[NEohioPAL]GLTF Commences 45th Anniversary Season This Fall

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For Immediate Release

August 15, 2006=20

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Cleveland's Classic Theater Company Commences 45th Year with a=20

Comic Coupling of Sondheim and Shakespeare

GLTF's resident company of actors performs both A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum and=20
Love's Labour's Lost in rotating repertory to open the Festival's
2006-07 season.

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CLEVELAND, OH - Great Lakes Theater Festival (GLTF) will commence its
45th season with a Fall Repertory that features Stephen Sondheim's
Broadway musical farce A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(Forum) and William Shakespeare's rarely produced classic comedy Love's
Labour's Lost (Loves). The productions will be performed in rotating
repertory at the Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square Center, September 15 -
October 21, 2006. The Fall Repertory features a single company of
nineteen actors performing two alternating plays on the same stage over
six weeks. Victoria Bussert will direct A Funny Thing Happened on the
Way to the Forum and Drew Barr will direct Love's Labour's Lost.

Great Lakes Theater Festival's Fall Repertory is presented with generous
support from American Greetings, National City and the Kulas Foundation.
Media sponsors for the Festival's 2006-07 season are Cleveland Free
Times, Cleveland Magazine, WCLV 104.9 and WCPN 90.3 ideastream.=20

"I couldn't be more thrilled with the company that we've been able to
assemble for our Fall Repertory," remarked Charles Fee, the Festival's
Producing Artistic Director.  "I will tell you that it takes an
extraordinarily talented group of actors to be able to perform a great
work of Shakespeare on one night and then switch gears completely to
perform a Broadway musical by the legendary Stephen Sondheim the
following evening.  It's going to be a real treat for our audience to
witness this new musical facet of our resident company."

The 2006-07 Fall Repertory opens with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum.  A musical toga party of epic, comic proportions, Forum
traces a day in the life of Pseudolus - Rome's craftiest slave.  Armed
with the witty lyrics and toe-tapping tunes of legendary composer
Stephen Sondheim, the wily philistine Pseudolus struggles to procure a
beautiful courtesan for his master in exchange for freedom.  With a zany
cast of unforgettable characters and an infectious, vaudeville energy,
Broadway's greatest farce delivers triumphantly on the promise of its
signature song, Comedy Tonight.  Forum is based on the book by Burt
Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. =20

 William Shakespeare's rarely produced classic comedy Love's Labour's
Lost completes the Festival's Fall Repertory pairing.  In Loves, a King
decrees that his court be free of women so that he and his men may study
without distraction.  All is well until a beautiful princess and her
delectable entourage pay a visit and put the men's resolve to the
ultimate test.  Love letters gone awry set in motion a series of
hysterical misadventures which turn the court topsy-turvy in this
Shakespearean feast of language. =20

GLTF's forty-fifth artistic company features a dynamic combination of
familiar faces and notable firsts.  Veteran Festival artist, Victoria
Bussert will celebrate her twentieth anniversary of collaborating with
Great Lakes Theater Festival when she directs Forum.  Forum represents
the first musical theater offering in a GLTF season since the company's
2003 production of Anything Goes which was also helmed by Bussert.
Local designer and chair of the Baldwin-Wallace College Theatre
Department, Jeff Herrmann, a new addition to the Festival family, will
create the setting for the production and mark the first time that a
Cleveland scenic designer has graced the Festival main stage since GLTF
moved to the Ohio Theatre in 1982.  Rounding out the Fall Repertory,
Cleveland favorite Drew Barr will return to GLTF for the fifth
consecutive season as a director to stage Love's Labour's Lost after
acclaimed GLTF productions of The Taming of the Shrew (2004) and You
Can't Take It With You (2005).  Barr has directed in each year of Fee's
tenure as GLTF Producing Artistic Director. =20

 "We are thrilled to celebrate our 45th year of producing Shakespeare
and the classics this season," said Fee on the occasion of the
Festival's milestone.  "On behalf of our entire company, I'd like to
thank Northeast Ohio for supporting the Festival for an amazing four and
a half decades.  The commitment of this region has been extraordinary
and is a testament to the hunger in our community for live theater and
the classics.  This season is the beginning of an exciting new era for
Great Lakes Theater Festival - one which will set the course for the
future of this company.  If you thought the last forty-five years were
great, you ain't seen nothing yet."

Opening Night performances of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum (September 16th) and Love's Labour's Lost (September 30th) have
been scheduled for Saturday evenings with preview performances of both
productions scheduled for Friday nights. Curtain times for all evening
performances will remain at 7:30 p.m., with a 1:30 p.m. curtain time for
Saturday matinees and a 3:00 p.m. curtain time for Sunday matinees. Both
productions in GLTF's Fall Repertory will continue to offer sign
interpreted and audio described performances as well as the popular
Director's Night and Playnotes pre-show discussion series.=20

Single tickets for Great Lakes Theater Festival productions range in
price from=20

$22-$56 (Student tickets $13 - any performance / any seat) and are
available by calling=20

(216) 241-6000, by ordering online
<BLOCKED::http://www.greatlakestheater.org/tickets/> , by visiting the
Playhouse Square Center Ticket Office or any Tickets.com outlet located
within all Tops Friendly Markets. Groups of ten or more receive
discounts as do educators and students.=20

Since 1962, Great Lakes Theater Festival has brought the pleasure, power
and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience in
Northern Ohio. The first resident company of Playhouse Square Center,
the Festival has called the Ohio Theatre home since 1982.

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Media Contact:

Todd Krispinsky

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Great Lakes Theater Festival
1501 Euclid Avenue, Suite 300
(216) 241-5490 x317
(216) 241-6315 Fax
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Stephen=20
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Forum</I> (Forum) and William Shakespeare’s rarely produced =
classic comedy <I=20
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Lost</I> (Loves).</B> The=20
productions will be performed in rotating repertory at the Ohio Theatre, =

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<st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">Square</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType=20
w:st=3D"on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, September 15 – =
October 21, 2006.=20
The Fall Repertory features <B style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">a =
single</B>=20
<B style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">company of nineteen actors</B> =

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style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Victoria Bussert </B>will direct =
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Forum </I>and <B style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Drew Barr</B> =
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200%"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Great =
Lakes=20
Theater Festival’s Fall Repertory is presented with generous =
support from <B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">American Greetings, <st1:place=20
w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">National City</st1:City></st1:place> =
</B>and the<B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Kulas Foundation.</B><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Media sponsors for the =
Festival’s=20
2006-07 season are Cleveland Free Times, <SPAN=20
class=3D863244517-16082006>Cleveland Magazine, </SPAN>WCLV 104.9 and =
WCPN 90.3=20
ideastream. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: =
Arial">“I couldn’t be=20
more thrilled with the company that we’ve been able to assemble =
for our Fall=20
Repertory,” remarked Charles Fee, the Festival’s Producing =
Artistic=20
Director</SPAN></B><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: =
Arial">.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>“I will tell you that it =
takes <B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">an extraordinarily talented group =
of=20
actors</B> to be able to perform a great work </SPAN><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">of <B =

style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Shakespeare on one night</B> and =
then <B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">switch gears completely to =
perform a=20
Broadway musical by the legendary Stephen Sondheim</B> the following=20
evening.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>It’s going =
to be a real=20
treat for our audience to witness this new musical facet of our resident =

company.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The =
2006-07=20
Fall Repertory opens with <I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">A =
Funny Thing=20
Happened on the Way to the Forum</I>.</SPAN></B><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN =

style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>A musical toga party of epic, =
comic=20
proportions, <I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Forum</I> traces a =
day in=20
the life of Pseudolus – <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place=20
w:st=3D"on">Rome</st1:place></st1:City>’s craftiest slave.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Armed with the witty lyrics =
and=20
toe-tapping tunes of legendary composer <B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Stephen Sondheim</B>, the wily =
philistine=20
Pseudolus struggles to procure a beautiful courtesan for his master in =
exchange=20
for freedom.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>With a zany =
cast of=20
unforgettable characters and an infectious, vaudeville energy, =
Broadway’s=20
greatest farce delivers triumphantly on the promise of its signature =
song, <I=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Comedy Tonight</I>.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN><I=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Forum</I> is based on the <B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">book by Burt Shevelove </B>and<B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Larry Gelbart.</B><I=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: =
yes"> =20
</SPAN></I><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN =

style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>William Shakespeare’s =
rarely produced=20
classic comedy <I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Love’s =
Labour’s Lost=20
</I>completes the Festival’s Fall Repertory =
pairing.</SPAN></B><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN =

style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>In <I=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Loves, a</I> King decrees that his =
court be=20
free of women so that he and his men may study without distraction.<SPAN =

style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>All is well until a beautiful =
princess=20
and her delectable entourage pay a visit and put the men’s resolve =
to the=20
ultimate test.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Love =
letters gone=20
awry set in motion a series of hysterical misadventures which turn the =
court=20
topsy-turvy in this Shakespearean feast of language.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: =
Arial">GLTF’s=20
forty-fifth artistic company features a dynamic combination of familiar =
faces=20
and notable firsts.</SPAN></B><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN =

style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Veteran Festival artist, <B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Victoria Bussert will celebrate =
her=20
twentieth anniversary of collaborating with Great Lakes Theater Festival =

</B>when she directs <I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: =
normal">Forum.</I><SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN><I=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Forum</I> represents the first =
musical=20
theater offering in a GLTF season since the company’s 2003 =
production of <I=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Anything Goes</I> which was also =
helmed by=20
Bussert.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Local designer and chair of the=20
Baldwin-Wallace College Theatre Department, Jeff Herrmann, a new =
addition to the=20
Festival family,</B> will create the setting for the production and mark =
the=20
first time that a <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place=20
w:st=3D"on">Cleveland</st1:place></st1:City> scenic designer has graced =
the=20
Festival main stage since GLTF moved to the Ohio Theatre in 1982.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Rounding out the Fall =
Repertory,=20
<st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on"><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: =
normal">Cleveland</B></st1:City></st1:place><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> favorite Drew Barr will return =
to GLTF for=20
the fifth consecutive season as a director</B> to stage <I=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Love’s Labour’s Lost =
</I>after acclaimed=20
GLTF productions of <I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Taming =
of the=20
Shrew </I>(2004)<I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> </I>and <I=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">You Can’t Take It With You =
</I>(2005).<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Barr has directed in each year =
of Fee’s=20
tenure as GLTF Producing Artistic Director.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN =

style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“We are thrilled to =
celebrate our=20
45<SUP>th</SUP> year of producing Shakespeare and the classics this =
season,”=20
said Fee on the occasion of the Festival’s =
milestone.</SPAN></B><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN =

style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>“On behalf of our entire =
company, I’d=20
like to thank <st1:place w:st=3D"on">Northeast Ohio</st1:place> for =
supporting the=20
Festival for an amazing four and a half decades.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>The commitment of this region =
has been=20
extraordinary and is a testament to the hunger in our community for live =
theater=20
and the classics.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>This =
season is=20
the beginning of an exciting new era for Great Lakes Theater Festival =
– one=20
which will set the course for the future of this company.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>If you thought the last =
forty-five years=20
were great, you ain’t seen nothing =
yet.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: =
Arial">Opening Night=20
performances of <I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">A Funny Thing =
Happened on=20
the Way to the Forum</I> (September 16<SUP>th</SUP>)</SPAN></B><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> and =
<B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Love’s Labour’s =
Lost</I> (September=20
30<SUP>th</SUP>) </B>have been scheduled for <B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Saturday</B> evenings with =
preview=20
performances of both productions scheduled for Friday nights. Curtain =
times for=20
all evening performances will remain at 7:30 p.m., with a 1:30 p.m. =
curtain time=20
for Saturday matinees and a 3:00 p.m. curtain time for Sunday matinees. =
<B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Both productions</B> in =
GLTF’s Fall=20
Repertory will continue to <B style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: =
normal">offer sign=20
interpreted and audio described performances</B> as well as the popular =
<B=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Director’s Night</B> and <B =

style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Playnotes pre-show discussion =
series.</B>=20
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style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: =
Arial">Single tickets=20
for Great Lakes Theater Festival productions range in price from=20
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: =
Arial">$22-$56=20
(Student tickets $13 – any performance / any seat)</SPAN></B><SPAN =

style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> and =
are=20
available by calling <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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200%"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(216) =
241-6000,=20
by <SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">ordering <A=20
href=3D"BLOCKED::http://www.greatlakestheater.org/tickets/"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black">online</SPAN></A>, by</SPAN> visiting the =
Playhouse Square=20
Center Ticket Office or any Tickets.com outlet located within all Tops =
Friendly=20
Markets. <B style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Groups of ten or more =
receive=20
discounts as do educators and students.</B> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: =
200%"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Since =
1962,=20
Great Lakes Theater Festival has brought the pleasure, power and =
relevance of=20
classic theater to the widest possible audience in <st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Northern=20
Ohio</st1:place>. The first resident company of <st1:place=20
w:st=3D"on"><st1:PlaceName w:st=3D"on">Playhouse</st1:PlaceName> =
<st1:PlaceType=20
w:st=3D"on">Square</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType=20
w:st=3D"on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, the Festival has called =
the Ohio=20
Theatre home since 1982.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: =
Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: =
Arial">Media=20
Contact:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></FONT><FONT =
face=3DArial=20
size=3D2>Todd Krispinsky</FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Marketing and Public =
Relations=20
Director</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Great Lakes Theater=20
Festival</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>1501 Euclid Avenue, Suite=20
300</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>(216) 241-5490 =
x317</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>(216) 241-6315 =
Fax</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A=20
href=3D"BLOCKED::http://www.greatlakestheater.org/">www.greatlakestheater=
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<DIV align=3Dleft><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#ff0000 =
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Great Company!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><STRONG><FONT face=3DArial>Subscribe to our NEW =
2006-07=20
Season!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=3Dleft><STRONG><FONT face=3DArial>Visit </FONT><A=20
href=3D"BLOCKED::http://www.greatlakestheater.org/"><FONT face=3DArial=20
color=3D#0000ff>www.greatlakestheater.org</FONT></A><FONT face=3DArial> =
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