By Jackie Demaline
The Cincinnati Enquirer

If you've ever wanted to play New York casting agent, here's a great opportunity. Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., College-Conservatory of Music's musical theater Class of 2004 will preview the presentation they'll perform for New York theater industry folks next month.

Games People Play gives every auditioner three minutes to show themselves at their best for the people who will decide their professional future.

Who has what it takes? Where will we see them next?

If you're a fan of University of Cincinnati's top national program, make a date to cheer them on.

The CCM senior showcase is one of the hottest tickets in town every year, even now that it's been moved to the large Werner Recital Hall in the CCM complex.

Tickets are free, but they'll go quickly when the box office opens at noon Monday. Call 556-4183.

Now for some casting news:

Cincinnati native Ron Bohmer is in rehearsal in the new off-Broadway musical The Joys of Sex. It opens May 12 at Variety Arts.

CCM grad Leslie Kritzer, who stole the touring show Urinetown last fall, leaves the road to join the Broadway cast of Hairspray in May.

Marni Penning, a founding member of Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, is based in New York these days and is currently appearing in Washington in The Comedy of Errors. She'll return to the region - well, central Kentucky - next autumn to star in Stop Kiss at Actors Guild of Lexington.

If Chicago is in your immediate travel plans, Cincinnati native Rebecca Finnegan is starring in A Kurt Weill Review: Songs of Darkness and Light at the No Exit Cafe, through April 25.

Closer to home, Cincinnati native Rick Roedersheimer will be home for two weeks in April in the touring Oklahoma! at the Aronoff April 13-25.

On the local theater front, Ovation Theatre has chosen its Fallen Angels. Two of Cincinnati's most popular actresses, Sunshine Cappelletti and Corinne Mohlenhoff, will star in the Noel Coward comedy in August at the Aronoff's Fifth Third Bank Theater.