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size=5 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Hawken Players Society</span></font><font size=4 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=4 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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size=4 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Presents <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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size=5 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:20.0pt;
color:black;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font
size=5 color=red><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold'>The
Musical Comedy Murders of 1940<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
color:black'>Directed by<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b></span></font><b><font
size=5 color=red><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold'>Pat
McCabe<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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size=5 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:20.0pt;
color:red;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
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size=4 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Friday, November 2nd @7:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Saturday, November 3rd @ 7:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=4 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Sunday, November 4th @ 3 pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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text-autospace:none'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font
size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:black'>Hawken</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:black'> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><font color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Kennedy Auditorium<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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text-autospace:none'><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=3
color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>12465 County Line Road</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><font
color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Gates <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Mills</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Ohio</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">44040</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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size=4 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Tickets are $5 and $12 and may be purchased in advance by calling
440-423-2119. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=4 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Tickets are also available at the door.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;
font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none'><font size=3
color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>It’s not a musical, but there is music in it.
It’s not a mystery, though there is plenty to try and solve. It is
filled with murders, though you’ll barely care. It is very funny
from beginning to end.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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none'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>It’s 1940, and the creative team responsible for a recent
Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious
“Stage Door Slasher”) are assembling for a backer’s audition
of their new show at the estate of a wealthy sponsor. The estate is
filled with sliding bookcases, secret passages, revolving fireplaces and a
German maid who seems to be four different people. All of these figure
into the comic mayhem that ensues when the infamous “Slasher”
strikes again. As the cast assembles, a blizzard cuts off their retreat,
bodies drop in plain sight, knives spring out of nowhere, masked figures are
everywhere and the laughs never stop. Don’t worry. The
murders are so incidental that you’ll barely notice because you will be
treated to a sidesplitting good time and a generous serving of the
author’s (John Bishop) biting, satiric and refreshingly irreverent
wit. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>For a fun-filled
evening, join the cast of <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;
text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3 color=red face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:red;font-weight:bold'>Dylan
Herts, Brian Huser, Andrew Johnson, Annie Krol, Randi Michel, Amy Murdoch, <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;
text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3 color=red face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:red;font-weight:bold'>Wes
Rupert, Margaret Rybak, Sam Skove, Hannah Stofan and Connor Zagrans</span></font></b><font
color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>as they romp through
the Hawken Players Society production of <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=red face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:red;font-weight:bold'>The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940</span></font></b><b><font
color=red face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:red;font-weight:
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