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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font 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>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><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>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font 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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style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font 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>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font 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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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>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font 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'><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>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font 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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style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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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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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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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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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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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font 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>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font 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>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 color=black 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'><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>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;line-height:12.0pt'><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>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt'><font size=3 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>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;line-height:12.0pt'><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>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt'><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'><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'><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>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt'><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>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
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><font
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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