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<h2 align="center"><font color="#2d0d4e"
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><u>January 2009 e-News</u></font></h2>
<h3 align="center"><font color="#000000"
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="5"><i>CVLT WISHES
YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR!</i></font></h3>
<h3><font color="#2d0d4e"
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">IN THIS MONTH'S ISSUE :</font></h3>
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<li><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Performances
& Events in January:</font></b>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i><a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/79thSeason/doubt.php">Doubt</a></i> (January
16 - February 7)</font></li>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Auditions
in January:</b></font>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i><a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/79thSeason/incorruptible.php">Incorruptible</a></i>
(auditions January 12/13)</font></li>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Brick
Pavers Phase IV :</b></font>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Brick
Pavers Phase IV nearly over - <a href="http://www.cvlt.org/bricks">order
now!</a></font></li>
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face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Performances &
Events in January:</font></h3>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b><i><a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/79thSeason/doubt.php">DOUBT: A Parable</a></i><br>
Fridays & Saturdays at 8 PM<br>
January 16 - February 7, 2009</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i><strong>The
Northeast Ohio community theatre premiere of the award-winning play
that inspired the award-winning film!</strong></i></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> CVLT
presents John Patrick Shanley's <i>Doubt: A Parable</i>, a gripping
study in morality and uncertainty. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize
for Drama, Best New Play awards from the New York Drama Critics'
Circle, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, the Drama League, the Outer
Critics Circle, the Drama Desk award, the Obie, and four Tony Awards
including Best Play. In late 2008, the play made the jump to film,
receiving dozens of awards and nominations for its stars, Meryl Streep,
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i>Doubt: A
Parable</i> is set in 1964, and takes place at a working class Catholic
school in the Bronx. Sister Aloysius, the stern, hard-line principal,
has come to suspect the young Father Flynn of having improper relations
with the school's first black student. Disturbing news from an
enthusiastic young nun, Sister James, and a meeting with the student's
mother, Mrs. Muller, bring conflict to the school and to the conscience
of Sister Aloysious. <i>Doubt</i> is a mystery that raises important
questions about the consequences of action and inaction; questions that
it does not aim to answer, but rather leaves to the audience. As the
playwright himself notes, “doubt itself is a passionate exercise.”</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">CVLT
veteran Don Edelman directs this, production, which will be the first
staging of the script by a non-professional theater in Northeast Ohio.
This production stars Harriet DeVeto, a former professional actress
recently lauded for her turn as 'Maria Callas' in CVLT's <i>Master
Class</i>, as the disapproving Sister Aloysius. Eric Oswald, who marks <i>Doubt</i>
as his 40th stage production (and his 7th at CVLT), appears as the
brusque Father Flynn. Kent State theater major Cheryl Winslow appears
as the innocent Sister James, with Sharron M. Foxx, frequently seen at
Karamu and East Cleveland Theater, taking on the role of the strong
mother, Mrs. Muller.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i><strong>Doubt:
A Parable</strong></i> runs Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 PM from <strong>January
16 through February 7</strong>. Tickets are <strong>$14 regular or $10
for students and seniors</strong>, and can be purchased online 24 hours
a day at <a href="http://www.CVLT.org/79thSeason/doubt.php">http://www.CVLT.org/79thSeason/doubt.php</a>,
or by calling the Box Office at 440-247-8955 between 1 and 6 PM, Monday
through Saturday.</font></p>
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<h3><font color="#2d0d4e"
face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Auditions:</font></h3>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong><i><a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/79thSeason/incorruptible.php">INCORRUPTIBLE
(a Dark Comedy about the Dark Ages)</a><br>
</i>Auditions on Monday, January 12 and Tuesday, January 13 at
7pm. </strong><br>
Performances Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, March 20 - April 11, 2008. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Director
Michael Rogan is seeking 5 men, 3 women, all 18+. Audtionees will read
from the script. See <a href="http://www.cvlt.org/auditions.php">http://www.cvlt.org/auditions.php</a>
for more details. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Michael
Hollinger's <i>Incorruptible</i> is a bawdy farce set in Medieval
France, which loooks at how we humans gleefully twist our convictions
to rationalize our bad behavior. Sainte Foy, the patron of the local
monastery, hasn't worked a miracle in 13 years. All eyes turn to the
Pope, whose promised visit will surely encourage other pilgrims to make
the trek, and restore the abbey to its former glory. That is, until a
rival church claims to possess the relics of Sainte Foy-- their bones
are working miracles. All seems lost until the destitute monks take a
lesson from a larcenous one-eyed minstrel, who teaches them an
outrageous new way to pay old debts. </font></p>
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face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Brick Pavers Phase IV:</font></h3>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">We are
drawing close to the end of our Phase IV brick ordering cycle and will
be installing the next round of bricks when the ground begins to thaw.
There is still time to get your order in! Support the CVLT Endowment
Fund as you honor a loved one, commemorate an event, advertise your
business... any message you please! See <a
href="http://www.CVLT.org/bricks">www.CVLT.org/bricks</a> for details
now! Starting at just $75 (tax-deductible).</font></p>
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face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3"><b>CVLT.org •
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<p align="center"><font color="#666666"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Chagrin Valley Little
Theatre is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and is supported by the Ohio Arts Council</font></p>
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