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By Kim Margolis
| Friday, November 6, 2009, 06:01 PM
Children can win free tickets to the Dayton Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’ by entering a coloring contest.
Dayton Ballet and WHIO-TV are sponsoring the Sugar Plum Fairy Coloring Contest in conjunction with Dayton Ballet’s The Nutcracker which returns to the Benjamin and Marion Schuster Performing Arts Center December 11-20.
Children ages 4-10 may apply by downloading the coloring page available by clicking the link in the upper right corner on the ballet’s website www.daytonballet.org or by submitting their original artwork representing The Nutcracker theme.
The deadline is Saturday, Nov. 28 at 5 p.m.
The dancers will select the winners.
Winners will receive four tickets to The Nutcracker, four tickets to the Behind the Magic Backstage Tour and an autographed keepsake from the Sugarplum Fairy and the Dayton Ballet Dancers.
Each submission must include the child’s name, age, address, city, state, zip code and parent or guardian phone number or email on the reverse side.
Entries should be sent or delivered to Sugar Plum Fairy Coloring Contest c/o Dayton Ballet, 140 N. Main Street, Dayton, OH 45402 or by email to diane.schoeffler-warren@daytonballet.org.
Only one entry per child will be accepted. The winners will be announced on Tuesday, Dec. 1.
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By Terry Morris
| Thursday, November 5, 2009, 01:22 PM
The U.S. Air Force Band of Flight will present a “War in Remembrance” concert Nov. 6 and 7 in honor of Veterans Day.
The performances will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Modern Flight Gallery of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, located on Springfield Street, six miles northeast of downtown Dayton.
The program will include war-themed music from Biblical times to today, including the Revolutionary War march “Chester Overture for Band,” “the Vietnam memorial “Heroes, Lost and Fallen” and the Tuskeegee Airmen tribute “Let Me Fly,” sung by Staff Sgt. Felita Rowe.
Admission and parking are free, but seating is limited to 1,200. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Call (937) 255-5924 for more information.
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By Terry Morris
| Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 03:09 PM
Youth tryouts for roles as munchkins and flying monkeys in local performances of a touring production of “Oz: The Musical” will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, and 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 33 E. Fifth St.
Kids ages 6 to 16 are eligible. There is no fee. Up to 200 will be cast.
The show was written and directed by Todrick D. Hall, who performed on Broadway in the musical “A Color Purple.” “Theater has consumed my life since my childhood. I want to give other kids a chance to try it,” he said.
The production will include six featured performers in the main roles: Aundrea Fimbres of Danity Kane as Dorothy, Nathaniel Flatt of V-Factory as Tinman, Orlando Brown of the Disney Channel’s “That’s So Raven” as the Lion, Ryne Sanborn of “High School Musical 1, 2 and 3” as the Wizard, Vonzell “Baby Z” Solomon as Glinda/Aunt Em, and Thayne Jasperson of “So You think You Can Dance” and “HSM 1 and 2” as Scarecrow.
Hall said the show is a contemporary version. “Everyone has a cell phone. Glinda is a news reporter who comes to cover the landing of the Witch of the East Side. There are three doo-wop girls and 14 original songs in styles from country and r&b to Latin and musical theater.”
The show will open in Dayton and move on to six other cities. One of the sponsors here is the Jeanette Popp School of Dance, where rehearsals will take place.
Performances will be Dec. 4-6 at the Dayton Convention Center Theatre. Tickets are $20 and will go on sale Nov. 9 through Ticketmaster.
More information about the show and audition requirements is available at www.ozthemusical.com.
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By Terry Morris
| Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 02:51 PM
Talent scouts from Cedar Point amusement park will seek entertainers and technicians during auditions from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, at Wright State University. Location is Room T251 in the Creative Arts Center.
Singers, dancers, musicians, stage managers, sound and light technicians, stage crew members, costume personnel, people to play “Peanuts” characters, karaoke hosts, DJs and ushers will be hired for th 2010 season.
Applicants must be at least 18 by May 2010. Audition pieces will be limited to between 16 and 32 bars of music. A CD player and piano will be available.
Those who can’t attend tryouts can can send audio and/or videotape with a resume to: Cedar Point Live Entertainment, One Cedar Point Drive, Sandusky, OH 44870-5259. For more information, contact the Live Entertainment Division at (419) 627-2388, by e-mail at liveshows@cedarpoint.com or online at cedarpoint.com.
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By Terry Morris
| Monday, November 2, 2009, 03:38 PM
You won’t have to ride a roller coaster to land a job at Kings Island next season.
You will have to audition.
Tryouts and interviews for prospective singers, dancers, entertainers, costumed Peanuts characters, costumers, sound operators, lighting operators and stage crew members will be Nov. 13-15 at the park.
Here’s the schedule:
Nov. 13: 5 to 7:30 p.m. — singers, atmosphere entertainers, Peanuts characters, technicians and costumers; 7:30 p.m. — dancers.
Nov. 14: 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. — singers, atmosphere acts, Peanuts characters, technicians, costumers; 2 p.m. — dancers.
Nov. 15: 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. — singers, atmosphere acts, Peanuts characters, technicians, costumers; 2 p.m. — dancers.
Times listed are for registration. Auditions will be limited to two minutes and take place in order of arrival within the talent category, but the process may take a long time. Be prepared to wait. Applicants must be at least 15.
Kings Island is located at 6300 Kings Island Drive, Kings Island 54034, just off I-71 between Cincinnati and Dayton.
For more information about what to prepare and bring, call the Kings Island’s Entertainment Department at (513) 754-5740 or visit www.visitkingsisland.com.
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By Kim Margolis
| Monday, November 2, 2009, 11:10 AM
Keith Urban is the first artist to commit to perform at Country Concert at Hickory Hill Lakes in July 2010.
Urban will play in a Saturday night slot, designated for the headliners of the concert.
The rest of the lineup will be determined over the next several months for the event which has gone on for more than 30 years at Fort Loramie.
Also, the concert will now be a three-day event instead of the traditional four-day concert. At the end of each concert, attendees are given a survey and according to Country Concert organizers, the was “overwhelming popular demand” that the concert take place over three days.
So, Country Concert will be held, Thursday, July 8, Friday, July 9 and Saturday, July 10.
The new three-day tickets are priced the same as last year’s three-day tickets. There are a lot more ticket packages, so go to CountryConcert.com for more information.
Tickets go on sale November 23.
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By Terry Morris
| Friday, October 30, 2009, 12:01 PM
There’s nothing pink about the Dayton Ballet’s program “Tales from the Shadows.”
Dark as a raven’s feathers is more like it.
The double dance-drama premiere that opened the company’s 72nd season Thursday, Oct. 29, took inspiration from literature — stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Both ballets depicted men battling dual identities.
Christopher Fleming’s hour-long “Myth and the Madness of Edgar Allan Poe” portrayed Poe (Justin Michael Koertgen) as increasingly ruled by his imagination and mental instability, elicited by the Raven (Keenan McLaren in a performance of sharp focus and attack).
Danced to a conglomeration of recorded music ranging from the sublime to the odd, harsh and grating, the ballet contained several strong sections and some that served little purpose but to repeat movements that didn’t contribute much to the narrative.
One segment clearly based on “The Tell-Tale Heart” showed a man “buried” under layers of cloth that represent the floorboards in Poe’s story. Another showed Poe being intentionally separated from his mother by the Raven and her ensemble, a necessary step in his evolution as a writer.
Other featured roles were done by Katie Keith (Poe’s mother), Christy Forehand (his wife), Erika Cole (his muse, a potentially fertile role usurped by the Raven), and Grant Dettling as Poe’s surrogate father and, later, as the title character in “The Masque of Red Death.”
Karen Russo Burke’s “Hyding Inside” was less ambitious, simpler and more consistent.
It featured Dettling as “Dr. J.” and Dillon Anthony as his primitive doppelganger, “Mr. H.” The two halves began to diverge after a quartet of drunks and harlots (Robert Morrow, Christy Forehand, Erica Lehman and Christian Delery) accosted Dr. J. for money on the street, then injected him with a hypodermic they found in his bag.
He then began to pull away from civilized behavior and his fiancee (Halliet Slack), who was left to worry and to glance longingly at her engagement ring.
Unlike Poe, who was drawn ever farther from his origins as Fleming’s ballet proceeded, Dr. J. did eventually fuse his split when the 30-minute piece to music by Mussorgsky, Janacek and Berners ended with a scene in the forest.
Dettling was all clarity in his portrayal. Anthony, perhaps inescapably, was more of a comic book character. Slack was a woman with few options. Choreography for the ensemble was well done and reinforced the telling of a well-known story.
At least for the Dayton Ballet, Halloween is a serious and literary holiday this season. Lighter, happier fare will have to wait until “Nutcracker.”
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The company will present the program again at 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct 31, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, at the Victoria Theatre, First and Main streets. Tickets are $20-$70
Call (937) 228-3630 or order online at www.ticketcenterstage
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