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Monday, March 22, 2010
Blondie and Cheap Trick to perform at Fraze Pavilion’s Summerfest 12
Power pop and punk rock take center stage 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28 when ‘80s idols Blondie and Cheap Trick perform at Summerfest 12 at Fraze Pavilion, 695 Lincoln Park Boulevard, Kettering.
Blondie, featuring lead singer Debbie Harry, was a pioneer in the new wave and punk rock scenes of the mid’70s and ‘80s. Blondie is noted for its eclectic mix of musical styles incorporating elements of disco, pop, rap, and reggae.
Cheap Trick created a substantial fan base through its brand of power pop music with a hard-edged but melodic pop sound. Their biggest hits were “Surrender,” “I Want You to Want Me,” “Dream Police”and “The Flame.”
Tickets for the show go on sale Saturday, March 27 at 9 a.m. Tickets are $65 for the Plaza, $60 for Orchestra and $35 lawn/terrace. Tickets can be purchased at Fraze Pavilion Ticket Office, 695 Lincoln Park Boulevard, Kettering (937) 296-3300
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Fest picks 6 short plays
Six scripts have been chosen for presentation during “Short and Sweet,” a festival of 10-minute plays Friday and Saturday, March 26 and 27, at the Hope Arts Center, 500 Hickory St., in the South Park Historic District.
The plays are: “Blue,” by Shane Anderson; “Con\tact,” by Katherine Nelson; “Testing Val, Au Natural,” by Roger Collins; “The Bridge,” by Erica A. Lumbra, and “We Shall Overcome,” by Brenda Koger.
Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and are open to the public. Admission is $3 at the door. The top three plays will win cash awards.
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More films get tax credits
The early bird gets the … moviemaking tax credit.
The Ohio Department of Development committed $10 million to tax credits for films made in Ohio during 2010. More than 80 percent of it had been awarded by the end of February.
Department director Lisa Patt-McDaniel said almost $1.4 million in credits were made available in February to two independent productions being produced in Cincinnati and Akron, respectively - “Life After,” a suspense film about a landscape architect who takes a job as a caretaker at a neglected cemetery, and “25 Hill,” a film about the Soap Box Derby by actor and Ohio native Corbin Bernsen.
Almost $7 million in credits were approved for four other films in January.
Patt-McDaniel said the credits provide “incentive to build on our economic recovery by creating job opportunities and economic activity.”
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Swordsman to deliver kiss
Guido Crescendo will do his best to make a Cincinnati woman happy on Tuesday, March 23.
Known as David Woolley of Chicago when he isn’t portraying Guido as one of the “men in tights” at the Ohio Renaissance Festival, he has been enlisted by the Never Too Late organization to kiss the hand of Beatrice Grace Riggers, 84, on Tuesday, March 23, at the Triple Creek Retirement Community in Cincinnati, where she lives.
Similar to Make a Wish Foundation for young people, Never Too Late is for the elderly and terminally ill.
Ms. Riggers has seen The Swordsmen many times at the Renaissance Festival, where they have appeared for almost two decades. Guido is her favorite. Her daughter asked the organization to arrange the visit.
The 2010 Ohio Renaissance Festival will open Sept. 4 and run for seven weekends at Harveysvburg in Warren County. More information is available at www.renfestival.com.
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