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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial;">Oberlin Faculty Member</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial;">Joins Actors’ Summit for</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Irving Berlin Musical</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">
<br><b style=""><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" align="center"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial;">I LOVE A PIANO</span></i></b><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p>
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<p class="Style2" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Matthew
Wright, professional actor and Associate Director of Theater and Dance at </span>Oberlin<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>College<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
is joining the cast of </span><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="">I Love a Piano</i></b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> at Actors’ </span>Summit<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, </span>Hudson<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">’s
professional theater. </span><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="">I Love a</i></b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="">Piano</i></b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, a new musical
featuring 62 songs by Irving Berlin. The show was conceived and written by Ray
Roderick and Michael Berkeley.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Matthew is an actor, director and theater educato</span>r whose
work has taken him across the United
<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">States</span></span></span><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></p>
<p class="Style1" style="margin-right: 1in; margin-left: 0in;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">An
Educator</span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="Style1" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Matthew
is a well regarded teacher and has served on the faculties of The Ohio State <span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">University, Wright
State University,
and Florida Atlantic University
where he headed the </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">graduate actor
training program for ten years. He is currently the Program Director and </span>Associate
Professor of Theatre at Oberlin
College.</span></span></p>
<p class="Style1" style="margin-right: 1in; margin-left: 0in;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">National
Credits</span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="Style2" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mr. Wright's acting talents have taken him across the
United States.
He has appeared at such nationally acclaimed regional theatres as The La Jolla
Playhouse, The McCarter <span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Theatre, The
Clarence Brown Company, The Studio Arena Theatre of Buffalo, Trinity </span>Repertory
Theatre, The New Theater, Actors' Playhouse and Florida Stage.</span></span></p>
<p class="Style1" style="margin-right: 1in; margin-left: 0in;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cleveland-area
credits</span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="Style1" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span class="CharacterStyle1"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Matthew
moved to the Cleveland
area about seven years ago and since then he has </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">appeared with numerous local companies including
Great Lakes Theater Company in <i>The <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">Mystery
of Edwin Drood </span></i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">and <i>Twelfth
Night. </i>At The Beck Center for the Arts he has</span></span></p>
<p class="Style3" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">appeared in <i>Equus, Urinetown: The Musical, A Man of
No Importance, The Fix, Reefer </i></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Madness
</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">and <i>The Imaginary Invalid. </i>Other
credits include <i>Das Barbecu </i>at Cleveland Opera; <i>King Lear </i>at
College of Wooster; <i>Ragtime </i>the Cleveland Jewish Community Center/Tri-C
collaboration; and in <i>Romeo and Juliet, The Illusion </i>and <i>Assassins </i>at
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Oberlin College. </span></span></p>
<p class="Style3" style=""><span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">For the Oberlin Summer Theater Festival, Mr. Wright has
appeared in a </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">variety of roles,
including Prospero in <i>The Tempest. </i>In July, he will appear as Leonato in
<i>Much Ado About Nothing </i>for the Oberlin Summer Theater Festival.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">About the Play</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">I Love a Piano</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is a musical tribute to the talent and creativity of the king of American
song, Irving Berlin. The play follows a piano from its delivery to a music
store in 1910 to its final home as a rehearsal piano for a summer stock theater
in the 1950’s. The story provides an opportunity for six talented actors to
present 62 of Berlin’s
classic melodies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ranging from “Puttin’ on the
Ritz,” through “God Bless America,”
to the score of the musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” the virtuosity of this giant
of American popular music shines through.<span style="">
</span>Following the lives of the piano’s multiple owners over forty years
provides the audience with an historical panorama of fabulously tuneful music –
the kind that you can actually sing along with and whose melody stays with you.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Performance Days & Times:</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">I Love a Piano</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is scheduled for a preview performance on Thursday,
March 18, 2010, followed by the official opening on Friday, March 19.<span style=""> </span>The play will run Thursdays, Fridays &
Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sunday afternoons at 2:00 PM through April 11 at the
theater in downtown Hudson.
There will be no performance on Easter Sunday, April 4, but there will be an
added matinee at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, March 31. The theater is <span style="color: black;">located at 86
Owen Brown Street, Hudson, Ohio. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ticket Prices</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Preview tickets (March 18) are $16.<span style="">
</span>Regular performance t</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">ickets
are $29 on Fridays & Saturdays, $26 on Thursdays & Sundays, with
seniors receiving a $3 discount at regular Thursday and Sunday
performances.<span style=""> </span>Additional discounts are
available to groups of ten or more.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">ALL full time
student tickets (with ID) are $7 at all performances. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Season subscriptions are
still available. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Tickets can be
purchased by phone at (330) 342-0800 or from the website at <u><a href="http://www.actorssummit.org">www.actorssummit.org</a></u>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><u><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Web
site</span></u></strong><u><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><br>
</span></u><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/"><span style="">www.actorssummit.org</span></a>. Actors’ Summit is a professional, not for profit,
501-c-3 professional arts organization.</span></p>
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