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FINAL WEEKEND with INDUSTRY DISCOUNT for Seat of the Pants' GRAND CONCOURSE!
by Craig Joseph 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

"This is one kitchen where you should definitely spend a couple of hours." (Christine Howey, *Cleveland Scene*) Seat of the Pants' season opener, GRAND CONCOURSE, by Heidi Schreck, ends its run with performances this weekend on Friday and Saturday, October 25th and 26th at 7:30 PM, and on Sunday, October 27th at 2:30 PM. Tickets range from $20-$32 and can be purchased at grandconcoursesotp.eventbrite.com; as a theatre professional, use the code INDUSTRY to receive $3 off your tickets. Since the show is being performed in a commercial kitchen, seating is limited, so advanced purchase is highly recommended. Don't miss this opportunity to see a compelling story with some fascinating acting staged creatively! Get your tickets now!

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IMMEDIATE RELEASE- MILLENNIAL THEATRE COMPANY TO HOLD AUDITIONS FOR THE PROM THIS THURSDAY AND SATURDAY!
by The Millennial Theatre Company 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 23, 2024 *MTC to Hold Auditions for The Prom!* *Youngstown, Ohio *- The Millennial Theatre Company (MTC) is holding auditions for *The Prom.* Auditions will be held Thursday, October 24 from 6-9pm at The Youngstown Playhouse and Saturday, October 26 from 12-3pm at the Youngstown Playhouse. Auditioners will be asked to travel to a secondary location after their vocal audition to complete a dance call (Collingwood Center in Campbell). Auditioners should prepare a 30-60 second cut of a song in the style of the show. An accompanist will be provided on Saturday only, and a bluetooth speaker will be provided both days. Seeking a diverse cast of actors and dancers ages 15+. Roles available for both adults and teens. The roles of Emma, Dee Dee and Barry have been filled but all other roles are open. Please come prepared to move and do a cold reading. Headshot and resume are encouraged, but not required. *The Prom* tells the story of four eccentric Broadway stars who are in desperate need of a new stage. So when they hear that trouble is brewing around a small-town prom, they know that it’s time to put a spotlight on the issue…and themselves. The town’s parents want to keep the high school dance on the straight and narrow—but when one student just wants to bring her girlfriend to prom, the entire town has a date with destiny. Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical, The Prom expertly captures all the humor and heart of a classic musical comedy with a message that resonates with audiences now more than ever. Directed by Joe Asente with Music Direction by Ryan Lamb and Choreography by Danielle Mentzer. The Prom will run two weekends at the Youngstown Playhouse January 3-5 & 10-12. Rehearsals will run weeknights from 6-9:30pm in Youngstown starting in early November. More information can be found at millennialtheatre.org. Questions can be sent to millennialtheatrecompany(a)gmail.com.

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PLEASE read this regarding an existential threat...
by Fred Sternfeld 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

Hello Everybody, As you know, we normally try to keep the Neohiopal list to items that are more obviously performing arts related and away from politics. I would argue that the possible election of certain politicians are an existential threat to free speech and therefore an existential threat to the arts. So I pass this article from Heather Cox Richardson to you. "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Fred ------------------------- >From Heather Cox Richardson <https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/about>... October 21, 2024 (Monday) On Saturday, September 7, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump predicted that his plan to deport 15 to 20 million people currently living in the United States would be “bloody.” He also promised to prosecute his political opponents, including, he wrote, lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters, and election officials. Retired chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told journalist Bob Woodward that Trump is “a fascist to the core…the most dangerous person to this country.” On October 14, Trump told Fox News Channel host Maria Bartiromo that he thought enemies within the United States were more dangerous than foreign adversaries and that he thought the military should stop those “radical left lunatics” on Election Day. Since then, he has been talking a lot about “the enemy from within,” specifically naming Representative Adam Schiff and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, both Democrats from California, as “bad people.” Schiff was the chair of the House Intelligence Committee that broke the 2019 story of Trump’s attempt to extort Volodymyr Zelensky that led to Trump’s first impeachment. Trump’s references to the “enemy from within” have become so frequent that former White House press secretary turned political analyst Jen Psaki has called them his closing argument for the 2024 election, and she warned that his construction of those who oppose him as “enemies” might sweep in virtually anyone he feels is a threat. In a searing article today, political scientist Rachel Bitecofer of The Cycle explored exactly what that means in a piece titled “What (Really) Happens If Trump Wins?” Bitecofer outlined Adolf Hitler’s January 30, 1933, oath of office, in which he promised Germans he would uphold the constitution, and the three months he took to dismantle that constitution. By March, she notes, the concentration camp Dachau was open. Its first prisoners were not Jews, but rather Hitler’s prominent political opponents. By April, Jews had been purged from the civil service, and opposition political parties were illegal. By May, labor unions were banned and students were burning banned books. Within the year, public criticism of Hitler and the Nazis was illegal, and denouncing violators paid well for those who did it. Bitecofer writes that Trump has promised mass deportations “that he cannot deliver unless he violates both the Constitution and federal law.” To enable that policy, Trump will need to dismantle the merit-based civil service and put into office those loyal to him rather than the Constitution. And then he will purge his political opponents, for once those who would stand against him are purged, Trump can act as he wishes against immigrants, for example, and others. Ninety years ago, as American reporter Dorothy Thompson ate breakfast at her hotel in Berlin on August 25, 1934, a young man from Hitler’s secret police, the Gestapo, “politely handed me a letter and requested a signed receipt.” She thought nothing of it, she said, “But what a surprise was in store for me!” The letter informed her that, “in light of your numerous anti-German publications,” she was being expelled from Germany. She was the first American journalist expelled from Nazi Germany, and that expulsion was no small thing. Thompson had moved to London in 1920 to become a foreign correspondent and began to spend time in Berlin. In 1924 she moved to the city to head the Central European Bureau for the New York Evening Post and the Philadelphia Public Ledger. From there, she reported on the rise of Adolf Hitler. She left her Berlin post in 1928 to marry novelist Sinclair Lewis, and the two settled in Vermont. When the couple traveled to Sweden in 1930 for Lewis to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature, Thompson visited Germany, where she saw the growing strength of the fascists and the apparent inability of the Nazi’s opponents to come together to stand against them. She continued to visit the country in the following years, reporting on the rise of fascism there, and elsewhere. In 1931, Thompson interviewed Hitler and declared that, rather than “the future dictator of Germany” she had expected to meet, he was a man of “startling insignificance.” She asked him if he would “abolish the constitution of the German Republic.” He answered: “I will get into power legally” and, once in power, abolish the parliament and the constitution and “found an authority-state, from the lowest cell to the highest instance; everywhere there will be responsibility and authority above, discipline and obedience below.” She did not believe he could succeed: “Imagine a would-be dictator setting out to persuade a sovereign people to vote away their rights,” she wrote in apparent astonishment. Thompson was back in Berlin in summer 1934 as a representative of the Saturday Evening Post when she received the news that she had 24 hours to leave the country. The other foreign correspondents in Berlin saw her off at the railway station with “great sheaves of American Beauty roses.” Safely in Paris, Thompson mused that in her first years in Germany she had gotten to know many of the officials of the German republic, and that when she had left to marry Lewis, they offered “many expressions of friendship and gratitude.” But times had changed. “I thought of them sadly as my train pulled out,” she said, “carrying me away from Berlin. Some of those officials still are in the service of the German Government, some of them are émigrés and some of them are dead.” Thompson came home to a nation where many of the same dark impulses were simmering, her fame after her expulsion from Germany following her. She lectured against fascism across the country in 1935, then began a radio program that reached tens of millions of listeners. Hired in 1936 to write a regular column three days a week for the New York Herald Tribune, she became a leading voice in print, too, warning that what was happening in Germany could also happen in America. In an echo of Lewis’s bestselling 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here, she wrote in a 1937 column: “No people ever recognize their dictator in advance…. He always represents himself as the instrument for expressing the Incorporated National Will. When Americans think of dictators they always think of some foreign model. If anyone turned up here in a fur hat, boots and a grim look he would be recognized and shunned…. But when our dictator turns up, you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American.” In less than two years, the circulation of her column had grown to reach between seven and eight million people. In 1939 a reporter wrote: “She is read, believed and quoted by millions of women who used to get their political opinions from their husbands, who got them from [political commentator] Walter Lippmann.” The reporter likened Thompson to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, saying they were the two “most influential women in the U.S.” When 22,000 American Nazis held a rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in honor of President George Washington’s birthday on February 20, 1939, Thompson sat in the front row of the press box, where she laughed loudly during the speeches and yelled “Bunk!” at the stage, illustrating that she would not be muzzled by Nazis. After being escorted out, she returned to her seat, where stormtroopers surrounded her. She later told a reporter: “I was amazed to see a duplicate of what I saw seven years ago in Germany. Tonight I listened to words taken out of the mouth of Adolf Hitler.” Two years later, In 1941, Thompson returned to the issue she had raised when she mused about those government officials who had gone from thanking her to expelling her. In a piece for Harper’s Magazine titled “Who Goes Nazi?” she wrote: “It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi,” she wrote. “By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis.” Examining a number of types of Americans, she wrote that the line between democracy and fascism was not wealth, or education, or race, or age, or nationality. “Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi,” she wrote. They were secure enough to be good natured and open to new ideas, and they believed so completely in the promise of American democracy that they would defend it with their lives, even if they seemed too easygoing to join a struggle. “But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis,” she wrote. “Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.” In Paris following her expulsion from Berlin, Thompson told a reporter for the Associated Press that the reason she had been attacked was the same reason that Hitler’s power was growing. “Chancellor Hitler is no longer a man, he is a religion,” she said. Suggesting her expulsion was because of her old article disparaging Hitler, in her own article about her expulsion she noted: “My offense was to think that Hitler is just an ordinary man, after all. That is a crime against the reigning cult in Germany, which says Mr. Hitler is a Messiah sent by God to save the German people…. To question this mystic mission is so heinous that, if you are a German, you can be sent to jail. I, fortunately, am an American, so I merely was sent to Paris. Worse things can happen….”

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Clague Playhouse's 97th Season Continues with "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley"
by Clague Playhouse 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

*Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley * by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon Directed by Curt Arnold Friday, November 8th through Sunday, December 8th, 2024 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8PM and Sunday at 2PM (No show on Thanksgiving, Nov. 28th) A sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set two years after the novel ends, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley continues the story, only this time with bookish middle-sister Mary as its unlikely heroine. Mary is growing tired of her role as dutiful middle sister in the face of her siblings’ romantic escapades. When the family gathers for Christmas at Pemberley, an unexpected guest sparks Mary’s hopes for independence, an intellectual match, and possibly even love. “…an unstuffy, highly entertaining and warm-spirited work, the kind of thing multiple generations can enjoy together.” —Chicago Tribune. Our cast features Sabrina Maristela as Mary Bennet, Jacob Lang as Arthur De Bourgh, Nicole Coury as Elizabeth (Lizzy) Darcy, Stuart Hoffman as Fitzwilliam Darcy, Eliza Rodriguez as Jane Bingley, Aseem Garg as Charles Bingley, Ariana Starkman as Lydia Wickham, and Gabrielle Perine as Anne De Bourgh. **NEW for our 97th Season* A Talk-Back Discussion with the Cast & Crew after the show on Saturday, November 9th.* Admission is $21 for adults, $20 for seniors (60+), and $13 for students (any age with a valid ID) and may be purchased by calling the Box Office at 440-331-0403 Wednesday through Saturday from 1-6PM or visiting www.ClaguePlayhouse.org <http://www.clagueplayhouse.org/>. Clague Playhouse is located at 1371 Clague Road in Westlake. Limited FREE tickets for high school and college students are available for our Thursday performances. Call the Box Office at 440-331-0403 to reserve these free student tickets. - - - - - - - - - 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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OFFENSIVE-Re: NEohioPAL Digest, Vol 735, Issue 2
by Courtney 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

I’m incredibly disappointed and offended at the content in today’s email. This has no place here in my opinion which I doubt any cares but it still needed to be said > On Oct 22, 2024, at 4:03 PM, neohiopal-request(a)lists.neohiopal.org wrote: > > Send NEohioPAL mailing list submissions to > neohiopal(a)lists.neohiopal.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.neohiopal.org/listinfo.cgi/neohiopal-neohiopal.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > neohiopal-request(a)lists.neohiopal.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > neohiopal-owner(a)lists.neohiopal.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of NEohioPAL digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. CAT IN THE HAT AUDITIONS @ PGT (Breanna Antoniades) > 2. PLEASE read this regarding an existential threat... > (Fred Sternfeld) > 3. TUITION-FREE MFA ACTING TRAINING IN NEOHIO! (Donald Carrier) > 4. Olmsted Falls Middle School presents ?We Will Rock You? (Oct > 24-26) (Eric Bartkowski) > 5. Play On! Auditions at Aurora Community Theatre > (services(a)auroracommunitytheatre.com) > 6. A Christmas Story at Cleveland Play House (Marketing) > 7. The Cherry Orchard: Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Play House > MFA Acting Program Production (Marketing) > 8. Re: PLEASE read this regarding an existential threat... > (Jim Volkert) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:10:28 -0400 > From: Breanna Antoniades <breannalmorton(a)gmail.com> > To: post(a)neohiopal.org > Subject: [NEohioPAL] CAT IN THE HAT AUDITIONS @ PGT > Message-ID: > <CACRYUdmCZCOz3RjuZOskKjrc6jv_9iR-xZwoxt9=d6cf6ODpgw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > The Players Guild Theatre Proudly Presents: > THE CAT IN THE HAT > Based on the 1957 Children?s Book > Written by Dr. Seuss > Adapted by Katie Mitchell > > Producing Artistic Director Josh Erichsen > Directed by Tess Burgler > Production Manager Breanna Antoniades > Stage Manager Max Lord-Fry > > Auditions: Friday, November 22, 6:00-9:00pm and Saturday, November 23, > 11:00-2:00pm > > ALL AGES WELCOME! > > Callbacks: If necessary, schedule TBD. > > Rehearsals begin Thursday, January 2, 2025 Rehearsals will run Mondays - > Fridays 7:00-10:00 PM > Performance dates are January 24 - 26, 2025 Friday and Saturday @ 7:30 PM, > Sunday @ 2:00 PM. > > THERE ARE FOUR SCHOOL MATINEES: January 28, 29 and February 4, 5 at 10:30 > AM. > > **This is a reduced rehearsal period, partially because of the length of > the script and partially to best use the time of our artists. As such, you > should be prepared to memorize lines very early in the rehearsal process. > Scripts for memorizing will be provided directly after casting is complete > so actors can familiarize themselves with the text during the month of > December and come to January rehearsals ready to roll. Please do not > audition if you cannot commit to quickly memorizing content for this > condensed rehearsal period.** > > NON-TRADITIONAL CASTING WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR ALL ROLES > > Please prepare a comedic monologue (bonus points for Shakespeare or > something else in verse!) > > Those wishing to audition can make an appointment for an audition time by > signing up online HERE. > <https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4EABAB23A4FCC34-50478605-catinthe> (Role > descriptions listed on signup link). > > For parking, please park in the student lot 107 next to the Fine Arts > Building on Kent State University at Stark?s Campus. > > The Players Guild Theatre is located at 6000 Frank Ave NW, North Canton, OH > 44720 in the Kent State University at Stark Fine Arts Building on floor one. > > > *Breanna Antoniades* > Production Manager > > Players Guild Theatre > 6000 Frank Ave NW > North Canton, OH 44720 > www.playersguildtheatre.com >

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Keep at it Fred!
by Neil Thackaberry 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

Stay in it, Fred. We all need to do everything we can. Neil

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The Cherry Orchard: Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program Production
by Marketing 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

The Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program presents The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, directed by Eleanor Holdridge, November 6 -16 in the Helen Theatre. The Cherry Orchard follows a family of down-on-their-luck aristocrats as they grapple with the prospect of selling their beloved estate. As the cherry trees blossom, so do the complexities of love, loss, and the relentless passage of time. This theatrical masterpiece explores what happens when echoes of the past meet the inevitability of change. The Cherry Orchard reveals complex and colorful characters that blend humor and heartache as they encounter the absurdities that abound in simply leading one’s life. This literary classic by Anton Chekhov springs to life in a production featuring the Class of 2026.

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A Christmas Story at Cleveland Play House
by Marketing 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

Cleveland Play House presents A Christmas Story, by Philip Grecian, directed by Jackson Gay based on the motion picture written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob Clark, running at the Allen Theatre November 30 - December 22. Cleveland’s favorite holiday tradition is back by popular demand as an all new production! One boy. One holiday wish. And a world conspiring to make sure it doesn’t come true. The record-breaking show returns to the Allen Theatre in all its pink-bunny-suit, glowing-leg-lamp, triple-dog-daring glory. The perfect holiday treat for the entire family!

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Play On! Auditions at Aurora Community Theatre
by services＠auroracommunitytheatre.com 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

Auditions for Play On! https://www.auroracommunitytheatre.com/upcoming-auditions Directed by Brian Westerley AUDITION DATES Sunday, Nov. 17, 7-9pm Tuesday, Nov. 19, 7-9pm PERFORMANCE DATES January 17 - February 8, 2025 Fri & Sat shows @ 7:30pm One plucky community theater is about to produce a show called Murder Most Foul, a new “murder mystery play” with the same title as an Agatha Christie novel but with no relation whatsoever. The director/theater manager, Gerry, thought producing the play was a good idea since the inexperienced playwright has agreed to let the company perform the show for no charge. Gerry, however, had no idea what disasters awaited her: the show is hilariously amateur, the “murder mystery” plot doesn’t really have a murder, and to top it off the playwright keeps changing the story and script only two days from its premiere! It doesn’t help that the cast is disgruntled, and the playwright accidentally deletes the entire sound effect board. All of the disasters come to fruition in Act III when the company performs the actual show with hilarious mishaps at every turn. Play On! is a hilarious love letter to community theater. “Play On!” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com https://www.auroracommunitytheatre.com/upcoming-auditions

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TUITION-FREE MFA ACTING TRAINING IN NEOHIO!
by Donald Carrier 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

RANKED AS ONE OF THE TOP 12 MFA ACTING PROGRAMS IN THE WORLD – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 2024 The Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program will be seeing audition candidates in 2024 and 2025 through URTA (URTA.com) as well as through our own private auditions. We are looking for committed young artists who possess a love of language, an empathy for the human experience, a vivid imagination and the desire to develop the necessary physical and vocal skills for a successful and sustained career in the ever-evolving performing arts scene. FULL THREE-YEAR TUITION WAIVER, a generous yearly living stipend, healthcare and membership in AEA upon successful completion of the program. We are one of the only MFA programs in the country that charges NO AUDITION FEES. For more information and to register for an audition, please visit https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/education/cwrucph-mfa/auditions AUDITIONING IN-PERSON IN CLEVELAND, DECEMBER 7 and 8, 2024.

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