‘Colony’ sets local casting call

By Terry Morris | Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 06:56 PM

The Discovery Channel series “The Colony” will have an open casting call for its upcoming second season from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, in the Mall at Fairfield Commons, 2727 Fairfield Commons, Beavercreek.

Casting director Michael Yates, who grew up in Centerville and graduated from the film program at Wright State University, said up to a half dozen people will be chosen to inhabit a “mock apocalypse situation” for several weeks in an as yet unspecified location.

Tryouts are also being done in Denver and Houston. He said a large turnout is expected and that six to 10 contestants will be interviewed at a time. “If 1,200 people show up, we will see them all,” he said.

For more information about the show, go to http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/colony/colony.html

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‘Sideshow’ entries, acts sought

By Terry Morris | Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 09:13 AM

Wide open: Those are the possibilities for “Sideshow 2010.”

The next edition of the anything-everything art exhibit/performance/happening organized by the Dayton Circus Creative Collective will be May 14 and 15 at a downtown Dayton venue to be named.

Submissions of all art forms are being taken through March 30. Even those who have never shown their art or performed publicly are invited to offer work for consideration.

Here’s how: Send an application letter, preferably by email, to sideshow2010@gmail.com with two to five samples of your work attached. MP3s are preferred for audio, YouTube for video and JPGs for photos. Most digital formats are acceptable, however.

For help in organizing a submission, contact Kidtee Hello at kidteehello@gmail.com or call (219) 707-1643. For more information about the event, contact David Kenworthy at (937) 430-4172 or kenworthy.5@wright.edu. Also, see http://www.facebook.com/l/dce41;www.daytoncircus.org/

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88 percent of ‘Wicked’ seats sold

By Terry Morris | Monday, February 8, 2010, 03:41 PM

More than 10 percent of tickets to the local premiere run of musical “Wicked” were still available as of Monday, Feb. 8.

“To date, more than 49,000 of the 54,144 tickets have been sold,” said Lisa Wagner, vice president of ticketing and hospitality for the Victoria Theatre Association and Arts Center Foundation.

That’s 88 percent of all available seats, which compares with a 97-percent sale for “Phantom of the Opera” in 2003, the record holder at the Schuster Performing Arts Center.

Will “Phantom” hold onto the record? “Talk to me at the end of the run,” Wagner said. “Wicked” will be presented Feb. 17-March 7.

Best selection of remaining seats is for the 2 p.m. Feb. 18 show. Weeknights generally have a better selection than weekends, when the upper balcony is your best bet.

Wagner said Ticket Center Stage is selling many more seats than usual to patrons from outside the region. “We’re making sales to visitors from Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, but also as far away as New England.”

Wagner said the economic impact on downtown Dayton will be “significant. With more than 50,000 people visiting the area over three weeks, many of them are looking for places to stay, places to eat and where to park.”

For tickets, call (937) 228-3630 or go to www.ticketcenterstage.com. For special offers, go to the Downtown Dayton Partnership’s “Wicked Deals” page at www.downtowndayton.org.

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Yiddish troupe bringing revue

By Terry Morris | Monday, February 8, 2010, 03:03 PM

A contingent of actors in their 20s and 30s from the longest-running Yiddish theater company in the United States will pay a visit to Dayton for a single performance March 21.

The Traveling Troupe of the New York-based National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene will present the musical revue “Mama’s Loshn Kugel” at 2 p.m. at the Engineers Club of Dayton, 110 E. Monument Ave.

The production in Yiddish includes classic songs and sketches by Sholom Aleichem, Abraham Goldfaden and Molly Picon. It will be presented with English and Russian supertitles.

Tickets are $8-$10 and include a reception afterwards. Call (937) 853-0372. For more about the the country’s last remaining Yiddish theater, which was established in 1915, go to www.folksbiene.org.

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Rascal Flatts show at Nutter Center to be rescheduled

By Terry Morris | Friday, February 5, 2010, 04:46 PM

The Saturday, Feb. 6, Rascal Flatts concert at Wright State University’s Ervin J. Nutter Center has been postponed due to the weather for concert-goers’ safety.

Group spokesperson Ben Farrell said the event will be rescheduled and that “all tickets will be honored. (We are) working immediately to get a date which will be forthcoming as soon as the university and Rascal (Flatts) can work to meet each other’s schedules.”

Darius Rucker was scheduled to go on at 6:30 p.m., followed by the main attraction at 8.

This is the second time Rascal Flatts has had to reschedule a local appearance. In 2008, the band’s sold-out concert for Feb. 17 was postponed until May 10 due to illness.

For more information and developments, go to www.nuttercenter.com.

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Blues festival postponed

By Khalid Moss | Friday, February 5, 2010, 11:36 AM

The Dayton Blues Festival scheduled to take place Friday, Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. at Nutter Center has been postponed until Saturday, April 3 due to transportation issues. The festival was to feature Bobby “Blue” Bland, Floyd Taylor, Clarence Carter, Lenny Williams and others. Ticket holders are encouraged to hold onto their tickets. They will be honored at the April, 3 concert. For more information call (937) 775-3333 or visit www.nuttercenter.com

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Doo-Wop legends coming to Fraze

By Kim Margolis | Friday, February 5, 2010, 08:00 AM

Dion, The Drifters, Shirley Alston-Reeves, The Flamingos and The Soul Stirrers will perform a Hall of Fame Spectacular at the Fraze Pavilion in Kettering on June 13.

Classic hits like “Runaround Sue,” “Save the Last Dance,” “Soldier Boy,” “I Only Have Eyes for You” and “Chain Gang” are among the classics expected to be performed.

Tickets go on sale Sat. Feb. 13 at 9 a.m.

Also, the Fraze has announced that tickets for the June 4 Vince Gill concert will go on sale Sat. Feb. 6 at 9 a.m.

The Fraze Pavilion Ticket Office will be open every Saturday from 9a.m. to 2 p.m. through spring.

Tickets also are available for Fraze shows at Ticketmaster by Charge-By-Phone at 1-800-745-3000, or online at www.ticketmaster.com

For more information, go to www.fraze.com.

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