<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Oh fine. Bring up Maxim (Do people really care what anyone at Maxim thinks?) and the New York Times (Makes a little more sense), but don't even mention that the "officially acknowledged unofficial spokeswhores for the show" call it THE GREATEST PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY PERIOD!!!</DIV>
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<DIV>That's okay. We'll keep doing it . . . many times this week. :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>See you Friday</DIV>
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<DIV>Mike & Ike<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 5/2/09, Fran Storch <I><fstorch@beckcenter.org></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Fran Storch <fstorch@beckcenter.org><BR>Subject: [NEohioPAL] A Bloody Good Show! Evil Dead: The Musical at Beck Center<BR>To: neohiopal@listserve.com<BR>Cc: "Missy Toms" <mtoms@beckcenter.org><BR>Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009, 9:06 AM<BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">NEWS RELEASE</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CONTACT: </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Missy S. Toms, 216.521.2540 x22 or mtoms@beckcenter.org</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> May 1, 2009</SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoBodyText align=center><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Evil Dead: The Musical</SPAN></I></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 16pt"></SPAN></B></DIV>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoBodyText align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Cleveland Premiere of a Bloody Good Show</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"></SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Lakewood, OH—</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> A cabin in the woods. <I>The Book of the Dead</I>. Zombies. Aggressive trees. Sexy college students. A wayward hand. Lots of catchy show tunes. Beck Center presents the Cleveland premiere of <B><I>Evil Dead: The Musical</I></B> in the Studio Theater <B>May 8 through June 14</B>. Sam Raimi’s cult classic 1980s films are brought to life in this campy show. Show times are 8:00 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3:00 p.m. Sundays. <B></B></SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">During spring break, five college students break into an abandoned cabin in the woods and unleash evil spirits. All hell breaks loose, and the fun soon ensues with zombies…and show tunes! Written by George Reinblatt, with music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris, and George Reinblatt, <I>Evil Dead: The Musical</I> delights with such tunes as “What the F*** Was That,” “Bit Part Demon,” “All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons,” and the <I>Rocky Horror Picture Show</I>-inspired “Do the Necronomicon.” </SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Blood features prominently in this show. Audience members sitting in the front three rows are guaranteed to get splattered with plenty of plasma. White t-shirts with the slogan “Splatter Zone Survivor” are available for purchase as keepsakes.</SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Evil Dead: The Musical</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> comes to the Beck Center after an enormously successful 400-performance run in Toronto. “Maxim” calls it, “One musical you’ll actually want to see.” And The “New York Times” says it’s “the next Rocky Horror Picture Show.”</SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Evil Dead is directed by Beck Center artistic director <B>Scott Spence</B>. “Beck Center is thrilled to land one of the inaugural regional productions of <I>Evil Dead: The Musical</I> in the entire country! This send-up of ‘all things horror flicks’ fits in so perfectly with some of the other wild and hysterical musicals seen in our Studio Theatre in recent seasons, including <I>Reefer Madness</I>, <I>Zombie Prom</I>, and <I>Eating Raoul</I>. We hope you'll leave in pain—not from the splatter zone but from laughing so hard.”</SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The Beck Center production features Equity actor <B>Dan Folino</B> in the lead role of Ash. He last appeared at the Beck in <I>The History Boys</I> and was the Beast in Beck’s highly popular production of <I>Beauty and the Beast</I>.</SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The show is intended for a mature audience due to language and subject matter.</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Tickets are $28 for adults, $25 for seniors (65 and older), and $17 for students (22 and under with ID). An additional $3 service fee per ticket is applied at the time of purchase. Preview night on Thursday, May 7, is $10 with general admission seating. Group discounts are available for parties of 13 or more. To reserve tickets, call the Beck Center box office at 216.521.2540 ext. 10 or visit <A href="http://www.beckcenter.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none">www.beckcenter.org</SPAN></A>. For group sales, contact Linda Hefner at ext. 29. Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just 10 minutes west of downtown
Cleveland. Free onsite parking is available.</SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Beck Center’s production of <I>Evil Dead: The Musical</I> is produced through special arrangement with Renaissance Pictures, Ltd. & Studio Canal Image, S.A. and is sponsored by <I>Cleveland Scene</I>, Cox Communications, and the Ohio Arts Council. <SPAN style="COLOR: black">Beck Center also gratefully acknowledges the citizens of Cuyahoga County for their support through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.<B> </B></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions on two stages, arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits featuring local and regional artists.</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Missy S. Toms</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Director of Marketing & External Affairs</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Beck Center for the Arts</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">17801 Detroit Avenue</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Lakewood, OH 44107</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">mtoms@beckcenter.org</SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">216.521.2540, ext. 22</SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal>Support the Beck Center and the arts with a tax deductible contribution. <B><A href="http://beckcenter.org/support.htm" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Donate today!</A></B></DIV>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoNormal><B><I>Evil Dead: The Musical</I></B> College students, demons...and show tunes! May 8 – June 14. <B><A href="http://beckcenter.org/seats/evildead.htm" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Purchase tickets today!</A></B></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal>Enroll today for summer camps and classes in dance, music, theater, and visual arts:<SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"> </SPAN><B><A href="http://beckcenter.org/class/catalogSu09.pdf" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Summer 2009 Classes</A></B>. </DIV>
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