[NEohioPAL]State Fair at ACT a personal invite from JT Buck

Fri Apr 25 16:10:05 PDT 2003

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<DIV align=center>Note:  The following note is not authorized by Aurora Community Theatre.  It is a personal note from JT Buck to his friends (heck even his enemies) in the NE Ohio theatre universe.  :) It reflects his opinins, as well as the opinion of most of lastnights preview audience.  Do not hold ACT liable for anything said herein :)</DIV>
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<DIV>To my Dear Colleagues:</DIV>
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<DIV>Tonight, April 25, at 8pm, the curtain will raise on the Aurora Community Theatre production of </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT size=5>Rodgers and Hammertein's <U>State Fair</U>.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Yes thats right, from the director who brought you the NE Ohio Premiere of that play about a gay jesus comes THE family Friendly Musical of Spring 2003!!!!!!!!!!</DIV>
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<DIV align=center>Move over Diamond Lil at CPH!</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Move over French Drag Queens at Beck Center!</DIV>
<DIV align=center>MOoooove over you demon posessed bonnet-wearin' Puritans of Streetsboro!</DIV>
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<DIV>I have had the privelege of directing and musically directing an absolutely charming cast of nearly 40 actors in what is perhaps R & H's most deliberately and gloriously corny musical ever. </DIV>
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<DIV>Come watch as we run thru every time-honored community theatre cliche in the handbook with our heads held high and our voices raising the rafters.</DIV>
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<DIV>Choreographer Merlynne Hancock and Chorus Master Mike Hagey have done an excepional job in realizing our wacky vision for this otherwise so-normal-you'd-heave production.  </DIV>
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<DIV>Producer Jacqueline Hudson is busy on the phone ordering bales of hay while Lynn Potter dances on the piano keys (almost literally), Doug Everton beats the skins in a slick and snappy kina way, Alan Higbee plunks a mean groove on the bass and Adrian Susanin emerges from the darkness as would a druid priest in candelight allowing his wicked violin melodeis to hum and buzz from vale to vale.  </DIV>
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<DIV align=center>As A part of Our Evening</DIV>
<DIV align=center>You Will See Live Onstage:</DIV>
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<DIV align=center>Alcoholism</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Child Labor</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Farmers thinking of thier pigs as "More Than Just a Friend"</DIV>
<DIV align=center>That annoying "Mike and Ike Reviews.." guy in sequins </DIV>
<DIV align=center>Duke -  the Ritalin-Popping Wonder Pug</DIV>
<DIV align=center>A Band that plays "I fall To Pieces" everytime the set breaks down.  </DIV>
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<DIV>Come back to a simpler time, when America still meant freedom and it was still safe for kids to dress funny and sit on the minister's lap.</DIV>
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<DIV>The sets are huge, the plot is small, the jokes are funny and the characters are thinner than the tomato slices on a Subway footlong.  What more could you want from a musical comedy?  </DIV>
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<DIV>Oh, yeah, the MUSIC is GORGEOUS!</DIV>
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<DIV>You'll squeal like a piggy with laughter!</DIV>
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<DIV>Come down and see the show!  We run Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm, and Sunday afternoon at 3pm.  Tickets, which are very reasonably priced, can be obtained by calling 330-562-1818.  </DIV>
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<DIV>If you don't like the show, I'll personally refund your money (see provisions below).*****</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks and see you at the Fair!</DIV>
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<DIV>JT Buck,</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=1>(please hire me as) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Director </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=1>(</FONT><FONT size=1>of your theatre's next show)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>*******Refund offer was a joke.  Don't even ask!********* </FONT></DIV>
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