Wed 9/27 @ 7PM
Yet another Cleveland history program at the Music Box Supper Club tackles its topic in a different way.
Instead of experts sitting around talking “Celebrating Women Important to Cleveland’s History” will feature four local performers embodying four such women.
Robin Pease will take on the identity of Sara Lucy Bagby, one of the last escaped slaves to be returned to the south after being captured in Cleveland under the Fugitive Slave Act.
Ruth Pangrace will be Canadian-born Cassie Chadwick, sent by her family to live in Cleveland at the age of 21 after her scams got her in trouble with the law. Operating under numerous names, she continued her career as a con artist, whose schemes separated men and banks from their money in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
The story of Florence Ellinwood Allen, the first woman on the Ohio State Supreme Court and the first woman appointed to be a U.S. federal judge (by president Franklin D. Roosevelt), will be shared by Lynna Metrisin.
And finally, a woman many Clevelanders will remember — eccentric TV news reporter Dorothy Fuldheim, whose celebrity as a WEWS newscaster for 37 years earned her national fame — will be portrayed by Anne McEvoy.
The program is free. Doors open at 5pm for those who want to have dinner. The program starts at 7. Make a reservation here.
Cleveland, OH 44113