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DEADLINE APPROACHING Playmakers Youth Leadership Development Program
by Rachel Zake via NEohioPAL 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

Hello Everyone!! The deadline for Playmakers Youth Theatre Leadership Development Program is quickly approaching: Monday August 21, 2017. This program for teens entering grades 10-12 this fall will allow participants to learn and develop further leadership skills through a theatre lens. This is an awesome college resume booster and will help in any future job/path. The program is in conjuction with our Assistant Director program during the year. It is free and open to the public; you do not need to have a Jewish affiliation nor do you need to be a member of the Mandel JCC. Please take a look at the link and feel free to call or email with any questions you may have. This is a competitive program and we are only accepting 10 people/year. Link to more information and application:Playmakers Youth Theatre - Get Involved | | | | | | | | | | | Playmakers Youth Theatre - Get Involved Cleveland's Mandel JCC offers a new state-of-the-art fitness center and Beachwood gym with swimming, prescho... | | | | Thank you,Rachel Zake Director, Playmakers Youth TheatreDirector, Francine and Benson Pilloff Family Performing Arts Camp216-831-0700 x1494

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Additional Casting for Beauty and the Beast
by Will C Crosby via NEohioPAL 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Additional Casting for Beauty and the Beast Direction by Will C. Crosby Musical Direction by David W. Coxe Choreography and Assistant Direction by Kaylea Kudlaty PERFORMANCE DATES: November 17th, 18th, 24th, 25th, 26th December 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 9th, 10th ROLE AVAILABLE Madame De La Grande Bouche A former opera diva-turned-enchanted wardrobe. She has a caring, refined, larger than life personality. Gender: Female Age: 30 to 55 Vocal range: C#4-D5 IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE EMAIL WILLCODYCROSBY(a)GMAIL.COM Rehearsals: Regular Rehearsals will start October 7th. Rehearsals will be held based on actor availability. 4-5 days a week expected. Sunday-Thursday 7-10, Saturdays and Sundays 1-5. Rehearsal Schedule will be posted by August 20th. No conflicts will be accepted for any performance dates or during tech week. CVLT does not offer union contracts or cast understudies and all performers are volunteers. Show Information: Step into the enchanted world of Broadway's modern classic, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, an international sensation that has played to over 35 million people worldwide in 13 countries. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature, the stage version includes all of the wonderful songs written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, along with new songs by Mr. Menken and Tim Rice. The original Broadway production ran for over thirteen years and was nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity. This "tale as old as time" is filled with spectacular costume and set opportunities or, even more simply staged, Disney's Beauty and the Beast offers a great opportunity to bring your entire community together for family theatre at its best. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE EMAIL WILLCODYCROSBY(a)GMAIL.COM

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AUDITIONS for Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged] at Strongsville Community Theatre
by Christopher Bizub via NEohioPAL 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

AUDITIONS The Complete Works of William Shakespeare {Abridged} (Revised) By Adam Long, Daniel Singer, & Jess Winfield Directed by Chris Bizub PERFORMING: October 20th-October 29th 2017 Fri & Sat @ 8pm and Sun @ 2pm (Performances will take place at Strongsville High School (the little theater) 20025 Lunn Rd. Strongsville, OH 44149.) AUDITION DATES: Mon, Aug. 21st, 2017, 7pm - 9pm Tues, Aug. 22nd, 2017, 7pm - 9pm *Auditions are open - no reservation required* PREPARATION: Auditions will consist of readings from the script & some improvisational activities. *A short prepared Shakespearean monologue is appreciated, but is not required. WHAT TO BRING: A headshot and resume A list of your Sept-Oct 2017 conflicts CALLBACKS: Weds, Aug 23rd, 2017 7-9pm, if needed. (invitation only) AUDITION LOCATION: Strongsville Senior Center 18100 Royalton Road Strongsville, OH 44149 (behind the Target) info(a)StrongsvilleCommunityTheatre.com REHEARSALS Mon–Thurs, September 25 - October 20, 2016 (there may be a few preliminary rehearsals prior to Sept 25, but not many) AVAILABLE ROLES: 3 Actors or Actresses – Each performer can be any age or gender, must have improvisational skills, strong comedic timing, and be somewhat familiar with Shakespearean language/style. SYNOPSIS: All 37 Plays in 97 Minutes! An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was London’s longest-running comedy having clocked a very palpable nine years in London’s West End at the Criterion Theatre! Join these madcap men in tights as they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter. Warning! This show is a high-speed roller-coaster type condensation of all of Shakespeare’s plays, and is not recommended for people with heart ailments, bladder problems, inner-ear disorders, outer-ear disorders, Shakespearean scholars, degrees in Elizabethan history and/or people inclined to motion sickness. The RSC cannot be held responsible for expectant mothers! If you have any questions or cannot attend auditions, but would still like to set up a time to audition, please feel free to contact the director at cmb164(a)zips.uakron.edu for more information.

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Filmmaking Classes For Kids and Teens!
by Lakewood Young Filmmakers Academy via NEohioPAL 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Unleash your child's inner Spielberg! Are your kids looking for something fun and unique to do after school? Do they have an interest in filmmaking? We are pleased to announce that enrollment is now open for fall classes at Lakewood Young Filmmakers Academy! The classes being offered this fall are: - Film Appreciation - Intro to Film Production - Intro to Screenwriting - Intro to Editing - and Live From Lakewood: Intro to Sketch Comedy Classes, which begin September 11, are taught by award winning industry professionals, are held once a week for four weeks M-TH You can read full class descriptions and enroll at www.lakewoodyfa.com Use the coupon code FIRST CLASS to receive $20 off your first enrollment!

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Applications for Paid Artist Fellowship
by Lisa Yanofsky via NEohioPAL 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

*Now Accepting Applications for the 2017-2018 * *Jewish Arts & Culture Lab* *Applications are due August 21, 2017 by 5pm.* *Applicants will be notified by the middle of September, 2017* *TO APPLY: http://www.mandeljcc.org/JACLapplication <http://www.mandeljcc.org/JACLapplication>* *WHO SHOULD APPLY?* We are now accepting applications from any Northeast Ohio based artist, creative, thinker, tinkerer, maker, crafter, writer, and more for the annual Jewish Arts & Culture Lab! Artists working in any discipline or medium are encouraged to apply. There is no requirement that previous work have a Jewish theme or content or that the applicant have a formal Jewish education or institutional affiliation. Rather we are looking for individuals with an artistic identity and a Jewish identity. *FELLOWSHIP DETAILS* Together, the group of artists will explore the theme *Remembering & Forgetting*. They will create specific new works around the theme, culminating in a group show open to the public. Artists will receive $750 stipend, mentor support, group feedback, and other educational and artistic support. While each Fellow will create their own piece(s), peer review and the ability to learn from each other is a core part of this experience. The Fellowship will culminate in an exhibition of the completed work of all ten Fellows, along with community wide programming. *DATES* The Fellowship will meet on Thursday evenings on the following dates: September 28, October 19, October 26, November 2, November 9, November 16, November 30, December 7, January 11, January 25, February 1, February 8, February 22, March 1, March 15, May 1, June 7. Please review these dates in your calendar to ensure you can attend most. *Please contact jacl(a)mandeljcc.org <jacl(a)mandeljcc.org> with any questions* -- *LISA JANE YANOFSKY* *artist | educator* *www.lisayanofsky.com <http://www.lisayanofsky.com>*

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Study acting with Tony Award talent at Cleveland Play House: Classes for EVERYONE
by Ryan Lucas via NEohioPAL 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

CPH THEATRE ACADEMY Education Classes for All Ages and Levels Cleveland Play House Theatre Academy launches in just a few weeks, with classes for working adults, theatre professionals, preschool children with big imaginations, and everyone in between! It's the perfect choice for anyone looking to introduce their children to the theatre, enhance their communication and presentation skills, hone their craft as a professional actor, or just have a great time engaging with their artistic side. TO SIGN UP FOR CLASSES OR FOR MORE INFO, FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW: https://goo.gl/269sL5 For more than eight decades, CPH has offered educational programming as varied as the stories on our stages. Alumni include Academy Award(r)-winner Paul Newman, Academy Award- and Tony Award(r)-winner Joel Grey, and Toy Story 3 Director Lee Unkrich, among many other successful film and theatre talents. Faculty from Tony Award recipient Cleveland Play House will excite creative potential, fortify aptitude, and nurture the passion necessary for artistic excellence. THERE'S NEVER A BAD TIME TO GET ON STAGE! Below is further information on our class designed for preschool learners. Multiple sessions are available to accommodate your schedule. Songs, Stories, and Me Age: 3-4 Runs: Sept 5 - December 13 | 45 minute class blocks | Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday sessions Tuition: $200 Through storytelling, movement, and song; young performers will explore various emotions and engage in head to toe learning in this gentle introduction to acting. Students and their families will participate in an in-class share at the end of the session. VISIT US AT: https://goo.gl/269sL5 TO SEE THE ENTIRE COURSE CATALOG All courses will take place at the CPH Administrative Offices, located in Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland

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Review of "Equus" at Blank Canvas
by Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Blank Canvas’ ‘Equus’ reins in pyrotechnics to reveal raw emotion Bob Abelman Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal Member, International Association of Theatre Critics Peter Shaffer’s 1975 Tony Award-winning “Equus” focuses on a single, inexplicable and horrific crime: the blinding of six horses with a metal spike by a 17-year-old boy. The play largely unfolds through a series of lengthy confessional monologues by psychiatrist Dr. Martin Dysart (Russell Kunz) and – through flashbacks, dream sequences or under hypnosis – by the boy, Alan Strang (Antonio DeJesus), his distraught and devoutly religious mother (Claudia Esposito), and his strict and socialist father (Andrew Narten). Throughout the play, Dysart is attempting to discover the deeply rooted reason for this violent act, find the cause of the boy’s psychosexual fixation on horses, and rid him of his emotional and mental anguish. While doing so, he reveals his own personal and professional crises. He lives in a loveless marriage. He is unable to experience the same passion expressed by his young patient. And he fears that by stripping Alan Strang of his fantasies and immense pain, his cure will be removing the very things that make the boy human. Blank Canvas’ production of “Equus” is a good one. Should a more effective and engaged Dysart show up in subsequent performances, this will be a great one. For more of this article, go to www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/.

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Cleveland City Dance Scholarship Program for Young Men
by Cleveland City Dance via NEohioPAL 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Cleveland City Dance will be offering its first scholarship designed for young men ages 10-18 who have a desire to learn ballet and other styles of dance. Interested students should review the attached document and submit all application materials by August 31, 2017. Cleveland City Dance, Home to City Ballet of Cleveland 13108 Shaker Square Cleveland, OH 44120 www.clevelandcitydance.com / 216-295-2222

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Roller Rink Skates for Xanadu at Near West Theatre
by Michael Stein via NEohioPAL 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

*Near West Theatre in Cleveland is looking to obtain Roller Rink Skates for our cast of Xanadu. * *This is our youth production so the skates need to be in child and teenager sizes. * * If you have these types of skates or know of anyone who would have them please contact us immediately as we are currently rehearsing for the show to open on September 22th. * *Thanks,* *Michael Stein* *Production Manager/Rental Manager* *Near West Theatre* *6514 Detroit Ave.* *Cleveland, OH 44102-3014* *216-961-9750* *Cell 330-687-8187*

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REVIEW: MEMPHIS, at Players Guild Theatre
by Tom Wachunas via NEohioPAL 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Much Ado About Hockadoo By Tom Wachunas …There comes a time when muddywaters run rough /There comes a point when a man has had enough /Like a friendwho always stands by me/ Memphis Knows Me /Memphis Shows Me / How this lifejust has to be… - lyrics from “Memphis Lives in Me” After seeing theopening night Players Guild performance of Memphis,I was finally convinced that director and actor/singer Jon Tisevich must havesome sort of virus. Furthermore, he consistently passes it on to his superbly versatilecast members who sing, dance, and act with often thunderous ebullience. They’reclearly all too eager, indeed grateful to be infected. It’s a viral tendency youcould call the personification of unbridled passion. Combined with the sizzlinglive eight-piece band under the direction of keyboardist Steve Parsons, and thehot-stepping, hip-swiveling choreography by Michael Lawrence Akers, Memphis is a show that will rattle yourrafters and send your heart soaring. This Tony Award-winning musical (book and lyrics byJoe DiPietro, music and lyrics byDavid Bryan) was partly inspired byDewey Philips, one of the first white disc jockeys to play black music forwhite audiences in Tennessee during the 1950s. Here we meet Huey Calhoun, awhite, ninth-grade dropout with dreams of being a star radio (and later TV)host who wants to turn the whole world on to black R&B music (or “racemusic” as it was disparagingly called by whites). His passion for the music ismatched only by his love of Felicia, a beautiful black singer he meets at anunderground club owned by her brother, Delray. The dramatictension in this story springs from the romance between Felicia and Huey in aplace and time fraught with racial bigotry, and significantly underscored hereby Delray’s stern objections to Huey’s pursuit of Felicia. As Delray, MarkDillard is a towering presence who turns in a genuine and at times chillingportrait of a pragmatic custodian of his sister’s career interests whileremaining her militant protector. As Felicia, Joy Ellis is absolutely stunning.She deftly balances a complex array of sensibilities. They range from fierceindependence and sassiness while basking in the warmth of love, to festering woundedness,and uncertainty about her future with Huey. It all comes out with heartrendingsincerity and electrifying urgency when she sings “Make Me Sronger,” “Colored Woman,” and “Love Will Stand WhenAll Else Falls.” When she was singing, I think I heard not just a voice, but a collective soul. I thinkI heard history. Passion personified. And then there’sJon Tisevich as Huey. Director as singer and actor. And again, passionpersonified. Riveting. With a soft southern drawl, he’s quirky, endearinglyeccentric, even awkward, and a seemingly unlikely mentor of an aural phenomenonthat would change the world of popular music. Whenever he gets excited about anidea he impulsively blurts “hockadoo!” Like Felicia, he’s at once driven anddefiant, vulnerable and victorious. His powerful singing of “The Music of MySoul” and “Memphis Lives in Me” are among the most riveting moments of theevening. A similarly moving andstartling passage transpires when Justin Woody, in his role of Gator, who wastraumatized into muteness by the childhood memory of his father being lynched,suddenly finds his voice to sing a desperate call for racial peace in “Say aPrayer.” Woody’s tearful voice is an unearthly wail, a piercing, bittersweetplea to Jesus. Other memorablescenes include Micah Harvey, wickedly smarmy as the white disc jockey BuckWiley, and sounding downright lewd as he breathily announces the latest “hothits” from Patti Page and Roy Rogers. Anthony Mitchell Jr. plays Bobby, ajittery janitor cajoled into singing on Huey’s Memphis TV show. He begins hissong, “Big Love,” in a sweetly apologeticand nervous manner, but quickly enough morphs into a gyrating firebrand whobrings down the house with charged vocals along with startlingly agile jumpsand splits. And speaking ofcharged, Stephanie Cargill, playing Huey’s mother, sheds her character’sbigotry in a grand way as she belts out “Change Don’t Come Easy” with all theintensity of a preacher at a revival meeting. She exhorts, “Gotta electrify!..Wegonna glorify!..Come on, everybody justify!…ooh, I gotta testify!” One distinctionbetween a good theatre experience and a great one is that good theatre willinvariably leave audiences pleased that they have been sufficiently“entertained.” Great theatre certainlyachieves as much, but in the end aspires to something far more edifying. As Players Guildproductions so often demonstrate in sublime fashion, great theatre is alwayskind of baptism, and in the case of Memphis,an especially immersive experience wherein we witness the ineffable power ofart to inspire hope, harmony, and healing in a dissonant, fractured society. Inother words, art that electrifies, glorifies, justifies. So hey, I’minfected. I just gotta testify. MEMPHIS, at Players Guild Theatre, inthe Cultural Center for the Arts, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 3 / 1001 Market AvenueNorth, Canton, Ohio / Shows Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. /Tickets $29 adults, $26 seniors, $22 for 17 and younger / Order tickets at www.playersguildtheatre.com/memphis or call 330.453.7617

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