMANCES July 19 - August 4, 2019 Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30PM Sundays at 3:00PM AUDITIONS Saturday, April 6 10:00AM-11:00AM BY APPOINTMENT Email<mailto:fctheatre@metroparks.cc> or call (440) 949-5200 to reserve a 5-minute slot Callbacks by invitation immediately following. Callbacks will consist of a dance audition and singing and reading from the script. *If you are unable to make this date, a video submission is acceptable. To inquire about a video submission, please write to director Fred Sternfeld<mailto:fredsternfeld@gmail.com>* PREPARATION · Present a memorized, one-minute song that is character / objective driven. Songs from the show or other Broadway musicals are acceptable. Please bring sheet music; an accompanist will be provided. · Present a memorized one minute contemporary monologue OR read a selection from the script. Sides will be available at auditions to look over. · Please bring a resume/headshot or a list of experience and picture of yourself. REHEARSALS Beginning June, 2019. Rehearsals will be scheduled based on availability of the cast on weekday evenings and weekend mornings, afternoons or evenings 4 to 5 times per week. There will also be one cast gathering in March or April for a meet and greet and read / sing through. CAST REQUIREMENTS Open roles highlighted. Seeking a multi-racial, multi-ethnic cast. All actors receive a stipend. WINNIE - CAST Calista Zajac JESSE TUCK - CAST Stephen Sandham MILES TUCK - CAST Aidan McKeon MAE TUCK - CAST Amiee Collier PA TUCK - Male, 40's. Once awakened, a vibrant, virile man. He is an indulgent father, a fond if forgetful husband, but a true soul with a deep well of love and profound understanding of the life around him. NANA - CAST Jeanne Task MAN IN YELLOW SUIT - Male, 60's. Creepy and persuasive, a man with an obsession, a secret. HUGO - CAST Josh McElroy BETSY FOSTER - Female, 30's. Winnie's mother. A gentle woman almost broken by grief and fear and loss. Adversity finds her brave and unbending. CONSTABLE JOE - Male, 60's. Seemingly a buffoon, his simple manner belies a sharp wit and kind heart. ENSEMBLE - Any gender, ages 10+. A strong singing and dancing ensemble that also plays other characters including the people working at and participating in the Carnival. CREATIVE STAFF FRED STERNFELD, DIRECTOR Fred is pleased to be returning to French Creek Theatre, where he has directed eight productions over the last ten years: Baby, Steel Magnolias, West Side Story, The Miracle Worker, The Fantasticks, The Glass Menagerie, Next to Normal and Death of a Salesman. Over the past 40 years, he has concentrated his efforts on directing more than 130 productions in Cleveland, Seattle and Dallas. Current local directorial credits include Other Desert Cities at Clague Playhouse, the upcoming Mamma Mia! at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre, You Can't Take It With You at Karamu House Theatre, Of Mice and Men at Coach House Theatre and Good People at Aurora Theatre. Fred is widely represented on Northeast Ohio stages through diverse projects, garnering numerous honors and awards, some of which are listed here: Company, Les Miserables: School Edition and A Little Night Music at Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory, Next to Normal, West Side Story, The Miracle Worker and Baby at TrueNorth, Rent and Into the Woods at Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute, Yellowman and The Bluest Eye at Karamu Theatre, Saturday Night, Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Peter Pan at Beck Center, Ragtime, the musical, Conversations With My Father and Man of La Mancha at the JCC and Fiddler on the Roof and The Sound of Music at Cain Park. Additionally, he and his wife Randi recently started producing shows on Broadway - the off broadway hit (transferring to Broadway in February) Be More Chill, the upcoming revival of The Secret Garden and a new musical written by Jerry Zucker (film: Airplane, Naked Gun, Ghost) currently titled Intermission! The Musical! www.fredsternfeld.com<http://www.fredsternfeld.com>. DAVID A. WILLIAMS, MUSIC DIRECTOR David was born in Cleveland, Ohio into a musical family. His older brother, Wayne, was minister of music at East Mount Zion Baptist Church where the family attended and W.C. Handy was a cousin to their maternal grandmother. David began his professional career as a pianist for "The Gene Carroll/Entertainment Five Show" (WEWS-TV, ABC). In junior high school at the time, he was hired as music director for the last five years of its run. During this time, he sang with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and studied piano and voice at Cleveland State University. David also attended Summer Music Academy in Hudson, Ohio. There, he studied choral conducting with William Appling and Robert Shaw. David then left Cleveland to attend The University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music. While there, he worked on productions of Carousel; Flora, the Red Menace; Chess; Evita; Into the Woods; and Two Gentlemen of Verona. In 1988, he earned his bachelor's degree in Jazz and Studio Music. Upon graduation, he began three years of sailing around the world with Princess Cruises. David would play the main lounge shows, with small combos, or solo piano bar. In 1991, David returned to Cincinnati and in 1993, earned his master's degree in Orchestral Conducting. He then moved to Ft. Lauderdale where he musically directed shows with Jean Ann Ryan Productions for the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet. These productions included George M; Chorus Line; Dreamgirls; Hello, Dolly; Pippin; Meet Me in St. Louis; and My Fair Lady. David left Ft. Lauderdale when he started conducting over six hundred performances of Smokey Joe's Café in Reno, Nevada; Germany; Switzerland; and Brazil. He later returned to Germany for productions of Beauty and the Beast and Grease. In 2007, David joined a company of West Side Story as assistant conductor/principal pianist. The tour included performances in Italy, Holland, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and China. It was the fiftieth anniversary of the show and included the Chinese premiere. A U.S. tour of I Can't Stop Loving You, a Ray Charles tribute, followed. After this, he decided to move back home to be closer to his family. Back in northeast Ohio, David performs with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra at Severance Hall and has conducted productions of Ragtime; A Little Night Music; Les Miserables; 1940's Radio Hour; 13, The Musical; She Loves Me; Jesus Christ Superstar; Sideshow; Man of La Mancha; Five Guys Named Moe; The Boys from Syracuse; and Children of Eden at various theaters. JEN JUSTICE, CHOREOGRAPHER Jen is honored to be a part of this amazing production team of Tuck Everlasting at French Creek Theatre. She has been working in the Cleveland area as both a choreographer and performer for more than 20 years. Her work has appeared at several local venues, including Chagrin Valley Little Theatre, The Cassidy Theatre, Lakeland Civic Theatre, The Fine Arts Association, True North, Pickwick and Frolic, as well as several high school and youth theater productions. Favorite production credits include Chicago, Pippin, American Idiot, The Producers, Spamalot, Shrek, White Christmas, Seussical, Grease, Beauty and The Beast, Hairspray, Jesus Christ Superstar, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Legally Blonde, as well as 7 installments of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. As a performer, Jennifer has appeared in local productions of Chicago (Roxie Hart), A Chorus Line (Cassie), Anything Goes (Reno Sweeney), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Guys and Dolls (Miss Adelaide), The Addams Family (Morticia), The Pajama Game (Gladys Hotchkiss), Steel Magnolias (Truvy), You're A Good Man Charlie Brown (Sally), and most recently Rhetta Cupp in Theatre in The Circle's production of Pump Boys and Dinettes

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Auditions for Film Science Boy's High School Reunion
by Alex deCourville 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Open call for the feature comedy Science Boy's High School Reunion. What: A feature comedy about a geeky superhero (Jason Stone, AKA Science Boy) who goes to his reunion hoping to win over his unrequited love. Content is on the R-rated side and the screenplay was an Honorable Mention in the Kinodrome International Screenplay contest. The comedy was the brainchild of star Alex deCourville, creator of the Amazon Prime series Pinheads and will be a collaboration with Chances Are Productions When: We're planning summer/early fall of this year Where: Filming will take place primarily in NE Ohio - Cleveland/Canton, depending on locations we procure Union/SAG: Nope! Sorry, but with SAG or union, the juice ain't worth the squeeze for me. Compensation: We're going to launch a Seed and Spark soon. Whatever is left after crew/food, etc. will go to actors Roles being auditioned for (All roles are open race): Killjoy - 30's/50's - The main antagonist of the film. Morose, driven by bitterness, ultra-serious (Major role but not a huge commitment - it builds suspense!) Jason's classmates - all late 20's/early 30's and have a few scenes in high school: Scott - Jason's bully, caustic sense of humor, can be charming to people he likes but is also aggressively possessive of Jackie (Major) Ashley - Snarky, goth realist, tries to be nice to Jason but tries to bring him down to Earth (Semi-major) John Mehoff - Blunt, dry humor, obsessed with... badgering the witness... his name kinda says it (Semi-major) Britney - Bubbly cheerleader type, hopelessly in love oblivious Ashley (Supporting) Lois - Narcissistic, obsessed with hair, terse (Supporting) Mr(s). Blackwell - 40's-60's - Supportive teacher, often resorts to placating Jason (Open to men and women) (Supporting) The DeFrancos (All three appear in two big scenes): Maria - Late 20's-Early 40's - The brains of the operation, talks like Shakespearean play including iambic pentameter and audience asides Moose - A monster of a man, gruff/deep voice preferred (Note: The character doesn't have a ton of dialogue so anyone interested will be asked to read for Scott) Eddie - Early 20's-early 30's - the dumb one Actors can audition for more than one part, but in case there's a crowd, prepare top choice(s). Video auditions will accepted until the following Monday. Callbacks will happen as necessary, likely in the same location For any sides in advance, please email adecourv(a)gmail.com Mark your calendars with the Facebook event:https://www.facebook.com/events/1066320876888110/?active_tab=about

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