RAIN: A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES

RETURNS TO THE ARONOFF CENTER

OCTOBER 14, 2009 FOR ONE SHOW ONLY!

Watch the Public Television Special on CET, August 6 at 8 PM

TICKETS GO ON SALE THURSDAY, AUGUST 6

CALENDAR INFORMATION

WHAT:           RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles

WHEN:           Wednesday, October 14, 2009 • 8:00 PM

WHERE:        Aronoff Center for the Arts – Procter & Gamble Hall

PRICES:         $55 • $50 • $45 • $30

INFO:             GET BACK CINCINNATI!  RAIN, the acclaimed Beatles concert, returns by popular demand! They look like them and they sound just like them!  “The next best thing to seeing The Beatles,” raves the Denver Post.  All the music and vocals are performed totally live!  RAIN covers The Beatles from the earliest beginnings through the psychedelic late ‘60s and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. RAIN is a multi-media, multi-dimensional experience... a fusion of historical footage and hilarious television commercials from the 1960s lights up video screens and live cameras zoom in for close-ups. Sing along with your family and friends to such favorites as “Let It Be,” “Hey Jude,” “My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Come Together” and “Can’t Buy Me Love,” and relive Beatlemania from Ed Sullivan to Abbey Road!

TICKET INFORMATION – on sale August 6

·               www.CincinnatiArts.ORG 

·               (513) 621-ARTS [2787]

·               Aronoff Center Ticket Office

·               Group sales (10 or more): (513) 977-4157

CINCINNATI, OH – The award-winning Beatles concert, RAIN – A Tribute to the Beatles, returns to the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall for one night only on Wednesday, October 14 at 8:00 PM.  Tickets go on sale Thursday, August 6 at www.CincinnatiArts.ORG, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office. 

The Public Television Special of RAIN – A Tribute to the Beatles will air on CET, Thursday, August 6 at 8:00 PM. Viewers who contribute $150 will receive two orchestra tickets to the show and a meet-and-greet opportunity with RAIN before the show.

In a show the Denver Post calls “the next best thing to seeing The Beatles,” RAIN boasts a repertoire of nearly 200 Beatlemaniac favorites, ranging from such beloved songs as “Yesterday” and “Hey Jude” to classic hits including “Revolution” and “Come Together.”

RAIN covers the Fab Four from their very first Ed Sullivan Show appearance through the Abbey Road album, through the psychedelic late ‘60s and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. RAIN is a multi-media, multi-dimensional experience... a fusion of historical footage and hilarious television commercials from the 1960s lights up video screens and live cameras zoom in for close-ups. 

For the four longtime band members – Joey Curatolo (Paul McCartney), Joe Bithorn (George Harrison), Ralph Castelli (Ringo Starr) and Steve Landes (John Lennon), with a little help from their friend Mark Lewis (keyboards, percussion) – the music is first and foremost.  For more than two decades, RAIN has distinguished itself by focusing on details, always being faithful to The Beatles with the ultimate goal of delivering a perfect note-for-note performance.  All the music is performed live, with no pre-recorded tapes or sequences.

 “On their feet, with arms raised high above their heads, all in the audience were swaying and singing along in blissed-out, nostalgia-powered unison!” – Chicago Sun-Times

“The enraptured audience relives the soundtrack of its life!” – Chicago Tribune

“RAIN nails the full glory of those heavenly vocal harmonies and thrilled an all-ages crowd with note-perfect renditions of songs from the mightiest canon in all of popular music history.” – Buffalo News   

“RAIN creates musical nirvana…makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up!  A thrilling bit of time-warping nostalgia...Boomer Heaven!” – Fort Worth Star-Telegram       

“Uncanny! RAIN are a quartet of fine musicians in their own right…as The Beatles, they triumph!” –

Boston Herald

“An adoring Valentine to The Beatles!” – The Washington Post

“RAIN is a spectacular extravaganza…did the audience love it?  Yeah, yeah, yeah!” – The Philadelphia Inquirer

 “Parents (and grandparents) and kids were on their feet bopping like crazy!” – Courier Post

Like The Beatles, the onstage members of RAIN are not only supreme musicians, but electrifying performers in their own right.

To learn more about RAIN, visit www.raintribute.com

Cincinnati Arts Association SPONSORS

2009-10 Season Sponsors:  THE UNION CENTRAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (Founding Season Sponsor), DUKE ENERGY, The P&G FUND of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, LOCAL12 WKRC, FIFTH THIRD BANK (Lifetime Endowment Partner)

2009-10 PRESENTING SPONSORS:  CityBeat, The Cincinnatian Hotel, Premier Pianos, Natorp’s

2009-10 PROMOTIONAL SPONSOR:  The Cincinnati Herald

RAIN Media Sponsor:   WGRR 103.5 FM

Founded in 1992, the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) is a not-for-profit organization that oversees the programming and management of the Tri-state’s finest performing arts venues – the Aronoff Center for the Arts and Music Hall – and is dedicated to supporting performing and visual arts. Each year, CAA presents a diverse schedule of events; serves upwards of 700,000 people in its venues; features the work of talented local, regional, and national artists in the Weston Art Gallery (located in the Aronoff Center); and supports the work of more than one dozen resident companies. Since the inception of its acclaimed arts education programs in 1995, CAA has reached nearly three-quarters of a million students.

CAA is proud to be a member of Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Greater Cincinnati Convention & Visitors Bureau, Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Over-the-Rhine Chamber of Commerce, and Performing Arts Center Consortium.

For more information, visit www.CincinnatiArts.ORG .

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