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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 Ready
National Premier 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>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
Hudson Players are readying the national premier 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. While the two shows have been
presented separately before, this marks 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>
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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>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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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