Is There Life After High School? by Craig Carnelia & Jeffrey Kindley

Directed by Don Edelman, Musical Direction by Regis Bookshar

April 18 - May 17, 2008
Friday & Saturday nights at 8 PM
Sundays May 4 and 11 at 2 PM
Adults - $16, Seniors & Students - $12
Call 440-247-8955 (Mon-Sat, 1-6 PM)

Loosely inspired by Ralph Keyes' best-selling book with the same title, Is There Life After High School? uses exquisitely crafted songs by Craig Carnelia and insightful monologues by Jeffrey Kindley to take a nostalgic look back at the emotional roller coaster of high school.  Adolescent memories are brought to light, including interrupted friendships, late nights of beer drinking, and the horrors of gym class.  The times we "could not forget if we tried" make for a sweet, and sometimes bittersweet, musical reverie.

GIRLS' NIGHT OUT! - APRIL 25th

Spend a night out on the town in Chagrin Falls with your girlfriends! Treat yourselves to wine, appetizers, and sweet treats at a 6:00 PM party in CVLT's River Room, followed by Is There Life After High School? at 8:00 PM. Enjoy the festivities and the performance all for just $30 per person. To attend, choose the 'Girls Night Out' add-on when buying your adult-price tickets for the April 25th performance. Space is limited, so make your reservations early!

Cast:

Pat Mazzarino
Don Bernardo
Steve Kay
Chris Hunter
Eric Oswald
Sharon Lloyd
Libby Merriman
Maggie Wise
Darlene Fowler

About the Composer

As both composer and lyricist, Craig Carnelia contributed four songs to Studs Terkel's Working, for which he received a Tony nomination. Three Postcards, written with playwright Craig Lucas and presented at Off-Broadway's Playwright's Horizons, was named one of the year's ten best musicals by Time Magazine, and is included in the Burns-Mantle anthology, Best Play of 1986-1987, as Best Musical of the Season. In 1994, Three Postcards received a second production Off-Broadway, this time at Circle Rep.

Also Off-Broadway, Notes, a collection of Mr. Carnelia's songs, was presented by Manhattan Theatre Club. He contributed single songs to The No-Frills Revue, Diamonds and A...My Name Is Still Alice. Craig wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical, The Sweet Smell of Success, with music by Marvin Hamlisch and book by John Guare. Hamlisch and Carnelia were also represented on Broadway later in 2002 by Imaginary Friends, a play with song by Nora Ephron. Craig has won a number of major songwriting awards, including the Johnny Mercer "Emerging American Songwriter" Award and the prestigious Kleban Award for distinguished lyric writing.