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WHEN 8:00 PM, Friday, March 1 8:00 PM, Saturday, March 2 3:00 PM, Sunday, March 3 WHERE Central State University 1400 Brush Row Road, Wilberforce, Ohio 45384 Robeson Hall-‐Auditorium TICKETS $1.00 Students w/ ID $10 General Admission On sale starQng February 19! INFO [email protected] With the 2013 CSU Theatre Arts: Marauder Pride on Stage producQon of Ain’t Misbehavin,’ we celebrate the culminaQon of Black History Month. At Central State University, African American history is kept alive in each ConvocaQon and Commencement ceremony, in each University InsQtute and faculty Senate meeQng, and in each student and colleague. The meaning of Black History Month is incomprehensible in its incalculable scope of loss and survival, suffering and determinaQon, injusQce and triumph. Black History Month is a necessary, miraculous, and insufficient event in the Qmeline of the slowly, and conQnually awakening human consciousness. Black History Month is a private meditaQon, a family celebraQon, a community acQon, a cultural grieving, healing, and hoping. Black History Month is a mirror for each person and for the global populaQon to consider its integrity. Black History Month is a chorus of voices saying, singing, shouQng, “We name ourselves!” Black History Month is a silence...laughter...a prayer...applause. Based on the original Broadway show, the CSU version of Ain’t Misbehavin’ is set in the Harlem Renaissance in the neighborhood of Sugar Hill, partly in a Co^on Club-‐like venue and partly outside of a Brownstone. The storyline of CSU’s Ain’t Misbehavin’ is the result of a team collaboraQon led by Vocal Music Director Christopher G. Smith (2011 CSU alum) and Director John Fleming, and features twelve performers who, accompanied by Ramon Key’s Stage Band, will carry the 30 songs in the show. Drawing from all four Colleges at CSU, the members of the cast and crew are students majoring in AccounQng (COB), Biology (CSE), CommunicaQon (CHAS), Criminal JusQce (CHAS), Early Childhood EducaQon (COE), Jazz Studies (CHAS), Manufacturing Engineering CSE), Music EducaQon (CHAS), Music Performance (CHAS), Psychology (CHAS), as well as Dr. Rose Morgan-‐Woody, Psychology faculty member, and Christopher G. Smith. Thanks to Title III funds, a fully equipped set/scenery shop will be installed in the back of Robeson Auditorium, making the Ain’t Misbehavin’ producQon the first in over twenty-‐five years to have its set, scenery, and props built in-‐house. The sound system renovaQon has been completed, and we conQnue to enjoy the benefits of state-‐of-‐the-‐art theatrical lighQng, stage curtains, scrim, cyclorama, line set, Green Room, band room acousQcal panels, band chairs, stabilized orchestra pit lii, and security system, all otherwise impossible without the Title III grant. Through partnerships with community organizaQons Zoot Theatre Company and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC), we have mounted annual fully-‐staged theatrical producQons Ain’t Got No Shame (2010, student-‐wri^en), Trouble in Tahi8 (2011), with the addiQon of director and John Fleming of the Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse (YSKP), The Wiz (2012), and the upcoming producQon of Ain’t Misbehavin:’ The Fats Waller Musical Show. These producQons provide CSU students with crucial opportuniQes to develop and present their dynamic talents, skills, and energy, strengthening CSU as a vibrant center of excellence in learning, creaQng, communicaQng, and serving, and increasing African American presence in the global theatrical arts field. ~Lee Hoffman
CREW Ronel Frost: Crew-‐ Backstage (Police) Nakita Harris: Crew-‐LighQng LaVonté Heard: House Manager Cierra Howard: Crew-‐Sound Damarla Lamar: Crew-‐Backstage Diamond Lee: Crew-‐Backstage Lorenzo Tro^er: Crew-‐Backstage Daniel ValenQne: Crew-‐Wardrobe Samuel Weathersby: Crew-‐Backstage Merkell Williams: Crew-‐Backstage (Police)
PRODUCTION TEAM Lee Hoffman: Producer/Rehearsal Pianist John Fleming: Director Christopher G. Smith: Vocal Music Director Debbie Blunden-‐Diggs (DCDC): Choreographer Gary Harris (DCDC): Assistant to the Choreographer Ramon Key: Pit Orchestra Conductor Victoria Su^on: Stage Manager Tristan Cupp (Zoot Theatre Company): Stage Design/ConstrucQon Ayn Wood: Costumer John Rensel: LighQng Design Stephon Lane: Robeson Hall Technical Director, Sound Engineer Michael SQcka (Zoot Theatre Company): Publicity Michael Tyler: Documentarian
PIT ORCHESTRA Ramon Key: conductor; Lashonda Cavin: trumpet Shadae Welch: trumpet; Jerry Harris: alto sax Demetrius Oliver: tenor sax/clarinet Ike Henry: drumset; Earnest Tremble: piano Tony Miller: trombone/arranger Marcaelis Sanders: bass guitar; Henry Haulcy: snare drum
CAST Jelisa Barringer: Char Troy Boone: Dré Tameka Calicu^: Madam CJ Walker Zuriel Clark: Shields Jamaal Marshon Hamler: Mr. Parson Kyrie Harris: Queenie Britnée Lassiter: Ruth Rose Morgan: Lena Horne Christopher G. Smith: Ken Sarah Smith: Carmelia Bri^niey Steele: Cat Kimberley Stewart: Lainey
With the 2013 CSU Theatre Arts: Marauder Pride on Stage producQon of Ain’t Misbehavin,’ we celebrate the culminaQon of Black History Month. At Central State University, African American history is kept alive in each ConvocaQon and Commencement ceremony, in each University InsQtute and faculty Senate meeQng, and in each student and colleague. The meaning of Black History Month is incomprehensible in its incalculable scope of loss and survival, suffering and determinaQon, injusQce and triumph. Black History Month is a necessary, miraculous, and insufficient event in the Qmeline of the slowly, and conQnually awakening human consciousness. Black History Month is a private meditaQon, a family celebraQon, a community acQon, a cultural grieving, healing, and hoping. Black History Month is a mirror for each person and for the global populaQon to consider its integrity. Black History Month is a chorus of voices saying, singing, shouQng, “We name ourselves!” Black History Month is a silence...laughter...a prayer...applause. Based on the original Broadway show, the CSU version of Ain’t Misbehavin’ is set in the Harlem Renaissance in the neighborhood of Sugar Hill, partly in a Co^on Club-‐like venue and partly outside of a Brownstone. The storyline of CSU’s Ain’t Misbehavin’ is the result of a team collaboraQon led by Vocal Music Director Christopher G. Smith (2011 CSU alum) and Director John Fleming, and features twelve performers who, accompanied by Ramon Key’s Stage Band, will carry the 30 songs in the show. Drawing from all four Colleges at CSU, the members of the cast and crew are students majoring in AccounQng (COB), Biology (CSE), CommunicaQon (CHAS), Criminal JusQce (CHAS), Early Childhood EducaQon (COE), Jazz Studies (CHAS), Manufacturing Engineering CSE), Music EducaQon (CHAS), Music Performance (CHAS), Psychology (CHAS), as well as Dr. Rose Morgan-‐Woody, Psychology faculty member, and Christopher G. Smith. ~Lee Hoffman [email protected]
WHEN 8:00 PM, Friday, March 1 8:00 PM, Saturday, March 2 3:00 PM, Sunday, March 3
Don’t miss: Ain’t Misbehavin’
WHERE Central State University Robeson Hall-‐Auditorium
TICKETS $1.00 Students w/ ID $10 General Admission