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Final AUDITION Notice: August Wilson's JITNEY at Beck Center
by Scott Spence 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

Audition Info for…. “*JITNEY*” by August Wilson Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood is pleased to announce Open Call auditions for August Wilson's "*Jitney*" directed by Jimmie Woody. Auditions will be by appointment only, and will take place at Beck Center. Interested performers should schedule their appointments by calling the Beck Center Box Office during normal business hours at *216-521-2540*. Open Call auditions will occur *Tuesday, January 16th and Wednesday, January 17th* with slots beginning at 6PM each of those days. Callbacks will occur the weekend of January 17th/18th TBD. Director Jimmie Woodie requests one brief (90 seconds or less) contemporary monologue. If auditioner does not have a prepared piece readily available, a monologue or cutting from the play will be provided at the time of the audition. "*Jitney*" opens on April 5th and closes May 5th. Performances are Fri/Sat evenings and Sunday afternoons only. Rehearsals will begin circa late February. It is anticipated that 2 AEA contracts (Special Appearance) will be offered. All other non Equity performers 18 and over receive a stipend for their participation. *Show/Roles: * Regular taxi cabs will not travel to the Pittsburgh Hill District of the 1970s, and so the African-American residents turn to jitneys—unofficial, unlicensed taxi cabs—that operate in the community. This play portrays the lives of the jitney drivers at the station owned by Jim Becker. *Cast* · Jim Becker, the well-respected manager of the jitney station. In his 60s. · Doub, a driver, cautious and slow going, a Korean War veteranIn his 50’s · Fielding, a driver, an alcoholic, formerly a tailor who clothed Billy Eckstine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Eckstine> and Count Basie <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie>. In his 50's/60's · Turnbo, a driver, notorious for being a gossip. In his late 30's/40's · Youngblood (Darnell Williams), a driver. Recently returned from Vietnam, working several jobs to provide for his family. In his late 20s. · Rena, Youngblood's girlfriend and the mother of his young son, Jesse. In her late 20’s · Shealy, a flamboyant bookie <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookie> who uses the jitney station as the basis of his operations. In his 30/40's · Philmore, a local hotel doorman and a frequent jitney passenger. In his 40's · Booster (Clarence Becker), Becker's son, who has just completed a 20-year prison sentence for murder. In his late 30s. {More} *Extended SYNOPSIS* *Jitney* is the eighth play in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle. It takes place in The Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1977, in a gypsy cab station, during Pittsburgh’s period of so-called “urban renewal.” As the city tries to shut down businesses, including the cab station, to make way for new buildings, we meet five gypsy cab drivers struggling to survive. Wilson’s ensemble piece puts human faces to the process of gentrification seizing the United States, telling of the specific human struggles of Becker, Youngblood, Turnbo, Fielding and Doub as they cling to a nostalgic past, while reaching for an uncertain future. Becker, the owner of the cab station, descends into an emotional spiral when his son, Booster, comes out of jail, where he served time after murdering his ex-girlfriend who falsely accused him of raping her. Youngblood has saved up enough money to buy a house for himself, his girlfriend, and their two-year-old son, Jesse, but even this grand gesture fails to redeem him in the eyes of his girlfriend, Rena, who refuses to forgive him for his unfaithful past. Turnbo is an older man who is distressed with the manners of the young people today, especially those of fellow cab driver, Youngblood, and is obsessed with comparing their actions to those he remembers from his happier past. Recovering alcoholic Fielding, who used to be a tailor, is waging an ongoing battle against his alcoholism, even as his continued drunkenness threatens his job. Doub is a Korean War Veteran, and a longtime jitney driver, who equates his time at war where ‘they never paid him no mind’ to the experiences he and his black colleagues have with white men today. Over the course of the play, all five of these men and the characters that come in and out of their lives pose questions about how we can heal past wounds and leap into a less-than-certain future. *About The Director:* *Jimmie Woody (DIRECTOR)* Some of his most recent directorial credits include: ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, ‘Clybourne Park’ by Bruce Norris and ‘Raisin in the Sun’ by Lorrainne Hansberry (Weathervane Playhouse), ‘The America Play’ by Suzan-Lori Parks (University of Akron), ‘The Split Show’, ‘How Blood Go’, and ’The Bomb’ by Lisa Langford (Convergence Continuum & Cleveland Public Theater), ‘Glass Menagerie’ by Tennessee Williams, ‘For Colored Girls…’ by Ntosake Shange, ‘Jitney’, ’Two Trains Running’ & ‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ by August Wilson (Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C Metro)), ‘365 days/365 Plays’ by Suzan-Lori Parks (Cleveland Public Theater), ‘MLK Day’ by Jimmie Woody, ‘The Colored Museum’, by George C. Wolfe & ‘When the Chickens Came Home to Roost’ by Laurence Holder (Karamu House), ‘Seedfolks’ by Paul Fleischman (Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, Cleveland Public Library and the Cleveland Botanical Garden), ‘Underground Griots’ by Natalie Parker & Keith Josef Adkins (Cleveland Public Theatre, The National Black Theater Festival and Here Café NYC), ’Wilberforce’ & ’Hollis Mugley’s Only Wish’ by Keith Josef Adkins and (Cleveland Public Theatre, The National Black Theater Festival & New York Hip Hop Festival), ‘The Baachae’ written by Wole Soyinka (Cleveland Public Theatre and Columbia University), ‘Song’ by Daniel Gray Kontar and ’InCogNegro’ by Lisa Langford (Cleveland Public Theatre). Jimmie received his M.F.A. in acting from Columbia University. He is a 2012 Creative Workforce Fellow and is currently a Resident Teaching Artist of Theater and Digital Media at Center for Art-Inspired Learning and he’s an acting professor at Cuyahoga Community College.

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NEO5Brass Open 2024 Wadsworth Library Live at the Library Concert Series
by Thomas Sigel 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

Ohio Regional Music Arts and Cultural Outreach (ORMACO) and the Wadsworth Public Library open their FREE 2024 Sunday Live at the Library concerts with Northeast Ohio-based Neo5 Brass Quintet in a program of a variety of tunes for brass on Sunday, January 14, 2024. The program takes place at 2 pm at the Wadsworth Public Library, 132 Broad Street, Wadsworth, OH 44281. Learn more at www.ormaco.org<http://www.ormaco.org>.

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Sororii Live at Table for 2
by Sororii Music 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Sororii Live at Table for 2 Sunday, January 14th, 7:30pm-10:30pm 4740 Lorain Avenue Cleveland, OH 44102 Join us after hours for another Table for 2 intimate concert series featuring Sororii! Doors at 7:30pm, showtime at 8pm. Grab a seat in the shop or bring a blanket and get cozy on the floor for a candle lit intimate concert. BYOB + drinks available for small donation. Join Sororii <https://www.instagram.com/sororiimusic/?hl=en>, Cleveland’s new world-indie duo, for a beautiful evening of cello, bassoon, and vocals. Meaning *sisterhood*, Sororii invites soul-seekers to join in friendship to connect with their inner feminine and celebrate our shared humanity across cultures. Sororii is a female-led band featuring Afro-Colombian cellist Carolina Borja, and bassoonist Arleigh Savage. Sororii formed in 2021 during the height of the pandemic with the spirit to reclaim sisterhood and explore feminine voices across cultures. Their music blends warm, melodic bassoon lines, plucked and strummed cello, and voice; creating instrumental grooves with underlying world, latin, and afro beats. Buy tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/table-for-2-with-sororii-acoustic-concert-seri…

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Cleveland Critics Circle 2023 Theater Awards & Broadwayworld-CLE Recognitions
by Roy Berko 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

***************** If you haven't seen the Cleveland Critics Circle 2023 Awards go to https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/390565574636102094/13562088192992875… If you haven't seen the Broadwayworld-Cleveland 2023 Recognitions go to www.royberko.info. *********************

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Berko review: MRS. DOUBTFIRE (KeyBank broadway series)
by Roy Berko 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

*•••••••••••••••••••••••••••* *Capsule judgment: As the much-reprised song, “I Want to Be There” states, you will want to be there…at the Connor Palace…to join Rob McClure, and the rest of the cast, and enjoy the wonderful, fun-filled Mrs. Doubtfire! Go! Enjoy! To read the entire review go to: https://royberkinfo.blogspot.com/ <https://royberkinfo.blogspot.com/> To read the capsule judgements of the other Cleveland reviewers go to: https://clevelandtheaterreviews.blogspot.com/ <https://clevelandtheaterreviews.blogspot.com/>••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••*

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Audio Engineer and Production Equipment
by Brent Chamberlin 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Hello everyone. I am a longtime NEO arts supporter ranging from theater at the age of 10 and singing with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus for 12 years. I am also an audio engineer at Audio-Technica, which is a global audio company where our microphones are used in professional recording studios and live stages around the world. They are used for the Grammy Awards and the Olympics to mention a few. The US headquarters is right down the road in Stow OH. We have started a new audio rental department in which you can rent our audio gear for recording studio sessions or live events where you may need to supplement your current inventory. We are still adding gear to the rental inventory but you can see what is currently available here: https://audio-technica.booqable.shop/ One of my tasks is to operate the inventory so feel free to reach out through the website or you may also reach out directly at bchamberlin(a)atus.com. Brent Chamberlin --

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Actors Still Needed For Cassidy's Ragtime
by Marc C. Howard 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Cassidy Theatre is still looking for a few actors for *Ragtime!* Open roles include: · Two African American female identifying performers to fill The Harlem Ensemble. · Two African American male identifying performers to fill The Harlem Ensemble and walk on roles. · One older male identifying performer to fill the Ensemble and walk on roles. Please contact the director if you would like to join this extremely talented cast in an especially important and relevant show for our times. Director, Marc C. Howard at marc.c.howard(a)gmail.com

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$25 Stage Combat and/or Shakespeare Verse workshops @ Ohio Shakespeare in Akron
by tess＠ohioshakespeare.com 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

JOIN US this weekend. [ REGISTER FOR CLASSES ]( https://ohioshakespeare.thundertix.com/events/220814/performances ) Jan 13 and 15 $25 per class $5 off for students [ www.ohioshakespeare.com/workshops ]( http://www.ohioshakespeare.com/workshops ) or 330-5-SHAKES to register. VERSE WORKSHOPS Saturday Jan 13, 12pm 3 SPOTS LEFT Join Artist Director Terry Burgler and Assoc. Artistic Director Tess Burgler for 90 minutes of acting work focused on Shakespeare’s text. Learn to approach verse naturally (no more “Shakespeare voice”) and lose any Shakesfear you may have. We will look at ways that verse and heightened language help the actor make strong and exciting choices using John Barton’s method of text analysis. This class will be beneficial to novices and experienced actors alike. (The same workshop is held on both dates. Please choose one to attend.) Verse class is best for ages 12 and older. STAGE COMBAT CLASS Monday Jan 15, 7pm 1 SPOT LEFT Join Resident Fight Director Ryan Zarecki for an introduction to stage combat class. 90 minutes of learning the safety and partnering techniques to make stage violence look real (and real cool) in an environment where collaboration, communication, and consent are paramount. Students will learn basics of footwork, slaps, punches, falls, and beginning sword play. (The same workshop is held on both dates. Please choose one to attend.) Stage combat students must be 14+ years old. No exceptions—sorry!

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LCCC Theatre Auditions "WHO ATE THE SUN"
by Jeremy Benjamin 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

*WHO ATE THE SUN* By Erin E. Dolan Directed by Rachael Endrizzi Lorain County Community College theatre program and Spark Theatre Company announce non-equity auditions for “Who Ate The Sun,” a new take on the timeless tale. Fascinated by stars and planets, Ash loves to study the sky. One afternoon on a walk through the neighborhood, the sun disappears entirely! Follow their journey as Ash and some animal friends ask, “Who ate the sun?” This play is a World Premiere Production, written by Cleveland playwright, Erin E. Dolan, especially for this spring's solar eclipse! Copies of the script will be on reserve at the LCCC Bass Library until the audition dates. Digital copies for perusal may also be obtained by emailing sparktheatre4youth(a)gmail.com. WHO: Auditions are open to all LCCC students and staff, as well as actors from the community. We are seeking actors of all types for performances at LCCC Stocker Arts Center’s Cirigliano Theatre, as well as actors to travel with the show on tour to schools in May. Actors do NOT need to be available for the tour to audition. We will likely have a larger cast for the LCCC April public performances, and a select group of actors to double roles for the May tour. Actors may be considered for both options but have the option to audition for just one or the other. WHAT: Auditions will be held in 5-minute time slots. You will be asked to read from available sides at the audition. If available, please bring one copy of your headshot and resume to the audition. AUDITION DATES: Sunday, January 21, 2024 from 2 pm – 4 pm and Monday, January 22, 2024 from 7 pm – 9 pm Callbacks will be held Wednesday, January 24 from 7pm-9pm, as needed. Rehearsals to begin on Monday, February 5, 2024 WHERE: Stocker Arts Center’s Cirigliano Studio Theatre 1005 N. Abbe Road, Elyria, OH 44035 PUBLIC PERFORMANCE DATES at Cirigliano Theatre: March 21 – 22, 2024 at 7:30 pm March 23 at 2pm March 21 & 22 at 9:45 & 11:45am (for school field trips) Students cast will receive letters to excuse them from any LCCC classes that might conflict with the matinee performances. TOURING PERFORMANCE DATES: May 1-26, 2024. To be considered for the touring portion of this production, actors should have reasonable availability or flexibility during school hours from May 1-26, some conflicts are fine, and tours will be scheduled around actor availability. The tour is expected to perform approximately 15-20 performances throughout the month of May to schools in NE Ohio. Questions: email LCCC Director of Theatre Jeremy Benjamin jbenjami(a)lorainccc.edu or Rachael Endrizzi sparktheatre4youth(a)gmail.com

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by Fred Sternfeld 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

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