Don't Make Me Pull This Show Over: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Parenting
R3 Productions
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SHOW DESCRIPTION
There’s no preparation for parenthood. It’s a learn-as-you-go crash course in which we can all enroll, but from which we never graduate; a never ending commitment to a high wire balancing act. Don’t Make Me Pull This Show Over: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Parenting is a wholly original song cycle – a series of musical snapshots taken from unexpected angles, unanticipated reflections in a mirror that at times appear fractured in both hilarity and intensity. Whether we choose to be parents or not, we can’t choose not to have them, and to question the choices all parents are forced to make.
ARTIST/COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
Richard Oberacker is currently the conductor for Cirque Du Soleil’s KA. Other conducting credits include The Lion King, CATS, Show Boat, and Cirque Du Soleil’s Dralion. As a composer and author, his musicals include In That Valley (NAMT Festival), Dracula: The Game of Love (CCM), The Gospel According to Fishman (Signature Theater), Journey to the West (NYMF Festival) and ACE (Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Old Globe Theater, NAMT Festival) Robert Taylor is the former concert master for The Lion King (Cheetah Tour). His credits as a co-author include Journey to the West (NYMF Festival), ACE (Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Old Globe Theater, NAMT Festival), and the upcoming The Sandman (commission for Signature Theater). An avid ornithologist and linguist, Mr. Taylor has studied Germanic Literature in Bonne, violin in Amsterdam, Chinese at Princeton University, and traveled the world extensively including nearly three years teaching and performing in China. Richard E. Hess has been chair of the Drama Department at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) since 1994. His work has been seen at The Hudson Theatre in Los Angeles, the Laurie Beechman Theatre and the Chautauqua Theatre Company in New York, the Human Race Theatre Co. in Dayton, and locally at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, and the Cincinnati Opera.
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'AND THE FRINGIEST PART IS ...'
Don’t Make Me Pull This Show Over has an enviable pedigree, with contributions from local theatre artists with national credits, choosing to create together in the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. With music direction by Terry LaBolt (Hello, Dolly!, The Fantasticks), a cast that includes Jessica Hendy (Cats, Aida), Gina Valentine (Cats, Into the Woods), and Charlie Clark (Company, See What I Wanna See), we promise to create a theatre experience you will never forget.
reviews
+ CityBeat review (June 5, 2008)
+ The Conveyor review (June 5, 2008)
+ The Enquirer review (June 6, 2008)