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Incline District theater to break ground Sept. 16 By Kurt Backscheider kbackscheider@communitypress.com
Tim Perrino, executive artistic director of Cincinnati Landmark Productions, stands on the future site of the theater group’s performing arts center in East Price Hill’s Incline District. The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater is set to open in June 2015. Construction of the $6 million theater begins this September. FILE PHOTO
EAST PRICE HILL — The West Side’s newest theater is scheduled to open next summer and the lineup of premiere shows is set. Cincinnati Landmark Productions, owners and operators of the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, will break ground on its new Warsaw Federal Incline Theater in East Price Hill on Sept. 16. The $6 million, 220-seat performing arts center and parking garage will be built at the corner of Matson Place and West Eighth Street, in the Incline District. Rodger Pille, spokesman for Cincinnati Landmark Productions, said the theater will be programmed year-round and
offer more than 120 show nights. The theater will feature a Summer Classics Season, a four-show Main Stage subscription season designed to complement the main season at the Covedale and one-night concerts, comedy events and cabarets, he said. “It’s been a long road to get to this point,” Pille said. “Now we’re no longer talking about ‘ifs,’ but talking about ‘whens.’” The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater’s premiere Summer Classics Season will consist of three productions – “The Producers” will run June 3-21, 2015; “1776” will run July 8-26, and “9 to 5” takes the stage Aug. 12-30. The summer season will eventually be expanded to include four shows. “I look forward to adding this sensational new venue to the
Cincinnati performing arts landscape,” said Tim Perrino, executive artistic director of Cincinnati Landmark Productions. “This lineup is the perfect summer-stock slate of great musicals, sure to bring thousands of people to this inaugural season and to the exciting Incline District. More than ever, this really is a neighborhood on the rise.” When the production group started discussing the possibility of opening another performance venue, Pille said they initially considered other neighborhoods in the city, but quickly dismissed those ideas. “Our heart is in Price Hill,” he said. In talking to community See THEATER, Page A2
HARVEST HOME PARADE READY TO MARCH THROUGH CHEVIOT By Kurt Backscheider kbackscheider@communitypress.com
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
CHEVIOT — Get out those
lawn chairs and prepare to stake a claim of prime curbside real estate along Harrison Avenue or North Bend Road. Scores of West Siders will once again descend upon Cheviot for the annual Harvest Home Parade. The parade begins marching at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4. As always, it starts at the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Bridgetown Road, makes its way up Harrison, hangs a left on North Bend Road and ends at Harvest Home Park. “We have a great parade lineup this year, with more entries than last year,” said Kiwanis Club of Cheviot-Westwood member Dave Backer, longtime chairman of the parade. He said this is the 57th annual installment of the parade, which kicks off the 155th annual Harvest Home Fair. The fair opens Thursday night after the parade and runs through Sunday, Sept. 7. This year’s theme is “We Focus on Helping Children,” Backer said. “That’s basically the Kiwanis Club’s main goal, all throughout the world,” he said. “We are all about supporting programs to help children.” While the Kiwanis Club of Cheviot-Westwood never divulges the number of entries in the parade, he said it has 10 divisions. Each division is led by an area high school marching band, and he said this year’s entrants include all the traditional favorites that make the parade such a hit on the West Side. Members of the Syrian Shrine will entertain the crowd
William B. Khepp, a town crier, got last year’s Harvest Home Parade started. Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Cheviot-Westwood, the 57th annual parade begins this year at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, in Cheviot. FILE PHOTO
with its clowns and miniature vehicles, area Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops will march, local police and fire departments will sound the sirens on their cruisers and fire engines, veterans groups will receive due recognition from the crowds, dance teams and cheerleading squads will perform as they march, community organizations and businesses will show off their decorated floats, Model A Ford club members will drive antique cars and area politicians will wave to constituents. Backer said a special entry at the front of this year’s parade is
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Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes and a group resembling the Fab Four. The Kiwanis Club is celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles performing in Cincinnati as part of this year’s fair. Rhodes helped bring the group to town in 1964. The grand marshal of this year’s parade is Kiwanis member and Green Township resident Edward Burke. “He’s very deserving of the honor,” Backer said. “We were happy to name Ed as the grand marshal this year.” Burke served as an Army officer in World War II and com-
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manded a tank battalion during the D-Day invasion at Normandy. He rose to the rank of an Army Major during the war and was awarded dozens of medals and commendations for his service, including the Silver Star for gallantry in action. Burke said he typically watches the parade from North Bend Road, but he looks forward to riding in a convertible during it this year. “I just hope we have good weather,” he said. It was quite a surprise to
» When: This year’s fourday fair runs Thursday, Sept. 4, through Sunday, Sept. 7, at Harvest Home Park in Cheviot. » New this year: Madcap Puppets in Westwood has also partnered with the fair association this year, will participate in the Harvest Home Parade Sept. 4 and have giant walking puppets making their way throughout the fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday. » 50th anniversary of The Beatles performing in Cincinnati. Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes, who was instrumental in bringing the group to town in 1964, will be at the fair Sunday evening to share stories and serve as the master of ceremonies when Beatles tribute band Eight Days a Week takes the stage from 7-10 p.m. » Fair events still include the 4-H livestock exhibit and auction, the horse show, art show, flower show, general exhibits and a variety of stage shows. Area bands will perform live every night at the fair. » “We’re returning to the fair’s roots,” Fair Chairman Randy Dunham said. » Visit www.harvesthomefair.com for more information about this year’s fair.
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