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2017 - 2018 Akron School for the Arts Subscription
*** Main Stage Events
Memphis the Musical
Music & Lyrics by David Bryan
Book & Lyrics by Joe DiPietro
Thursday, October 5, 2017, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 6, 2017, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 7, 2017, 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
From the underground dance clubs of 1950s Memphis, Tennessee, comes the Tony Award winning musical that bursts off the stage with explosive dancing, irresistible songs and a thrilling tale of fame and forbidden love. Inspired by actual events, MEMPHIS is about a white radio DJ who wants to change the world and a black club singer who is ready for her big break. Come along on their incredible journey to the ends of the airwaves filled with laughter, soaring emotion and roof-raising rock n roll.
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Blithe Spirit
A Comedy by Noel Coward
Thursday, December 16, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, November 17, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 18, 7:30 p.m.
The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting happy medium, one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and un-) personalities clash, Charles current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed, passes over, joins Elvira, and the two blithe spirits haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.
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CHICAGO (the Musical)
Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins
Script adaptation by David Thompson
Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, April 6, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 7, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 8, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
In roaring twenties 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. This sharp edged satire features a dazzling score that sparked immortal staging by Bob Fosse.
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*** Second Stage Events
Theatre Kapow - 24 Hour Theatre Project
Saturday, September 23rd, 7:00 p.m.
Theatre Kapow! is the culmination of one 24-hour burst of creativity by our theatre students. Writers, directors, actors, and technicians start with nothing and finish the 24-hour period of time with a series of short plays.
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Silent Sky
by Lauren Gunderson
Friday, December 8, 2017, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 9, 2017, 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isnt allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women computers, charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in girl hours and has no time for the womens probing theories. As Henrietta, in her free time, attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with family obligations and the possibility of love. The true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt explores a womans place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when womens ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. Social progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications; Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers believe in both, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
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All in the Timing: The One-Act Festival
by David Ives
Thursday, January 18, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, January 19, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 19, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
The world according to David Ives is a very odd place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud."
At once enchanting and perplexing, incisively intelligent and side-splittingly funny, this original evening of theatre includes plays titled "Sure Thing," "Words, Words, Words," "The Universal Language," "Variations on the Death of Trotsky," "The Philadelphia," and "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread."
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LocationFirestone Community Learning Center - Linda B. Kersker Auditorium (high school) (View)
470 Castle Blvd
Akron, OH 44313
United States
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