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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">TrueNorth Cultural Arts </span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Announces <br></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center">
<br></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The Christmas Schooner, A Musical</span></u></b></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center">
<br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Directors: Marc Moritz and Rick Fortney</span></b><br><b><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></u></b>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Book by John Reeger</span></b> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Music and Lyrics by Julie Shannon</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> <br>
</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Performances: </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">7:30
pm</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">with Sunday </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">3:00
pm</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
matinees</span></b> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thursday – Sunday, December 4, 5, 6
& 7</span></b> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thursday – Sunday, December 11, 12,
13 & 14</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Based on the true story of the </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouse_Simmons" target="_blank"><b><i>Rouse
Simmons</i></b></a><b>, a </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes" target="_blank"><b>Great Lakes</b></a><b> Schooner whose captain risks life and
limb to transport fir trees from </b></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Michigan</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">'s </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Peninsula" target="_blank"><b>Upper
Peninsula</b></a><b> to </b></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Chicago</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">'s German immigrants during the late
19th century. </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">TrueNorth's Theatre season last year included <i>Art</i>; <i>Uh-Oh,
Here Comes Christmas</i>; and an original production which was commissioned to
local playwright Kimberly Ceja, <i>Blooms of Steel, The Making of an
Inter-National City</i>. This season TrueNorth produced the Children's
Opera <i>Little Red Riding Hood</i> and <i>Working, the Musical</i>. </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">TrueNorth
at French Creek is located at French Creek Nature Center, Sheffield Village, 10
minutes from Crocker Park, just west of I90 and 611 exit, on 611. For
further information please visit </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.tncarts.org/" target="_blank"><b>www.TNCArts.org</b></a><b>.</b></span></p>