Warsaw Federal Incline Theater 2016 Summer Program

2016 SUMMER CLASSICS SEASON

JUNE 1–26

AUGUST 10–SEPTEMBER 4

JULY 6–31

801 Matson Place – Incline District in East Price Hill Only 8 minutes from downtown!

(513) 241-6550

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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 entertainment attending our Summer Classics Season. And that’s just the beginning. 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 Perrino Executive Artistic Director

SUBSCRIBE TODAY! The 2016 Summer Classics Season at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater Anything Goes, June 1–26, 2016 Baby, July 6–31, 2016 Chicago, August 10–September 4, 2016 Season Sponsor: TriHealth Subscriptions now available—$72 for all three shows Subscribers enjoy: • Best seating • Lowest prices • Free exchanges Call (513) 241-6550 to purchase yours today!

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JUNE 1-26, 2016

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY COLE PORTER • BOOK BY GUY BOLTON, P. G. WODEHOUSE, HOWARD LINDSAY AND RUSSEL CROUSE

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oys-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

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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.

“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

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 Brunner Music Director: Ron Attreau Choreographer: Jeni Schwiers Production Stage Manager: Sayre Frederick

DIRECTOR’S NOTES 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

CLP STAFF Executive Artistic Director Tim Perrino

Facility Staff Kevin Haverbusch

Communications/Development Rodger Pille

Asst. Box Office Manager Daphne Miller

Business Manager/Producer Jennifer Perrino

Box Office Staff Amy Carroll, Jenny Lutes, Matthew Wilson, Sally Stewart, Carissa Gandenberger, Nancy Brunner and Katarina Anhofer

Box Office Manager/Technical Director Denny Reed Production Manager/Sets Brett Bowling

Production Crew Brett Bowling, Kevin Haverbusch and Chase Melendez

Sound Board Operators Denny Reed, Sally Stewart and Rachel Kuhn

Production Office Assistant Matthew Wilson

Costume Designer/Properties Caren Young

House Staff Tiffany McManis

Costume/Prop Assistants Betsy Brunner Kline and Heather McKernan

Photographer Mikki Schaffner

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JULY 6–31, 2016

BOOK BY SYBILLE PEARSON • MUSIC BY DAVID SHIRE • LYRICS BY RICHARD MALTBY JR. • BASED UPON A STORY DEVELOPED WITH SUSAN YANKOWITZ 4 • W A R S A W F E D E R A L I N C L I N E T H E A T E R 2 0 1 6–2 0 1 7

DIRECTOR’S NOTES 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

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s there anything more exciting, frightening and utterly transformational than impending parenthood?

Baby musically examines how parents-tobe 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 Personke Production Stage Manager: Emily Birnstein

“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

ABOUT CINCINNATI LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS stock Showboat Majestic utilizing paid performers 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 patrons 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 cityowned Showboat Majestic.

In September 2014, CLP broke ground on its Cincinnati Landmark Productions (CLP) began new venue, the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater as Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre (CYPT), a in East Price Hill. The new 229-seat venue theatre for teenagers, in 1982. In 1990, CYPT opened on June 3, 2015, to 45 straight sell-out also became the producer for the summer performances.

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AUGUST 10–SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

BOOK BY FRED EBB AND BOB FOSSE • MUSIC BY JOHN KANDER • LYRICS BY FRED EBB • SCRIPT ADAPTATION BY DAVID THOMPSON

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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, ultimately joining forces in search of the American Dream: fame, fortune and acquittal.

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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 Wilson Music Director: John Slate Choreographer: Angela Kahle Production Stage Manager: Jenny Lutes

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

“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.

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-Broadway 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 overhears more than he should! The nonstop hilarity 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 inheritance. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren’t nephews, but nieces! Romantic entanglements and hilarity abound!

My Fair Lady April 27–May 21, 2017 Based 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 Getting 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+) Altenau Financial Services ArtsWave Arnold and Mary Jo Barnett Daniel and Sandra Bloomfield Cheviot Savings Charitable Foundation Cincinnati Federal Cincinnati Hearing Center Don Doyle Jr. in memory of Don Doyle Sr. Driehaus Insurance Group Hagen Dental Practice Max Hofmeyer Plumbing Deborah Mueller Doug and Cathie Ridenour Kathleen Rodenberg Jerry and Melinda Stenger Swath Design Tepe Family Dentistry TriHealth Western Hills Lions Club Laura and Christopher Zervic PLATINUM LEVEL ($500+) Mr. and Mrs. Wayne and Judith Adams Jeanette Berning Rhonda and Bruce Cortright Albert and Debra Duebber Joan Friedmann Bob and Sandra Hickey Ed and Nicole Mulloy Skip and Barb Neville Jonathan Papin via the Key Bank Foundation Wendy Turner and Kimberley Pollock Paul and Sue Sallada Dee Shaffer Jill and Paul Staubitz Bruce and Jane Stowe Laurence Weber GOLD LEVEL ($250+) Tom Ashwell Dan and Carol Beckman Eric Bricking Susan and Joe Bunke Kathleen and Thomas Chatham in memory of Nancy Chadwick Susan and Dennis Ehrhardt Tom and Nancy Finley Elaine Hickey Craig and Janet Higgins John and Ginny Niehaus Bonnie Perrino

Joan and Donald Schmitt Linda and Ed Waldvogel John and Lisa Weil SILVER LEVEL ($100+) Fran Acito AMREIN DIAMONDS Bob and Joan Bartholomew Joe and Donna Bashor Frederick J. and Mary Jo Bazeley via the Johnson and Johnson Matching Gift Fund Howard and Linda Becker Rebecca Bill Joe and Susan Bilz Sharon and Michael Birkenhauer Walter Blados Ken and Cathy Blakeley Milt and Berdie Blersch Dale and Joanne Blewett Donald and Patricia Blum via the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Vicki and Gerry Borgman Robert and Nancy Brunner Melissa Carlson Ken and Joanna Coleman Satch and Barb Coletta Alan Cordell Susan Cranley Steve and Donna Dauterman Griff and Mary Jeanne Demoss Sally Dessauer Cyndy and Don Driehaus Bryan and Cynthia Ebbert John and Joan Eberle Lisa Egner Evelyn Finnegan The Garriott Family Terry Geiser Mary Kay Gilbert Mary Goebel Ron and Marcia Grimmer Charles and Charlene Grisemer Adele Grout Mary Lou and Len Hausman Don and Betty Herbert June and Jerry Hill Wayne and Roberta Hinaman Linda Holthaus Glenn Honkomp Robert and Ruth Jones Kenneth and Lois Jostworth Jim and Mary Ann Kalla Marilyn Kaylor Mike and Mary Kayse

Terry and Kathy Kessler Ray and Marlene Kloos Jerome Kramer Phyllis Kugler Marianne Lamey Tom and Delores Lange Cara Leist Paul and Connie Louis Lorraine Lukens Tracy Macmorine Joan McLean Marleen and Gary Mentrup Al and Regeana Morgan Peggy and Kevin Mosher Andy and Allison Motz Karen and Mark Mueller Ken and Terry Mullen Nancy Nedros Robert and Juanita Nieporte John and Marianne Peck Jerry and Linda Pelton Chris and Gail Perrino Maggie Perrino Elaine and Dick Powers Primavista David and Laura Rapien Paulette and Paul Rasche Mark and Julie Rudemiller Brenda Rushford Christopher and Michelle Schrand Ruth Schwallie Susan Seal Jon and Jackie Seymour Dee Shaffer Jill and Paul Staubitz Bill and Judy Stephenson Jo Ann Strong Susan Tenoever Ruth Tierney Ann Tillman Melinda Turner Maryann Twilling Paul and Beth Weil Mary Jo and Bob Westendorf Jim and Joyce Williamson Greg and Kathy Witsken Barbara and David Witte BRONZE LEVEL ($75+) Sharon Bachman Mary Alice Bartish Maggie Beckmeyer Ronald and Betty Bollinger Judi Burkhalter Mrs. Victor Camardo James Cissel Jeannie Cox Sally Demeropolis in memory of Kelly Brunner Bev Deye

Vicki Dirr James S. Durham Kathleen Ernst Richard and Roslyn Evans Rick and Rita Frey Mona Fricker Kathy Ginnoney Dianne Glenn Cathy Hansel Jane Harbour Patricia Heisler Alice Henkel Thomas and Lynn Hensler Don Huber Lee and Jan Huegan Angela Joseph Joe and June Kappen Leslie Keller Phyllis S. Konerman in memory of Pat Brennan Diane Lange Tracy Macmorine Lisa Massa Theodore Mitchel Ralph and Connie Moeller Neda and Bruce Nutley Dan, Kim and Maddi O’Connell Barbara Ostertag Bonnie and Tom Otten Jim Pierce Carole Pille John and Mary Ploehs Lois Powell Mary Lou Rakel John Ridder Denise Rohr Cheryl Salzman Judy and David Schaefer Sharon Schwab Frederick and Virgina Sloan Susan and Joseph Stevens Steve Tonne – “The Painter” Helen Trierweiler Tara and Jeff Tuttle Michael Walker Pann and Terry Webb Joe Wegman Janet Weingartner Bob and Marilyn Wildermuth Amy Woods Loretta and Mark Young CORPORATE SUBSCRIPTIONS Brinker Animal Hospital Dan Morena, Huff Realty Prism Diamond Group, Todd Forbush

We appreciate your generous donations, which help us to continue to produce the shows you love. We’ve made every effort to keep this list up to date as of April 1, 2016. If we’ve missed listing your generous donation, please contact the Box Office.

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