‘Eleemosynary’ continues at UD

By Terry Morris | Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 01:32 PM

The University of Dayton Theatre program will continue its production of the Lee Blessing play “Eleemosynary” at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 9-11, in Kennedy Union Boll Theatre.

General admission tickets are $12 for adults, $7 for UD faculty staff and students. Call (937) 229-2545.

Tony Dallas directed the bittersweet comedy about three female family members from different generations. Definition of the play’s title has to to with charitable, humanitarian and altruistic acts.

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“Happy Together” tour returning to Fraze

By Terry Morris | Friday, February 3, 2012, 07:07 AM

The Turtles, The Grassroots, The Buckinghams, Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees and Gary Puckett & The Union Gap will all play Kettering’s Fraze Pavilion Thursday, Aug. 2, as part of “The Happy Together Tour 2012.”

Turtles personnel includes leaders Flo & Eddie.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $45 for the plaza, $40 for center orchestra seats (sections B & C), $35 for the side orchestra (A&D) and $25 for the lawn and terrace.

They go on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Fraze box office, 695 Lincoln Park Blvd., or charge by phone at (800) 514-3849. For more information, visit www.fraze.com.

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Game shows feature area college students

By Terry Morris | Thursday, February 2, 2012, 02:53 PM

Tyler Benedict, a Dayton native and junior at Columbia University, will be among the competitiors on the “Jeopardy!” College Championship at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3.

The program is aired locally on WDTN Channel 2.

Above is a photo of Benedict with “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek.

Wilberforce University student Latyra Stinson of Cincinnati was a contestant on the sixth annual Ford Black College Quiz Game Show on Jan. 28, which was also aired on WDTN.

Stinson, above, a sophomore planning a career in health care, competed against students from several other historically black colleges and universities. Host was Greg Alan Williams. The competition was hosted by Howard University.

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WYSO chosen for national project

By Terry Morris | Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 10:18 AM

Yellow Springs-based WYSO (91.3 FM) is one of just 10 public radio and television stations in the United States chosen for “Localore,” a project to develop new forms of reporting.

The competitive $2 million initiative by Boston-based transmedia association AIR will receive more than $1 million in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Other stations chosen are: KALW-FM, San Francisco; KCRW-FM, Los Angeles; KQED Radio and Television, San Francisco; KUT-FM, Austin; KVNF-FM, Paonia, Colo.; Prairie Public Broadcasting, Fargo, N.D.; Twin Cities Public Television, Minneapolis; WBEZ-FM, Chicago, and WGBH Radio and Television, Boston.

WYSO’s part of the project will be produced by Yellow Springs filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar. They will spend 10 months at the station helming “Re-Invention,” a participatory documentary examining how Miami Valley residents are reinventing themselves in a new and unstable economy.

They will ask residents: “Who was I before the bottom fell out? What happened that changed my life? Who am I becoming, or trying to become now?”

The resulting documentary will incorporate film, radio and on-line segments.

Neenah Ellis, WYSO general manager, said the project will “strengthen our creative capacity, tell the stories of the Miami Valley and demonstrate to others around the nation that local stations can step up to create more vital and expanded services.”

Founded in 1988, AIR is an association of more than 800 producers, journalists, technicians, media entrepreneurs and sound artists in 46 states and 14 countries.

WYSO is licensed to Antioch University.

For more information about Localore, visit http:\airmediaworks.org/localore.

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‘Jersey Boys’ special offered on Feb. 5

By Terry Morris | Sunday, January 29, 2012, 07:31 AM

The Victoria Theatre Association is offering a 40 percent discount on remaining seats for the 7:30 p.m. performance of the musical “Jersey Boys” on Feb. 5, which is Super Bowl Sunday.

That’s the closing performance at the Schuster Center, Second and Main streets.

With the discount, prices are $26-$66. The coupon code word is “Super.” “Jersey Boys” won the 2006 Tony Award for best musical.

For more information, call (937) 228-3630, toll free at (888) 228-3630 or online, ticketcenterstage.com.

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Fraze lassos Outlaws

By Terry Morris | Friday, January 27, 2012, 10:00 AM

The 1970s southern rock band Outlaws is the latest addition to Fraze Pavilion’s 2012 summer season.

The band known for hits including “There Goes Another Love Song,” “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky,” “Green Grass and High Tides” and “Hurry Sundown.”will take the outdoor Kettering stage at 8 p.m. Friday, June 15.

Original members Henry Paul and Monte Yoho are still with the group, along with Frank O’Keefe, Billy Jones and Dave Robbins.

General admission seats for the show will be just $5. Special reserved seats in the first three rows of plaza section B are $40 and include a backstage pass to meet and greet the band.

Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb.4, at the Fraze box office, 695 Lincoln Park Blvd., and from eTix, (800) 514-3849 or etix.com. For more information about Fraze Pavilion, call (937) 296-3300 or go to fraze.com.

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Dayton Opera names 4 young residents

By Terry Morris | Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 04:09 PM

Dayton Opera has announced the four members of its Artists in Residence program for 2012.

Soprano Jennifer Cherest, mezzo-soprano Julia Mintzer, tenor Matias Eduardo Mariani and baritone Patrick McNally will join Dayton Opera for its Feb. 24 and 26 production of “Romeo and Juliet” and will remain with the company through May.

They will be featured in the annual “Opera on the Road” performances in area schools, will perform in the Wintergarden of the Schuster Center in Dayton prior to the Dayton Opera Star Gala headlined by Marcello Giordani and, in May, will perform the leading roles in “The Tragedy of Carmen” at the Victoria Theatre.

Cherest, a native of La Plata, Md., recently completed her master’s in music from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. She has a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and has been singing and performing since she was 6, but is also a professional horseback riding trainer.

Mintzer, who is from Philadelphia, attended the Juilliard School and Boston University, apprenticed at Santa Fe Opera and was a studio artist at Wolf Trap Opera Company. She is also a stage director.

Argentina-born Mariani grew up in South Carolina and received his master’s from the Boston Conservatory. He grew up singing along to recordings by Luciano Pavarotti.

McNally, who was a double major in chemistry and music, was born in Newton, Mass., and apprenticed with Central City Opera.

For more information about the Dayton Opera, call (937) 461-8282 or visit www.daytonopera.org.

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