<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory's</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">new professional theatre</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;">AUDITIONS</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"> </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">for </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;">THE ODD COUPLE</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">by Neil Simon</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">directed by Fred Sternfeld</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">complete information at this link: </span></div><div><a href="http://www.fredsternfeld.com/oddcouple.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://www.fredsternfeld.com/oddcouple.htm</span></a><br>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 32px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">check out the information below about Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory's inaugural season....</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">==================================================================</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
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</div>FAIRMOUNT PERFORMING ARTS CONSERVATORY (FPAC)<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">For Immediate Release<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
November 9, 2008<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">The Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory, a division of Fairmount Center for the Arts, is pleased to announce a wide range of new theatre activity in its new performing space at the Mayfield Village Civic Center, including its first season of professional plays.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory (FPAC), under the artistic direction of Fred Sternfeld, cultivates the art of live theatre while providing intensive actor training in its professional workshops. Additionally, by establishing a dialogue with its audience and its community, FPAC reaches out to people in our northeast Ohio community through performances, educational offerings and future <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226291385_1" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">outreach programming</span>.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">This year (2008-2009), FPAC will be offering its first season of live theatre professional productions that will include <br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
A CHRISTMAS CAROL - AN EVENING WITH <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226291385_2" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">CHARLES DICKENS</span>, starring Executive Director, Tom Fulton and THE ODD COUPLE by<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226291385_3" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Neil Simon</span>, directed by Fred Sternfeld.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">The Conservatory offers programming both in performance and arts education.  The educational arm of the conservatory was founded in 2004 as the Fairmount Performing Arts Camp.  Now it its sixth year, Fairmount has expanded the concept to include both <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226291385_4" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">educational programming</span> and performance to become a professional conservatory in partnership with Mayfield Village.   FPAC will be producing a number of popular musicals and plays in its Youth and Teen Theatre and Summer Camp initiatives as well.<div style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE TIMES AND DATES<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
A <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226291385_5" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">CHRISTMAS CAROL</span> - AN EVENING WITH CHARLES DICKENS<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226291385_6" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">A One Man Show</span><br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
With Tom Fulton As Charles Dickens<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226291385_7" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Opening Night</span>:  SUNDAY, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226291385_8" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">December 7</span> at 7:30 p.m.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">RUN OF SHOW:  FRIDAY - SUNDAY (December 7 - 20)<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Friday and Saturdays 7:30<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
Sunday Matinee 2:30<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">____________________________________<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
THE ODD COUPLE<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">By Neil Simon<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Directed by Fred Sternfeld<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">RUN OF SHOW: Thurs, Friday, Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
April 16 – May 3, 2009;<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Audition dates and times for THE ODD COUPLE will be announced shortly.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Other plays under consideration for futu<span style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">re include THE <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226291385_9" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">MIRACLE WORKER</span>, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST.  </span></div>
<div style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
</span></div><div style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; white-space: normal; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Since the founding of Fairmount in 1971, the center has affected the lives of many thousands of young people through our broad-based training programs in all the arts.</span></span></div>
<div style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">For more information about The Fairmount Center for the Arts and the Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory at Mayfield Village, please call <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226291385_10" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">440-338-3171</span> or visit our website at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fairmountcenter.org/" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1226291385_11" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">www.fairmountcenter.org</span></a>.<br style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">
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