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<P><B><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Times New Roman">. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Bell MT">Get Your Tickets, Now! See Leon Bibb & Sue Johnson Have an Affair . . .</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT>
<BR><B><FONT FACE="Bell MT">. . . </FONT><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Bell MT">as Andrew Makepeace Ladd and Melissa Gardner in Love Letters<I>!</I></FONT></B><I></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT>
<BR><B><FONT FACE="Bell MT">Curtain Going Up</FONT></B><B><I><FONT FACE="Bell MT">!</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Bell MT"> Tickets are on Sale NOW</FONT><I><FONT FACE="Bell MT">!</FONT></I></B><I></I>
<BR><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Join us for a great theatre, great entertainment special event</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Gossip. Cowardice. Deception . Depression. Want to know more? Then, indulge yourself. Peek into the lives (voyeurism is OK, here) of Andy & Melissa whose humorous, often poignant, letters full of intimacy, love, lies, sex and drugs, tell the tale of their 40-year relationship.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio </FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Plays.Prose.Poetry.Performance Pieces.Dance.Music</FONT></B>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Times New Roman">Presents</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="French Script MT">A Benefit </FONT><FONT SIZE=7 FACE="French Script MT">Performance</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">of</FONT></B> </P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">A.R. Gurney’s </FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT SIZE=7 FACE="Times New Roman">Love Letters</FONT></B></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Rockwell">Saturday, October</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> 6<SUP>th</SUP> . 8:00 p </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Sunday, October</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">7<SUP>th</SUP></FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> . 3:30 p</FONT>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Brooks Theater, Cleveland Play House</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT SIZE=6 FACE="French Script MT">With</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Leon Bibb</FONT><FONT SIZE=6 FACE="French Script MT"></FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=6 FACE="French Script MT">as Andrew Makepeace Ladd</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Sue Johnson</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> as Melissa Gardner </FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Directed by </FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Seth Gordon</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, Associate Artistic Director</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Cleveland Play House</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">u u</FONT></B></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Pre-show and Intermission music performance by</FONT>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Brian McIntyre on Guitar</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Post</FONT> <FONT
FACE="Tahoma">–</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">performance Reception</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">with the music of Straight to the Point Jazz Band . . .</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Eddie Baccus,Jr.( Pieces of a Dream) Sax;</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Robert Hubbard, Drums; and Eddie Baccus, Sr, Keys;</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">u</FONT><B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">u</FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Love Letters</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, by A. R. Gurney. </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, it centers on two characters, Melissa Gardner and </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, they sit side </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">by side at tables and read the correspondence - in which they discuss their hopes and ambitions, </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">dreams and disappointments, and victories and defeats - that has passed between them throughout </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">their lives. It is only at the end that they both realize they were really love letters at their core.</FONT>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Wingdings">u</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT><B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman">u</FONT></B></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Proceeds will go toward the Leon and Marguerite Bibb Academic Scholarship at Bowling Green State University, </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">and the Wake Up and Live’s artistic programs, educational services, WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS, and </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">the</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">“New Life, New Image”</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> video-based, public speaking and professional image, community service project, </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">designed to help individuals in crisis become more employable</FONT>
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Presented with support from Fifth Third Bank</FONT><B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">.</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">United Black Fund</FONT><B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">.</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> Cuyahoga County Public Library</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">To Order Tickets</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Call (216) 561-8608 .</FONT></B> </P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">email: </FONT></B><A HREF="mailto:wakeup4664@aol.com"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">wakeup4664@aol.com</FONT></U></B></A><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> . </FONT></B><A HREF="file://www.wakeupandlives.org"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">www.wakeupandlives.org</FONT></U></B></A><B></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio</FONT></B> </P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">P.O. Box 201524 . Shaker Hts. OH 44120</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Yes, I/we will Attend . . . </FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The Benefit Performance of Love Letters</FONT></B></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Sat. $25.00 ___</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Sun. $25.00 ___ </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Students/ Seniors $20.00___</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">(Seniors/Students/Equity/AFTRA/SAG $5.00 discount each performance.)</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">$_____________ Total Amount Enclosed. Total # of Tickets ____________________</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">$ ____________ Donation </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">*Credit cards accepted. Call (216) 561-8608</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Go to </FONT><A HREF="http://www.wakeupandlives.org/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">www.wakeupandlives.org</FONT></U></A><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> to order tickets or make a donation on-line or to download printable forms </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">& mail to . . . .</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">WAKE UP And LIVE's Actors' Studio</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">P.O. Box 201524 . </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Shaker Hts. OH . 44120</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Attn: Sue Johnson</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Tickets ordered after 10/1/07 will be held at the Box Office</FONT>
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