Saturday, January 16, 2021

ROY BERKO: THEATER HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE—BECK CENTER/BWU, GLT, CVLT, OHIOSHAK and more…

 


 

TENTH COLLABORATION OF BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY MUSIC THEATRE PROGRAM AND BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Beck Center for the Arts announces its tenth collaboration with Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program, in the form of virtual world premieres of five fifteen-minute brand new musicals, chosen by National Alliance for Musical Theatre.

This limited virtual engagement runs February 12 to February 28, 2021 on any device in the comfort of your home. 

For more information on this world premiere musical theater project please visit beckcenter.org. Tickets, priced at $20 for one viewer, and $30 for two or more viewers, and $40 for arts lovers who want to support Beck Center can be purchased at https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/44593.

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GREAT LAKES THEATER’S 2021-22 SEASON

 
GLT will commence in the fall with the jazzy musical celebration of Fats Waller, Ain’t Misbehavin,’ presented in repertory with Shakespeare’s sublime battle of wits and wills, Much Ado About Nothing (September 24 – November 7, 2021). The annual production of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, A Christmas Carol (November 26 - December 23, 2021) will bisect the season. The winter/spring of 2022 will feature Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee, a Hercule Poirot thriller, (February 11 – March 6, 2022) followed by Shakespeare’s enchanting romantic comedy, As You Like It (March 25 – April 10, 2022) and Off-Broadway’s effervescent ‘50s jukebox musical, The Marvelous Wonderettes (April 29 – May 22, 2022).   

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CHAGRIN VALLEY LITTLE THEATRE WILL PRESENT ELLIOT & ME - A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY - ONLINE IN FEBRUARY

CVLT, in conjunction with Hudson Theatre Works of Weehawken, NJ, will offer a special online presentation of ELLIOT & ME - a new musical comedy by Steven Willensky and Scott Coulter with music by Elliot Willensky.  The musical is filled with humor, colorful personalities, unexpected situations, and uplifting musical moments in a heartfelt story of brotherly love. 

The production will be available to stream for a $20 admission from Thursday, February 18 at 6 PM through midnight on Sunday, February 21 at CVLT.org.

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DR. FAUCI’S BELIEF ABOUT THE THEATRE SEASON

During a virtual conference presented by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals January 9, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said he believed that theatres could be safe to open for business sometime in the fall, according to The New York Times.
That prediction, however, depends on the rollout of the vaccine and the country reaching herd immunity, vaccinating between 70 and 85 percent of the country.


“If everything goes right, [herd immunity] will occur sometime in the fall of 2021,” Dr. Fauci said, “so that by the time we get to the early to mid-fall, you can have people feeling safe performing onstage as well as people in the audience.”

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OHIO SHAKESPEARE PRESENTS LIVE RADIO PLAY

Lady Molly is perhaps the most brilliant detective mind of her time; but the “lads” of Scotland Yard have a hard time recognizing that. In their very first adventure, she and her Watson-esque partner Mary Granard are called in as a last resort to solve a seemingly unsolvable mystery. Based on the 1910 story by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (who also wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel.) 



 

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