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<\/a>This is no more about an actual play than was my most recent Play Review post. That post<\/a> ostensibly concerned Company<\/em>, a musical with six Tony Awards and a cast of fourteen. The musical in this post’s title won ten Tonys and has a cast of twenty-six. That previous post was really about the production company. Both posts involved theaters I was entering for the first time, and the theater is what this post is really about.<\/p>\nThis is no more about an actual play than was my most recent Play Review post. That post ostensibly concerned Company, a musical with six Tony Awards and a cast of fourteen. The musical in this post’s title won ten … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/clpip_02-150x113.jpg\")
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<\/a>I’ve attended many performances at Playhouse in the Park<\/a> but I entered The Rouse Theater for the first time Tuesday because it is brand new. As the heart of a $50 million project, it replaces the aging Marx Theater with a fully ADA-accessible facility. Many improvements, such as dressing and rehearsal rooms, do not involve the performance space. Others, including a fly gallery and an area below the stage, do but are still out of the audience’s view. A luxury lounge and upper-level restrooms are among the things yet to be completed.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/clpip_04-150x113.jpg\")
<\/a>The picture at right shows the view from my seat in the very last row of the balcony. Not too shabby in my opinion. A Chorus Line<\/a><\/em> is the first production in the new theater. Apparently, the official opening night is Thursday with performances on Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday being called previews. The ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on Monday which makes the whole sequence kind of confusing to me. I guess that’s show business.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/clpip_05-150x113.jpg\")
<\/a>ADDENDUM 15-Mar-2023:<\/strong> It will not surprise anyone when I acknowledge that attending a play and posting even a slim and shallow review of it the next morning is something of a challenge. The photo at left is one that I simply forgot I had. It was taken as I approached the Playhouse on Art Museum Drive and shows how the new theater is now a real presence beyond its hilltop plateau. I fully intended to somehow include a reference to last year’s Getting Springy in Cincy<\/a> post but it became just another thing I forgot. Scroll to the bottom for a couple of pictures of the under-construction theater taken nearly a year ago and one from my last time inside the Marx Theater taken on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"