Covedale Center for the Performing Arts

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts
Presents
Terry LaBolt and Friends!
A Fond Farewell to Terry LaBolt - A Fundraiser for the Covedale!
August 8, 7pm Cash Bar 8pm Performance after show reception

Broadway's Jessica Hendy and Gina Valentine have been added to the roster of talent scheduled to perform in the "Terry LaBolt & Friends; Farewell Fund-Raiser for the Covedale"

The night will kick off with cocktails in the lobby, followed by a stage concert featuring local favorites Nancy James, Mary Jo Katona, Patti James, Lesley Hitch, Roderick Justice and many more performers - all with a special connection to the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts.

And they’ll all be gathered to give Mr. LaBolt a grand send-off as he leaves Cincinnati to become Professor Terry at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana!

Tickets are $25 for premium rows A – I; $15 for remaining seats. All tickets include hors d’oeuvres after the show. All proceeds benefit the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts Fund.

Josh Borths                          Roderick Justice                 Spring Starr-Pillow
Liz Comstock                        Shannon Kramer                 Alex Sunderhaus
Lesley Hitch                         Mary Jo Katona                   … and other surprises!
Nancy James                        Patricia Linhart
Patti James                          Carol Sherman-Jones

Jessica Hendy has been seen on Broadway in Aida (Amneris), CATS (Grizabella), and AMOUR (Standby to Isabelle). She toured the United States and Canada in Joseph.... (The Narrator). In New York, she received a Bistro award for Get Your Tickets Now, and was given rave reviews for her Cabaret, A Life To Call Your Own. A Cincinnati native, Jessica attended CCM and just finished the run at ETC, The Great American Trailer Park Musical.

Gina Valentine- National Tours: CATS (Final Broadway Tour, Grizabella), I Love New York (Community Concerts Circuit), Into the Woods (Little Red). Gina has recently returned to Cincinnati after living in New York, NY, and she is a graduate of the CCM Musical Theatre program. This spring she appeared as Pickles in The Great American Trailer Park Musical at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati.

Terry LaBolt has conducted Broadway and national touring productions of 42nd Street, Hello, Dolly! (with Carol Channing), George M. (with Joel Grey), and Sugar Babies (with Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney). He is co-author of The Wonder Years – the Musical and was pianist for The Fantasticks Off-Broadway. Recently playing in the national tour of Mamma Mia, he also performed the area premiere of Keith Emerson’s Piano Concerto #1 with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra. At the Covedale he has directed The King & I, Fiddler on the Roof , Tapestry – the Music of Carole King and The Sound of Music. On the Showboat Majestic he has directed A Day in Hollywood/A Night In the Ukraine and Ruthless. Mr. LaBolt was also a professor at the University of Cincinnati’s prestigious College-Conservatory of Music, and is committed to his work with Stop AIDS of Cincinnati. This fall he begins a new post as music director of musical theatre at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He has survived 20 years of living with AIDS, a liver transplant, and 3 Loveboat episodes.

Tickets now on sale! $25.00 for rows A – I; $15.00 for J – U. Reservations are recommended and can be made online by Clicking Here
or at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts Box Office, 4990 Glenway Avenue. Call the box office at 513 241 6550

The Covedale Center for the Performing Arts is division of the non-profit Cincinnati Landmark Productions. Since its founding in 1982, this organization has grown dramatically. Today we are: The production and management company for the Showboat Majestic; The owners and operators of the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts; and Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre teen summer program. CLP also produces events, concerts, children’s programs and an art fair at its two landmark theatres.

Mission Statement: Cincinnati Landmark Productions, through its production management of the Showboat Majestic, the creation of the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts; and Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre, its summer theatre for teenagers provides a continuum of artistic opportunity for performers and technicians while acting as advocate for 1} showboat preservation; 2} bringing cultural and economic benefits to those communities in which its venues reside; and 3} developing young artists through opportunity, training and excellence in production; while enhancing the quality of life for patrons and the Cincinnati area as a whole.

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The Covedale Center for the Performing Arts
Presents
7th Annual Arts & Crafts Fair!

The Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, located at 4990 Glenway Avenue in Western Hills, will hold its 7thAnnual Arts & Crafts Fair Saturday, August 23, 2008, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. 60 local artists will be on hand to display and sell their original works! Mixed media will include: pottery, jewelry, enamel painted iron tiles, woodworks, oils, water colors, graphic art, fiber art, acrylics, photography, ceramics and so much more!

This Fine Arts Fair is a free-to-the-public event, held every year at the end of the summer! Musical artists of various styles will provide the atmosphere, while artists and crafts persons will display/sell their wares outside the building, throughout the lobby, inside the theatre auditorium and on stage. Don’t miss this chance to see AND purchase the works of our local artists!

For more information, or to visit the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, call 513.241.6550