warsaw federal incline theater 2016 summer program
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The official program of the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater 2016 Summer season from the publishers of Cincinnati Magazine.TRANSCRIPT
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2016 SUMMER CLASSICS SEASON
JUNE 1–26 JULY 6–31
AUGUST 10–SEPTEMBER 4
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WELCOME TO THE WARSAW FEDERAL INCLINE THEATER!
From the new parking garage to the stunning lobby view, from the comfy seating to the intimate connection between audience and actor, this theater is a destination attraction. Thousands have already found some hot enter-tainment attending our Summer Classics Season. And that’s just the begin-ning. The future is bright for this theater, this neighborhood and the regional performing arts scene.
If you want more classic musicals, comedies and dramas, be sure to check out the Marquee Season at our other venue—the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts—coming this fall! Or if contemporary issues, adult drama and no-holds-barred comedy are your cup of tea, check out the
District Series here at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater, running September through April. Stop in for one show or subscribe to the whole season. It’s easy to find great friends, great
shows and the best in local performers and performances at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater.
Thanks for coming!
Tim PerrinoExecutive Artistic Director
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Anything Goes, June 1–26, 2016Baby, July 6–31, 2016Chicago, August 10–September 4, 2016
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Boys-meet-girls and the complications get hysterically funny as a boat load of crazy
characters, including a bungling gangster, an English gentleman and a bevy of dazzling
American showgirls cross the Atlantic in an ocean liner that makes The Love Boat look like a leaky canoe in Cole Porter’s Anything Goes.
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY COLE PORTER • BOOK BY GUY BOLTON, P. G. WODEHOUSE, HOWARD LINDSAY AND RUSSEL CROUSE
JUNE 1-26, 2016
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Anything Goes originally opened on Broadway in 1934 with Ethel Merman playing Reno Sweeney. Since then there have been six Broadway revivals, four international revivals, four world tours and two movies. In 1999, a production of the 1962 revival version was performed on the Showboat Majestic and featured the talents of many of today’s cast/crew, including Michelle Wells, Jeni Bayer Schwiers and even yours truly (as Sir Evelyn)! It was a Tall Stacks sensation. So sit back and enjoy the songs of yesteryear as we proudly bring you the 2016 revival of the 1999 revival of the 1962 revival of Anything Goes. You’re the tops! —Bob Brunner, Director
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
“There’s a reason this musical is called Anything Goes. It’s a farrago of zinger-stocked dialogue, vaudeville-style antics
and musical numbers.” —The New York Times
Executive Artistic Director
Tim Perrino
Communications/Development Rodger Pille
Business Manager/Producer
Jennifer Perrino
Box Office Manager/Technical Director
Denny Reed
Production Manager/Sets
Brett Bowling
Sound Board Operators Denny Reed, Sally Stewart and Rachel Kuhn
Costume Designer/Properties
Caren Young
Costume/Prop Assistants
Betsy Brunner Kline and Heather McKernan
Concession Manager
Kathy Thorman
Facility Staff
Kevin Haverbusch
Asst. Box Office Manager
Daphne Miller
Box Office Staff
Amy Carroll, Jenny Lutes, Matthew Wilson, Sally Stewart, Carissa Gandenberger, Nancy Brunner and Katarina Anhofer
Production Crew
Brett Bowling, Kevin Haverbusch and Chase Melendez
Production Office Assistant
Matthew Wilson
House Staff
Tiffany McManis
Photographer
Mikki Schaffner
CLP STAFF
Terrific songs like “It’s De-Lovely,” “Friendship,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “All Through the Night,” “Anything Goes,” “You’re the Top” and “Blow, Gabriel, Blow” keep this ship steaming full speed ahead!
Production Team:
Director: Bob BrunnerMusic Director: Ron AttreauChoreographer: Jeni SchwiersProduction Stage Manager: Sayre Frederick
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BOOK BY SYBILLE PEARSON • MUSIC BY DAVID SHIRE • LYRICS BY RICHARD MALTBY JR. • BASED UPON A STORY DEVELOPED WITH SUSAN YANKOWITZ
JULY 6–31, 2016
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DIRECTOR’S NOTES
“At a time when nearly every Broadway musical, good and bad, aims for the big kill with gargantuan pyrotechnics, here is a modestly scaled
entertainment that woos us with such basic commodities as warm feelings, an exuberant cast and a lovely score.” —The New York Times
Cincinnati Landmark Productions (CLP) began as Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre (CYPT), a theatre for teenagers, in 1982. In 1990, CYPT also became the producer for the summer
stock Showboat Majestic utilizing paid per-formers of all ages.
In May 2002, CYPT purchased the Covedale Cinema at 4990 Glenway Ave., converting it into a live performance venue. In fall 2002, the Covedale began a subscription series featuring paid performers of all ages. Since then, the Covedale has completed its original five-phase renovation plan, attracting nearly 44,000 pa-trons annually.
In 2006, Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre was reorganized as Cincinnati Landmark Productions, composed of the Showboat Majestic, the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts and Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre.
In 2013, CLP ceased operating the city-owned Showboat Majestic.
In September 2014, CLP broke ground on its new venue, the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater in East Price Hill. The new 229-seat venue opened on June 3, 2015, to 45 straight sell-out performances.
Is there anything more exciting, frightening and utterly transformational than impending
parenthood?Baby musically examines how parents-to-
be weather the stresses and triumphs, as well as the desperate lows and the comic highs that accompany the anticipation and arrival of their bundle of joy.
The show features beautiful songs like “I
Want It All,” “Two People in Love” and “The Story Goes On.”
Production Team:
Director/Choreographer: Karie-Lee Sutherland
Music Director: Katie PersonkeProduction Stage Manager: Emily Birnstein
Which of life’s milestones could be more frightening, surprising or marvelous than the arrival of a baby? Told against an inventive and gentle score by Maltby & Shire, Baby is not about parenting, but about how three couples—at varying stages in life—discover how their relationships change in anticipation of this blessed event. The road to parenthood may be beautiful or bittersweet, but the next step of life is only a heartbeat away! —Karie-Lee Sutherland, Director
ABOUT CINCINNATI LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS
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BOOK BY FRED EBB AND BOB FOSSE • MUSIC BY JOHN KANDER • LYRICS BY FRED EBB • SCRIPT ADAPTATION BY DAVID THOMPSON
I t’s the roaring ’20s in Chicago. Chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and
convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap...until he finds out he’s been duped and turns on Roxie.
Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another “Merry Murderess,” Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimate-ly joining forces in search of the American Dream: fame, fortune and acquittal.
This sharp-edged, dizzyingly funny satire
features a glittering score, including “Razzle Dazzle,” “Cell Block Tango” and the iconic “All That Jazz.” Chicago is the winner of six Tony® Awards.
Production Team:
Director: Matthew WilsonMusic Director: John SlateChoreographer: Angela KahleProduction Stage Manager: Jenny Lutes
AUGUST 10–SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
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“The show seems to have discovered the fountain of youth. As entertaining as ever. Brash, buoyant and utterly irresistible!”
—Associated Press
2016-2017 MARQUEE SEASON AT COVEDALE CENTER
Cincinnati Landmark Productions also owns and produces the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts on Glenway Avenue. Don’t miss these great shows at that landmark venue.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
“You are about to see a story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery—all those things we all hold near and dear to our hearts.” It’s hard to find a better way to sum up the musical Chicago than its own opening line. The show’s setting and even its own production history are a testament to how society changes over time, while its content shows how much things stay the same. —Matthew Wilson, Director
Godspell September 8–October 2, 2016 Godspell is one of the most successful musicals in history. It presents a whimsical and ultimately inspiring view of Jesus, as His followers and disciples re-enact parables and scenes from Jesus’ life with great energy. The rock musical was an immediate hit when it opened in the spring of 1971 at an off-Broad-way theatre. Several songs from the show, including “Day by Day,” became chart hits.
The Foreigner October 20–November 13, 2016 A pathologically shy young man named Charlie is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So his Army buddy tells the crazy characters at a fishing lodge that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie over-hears more than he should! The nonstop hilar-ity of the play sets up the wildly funny climax.
The Nights Before Christmas December 1–23, 2016 A new original musical—written by Executive Artistic Director Tim Perrino—just in time for Christmas! Filled with romance, heartbreak and mystery, The Nights Before Christmas reveals the dramatic life of Clement C. Moore and the writing of the poem that defined the joy of Christmas for the world, “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” It’s a love story that spans a lifetime, a literary mystery, a celebration of Christmases long gone by—all wrapped up in beautiful songs.
Doubt January 19–February 12, 2017 In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students. A gripping story of suspicion that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award.
Leading Ladies March 9–April 2, 2017 In this 2006 comedy, two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they resolve to pass themselves off as a dying lady’s beloved nephews and get her inher-itance. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren’t neph-ews, but nieces! Romantic entanglements and hilarity abound!
My Fair Lady
April 27–May 21, 2017Based upon George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, the story of Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from Professor Henry Higgins, showcases some of Broadway’s greatest songs, like “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “On the Street Where You Live,” “I’m Get-ting Married in the Morning,” “The Rain In Spain”—just to name a few!
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CINCINNATI LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS – DONORS
DIAMOND LEVEL
($1,000+)
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BarnettDaniel and Sandra
BloomfieldCheviot Savings Charitable
FoundationCincinnati FederalCincinnati Hearing CenterDon Doyle Jr. in memory
of Don Doyle Sr.Driehaus Insurance GroupHagen Dental PracticeMax Hofmeyer PlumbingDeborah MuellerDoug and Cathie RidenourKathleen RodenbergJerry and Melinda StengerSwath DesignTepe Family DentistryTriHealthWestern Hills Lions ClubLaura and Christopher
Zervic
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Jeanette BerningRhonda and Bruce
CortrightAlbert and Debra DuebberJoan FriedmannBob and Sandra HickeyEd and Nicole MulloySkip and Barb NevilleJonathan Papin via the
Key Bank FoundationWendy Turner and
Kimberley PollockPaul and Sue SalladaDee ShafferJill and Paul StaubitzBruce and Jane Stowe Laurence Weber
GOLD LEVEL ($250+)
Tom AshwellDan and Carol BeckmanEric BrickingSusan and Joe BunkeKathleen and Thomas
Chatham in memory of Nancy Chadwick
Susan and Dennis Ehrhardt
Tom and Nancy FinleyElaine HickeyCraig and Janet HigginsJohn and Ginny NiehausBonnie Perrino
Joan and Donald SchmittLinda and Ed WaldvogelJohn and Lisa Weil
SILVER LEVEL ($100+)
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BartholomewJoe and Donna BashorFrederick J. and Mary Jo
Bazeley via the Johnson and Johnson Matching Gift Fund
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BirkenhauerWalter BladosKen and Cathy BlakeleyMilt and Berdie BlerschDale and Joanne BlewettDonald and Patricia
Blum via the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Vicki and Gerry BorgmanRobert and Nancy BrunnerMelissa CarlsonKen and Joanna ColemanSatch and Barb ColettaAlan CordellSusan CranleySteve and Donna
DautermanGriff and Mary Jeanne
DemossSally DessauerCyndy and Don DriehausBryan and Cynthia EbbertJohn and Joan EberleLisa EgnerEvelyn FinneganThe Garriott FamilyTerry GeiserMary Kay GilbertMary GoebelRon and Marcia GrimmerCharles and Charlene
GrisemerAdele GroutMary Lou and Len
Hausman Don and Betty HerbertJune and Jerry HillWayne and Roberta
HinamanLinda HolthausGlenn HonkompRobert and Ruth JonesKenneth and Lois
JostworthJim and Mary Ann KallaMarilyn KaylorMike and Mary Kayse
Terry and Kathy KesslerRay and Marlene KloosJerome KramerPhyllis KuglerMarianne LameyTom and Delores LangeCara LeistPaul and Connie LouisLorraine LukensTracy MacmorineJoan McLeanMarleen and Gary
MentrupAl and Regeana MorganPeggy and Kevin MosherAndy and Allison MotzKaren and Mark MuellerKen and Terry MullenNancy NedrosRobert and Juanita
NieporteJohn and Marianne PeckJerry and Linda PeltonChris and Gail PerrinoMaggie PerrinoElaine and Dick PowersPrimavistaDavid and Laura RapienPaulette and Paul RascheMark and Julie RudemillerBrenda RushfordChristopher and Michelle
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WestendorfJim and Joyce WilliamsonGreg and Kathy WitskenBarbara and David Witte
BRONZE LEVEL ($75+)
Sharon BachmanMary Alice BartishMaggie BeckmeyerRonald and Betty BollingerJudi BurkhalterMrs. Victor CamardoJames CisselJeannie CoxSally Demeropolis in
memory of Kelly Brunner
Bev Deye
Vicki DirrJames S. DurhamKathleen ErnstRichard and Roslyn EvansRick and Rita FreyMona FrickerKathy GinnoneyDianne GlennCathy HanselJane HarbourPatricia HeislerAlice HenkelThomas and Lynn HenslerDon HuberLee and Jan HueganAngela JosephJoe and June KappenLeslie KellerPhyllis S. Konerman in
memory of Pat BrennanDiane LangeTracy MacmorineLisa MassaTheodore MitchelRalph and Connie MoellerNeda and Bruce NutleyDan, Kim and Maddi
O’ConnellBarbara OstertagBonnie and Tom OttenJim PierceCarole PilleJohn and Mary PloehsLois PowellMary Lou RakelJohn RidderDenise RohrCheryl SalzmanJudy and David SchaeferSharon SchwabFrederick and Virgina SloanSusan and Joseph
StevensSteve Tonne – “The
Painter”Helen TrierweilerTara and Jeff TuttleMichael WalkerPann and Terry WebbJoe WegmanJanet WeingartnerBob and Marilyn
WildermuthAmy WoodsLoretta and Mark Young
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