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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
face=Arial><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Actors’
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Summit</st1:City></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
face=Arial><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Presents
Regional Premiere of<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
face=Arial><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Joan
Didion’s<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
face=Arial><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>THE
YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING<i><span style='font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Actors’ Summit</span></font></b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hudson</st1:place></st1:City>’s Equity Professional Theater,
announces the regional premiere of Joan Didion’s <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Year of Magical Thinking</span></i> based on her
award winning memoire of the same name. <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The
Year of Magical Thinking</span></i> will have a preview performance on February
12 with the official opening night on February 13, 2009. The play will have
twelve performances through March 1, 2009. <font color=black><span
style='color:black'>The play is performed Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays
at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM at the Actors’ Summit Theater in downtown <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Hudson</st1:City></st1:place>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>The Play<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
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font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In this dramatic adaptation of her
award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in <em><i><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>The New York Times</span></font></i></em>
called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a haunting portrait
of a four-decade-long marriage), Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden
and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and
powerful one-woman play. </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'>First performed by Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway in 2007, the
Actors’ <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Summit</st1:place></st1:City>
production features co-artistic director MaryJo Alexander directed by Dorothy
Silver. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“It’s a classic case of the universal growing
out of the particular,” said Ms. Silver. “It’s about
Joan’s experience, but it’s about the experience that all of us
have gone through.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>The Cast<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=BodyText1 align=left style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:left'><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> MaryJo Alexander </span></font></b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>holds an MA from the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> where she was a member of
the Resident Acting Company. At Actors’ <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Summit</st1:place></st1:City> she has performed another one woman
show, Shame the Devil, based on the life of the actress Fannie Kemball. In
addition to numerous roles at Actors’ <st1:City w:st="on">Summit</st1:City>,
MaryJo has performed locally with Ensemble Theatre, Porthouse, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cain</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
and Stan Hywet Shakespeare. She is a member of Actors’ Equity
Association.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Dorothy Silver</span></font></b></strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>returns to Actors’ <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Summit</st1:place></st1:City> where she has
appeared previously in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Golda’s
Balcony, Arms and the Man, Merry Wives of Windsor</span></i>, and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Laughter in Three Languages </span></i>—
credits she shares with her husband, Reuben. She has performed in many area
theaters, and her directing credits also range widely, including <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:City>’s
American Place Theatre. Past long-term theater assignments include Resident
Guest Director of Karamu Theatre and Direction of Cleveland Jewish Community
Center Theatre. She has shared many theatre achievement awards with her
husband, Reuben, and they continue to perform their dramatic reading programs
throughout this country and abroad. In May, she and Reuben will return to the
Actors’ <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Summit</st1:place></st1:City>
stage with a new edition of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Laughter in
Three Languages</span></i>.<strong><b><font color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Performance Schedule</span></font></b></strong><font
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
</span></font><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-style:
italic'>The Year of Magical Thinking</span></font></i><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> <font color=black><span style='color:black'>will
have its preview performance on February 12. The opening night
performance is Friday, February 13, and it will be followed by a dessert reception
with the cast. Regular performances continue through Sunday, March 1.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Performance
times:<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Performances are given Thursdays, Fridays
& Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM at the theater, located at <st1:address
w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">86 Owen Brown Street</st1:Street>, <st1:City
w:st="on">Hudson</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Ohio</st1:State></st1:address>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Tickets</span></font></b></strong><b><u><font
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:
bold'><br>
</span></font></u></b><font color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial;color:black'>Preview tickets are $15. Regular performance t</span></font><font
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>ickets are
$28 on Fridays & Saturdays, $25 on Thursdays & Sundays, with seniors
receiving a $3 discount at regular Thursday and Sunday performances. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>New
this year: ALL full time student tickets (with ID) are $7 at all
performances. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Tickets can be purchased by phone at
(330) 342-0800 or from the website at <u>www.actorssummit.org</u>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Web site</span></font></b></strong><u><font
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
</span></font></u><font color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Actors’ Summit Theater can be found on the web at <a
href="http://www.actorssummit.org/" target="_blank"
title="http://www.actorssummit.org/"><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>www.actorssummit.org</span></font></a>.
Actors' <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Summit</st1:place></st1:City>
is a professional, not for profit, 501-c-3 professional arts
organization. We are seeking volunteers and board members. For more
details please call MaryJo or Neil at (330) 342-0800. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
Actors' <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Summit</st1:place></st1:City>
is working under a developmental agreement with Actors' Equity Association (the
Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><b><font
size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><b><font
size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Actors’ <st1:City w:st="on">Summit</st1:City>:
Professional Theater -- <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ohio</st1:place></st1:State>
Artists.</span></font></b></strong><b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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