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<div><font size="4">Please consider joining us at Heights Arts Studio a week from today (Wednesday, December 3rd) at 8 for OddyFest December, <em>The End?</em> Burn off those turkey calories by laughing profusely at the absurdist ("A Flock of Seagulls"), the bawdy ("The Last Satyr"), and the yoga ("Downward-Facing Burt"). At the year's end, we're exploring implicitly or explicitly the end of theatre as we know it. Or just having a good time. That works too.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Hope to see you at Heights Arts Studio 12/3 at 8! Come at 7:30 for a reading of a short story called "End School Zone," and stick around after the play to hear Steve Maistros' holiday hit song, "Foreclosing Christmas."</font></div>
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<div><font size="4"><strong><em>NEOHIOPAL DISCOUNTS CONTINUE! HALF-PRICE ($5) IF YOU MENTION THIS EMAIL.</em></strong></font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 17pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>The Oddy Festival ends '08 with "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><u>The End?</u></i>"</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The first and third Wednesdays in December at the Heights Arts Studio in </span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Cleveland Heights</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> explore the end of theatre as we know it.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>The FOURTH ODDY FEST SHOW</strong></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>"A Flock of Seagulls" by Stuart Hoffman</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Stuart Hoffman, the Secretary from last month's "Klutz," has written a play, if the actors could only stay in character and stop peeking at the script.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>"The Last Satyr"* by Matt Greenfield</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">In 533 A.D., the Roman Empire is crumbling and, at the edge of the empire, a playwright-director tries to convince his bawdy-drunken goat-men crew and new lead actress to give theatre one last go… if anyone shows up.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">(Inspired by historical events in 533… and 2008.)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Burt's wife practices yoga. Burt practices dying.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>as well as original odd music to follow the plays, including the Steve-Maistros-penned hit "Foreclosing Christmas"!</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>*Be warned of adult content: carpet-f-bombing and copious pelvic thrusting.</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>**I'm tired of offering NEOhioPAL discounts that are overly-complex. So, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><u>you mention NEOhioPAL, you get in for half-price!</u></i></strong></span></p>
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<div><br>-- <br>Matt Greenfield<br>The Oddy Festival<br><a href="mailto:oddyfest@gmail.com">oddyfest@gmail.com</a><br>216-WAM-TOG1 (216-926-8641)</div>
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