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THEATER SPOTS

Summer theater

-by Barry Daniels

Berea Summer Theatre is offering a season of six productions at the BaldwinWallace College Art and Drama Center. This is a college-community theatre company that does light comedy and musicals. Frank Loesser's musical satire How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying plays June 22-July 3. Rags, by Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz, is a revival of the production of this musical about Jewish immigrants that played at the Jewish Community Center in May. It will play July 13-August 1. Dick Deadeye, or Mutiny on the Pinafore, playing August 10-29, is the world premiere of a musical that takes characters and songs from various Gilbert and Sullivan works and joins them in a new plot. It will feature Victor Spinelli, a noted professional actor from England. Moss Hart's comedy, Light Up the Sky, plays June 29-July 11. Jerry's Girls, a revue of Jerry Herman's songs from such musicals as La Cage aux Folles, Hello Dolly, and Mame, will play July 20-Aug 8. The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, a comic murder mystery by John Bishop, plays August 17-29. There is a $99 subscription that provides two tickets for each of the productions. Individual tickets are $11 and $12 (Friday and Saturday). For information and reservations telephone 826-2240.

Porthouse Theatre Company is produced by Kent State University in a covered pavilion on the grounds of the Blossom Music Center. It is a pleasant spot for a picnic and catered meals can be ordered through the box office. The company includes a core of professional actors. This twenty-fifth anniversary season hardly has the range from "Shakespeare to exciting new works" promised on the brochure's statement of the company's philosophy. It opens with the campy musical spoof Dames at Sea, June 18-July 3. The second production is Foxfire, a story of Appalachian life by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn, with songs by Jonathan Holtzman, July 9-24. The season closes with Amadeus, Peter Shaffer's award-winning melodrama about the confrontation between Mozart and Salieri, July 30-August 15. Subscription prices range from $24-$36; single tickets from $9-$15. For information and reservations, telephone 929-4416.

Local Theater

Cain Park will host two productions staged by Victoria Bussert of the Great Lakes Theatre Festival. The first, You're Gonna Love Tomorrow: A Stephen Sondheim Evening, will be performed in the Alma Theatre, June 17 June-August 1. Tickets are $10 and $12 if purchased in advance; $12 and $14 on the day of performance. Cole Porter's Anything Goes, with its sparkling and witty score, will be performed in the Evans Amphitheater, August 5-15. Tickets are $8, $10, and $12, if

purchased in advance; $10, $12, and $14, on the day of performance. For information and reservations telephone 371-3000.

Cleveland Lyric Opera is to be commended for putting together what looks to be a distinguished, nicely balanced, and thoroughly engaging season. It stands in delightful contrast to the rather innocuous repertoires of Cleveland's other summer theaters and is well worth the subscription prices which range from $40 to $75 for three productions. The season opens with Leonard Bernstein's Candide, June 8-19. It is surely the most accomplished score ever written for the musical theater. The second

production is Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, July 1-10. This opera was first produced in 1762, and introduced a simplicity and directness that was in opposition to the then popular ornate and pompous traditions of Baroque opera. Lastly, the company will present the world premier of a music theatre piece by Libby Larsen, Mrs. Dalloway, based on Virginia Woolf's novel. Performances are at the Kulas Auditorium of the Cleveland Institute of Music, July 22-31. Opening and Saturday performances start at 7 pm, and have a one hour intermission which allows for "al fresco" dining. Patrons can order picnic dinners catered by Piperade for $15 through the box office. For information and reservations telephone 231-2910.

Barry Daniels' review of the 1993 Performance Art Festival, published in the May 14 Chronicle, underwent editing which altered its original structure and clouded the stylistic presentation the reviewer intended. The editors plead boorishness and regret the alteration.

OUTINGS

The Cleveland Theatre Company is staging a new play by award-winning author Lee Blessing: Two Rooms. It's a timely, cutting edge, contemporary play about an American hostage in Beirut, starring husband and wife acting team Tom and Carol Fulton. Directed by Evie McElroy, performances are Friday and Saturday at 8:30 pm, Sundays at 2:30 and 7:30 pm, through July 3 at the Jewish Community Center, 3505 Mayfield Rd, Cleveland Heights. 371-4333.

That's not to be confused with the West Side's Cleveland Public Theatre, which is offering Karmic Games, a madcap new musical comedy that brings a whole different meaning to the term "Bad Karma." Watch contestants spin the Wheel Of Fortune in this hysterical romp through time, written by local comedic playwright

Michael Sepesy and directed by Amanda Shaffer. Performances are through June 27, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, senior, all seats $2 on Thursdays. 6415 Sundays at 3 pm. $8 regular, $5 student or

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