THEATRE:
Keeping with the club’s dedication to excellent live music, the Club Theatre Company adds an opportunity to provide its patrons with a truly unique line-up of productions in a space that is like none other in Columbus.
The new Club Diversity Theatre space is an intimate thirty-two seat venue with seating in a lounge table setting. Patrons will enjoy the finest cocktails in town before the show begins and may stay after its completion to enjoy the additional entertainment provided by the club’s own resident performers.
For more info, Club Theatre Co has a Myspace Page. Click here to visit it!
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June 2008
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
Auditions April 20-April 22
Performance dates - June 12-15 @ 7pm June 19-22 @ 7pm June 26-29 @ 7pm
John Cameron Mitchell's cult musical hit HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH is coming to town!
"HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH will be the biggest show we've produced yet," says Ryan Scarlata, artistic director. The theatre underwent much renovation in the month of February to prepare for the arrival of this large scale show. "We are sparing no expense and using every inch of talent we can muster to make this show the theatrical event of the summer." One way this show will stand out is the exceptional casting of the leading role. Matthew Brennen will be joining us in Columbus from New York City for eight weeks to star in the Club Theatre Co.'s production.
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH is a powerful rock/pop/punk styled musical that really speaks the GLBT community. In east communist Germany, a young boy named Hansel falls for an American soldier. Knowing they would not be able to come to the U.S. without being married... and that they would not be married unless one of them was female... Hansel's mother took him to a back alley surgeon who performed a sex-change operation. The operation is botched and Hansel, now named Hedwig after his mother, is left with a surgically constructed vagina that has healed shut. Thus, Hedwig is left with a dysfunctional inch of flesh. Upon coming to the U.S., the couple stay together for a year when the soldier leaves Hedwig for another man.
Hedwig then meets a young teenager named Tommy Speck. She teaches him of life and writes music for him. They discover Tommy's talent as a performer and change his name to Tommy Gnosis. He eventually leaves her and becomes an international superstar performing the music Hedwig wrote for him. Internationally ignored, Hedwig and her band the Angry Inch are forced to support themselves by playing coffee bars and strip mall dives. The show, originally produced in 1998, follows Hedwig and her band performing in a small restaurant where Tommy is playing the adjoining arena. She believes that Tommy is her soul mate and is driven to either reunite with him or destroy him.
Subsequently, the show was produced as a film starring John Cameron Mitchell (author and original Hedwig) in 2001.
The Club Theatre Company production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH will be performed June 12-15, 19-22 and 26-29 (Pride weekend). All shows will begin at 7pm. Tickets are $18 in advance or $24 at the door.
Follow the links on this page to purchase tickets on-line.
Tickets are also available by calling a ticket master phone line or by calling Jenny at 614-406-5510.
August 2008
NUNSENSE
Auditions June 16-June 18
Performance dates -
August 7-9 @ 7pm;
14-16 @ 7pm
21-23 @ 7pm
10, 17, 24 @ 2pm
Description - The five surviving Sisters of Hoboken discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, accidentally killed the other fifty-two residents of the convent. Upon discovering the disaster, Mother Superior had a vision in which she was told to start a greeting card company to raise funds for the burials. With the deceased nuns on ice, they decide to stage a variety show in the auditorium to raise the necessary amount.