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Love Wins Cont’d. Page 3 dinner with Jim is limited in seating. finds himself in over his head and State of “Debbie Cenziper is a Pulitzer Prize- recruits the help of Danica, a hard- For more information on how you winning investigative journalist with core realist who never believed in can be a part of this amazing . Over the past fairy tales. She’s running for class cultural opportunity, please call Jen 20 years, she has investigated president, but her speeches are the Arts Lippus at 419.626.1347 the Director government fraud, public housing filled with gloom and of Development at the Sandusky at the scandals, white-collar crime, and doom. Meanwhile, the sky is falling State Theatre. Hosts will receive an deaths in psychiatric hospitals. Her in the fantasy world! Without the Sandusky State Theatre autographed book, personalized by stories have prompted Woodsman, Little Red is attacked by Jim for their support. Congressional investigations, the wolf and Sleeping Beauty keeps AprilJuly 2016 2015 criminal convictions, new laws, and Mirror Cont’d. Page 3 pricking her finger on the ax while the delivery of hundreds of millions chopping her own firewood! and team building environment. of dollars in funding for the poor. This year, Mirror Image was As reality seeps into the fairy tales, Debbie has won many major awards selected and tickets are $10 for the characters start to break free of in American print journalism, adults and $5 for students/children their patterns and the classic PRESENTED BY THE Richard Knight Auditorium of Sponsored by including the Goldsmith Prize for and all tickets are general princesses cross the portal and AMERICAN THEATRE Babson College in Boston, the Investigative Reporting from admission. discover they can be their own Organ Stop Pizza Restaurant in Harvard University and the Robert F. ORGAN SOCIETY heroes! You’ll love this complex, Phoenix, the Rialto Theatre in Kennedy Award for Journalism, Fantasy comes face to face with Joliet, IL, and the Palace Theatre th rich tapestry of enchanted fun Join the Sandusky State Theatre as Friday, July 29 at 7:30PM the Great given by Ethel Kennedy and the the hard reality of high school in in Marion, Ohio. woven with a poignant, meaningful we welcome the American Theatre Lakes Visual & Performing Arts Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice this pop musical adventure where thread about what it means to be Organ Society on July 6 at The Ohio Theatre in Columbus Academy strikes gold again with their & Human Rights. the best — and worst! — of both nd alive and in control of your own 2 annual Summer Camp for Theatre worlds meet. 10:30AM for their annual featured John in overtures to Jim Obergefell is a civil rights activist destiny. convention. Delegates from all their popular classic film series. ages 11-18. This accredited program who embraced his newfound role In the fairy tale world, princes are over the country will be touring offers students of the academy to earn John played concerts in Toronto after the U.S. Supreme Court made charming and stepsisters are Supported by historic theaters in Northern Ohio full credit for theatre while enjoying at Casa Loma, in Kingston, marriage equality the law of the wicked. But the Woodsman and listening to organs being their summer vacation. The Wightman Wieber Ontario at the Kingston Theatre land on June 26, 2015. He has dreams of being more than an played by world renowned Organ Society’s Kimball Organ, Students learn theatre lighting, sound, worked with organizations such as incidental character without a Charitable Foundation musicians. The concert is available the Public Museum of Grand costuming and set design along with the Human Rights Campaign and name. He wants to be the to the general public for $5. performing in the production while Equality Ohio and has been honored hero. When Cinderella’s Rapids (Michigan), the Little John made his public debut at the learning the basic language and with awards from organizations stepsisters find a portal to another River Studio Wurlitzer in Redford theatre at age 16. Since technical aspects of producing a such as the Services and Advocacy world, they get zapped into a very Wichita, Kansas, the Auditorium those early days John has shows. Jeff Sherman the Theatre for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and real high school. The Woodsman Theatre in Rochester, NY, and presented concerts in Chicago at Instructor for the GLVPAA will be the Transgender Elders (SAGE). Foreign jumps at the chance to rescue the Thomaston Opera House in the Oriental theatre, VanDerMolen Camp Director, and other faculty will Policy magazine named him one of them, but the stepsisters have no General Admission Connecticut, an appearance residence studio, Krughoff that also found John combining assist with the Choreography and stage its 2015 Global Thinkers. intention of returning to the productions. fantasy realm. Adults $10 residence studio, the 19th Hole forces with the Waterbury Hosting opportunities are available restaurant and the St. Mary of the Youth Symphony. Each year a new show is selected that at $500 per couple. An exclusive After all, in the “real” world, mean Children $5 Lake Seminary auditorium in Lauter was a featured has socially relevant content in an opportunity to have cocktails and girls are popular! The Woodsman Mundelein. performer at the American effort to not be fun and supportive for Lauter has been featured in Theatre Organ Society’s 2009 students, but also touch on subject programs at the Paramount convention in Cleveland. matter that is important for students theatre in Denver, the Castro to know and learn about in a friendly Cont’d. Page 2 theatre in San Francisco, the Cont’d. Page 4

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Organ Concert Cont’d. Page 1 In February 2010, John was a to Mr. Lloyd Bunt from Detroit who “An Evening with Jim” Sunday, July “I am recommending LOVE WINS to Obergefell v Hodges, began with a John spent three years playing at musical guest on NPR’s displayed the organ in two of his 17th at 5 PM will be in the main everyone I know. Rarely does a simple wish: John Arthur, “Theatre Organ Pizza and Pipes” in popular Prairie Home homes. In 1995 the organ came back theatre. This event is free and open book of such uncommon beauty paralyzed by ALS, wanted to die a Pontiac, Michigan. Companion program. Host Garrison to the theatre and has been in a state to the public. come around, one that digs married man.As the one-year Keillor remarked, “the man (Lauter) of repair and rebuild with a pay as you beneath the headlines to its human anniversary of the decision looms, At home in Detroit, John has has unerring good taste”. Lauter can agreement with Scott Smith of Jim Obergefell will talk about the heart.” - John Grogan, author of gay rights activists in states presented nine concerts at the performed solos on the live Livonia Michigan who specializes in exclusive story of the Couples and “Marley & Me” and “The Longest including North Carolina, Kentucky Detroit Theatre Organ Society and broadcast and joined forces with organ rebuilds. The Sandusky State Crusaders behind the U.S. Supreme Trip Home” and Mississippi are citing many concerts and silent film PHC’s “guys all-star shoe band” for Theatre intends to use the organ on a Court's monumental ruling that Obergefell in volatile debates “Beautifully told and carefully programs at the Redford Theatre. some numbers. The show was more regular basis now that it is in the delivered marriage to all couples in about religious exemptions and so- researched, LOVE WINS is a deeply performed live before 5,000 people final phases of improvements. all 50 States. called “bathroom laws,” and Jim The Michigan theatre in Ann Arbor, moving insider’s account of the and broadcast live into 4 million Obergefell, once a private man Michigan featured John as staff To learn more about John and the He will be signing books after his ordinary families who took the homes. living in Cincinnati, has again found organist for 17 years during which American Theatre Organ Society, staged conversation regarding the fight for marriage equality to the himself center stage, defending John accompanied such silent film A recent appearance at the please visit http://www.atos.org/ and release of, “LOVE WINS" The Lovers Supreme Court and won...America the Supreme Court decision that classics as Metropolis, The Birth of a Shanklin Music Hall in Groton, for ticket information, please call our and Lawyers Who Fought the really does stand for liberty and bears his name. Nation, The Phantom of the Massachusetts with the “White ticket office at 419.626.1950 or you Landmark Case for Marriage Equality justice for all.” - Kathleen Parker, Opera, IT, Robin Hood, Greed, The Heat Sextet” was very well can buy tickets online By Debbie Cenziper and Jim Nationally syndicated Washington As LOVE WINS recounts, the fight Big Parade, Nosferatu, The Gold received. Obergefell. Debbie Cenziper will not Post columnist for the right to marry was fueled Rush and many others. SANDUSKY STATE THEATRE be in attendance for the event. by tragedy: the impending death John is the organist for the Unity “Told with a novel’s narrative drive, WELCOMES “AN EVENING WITH JIM” of Jim Obergefell’s longtime The Detroit Fox Theatre’s 1988 re- Church of Lake Orion and is also in Dramatic rights to “LOVE WINS” this recounting of the landmark partner and husband, John Arthur. opening found John playing demand as a pianist at local Detroit have been bought by Fox 2000 for a Supreme Court case… is taut, Though John was dying from ALS, before Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, restaurants. major feature film, Wyck Godfrey tense, and highly readable.” - the couple in 2013 flew from their Sammy Davis Jr.: The Ultimate Event. and Marty Bowen, will be the Booklist, starred Lauter has played at the Fox ever John lives in Farmington Hills, home in Cincinnati to Maryland, producers (Temple Hill Productions) since for film and live shows. Michigan with his wife Amy, son “Uplifting, well-written story of where same-sex marriage was Benjamin and daughter Maryanna. - and Chris Weitz, screenwriter personal courage and political legal, and exchanged vows on an Lauter has used the theatre organ in The event is free and open to the empowerment.” -Kirkus airport tarmac. In his final days, very traditional roles as a solo and Our Golden Voiced Marvel Page public, a cash bar will be available John expressed his longing to die silent film accompaniment Organ was introduced to the “Full of dialogue and personal along with Jim’s books. instrument, in addition to other Schine’s State Theatre when it anecdotes that it feels as much like with dignity, rightfully unique combinations - with big opened in 1928 and is one of only "LOVE WINS is a real winner, a biography as a legal history … remembered as a married man. bands, a Bluegrass-Fiddle band and four in the country. The first expertly crafted. You can tell it’s Readers will feel they’ve been But their home state of Ohio behind vocalists and organist to play the eight rank, going to make a great movie."-Bob completely guided into seeing the would not recognize the marriage, instrumentalists. organ was Beatrice Taylor. She Woodward people behind the cases.” - which meant that John would be rose up from the pit on a hydraulic Publishers Weekly listed as “unmarried” on his death In preparation for the opening of lift just to the edge of the stage. "LOVE WINS...is a tender story, certificate, with no surviving On June 26, 2015, in a decision that their new IMAX Theatre, the Henry The organ accompanied all the inspiring, and ultimately a huge spouse. Three months before John Sun., July 17th - 5 PM drew headlines around the world, Ford Museum in Dearborn movies and events until the 1940’s celebration... this book will become died, the couple found an ally in Al the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed contracted John to compose and when organ’s were pushed to the a classic.” - Erin Brockovich Gerhardstein, a straight, middle- the constitutional right of gay record a silent film accompaniment side once talkies became more aged husband, father, and scrappy couples to marry in all 50 states to a silent film collage featured in a popular and had their own sound- civil rights lawyer with a record as after decades of incremental specially produced IMAX short tracks. Due to the need to raise an unwavering defender of the gay rulings. The historic case, subject shown before each feature money for the theatre, it was sold community. there. Cont’d. Page 4