<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.05pt"><span class="A0"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">FAIRMOUNT
CENTER FOR THE ARTS </span><br>
8400 Fairmount Rd., P.O. Box 80 </span></span></span></span><span class="A0"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">w </span></span></span></span><span class="A0"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Novelty, Ohio 44072 </span></span></span></span><span class="A0"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">w 440-338-3171</span></span></span></span><span class="A0"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="A0"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">w</span></span></span></span></p>


<p class="Pa1"><span class="A1"><b><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE </span></span></span></b></span><span class="A1"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">– March
18 2009<br>
CONTACT SHIRLEY KOLENIC AT 440-338-3171</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p>


<p class="Pa2"><span class="A1"><b><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">FAIRMOUNT CENTER
FOR THE ARTS OPENS ITS FIRST PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTION:</span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">THE ODD COUPLE</span></span></span></span></b></span></p>


<p class="Pa1"><span class="A1"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Beginning April 16,
2009,</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Fairmount Center for the Arts will open its first professional
theatre production.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In collaboration
with the city of Mayfield Village, Fairmount Center has developed an arts
training and performance initiative in the newly renovated “Reserve Hall.”</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The project is called the Fairmount
Performing Arts Conservatory (FPAC).</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The
conservatory will oversee all things theatrical with Fairmount including year
round youth and teen productions, the highly acclaimed summer training program
for young people and now, beginning in April a professional theatre program
beginning with Neil Simon’s classic comedy, THE ODD COUPLE, directed by
renowned director, Fred Sternfeld and starring local professionals from
Northeast Ohio. </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span></span></span></p>


<p class="Pa1"><span class="A1"><b><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“THE ODD COUPLE” </span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="A1"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(April 16 – May 3, 2009)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></p>


<p class="Default"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">At
the Mayfield Village Civic Center – 6622 Wilson Mills Rd., Mayfield Village
Ohio<br>
(At the corner of Wilson Mills and S.O.M. Center Roads)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></p>


<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:2.25pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:
2.25pt"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Odd Couple is the hilarious Broadway comedy about two poker playing buddies,
Oscar Madison and Felix Unger, two mismatched men who are thrown together into
an impossible living situation. </span></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Felix is a neat,
tidy, health nut.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What we come to
realize is that Oscar is the exact opposite of Felix: sloppy, messy, and a </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">connoisseur</span></span></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">of cheap bear and fast food.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span></span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Odd Couple
concept is best described in the one-sentence treatment Simon submitted to
Paramount. "Two men--one divorced and one estranged and neither quite sure
why their marriages fell apart--move in together to save money for alimony and
suddenly discover they're having the same conflicts and fights they had in
their marriages."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:2.25pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:
2.25pt"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In
side-splitting Neil Simon fashion, roommates Oscar and Felix skip the honeymoon
and go straight to the hilarious bickering. The play is considered Neil Simon’s
best.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">He was at the top of his form when
he wrote The Odd Couple.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:2.25pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:
2.25pt"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Walter
Mathau and Jack Lemon made The Odd Couple famous on the silver screen. In
FPAC’s professional production, the well known Cleveland actors taking on the
classic roles are:</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Brian Zoldessy as
Felix and Scott Hankins as the party host, Oscar.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The rest of the cast is rounded out with Bob Abelman,
Bobby Thomas, Kirk Brown, and Noah Budin, with Amy Pawlukiewicz and Carla
Petroski as the hilarious Pigeon Sisters.</span></span></span><span class="A1"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></p>


<p class="Pa1"><span class="A1"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tickets for the
production are $20 for Adults, $18 for seniors and students.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Group prices are available.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The show plays Thursday, Friday and Saturday
evenings at 8:00pm and Sunday matinees at 2:30pm.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In conjunction with THE ODD COUPLE, Fairmount
will be sponsoring a “PARTY WITH THE GUYS” evening on April 25.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A fund raiser for the center which includes
playing cards with the cast, lots of party food and a silent auction.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">   </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Further information is available on the
Fairmount Center website at </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.fairmountcenter.org">www.fairmountcenter.org</a> </span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">or by calling
440-338-3171.<br style="mso-special-character:line-break"></span></span>
</span></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 29, 30); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></p>

<p class="Pa1"><span class="A1"><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Information about
Mr. Sternfeld, the director of the THE ODD COUPLE and Artistic Director of
FPAC, can be found on his professional website at </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.fredsternfeld.com">www.fredsternfeld.com</a></span></span></i></b></span></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 29, 30); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#211D1E"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">#30#</span></span></span></p>
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