The Cleveland Play House – CSU Theatre Arts Benefit Selections -- 2007-2008

all productions at The Cleveland Play House 8500 Euclid Avenue
TICKETS: $10.00 for general admission and $5.00 for students
RESERVATIONS/INFORMATION: 216-687-2113 or e-mail g.williams@csuohio.edu
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in the Drury Theatre

Thursday, November 29 at 7:30 p.m.

CHRISTMAS STORY
by Philip Grecian
Directed by Seth Gordon

Based on the Motion Picture Written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown & Bob Clark

Phil Grecian’s stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd’s fond and funny tribute to the original, traditional, 100% red-blooded, All-American Christmas. Join young Ralphie Parker in his quest for the “Holy Grail of Christmas presents”—a genuine Red Ryder 200 Shot Carbine Action Air Rifle with a compass in the stock and “this thing that tells time.” Gaze in wonder at his father’s “major award,” and laugh out loud at the “Triple Dog Dare.”

Based on the movie filmed in Cleveland, this classic holiday comedy is a funny and sweet tale of growing up in the 1940s. A night at the theatre for the whole family.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. in the Drury Theatre

HERSHEY FELDER AS GERSHWIN ALONE
Music & Lyrics by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
Book by Hershey Felder

Directed by Joel Zwick

George Gershwin is arguably America’s greatest composer. A songwriter who made a “lady out of jazz...,” he was equally comfortable in the concert hall, a Broadway theatre, on the Grand Opera stage, and above all, simply improvising and entertaining at a soiree for friends. Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone, brings this story of one of our greatest artists alive onstage through such works as “I Got Rhythm,” “Someone To Watch Over Me,” “Embraceable You,” “’SWonderful,” “The Man I Love,” selections from “Porgy and Bess,” “An American in Paris,” and the complete “Rhapsody in Blue.”

Celebrated on Broadway, in London’s West End, and having broken box office records throughout the United States, George Gershwin Alone will have you singing the night away.

NOTE FROM MICHAEL BLOOM (artistic director of The Cleveland Play House):

An evening that takes you inside the mind and world of a singular American composer and sends you floating on a cloud of beautiful music. Having played the show around the world, Hershey Felder is fast becoming a modern theatre legend.

Any questions can be directed to Ginger Williams