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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hudson Players
Announce Cast of <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“An Evening With The
Taffetas and Cardigans” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fun 50’s Harmony
Group Musical Premier to be presented in February, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sponsored by Laurel
Lake Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
Hudson Players are pleased to announce the cast of the back-to-back, fun 50’s
musical journey – <i>An Evening With the Taffetas and Cardigans</i>, created by
Rick Lewis and sponsored by the Laurel Lake Foundation. The show is a spoof
biography that features the ‘reunion’ of two 50’s era harmony groups presented
with stylized humor and a whiz bang good time. It’s the first time the two
separate musicals have been joined into one show, with creator Rick Lewis
making revisions specifically so that the Hudson Players could present them in
one great fun filled evening for the first time ever. Thus the show promises to
be unique, clever and enjoyable for anyone who likes fantastic harmonies, great
retro humor and a hubba, bubba kick of a good time! As evidence, the Cardigans
is even the </span><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Winner of the 1990 New York Bistro Award for Outstanding Musical
Revue!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(Tickets are
available now at www.hudsonplayers.com.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>So get out
your poodle skirts, hairspray and cardigan sweaters. Goofy and winsome with
smiles that won’t quit, the shows promise the audience the same by featuring
such great songs as: <i>Mr. Sandman, Johnny Angel, Where the Boys Are, Valerie,
Mack the Knife, In The Still of the Night, Beep Beep, Unchained Melody</i> and
more. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h6 style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal'>An Evening With the Taffetas and
Cardigans </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal'>is being
directed by Matthew Dolan, with Choreography by Erica Haynes. It is being
produced by Adrienne Dickson and Stage Managed by Michelle Dolciato. The show
features Kathy Steiner, Libby Merriman, Natalie Mallis and Adrienne Dickson as
The Taffetas and Tom Cirner, Jim Marzullo, Jim Wolf and Tim Steiner as The
Cardigans. <o:p></o:p></span></h6>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><i><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Taffetas </span></i></strong><strong><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>tells
the story of</span></strong><strong><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></i></strong><span lang=EN
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kaye, Peggy, Cheryl
and Donna, four singing sisters from Muncie, Indiana reminiscing about making
their national television singing debut on "Spotlight on Music," a
fictitious weekly 1950's television show on the real-life Dumont Television
Network. This serves as the framework for an evening of some of the greatest
girl group hits of the 1950's including the sounds of The McGuire Sisters, The
Fontane Sisters and The Chordettes. Opening Off-Broadway almost two years
before "Forever Plaid", <b><i>The Taffetas</i></b> made nostalgia
what it is today!</span><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>THE Cardigans </span></i></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>hailed from Wooster, Ohio - the
College of Wooster, to be exact! Chuck, Frankie, Johnny and Buddy reunite to reflect
on their graduation when they left behind their pals at Alpha Mu Phi Pi. They
reminisce about embarking on their first live personal appearance tour, their
college days, their ex-girlfriends, their childhoods as sons of Protestant
ministers, and their unexpected fame as singing idols. They'll sing some of the
greatest hits of the 1950's. <b><i>The Cardigans</i></b> is music, fun
and harmony.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h6><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext'>Performance dates are
February 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 27 & 28. Tickets are $12 and are
available now via the web at </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a
href="http://www.hudsonplayers.com/">www.HudsonPlayers.com</a></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext'> or by calling 330-655-8522. Curtain
time is 8 p.m., with a special 2 p.m. matinee on February 22. Group and senior
discounts are available. <o:p></o:p></span></h6>
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<p class=MsoBodyText3 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'>The Hudson Players are located right in the
heart of Hudson, Ohio in the Barlow Community Center and </span><span lang=EN
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>are
one of the area’s longest running community theaters currently celebrating
their 64<sup>th</sup> Season. With a rich history of great shows, community
involvement and an ultra-friendly performing environment the group embodies its
unofficial slogan of “good shows, good friends, good times.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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