THEATER SPOTS

JUNE 10, 1994

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The Working Theatre's world premiere of Harry Kondoleon's last play, Saved or Destroyed, continues through June 19. This comedy, directed by Working Theatre artistic director Walter E. Grodzik, follows a group of six dissatisfied actors rehearsing a trashy melodrama about two cousins who fall in love during a dysfunctional family vacation. When the actors stop rehearsing, their own lives are revealed to be just as crazy as the characters they've been portraying. Kondoleon then allows the play within a play to merge with the actors' lives. As a result, all are taken on a fantastic dream-like journey through a contemporary landscape of creation, destruction and hope. Kondoleon transforms theatrical reality into a funny, sad, and sometimes frightening world where some are saved and others destroyed.

Saved or Destroyed is being staged at Spaces Gallery, 2200 Superior Viaduct (just north of the intersection of Detroit Ave. and West 25th St, alongside the Veterans Memorial Bridge). Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 pm; Sunday at 3 pm. Tickets are $10, $7.50 students/seniors. (Thursday, June 16 is a benefit performance and reception for the Working Theatre, tickets are $20.) Seating is very limited so reservations are suggested, 6969600.

Guerrilla Theater Company has announced that the final dates for their originally written and produced socio-political theatrical event, Mind Your Own Business, are June 24-25 and July 1-2. The final performances will be a "greatest hits" of the short plays from Mind's seven-month run. Each weekend will feature a different roster of eighteen "hits." There will be one performance per night at 8 pm at the Actors' Gym, 2392 Professor Ave. in the Tremont neighborhood.

The Actors' Gym will be closed the weekends of June 10-11 and 17-18 to prepare for the final shows.

Tickets are $7, or $5 if the audience member is prepared for the "Theme of the Weekend." June 24-25's theme is "inventions" and the theme for July 1-2 is "wet, wet, wet." Parental discretion is advised. Call 574-9003 for information, seating is first come, first served.

The Beck Center is accepting registrations through June 18 for classes and workshops for all ages in dance, drama and the visual arts. The summer season runs through August. Class brochures are available at the Center, 17801 Detroit Ave. in Lakewood, and most local libraries. Call 521-2540 for registration information.

The Beck Center is also holding core company auditions for next season, which includes productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Auntie Mame, and Falsettos, among others. Audition slots of seven minutes each are available June 18, 11 am-5 pm; June 22, 7-10 pm; and June 25, 11 am-5 pm. Prepare one or two brief (one minute each) contemporary monologues. If you wish to be considered for the musicals, prepare a 90 second selection with either sheet music or cassette tape of music. Call 521-2540 to schedule an appointment.

Cleveland Public Theatre is staging God in Little Pieces by Los Angeles playwright Silas Jones through June 25. The play is the final show of their regular season. It's a madcap look at race, gender, theater, art and God. Performances are Thursday-Saturday at 9 (not 8) pm, and Sundays at 7 pm. Tickets are $10, $6 for students/seniors. June 16 and 23 are "cheap Thursdays" with a $3 admission. The theater is at 6415 Detroit Ave. on Cleveland's West Side. 631-2727 for reservations.

The Church of the Redeemer in Cleveland Heights plays host to the world premiere tour of Home: A Parable of Beatrice & Neal. This is an original musical drama portraying the power of love to reconcile Christian discord about homosexuality, written and directed by Timothy McGinley. It's being presented by the Reconciling Congregation Program, a national network of United Methodist churches that welcomes all persons regardless of sexual orientation, for its tenth anniversary.

There is one performance only, Thursday, June 16 at 7:30 pm at the church, 2420 S. Taylor Rd. at Scarborough in Cleveland Hts. A free-will offering is requested to help defray tour expenses and there will be opportunity for discussion following the performance. Call 932-2065 if more information is needed.

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The Broadway benefit reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart is to be released on compact disc next week by Simon & Schuster Audio. The 1993 live benefit reading at Broadway's Roundabout Theatre featured a celebrated group of stage, TV and film talents including Eric Bogosian, Stockard Channing, Harry Hamlin, Kevin Bacon, David Drake, D.W. Moffett, Kevin Geer, Jonathan Hadary, Tony Roberts, and John Turturro. Barbra Streisand provided the introduction and the event was directed by Tony Award-winner Jerry Zaks.

The live reading benefited Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS; all royalties from the recording are also being donated to the organization. The two-CD set lists for $25.

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