Girls Night: The Musical
Cleveland Play House

Renee Colvert & Crystal Kellogg, stars of Girls Night: The Musical, talk with Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready about the phenomenon of girl power, reflected in everything from recent films celebrating the new women's liberation, to the ubiquity of the Cosmopolitan on every martini bar menu. Not only do the actresses of Girls Night perform in the fun-loving show, they also enjoy going out for the occasional girls nights out themselves.

They discuss how things have changed since they were little girls. Up until recently, people would tell young ladies that anyone can be president, but none of them really thought it would happen. Now that the glass ceiling is gone (at least in American politics), and it is simply accepted that a woman like Hillary Clinton can run for President, all that is changed.

In some ways, the girls have passed the boys in their fun-loving escapades at bachelorette parties. While men stick to tried-and-true (read: cliched) routines of strippers, alcohol and stag films, women have a much wider (and wilder) palette to choose from. Listen to the video to hear Renee and Crystal describe how a shirt covered in Life Savers was utilized to good effect at a recent girls night out.

For your own fun night out, catch the show, in town at the Cleveland Play House now thru Sun 7/6. Get a Cool Cleveland discount to Girls Night: The Musical! $10 off a ticket to any performance thru Sun 6/29. Click the link below, and use the promotion code "COOL." http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/showinfo.asp?eventID=29

Girls Night: The Musical
Cleveland Play House

Crystal Kellog & Whitney Kathleen Vigil know how hilarious a girls night out can be. Not only have they performed in the show Girls Night: The Musical for the past few months, traveling all around the U.S., they've also experienced a few girls nights out themselves. The show is about four friends who go out to a karaoke bar to celebrate, and end up singing, dancing and experiencing the kind of night you can only have with your best friends. Backstage at the Cleveland Play House, Crystal & Whitney talk about the show with Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready, who appears a bit clueless about what exactly girls do on their nights out. Apparently they have fun discussing everything from marriage, to sex, to babies, to whatever's on their mind. And get this: it's probably not the same things they discuss in the presence of their boyfriends or husbands. Crystal, who plays Sharon, the angel narrator, lets us know that it's her job during the show to get the audience up and on their feet, singing along with the dozen or so girl power anthems, such as "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," "I Will Survive," and The Play House will have aromatherapy, massages, and, of course, Cosmopolitans. While the show was written in the U.K. and was a huge hit on London's West End, it is now on it's first tour of the United States, with Christy & Whitney having just racked up rave reviews in Raleigh, Milwaukee, Baton Rouge, Danville, Paducah, and Columbus before landing in Cleveland and joining our interview. Crystal & Whitney let Mulready in on a few girl secrets, but not many. For that. you'll have to catch the show, in town at CPH from Thu 6/12 thru Sun 7/6. Get a Cool Cleveland discount to Girls Night: The Musical! $10 off a ticket to any performance thru Sun 6/29. Click the link below, and use the promotion code "COOL." http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/showinfo.asp?eventID=29

Kevin Moore
Cleveland Play House

Kevin Moore has been in Cleveland a little more than a year as Managing Director of the Cleveland Play House, and already he's put into motion some fundamental changes at that venerable institution. One of the biggest challenges was what to do with their fine theatre facilities during the summer months. They noticed that 65% of people who came to their popular holiday show A Christmas Story had never been to CPH before, so they instituted a Summer Fun Series, featuring Girls Night: The Musical and Late Night Catechism 2, both running through 7/20.

Watch & listen as Moore talks with Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready about his challenges, his successes, and recent significant changes such as the transformation of the onsite Play House Club into the popular and friendly Stages restaurant, open to the public.

For your own fun night out, get a Cool Cleveland discount to Girls Night: The Musical! $10 off a ticket to any performance thru Sun 6/29. Click the link below, and use the promotion code "COOL." Click here. http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/showinfo.asp?eventID=29

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