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name="_Free_Food!"></a><a name="_/Roy_Berko_on"></a><span style='color:#1F497D'>Roy
Berko on RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;font-weight:normal'><a
href="http://royberkinfo.blogspot.com/2009/07/return-to-forbidden-planet.html">Roy
says:</a><o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>The CSU production, under the creative direction of Michael
Mauldin, is well staged and has all the right ridiculousness needed to make
this a fun production. Lynn Deering’s fine choreography adds to the
hilarity.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>The cast is universally excellent. Handsome Lew
Wallace… has a fine singing voice and dances well. Greg Violand, he of
great singing voice… is properly fake-evil as scientist Prospero…
John Paul Soto sparkles… Tracee Patterson sings and mugs her way through
the role of the bad/good Gloria... The rest of the cast is up to the task of
creating the right degree of the faux seriousness. This is a difficult
undertaking, because there is often a temptation in this type of show to over-
do the action. This would have brought about a less comic result.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='margin-right:61.5pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'>But
wait… there’s more!<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='margin-right:61.5pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2>

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name="_Cleveland_Scene_on"></a><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cleveland Scene on
CHEKHOV IN YALTA<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;font-weight:normal'><a
href="http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/my-fair-chekhov/Content?oid=1596973">Keith
Joseph says:</a>                                            
<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>The play's greatest feat is the way it lovingly echoes
Chekhov's actual works. The production itself was like watching alchemy happen.
To start at the top, we pay tribute to the director Cathy Hartenstein. Rarely
has the magic hand of a skilled director been so evident.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>…<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>Not to forget the actors. The rueful compassion of Greg
Violand's Chekhov, the rose-hued, gentle elegance of Tracee Patterson's Olga,
the bombastic, egotistical fervor of Doug Miller's Stanislavski, and the
comic/melancholy verve of the rest of the company all combine to create an
exquisite living canvas.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;font-weight:normal'>It doesn’t get much better than that,
does it?<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2>

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href="http://www.csuohio.edu/theater/SummerStages/2009/ReturnForbiddenPlanet.html"><img
border=0 width=221 height=221 src="cid:image012.jpg@01CA0720.F44A2C10"
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name="_The_Plain_Dealer"></a><span style='color:#1F497D'>The Plain Dealer on
FORBIDDEN PLANET and SHADOW BOX<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.cleveland.com/onstage/index.ssf/2009/07/cleveland_state_university_sum.html">Tony
Brown says:</a><o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>Now in its third and strongest season, the mixed
professional-student company succeeds best at its two extremes, the
heart-rending death-drama "The Shadow Box" and the farcical
outer-space musical "Return to the Forbidden Planet."<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>…<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>There is nothing ridiculous about Quinton's masterfully
balanced reincarnation of "The Shadow Box," Michael Cristofer's
Pulitzer Prize-winning 1977 play about three families dealing with imminent
deaths in three backwoods cabins at an experimental California hospice.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>…<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>Mauldin pulls out all the nutty stops for his
scatterbrained production of the wafer-thin but highly entertaining
"Return to the Forbidden Planet," Bob Carlton's mash-up of
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and the 1956 sci-fi romance
"Forbidden Planet," all set to rock 'n' roll from the late 1950s and
early '60s.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>…<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:61.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>Several students turn in exemplary performances, too,
including dashing dork Lew Wallace as the Capt. Kirk hero, brawny Lawrence
Charles as the Caliban-esque Cookie, John Paul Soto as a sweet-voiced,
roller-skating robot version of Ariel and fresh-faced Melissa Crum as Miranda.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;font-weight:normal'>Now what?<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2><a name="_Tickets:_Now_Available_1"></a><span style='color:#1F497D'>Tickets:
Now Available<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ticket prices are $15 general
admission, $10 for seniors, and $10 for groups of 10 or more. A Smarty Pants
Pass is available for $30 to see all three shows. Curtain time is 8 p.m.
Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>Box Office at (216) 687-2109<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>1833 East 23<sup>rd</sup>
Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Monday–Friday
from 10 a.m.–5 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>More info: <a
href="http://www.csuohio.edu/theater/SummerStages/">http://www.csuohio.edu/theater/SummerStages/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Parking:</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>East
24<sup>th</sup> St. between Chester & Payne, Lot S1</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>And don’t
forget about the benefits!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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href="http://www.csuohio.edu/theater/SummerStages/2009/ShadowBox.html"><img
border=0 width=208 height=208 src="cid:image013.jpg@01CA0720.F44A2C10"
align=left hspace=12 alt="The Shadow Box" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"></a><![endif]><a
name="_Benefit_Performances_for_1"></a><a name="_/Benefit_Performances_for"></a><a
name="_Benefit_Performances_for"></a><span style='color:#1F497D'>Benefit
Performances for Local Hospices<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>CSU Summer Stages is proud to
announce our first charitable benefit performances: <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Friday, July 17<sup>th</sup>
& Saturday, July 25<sup>th</sup> –</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#1F497D'> <a href="http://www.vnaohio.org/our-services-hospice.html">The
Hospice of the Visiting Nurse Association of Ohio</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Sunday, July 26<sup>th</sup>
– </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://my.clevelandclinic.org/services/palliative_medicine/hospice/default.aspx">The
Hospice of the Cleveland Clinic</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thursday, July 30<sup>th</sup>
– <a href="http://www.hospicewr.org/">Hospice of the Western Reserve</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Friday, August 7<sup>th </sup>–
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.malachihouse.org/">Malachi House</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Half of all ticket proceeds
from these performances will go directly to these vital organizations. 
How can you help? Call 216.687.2109 right now to purchase tickets for our
benefit nights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<h2><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2>

<p class=MsoListParagraph><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<h2><img border=0 width=146 height=109 id="Picture_x0020_5"
src="cid:image021.jpg@01C9F4E9.F91FADD0" alt="little shop.jpg"><span
style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2><a name="_Beck_Center_Promotion"></a><span style='color:#1F497D'>Beck
Center Promotion<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our friends at the <a
href="http://beckcenter.org/seats/littleshop.htm">Beck Center</a> for the Arts
in Lakewood are offering a special promotion to CSU Summer Stages/Dramatic Arts
patrons.  Get <b>$5 off your full-price adult tickets for Little Shop of
Horrors at the Beck Center</b> when you use the code word ALIEN.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>A
down-and-out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he
discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon
"Audrey II" grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing
carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing
appetite!</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext'>Make it a
science-fiction double feature and see both <b>Return to the Forbidden Planet </b>and
<b>Little Shop</b> in one weekend!  <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<h2><a name="_A_Friend_in_2"></a><a name="_A_Friend_in_1"></a><a
name="_A_Friend_in"></a><span style='color:#1F497D'>A Friend in Need…<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal'>CSU Summer
Stages is facing considerable financial difficulties.  With the recent
economic downturn, Summer Stages has been forced to cut its budget
significantly.  This has adversely affected all aspects of production,
from the number of students we can hire to the amount they are paid to
marketing and materials.  But you can help!  Donations of any size
are welcomed and encouraged.  It’s as easy as buying a CD on Amazon
and you’ll feel a lot better about yourself!<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<h2><a href="https://secure.skipjack.com/clsu/"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=136
height=76 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image022.jpg@01C9F4E9.F91FADD0"
alt=Donate.jpg></span></a><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<p class=MsoNormal><a name="_Tickets:_Now_Available"></a><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Return to the Forbidden
Planet</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>By Bob Carlton<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Directed by Dr. Michael L.
Mauldin, Director of CSU Dramatic Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Choreographed by Associate
Professor Lynn Deering<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>July 11, 12 (2 p.m.), 16, 24<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>August 1, 2 (2 p.m.), 6<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The Shadow Box<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>By Michael Cristofer<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Directed by Everett Quinton<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>July 9, 17, 25, 26 (2 p.m.), 30<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>August 7<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Chekhov in Yalta</span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>  <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>By John Driver and Jeffrey
Haddow<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Directed by Cathy
Hartenstein, Education Director for the Cleveland Play House<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>July 10, 18, 19 (2 p.m.), 23, 31<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>August 8, 9 (2 p.m.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

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text-autospace:none'><a href="http://www.csuohio.edu/theater/SummerStages/"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;
text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=595 height=154 id="Picture_x0020_7"
src="cid:image011.jpg@01C9E851.BD838D40" alt="email footer.jpg"></span></a><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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