New this year at Cincinnati Shakespeare – bar service! (fingers crossed.) But not until the licensed plumber installs the three-chambered sink (by health department standards) to wash the theater’s two coffee pots to serve the coffee that’s required by the state Division of Liquor Control in order to get a license.
CSC managing director Rebecca Bowman is also overseeing the installation of a commercial fridge to hold the pre-packaged sandwiches also required by the liquor control and stocking up on just-add-hot-water instant soup cups, all to make sure that if theater productions drive people to drink, there’s the means to get them sober before they leave.
The original hope was to have full bar service on Sept. 7’s opening of “Romeo and Juliet,” but as the permit application doesn’t pass through City Council until Sept. 6 en route to Columbus, there will be no popping of corks opening night. If all’s well that ends well “we’ll be pouring by the middle of the run,” Bowman promises. She expects to start with wine and beer and move on to full bar service before much time has passed.
Jackie Demaline
