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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman"><u>For 3rd Year, Akron Troupe gives Dickens’ ‘Carol’ a Provocative ‘Twist’ <o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times-Roman; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 8pt; "><br></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman"><u> <o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman">Arts First Grace happily announces the return of <u>Jacob
Marley's Christmas Carol”, a pla</u>y Tom Mula.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman">Directed By JT Buck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman">Featuring Dan Camburn, Michael Pitt and Toni Clair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman">Performances:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman">December 12 thru December 20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman">Friday and Saturday at 7 PM (note early time)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman"><b>Special Christmas Eve Performance<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman"><b>Wednesday, Dec. 24 at 10PM<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman">Admission is free.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>A $10 donation is suggested to cover costs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:Times-Roman">Call 330-212-6709 or email jtbuck@ameritech.net for
reservations/questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"><i><u>Location<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">First Grace United Church of Christ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">350
S. Portage Path (at W. Exchange Street) in Akron<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Conveniently
located near The Akron Woman's City Club and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Free,
convenient and well-lit parking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Fully
Handicap accessible<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">(Page
1 of 2)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"><i><u>About
the Show<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">"Scrooge?
I have to redeem old Scrooge? The one man I knew who was worse than I was?
Impossible!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Thus
begins Jacob Marley's frightening, funny, smart and ultimately<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">exhiirating
journey to redemption. Marley is trapped in a desolate post-mortem
neitherworld, fettered with the chains of greed and envy he forged in life.
Relying on the power of his own imagination, and with the assistance of a
personal 'hell-sprite', Marley can only secure his release by personally stage
managing the redemption of his business partner, Ebeneezer Scrooge. Along the
way, Marley and the audience are confronted with profound questions about the
interplay of love, forbearance and imagination in our own lives. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">Jacob
Marley's Christmas Carol played for two seasons at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
The show was nominated for four Joseph Jefferson Awards, and received an After
Dark Award and the Goodman School of Drama's Cunningham Prize for Playwriting.
The play has since been performed to rave reviews and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times-Roman">standing
ovations in theatres across the country, including: Cincinnati Shakespeare,
American Stage Festival, Delaware Rep, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Stages
Repertory in Houston, North Coast Rep, Third Avenue Playhouse, Sage Theatre
Group, and the 1894 Opera House. For seven seasons, it has been broadcast
nationally on NPR.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<br>JT Buck
Arts Director
First Grace United Church of Christ
350 S. Portage Path
Akron, OH 44320
Office: 330-762-8469
Cel: 330-212-6709
jtbuck@ameritech.net
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