Sunday, April 18, 1999
Children's Theatre season to open with 'The Crucible'
BY JACKIE DEMALINE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
It will be all musicals for the Children's Theatre Main Series, geared to kids from kindergarten through the eighth grade, in 1999-2000. The annual play for young adults will be Arthur Miller's The Crucible. All performances are at the Taft Theatre.
The 1999-2000 schedule of public performances is:
• The Crucible, Nov. 11-12.
• Amahl and the Night Visitors, Dec. 4-6.
• Dirty Dinjy Daryl and the Mud Monster, Feb. 25-27.
• Annie, May 5-7. an abbreviated, 60-minute version of the Broadway show.
The Crucible, which uses the Salem witch trials to comment on the political witch hunts of the 1950s, is the second-most requested play of high school teachers, says theater producer Susie Louiso. (The most requested is To Kill A Mockingbird.)
David Stull, “Mr. Hop” on WLWT-TV in the 1960s, longtime host of It's Academic and a teacher at the School for Creative and Performing Arts for 16 years, makes his directing debut.
Amahl, by Gian Carlo Menotti, is the opera about a poor shepherd boy and his mother who give shelter to the Three Kings on their journey to Bethlehem. Local high school choirs will perform as the chorus, directed by Angela Powell.
Daryl, created by local writers David and Patricia Bowling, will be adapted for the stage by local playwright Mary Tensing (Thanksgiving Eve, Ice Floe). David Kisor writes the original songs.
Former Bengals wide receiver and Fox TV personality Cris Collinsworth will play a reporter in the musical about a 7-year-old who crusades to save his neighborhood from the perils of pollution.
Annie will feature about 40 percent of the original in this streamlined version of the 1977 Broadway hit about a little girl, her dog, her zillionaire benefactor Daddy Warbucks and rotten orphanage director Miss Hannigan. All the big songs, including “Tomorrow,” are intact.
The season budget will jump from $590,000 to $823,000 for 1999-2000. In 1998-99, the theater had 2,366 adult subscribers and 11,500 subscribers to student performances.
Renewals are available to subscribers through May 31, new subscriptions go on sale June 1 through the Children's Theatre, (569-8080). Individual tickets go on sale Sept. 1 at all Ticketmaster locations or call 562-4949.
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