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By Rick Pender
The Showboat Majestic kicked off its new season this week with a production of Leonard Bernstein's excellent musical, ON THE TOWN! Tapestry, a review of music by legendary Pop songwriter Carole King, has been dropped as the boat's second show (May 24-June 11) and been replaced (although that hardly seems like the right word) by Neil Simon's THE ODD COUPLE. Tickets: 513-241-6550.
... If you're a juggler, a fire-eater, a mime or any other brand of street performer, you still have Thursday and Friday (11 a.m.--1:30 p.m. at the Aronoff Center Plaza) to audition to be a "busker" (British term for a street performer) on Fountain Square and around the Aronoff this summer. Info: 513-977-4102.
... Dayton's HUMAN RACE THEATRE CO. regularly offers some stimulating theater, as in the current production of The Mineola Twins. They've just announced next season's "a la carte" series: the regional premiere of Yasmina Reza's Art (Oct. 19-Nov. 5, 2000), five months before it's staged at the Cincinnati Playhouse; Stuart Spencer's Resident Alien (March 8-25, 2001), a science fiction comedy that premiered at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 1998; and Marsha Jackson-Randolph's 1998 musical drama, Higher Ground (April 19-May 6, 2001), a story that weaves the roots of black Rhythm & Blues music with the Civil Rights movement. And don't forget Human Race's workshop production on Sunday and Monday of SIX WIVES, a musical about Henry VIII and his amorous ways, with book and lyrics by Joe Masteroff (Cabaret). Info: 937-461-3823.
... "Where art thou, Romeo?" If he knows anything, he'll be masquerading at Old St. George in Clifton on May 6 for the BARD'S MASQUE, a benefit for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival. The evening will include both a live and a silent auction. Tickets: 513-381-2273.
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Previously in Curtain Call
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