Covedale Center for the Performing Arts 2010 – 2011 Subscription Season!
Evita September 30 – October 17, 2010 Lyrics by Tim Rice; Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Unnecessary Farce October 28 – November 14, 2010 By Paul Slade Smith A Christmas Story December 2 – 22, 2010 By Philip Grecian. Based on the movie A Christmas Story, Written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark Brighton Beach Memoirs January 20 – February 6, 2011 By Neil Simon SHOUT!-The Mod Musical February 24 – March 13, 2011 Co-Creators Phillip George and David Lowenstein; Continuity, Peter Charles Morris Annie Get Your Gun March 31 – April 17, 2011 Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin Book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields
Subscriptions on sale now - $102 for all 6 shows! July 12, 2010 - Current Subscriber Renewal Deadline August 9, 2010 - Individual show tickets go on sale; Season tickets mailed. Single ticket prices are $21 Adults and $19 for Seniors & Students Performances run for 3 weeks. Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8pm Sundays @ 2pm. Wednesday @8pm on third week. Call the Box Office 513-241-6550 Monday thru Saturday, 11am - 5pm
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Evita September 30 – October 17, 2010 Lyrics by Tim Rice; Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Argentina's controversial First Lady comes to life in this musical masterpiece. At the age of fifteen, Eva Peron escaped her dirt-poor existence for the bright lights of Buenos Aires. Driven by ambition and blessed with charisma, she was a starlet at twenty-two, the president's mistress at twenty-four, First Lady at twenty-seven, and dead at thirty-three. But Eva "saint to the working-class, reviled by the aristocracy and mistrusted by the military" left a fascinating legacy, unique in the 20th century - a story told via a dynamic score that includes “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”, “Another Suitcase in Another Hall” and “The Night of a Thousand Stars”.
Unnecessary Farce October 28 – November 14, 2010 By Paul Slade Smith Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. Go! In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room, who's being videotaped, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes. This zany comedy has more twists than a bag full of Twizzlers!
A Christmas Story December 2 – 22, 2010 By Philip Grecian. Based on the movie A Christmas Story, Written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!” Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in 1940’s Indiana, follows Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case to his mother, his teacher and Santa Claus himself at Goldblatt's Department Store. All the elements from the beloved movie are here - the family's temperamental furnace, the school bully Scut Farkas, the boys' bet with a wet tongue on an icy lamppost, the Little Orphan Annie decoder ring; Ralphie's father winning “a major award” – the lady’s leg lamp in a fishnet stocking! A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.
Brighton Beach Memoirs January 20 – February 6, 2011 By Neil Simon The first play in Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy is still his best, filled with riotous humor, sweet memories and deep compassion for the times and family who have gone before him. It’s a portrait of the playwright as a teen in 1937, living with his family in a lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with his mundane family life in Brooklyn - his formidable mother, his overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters and Grandpa-the-Socialist and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling household where, as his father states "if you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't be living here." Simon’s finest play.
SHOUT! – The Mod Musical February 24 – March 13 2011 Co-Creators Phillip George and David Lowenstein; Continuity, Peter Charles Morris SHOUT! flips through the years like a music magazine, taking you back to the sound, the fashion and the freedom of the 60's! This smashing revue tracks five groovy gals as they come of age during the days that made England swing! Join this non-stop journey through the infectious pop anthems that made household names of stars like Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield and Lulu. SHOUT! Features new arrangements of such chart-topping hits as "To Sir With Love," "Downtown," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," "Son of A Preacher Man," “These Boots Are Made for Walking”, “Alfie”, The Look of Love”, "Goldfinger," and more! It’s an irresistible blend of hip-swiveling hits, eye-popping fashions and psychedelic dances from the 60's.
Annie Get Your Gun March 31 – April 17, 2011 Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin Book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields Annie Oakley is the best shot around, and she supports her little brother and sisters by selling the game she hunts. When she's discovered by Buffalo Bill Cody, he persuades the girl sharpshooter to join his Wild West Show. It only takes one glance for her to fall for dashing shooting ace Frank Butler, who headlines the show. She soon eclipses Butler as the main attraction which is good for business, but bad for romance. Ultimately, a final shoot-out determines course of fame and true love! The musical showcases some of Irving Berlin’s greatest tunes – “There’s No Business Like Show Business”, “I Got the Sun in the Morning (and the Moon at Night)”, “Anything You Can Do”, “They Say It’s Wonderful”, “The Girl That I Marry” and many more.