rainbowrepertory.com http://rainbowrepertory.com Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:19:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Guys Returns A 5th Year http://rainbowrepertory.com/the-guys-returns-a-5th-year http://rainbowrepertory.com/the-guys-returns-a-5th-year#comments Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:23:09 +0000 admin http://rainbowrepertory.com/?p=254 The Rainbow Repertory Company commemorates September 11 with a production of ‘The Guys,’ a play based on the true story of a female editor and a New York City fire captain whom she helped to write eight eulogies for the men he lost on 9/11. The first performance will take place on September 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Merging Hearts Holistic Center, 3751 Burrshire Drive NW in Canton. Call 330-451-6214 or visit www.merginghearts.org for tickets, which are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. Proceeds will benefit the Merging Hearts Holistic Center.
 
Canton, OH- “After seeing this play, you will never pass a fire station, hear a fire siren or see a picture of a fireman the same way again! You will never forget your experience or the event again!” – ‘The Guys’ producer/director Lois DiGiacomo
 
The second performance will be held on September 11 at 7 p.m. at Fieldcrest, 1346 Easthill Street, SE in North Canton. Tickets are $22 and available by calling Fieldcrest at 330-966-2222. The ticket price, which includes taxes, but not gratuity, covers the performance, appetizers, dessert and soft beverages. A cash bar will be available. Doors open at 6 p.m., the performance begins at 7 p.m.
 
This is the fifth year of production of ‘The Guys’. The Rainbow Repertory Co. premiered this play in 2008.The Rainbow Repertory Company is a non-profit traveling troupe of professional dramatists and playwrights creating theatre for education and entertainment. They serve area schools, social services agencies and community organizations.
 
The Rainbow Repertory Company was established in 1994 by Lois DiGiacomo with the mission of advancing the community through the arts. The RRC writes client-specific plays and programs, and is funded through the continuing support of proceeds from performances of the Canton Cabaret Dinner Theatre. More information is available at www.rainbowrep.com.
]]> http://rainbowrepertory.com/the-guys-returns-a-5th-year/feed 0 The Guys http://rainbowrepertory.com/the-guys-2 http://rainbowrepertory.com/the-guys-2#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:57:13 +0000 admin http://rainbowrepertory.com/?p=247 The Guys 
A Theatrical Performance about 9/11 
by Anne Nelson 

Proceeds to Benefit the Merging Hearts Holistic Center 
Saturday, September 8th   7:30-9 pm
Tickets $10 in advance   $12 at the door 

The story is set in New York less than two weeks after the September 11th attacks. New Yorkers are still in shock.   One of them, an editor named Joan, receives an unexpected phone call on behalf of Nick, a fire captain who lost most of his men in the attack. Joan is asked to help write the eulogies that will be presented at their memorial services. Nick and Joan spend a long afternoon together recalling the fallen men, recounting their virtues and their foibles and fashioning the stories into memorials of words.

In the process Nick and Joan become friends as they discover their shared love for the unconquerable spirit of the city. Making their way through the emotional landscape of grief they draw on humor, tango, the appreciation of craft in all its forms … and the enduring bonds of common humanity.

“A small jewel of a play.” -Chicago Tribune
“…gives credible and powerful voice to a very specific kind of pain.   Perhaps the keenest message”

Two performances   Sept. 8
Merging Hearts Holistic Center
3751 Burrshire Drive N.W.  Canton 44709
7:30 pm

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Caravan of Gospel

at The Canton Palace Theatre

From the opening song to the closing curtain, this audience particpation gospel musical is one you will be taling about for a long time. “More like church on a stage” is how director, Kathy Mitchell described this hand clapping, dancing in the aisle musical.

The play is be produced by Lois DiGiacomo-Jacobson and Kathy Mitchell, co-founders of Rainbow Repertory Company as a theatrical group in 1994. Proceeds from the play will benefit Rainbow Repertory and Firm Foundation Ministry (FFM) as they assist in a project of building an elementary school in Haiti. Members of FFM has supported the missions work in Haiti for over 20 years helping to build an orphanage and a school in Petionville and Jacmel, Haiti. The earthquake of 2010 destroyed portions of the school which is still in need of repair. Plans are being made to build an elementary school in Jacmel which will also house a clinic.

Click on link for details 

CARAVAN OF GOSPEL

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The Caravan of Gospel will be held June 29 at the Canton Palace Theatre.  Get your tickets now!

]]> http://rainbowrepertory.com/185/feed 0 Awards http://rainbowrepertory.com/awards http://rainbowrepertory.com/awards#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:09:47 +0000 admin http://rainbowrepertory.com/?p=58 the following are two recent awards

Timken Alumni of the Year
June 25, 2010
Lois DiGiacomo
Timken Grad 1957
Founder of Rainbow 1994

DIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP AWARD
October 28, 2010
Coming Together Stark County
awarded Rainbow Repertory Co. the DIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP AWARD in recognition for our  attention to inclusion since our incorporation in 1994.

Do you want to tell the “STORY” of your organization or project?
Rainbow’s playwright/directors have worked with all community sectors to write speeches, programs or plays….
Call 330.456.7397
for more information!

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