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NWT Announces 2010-2011 Season

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Near West Theatre is proud to announce
The 2010-2011 Season!

Fall Intergenerational Musical  WILLY WONKA

November 19- December 5, 2010
Auditions*: September 7-9, 2010 (Ages 7- up)

Music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
Adapted for the stage by Leslie Bricusse and Tim McDonald
Based on the book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl’s timeless cautionary indictment of greed, the story of the world-famous candy man and his quest to find an heir comes to life in this musical stage adaptation of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.

One evening, the village paper’s headline states that Wonka is holding a contest, in which five Golden Tickets are hidden under the wrappers of his candy bars.   The contest becomes a worldwide mania, with people resorting to increasingly desperate and unscrupulous measures, to find the tickets. The first four are found by four hard-to-like children: the gluttonous Augustus Gloop, spoiled Veruca Salt, gum-addicted Violet Beauregarde, and television-obsessed Mike Teavee.  Our hero, Charlie, one cold night in the snow, magically, finds the 5th! This tale is a frothy, thoughtful blend of scary and fun for children and adults.

Hit songs include “Pure Imagination” and “The Candy Man” and featured, of course, are those mysterious factory workers known as… the Oompa Loompas!

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A two week winter Musical Theatre Camp

January 16-28, 2010

Ages 9-12 Fee: $50

Spring Older Teen & Adult Musical

into the woods
May 6-22, 2011
Auditions*: February 22-24, 2011 (Ages 16 & Up)

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
An ambivalent Cinderella? A blood-thirsty Little Red Riding Hood? A Prince Charming with a roving eye?  A Witch…who raps? They’re all among the cockeyed characters in James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s fractured fairy tale. When a Baker and his Wife learn they’ve been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk). Everyone’s wish is finally granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later, with disastrous results. What begins as a lively irreverent fantasy becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children.

Summer Youth Theatre
miss saigon

July 22-August 7, 2011
Auditions*: May 24-26, 2011 (Ages 13 entering high school - 19)

Music by Claude-Michel Schonberg
Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and Alain Boublil
Adapted from the original French lyrics by Alain Boublil
Additional material by Richard Maltby Jr.
Orchestrations by William D. Brohn
Originally produced on the stage by Cameron Mackintosh
*This production licensed by Josef Weinberger Ltd. on behalf of Music Theatre International and Cameron Mackintosh Ltd.*

Miss Saigon brings Puccini’s Madame Butterfly to post-millennium America in a moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit.  In the final chaos of the Vietnam War, an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl fall in love, only to be separated during the fall of Saigon. This is an intimate story of love, war, loyalty, survival and a mother’s drive to give her child a future of promise.  Raw and uncompromising, Miss Saigon is an intense experience of the losses suffered and the sacrifices made in a fearful world using violence to achieve peace.  Songs include:  “The Movie In My Mind,” “Sun & Moon” and “The Last Night of the World.”

*= Auditions for Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka & Miss Saigon will be held at

Near West Theatre’s performance location:
St. Patrick’s Club Building, 3606 Bridge Ave., 3rd Fl.** in Ohio City.

Audition location for Into the Woods is TBD.

For more information on auditions, visit www.nearwesttheatre.org.
* *= Currently, our 3rd floor location is not accessible to individuals in wheelchairs or those who have difficulty with stairs.

For more information on the
Near West Theatre 2010-2011 Season,
visit www.nearwesttheatre.org after August 9.

Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka, Into The Woods and Miss Saigon are presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).  All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.  421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019   Phone: 212-541-4684  Fax: 212-397-4684  www.MTIShows.com

NWT proudly presents ‘RENT School Edition’

July 21st, 2010 § 0

Visit NWT homepage for complete information

July 23, 24, 29, 30, 31,

August 6, 7 & 8

Thurs., Fri. & Sat. @ 7:30 pm

Sun. @ 3:00 pm


Tickets: $8 Adults
$6 Children (12 & under)

Performance Location:

St. Patrick’s Club Building
3606 Bridge Ave.- 3rd Fl.
Cleveland, Ohio

Puchase Tickets

Performed entirely by students
Book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Musical arrangements Steve Skinner
Original concept/additional lyrics Billy Aronson
Music supervision and additional arrangements Tim Weil
Dramaturg Lynn Thomson
RENT was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon and New York Theatre Workshop

July 23 – August 8, 2010

“There’s only us, there’s only this.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
No other road, no other way. No day, but today.” – Mimi

Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini’s opera La Bohème. In its examination of the lifestyles of the young men and women who inhabit the slums of the Village, the play becomes a celebration of life and the heroic struggle to survive.

The day Jonathan Larson (creator of Rent) died….
“The audience was reaching out to the cast. They were crying and cheering. By the second act, it was no longer contained. It was the full show run full-out. If emotion could have become a physical force, the roof would have blown off, the weather would have changed. The second act ended. There was a huge ovation, the cast slowly left the stage, and the audience stayed in the theater. No one was sure what to do. The cast returned and sat down in the front row. Finally, a single voice called from the audience, ‘Thank you, Jonathan Larson,’ which brought the evening’s loudest, final burst of applause.”

To purchase tickets, call: 216-961-6391

Acting Like a Family

May 17th, 2007 § 0

Near West Theatre Puts Community, sense of belonging at center of its art

The Plain Dealer
Thursday, May 17 2007
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