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<DIV align=left><STRONG><FONT size=5><FONT color=#800000 size=2><STRONG>NEWS
RELEASE </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2><STRONG>Contact: Melanie YC Pepe (330)
836-2626</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><A href=""><FONT
size=2><STRONG>www.WeathervanePlayhouse.com</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT size=5>Weathervane Playhouse</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT size=2>1301 Weathervane Lane * </FONT><FONT
size=2>Akron, Ohio 44313</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV></FONT></STRONG>
<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=5>Summer Camps 2010</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=4></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV align=center>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080><STRONG>Kids Take the Stage</STRONG>
Summer Camps engage students in acting, improvisation, staging, auditioning and
technical theater.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>The class uses theater games to teach the
fundamentals, and focuses on collaboratively creating a performance for the
class day.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=4>Kids Take the Stage! Act
One</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>6 to 8 years old </DIV>
<DIV align=center>June 14 - 25</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Mondays - Fridays</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $260</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a lunch!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>Kids Take the Stage! Act Two</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>8 to 10 years old </DIV>
<DIV align=center>July 5 - July 16</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Mondays - Fridays</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $260</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a lunch!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Kids Take the Stage! Act Three</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>10 to 12 years old</DIV>
<DIV align=center>July 19 - 30</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Mondays - Fridays</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $260</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a lunch!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080><STRONG>New Kids on the Block</STRONG> is
a summer session for 3 to 5 year olds.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>Students use their creativity to explore
theater arts through games, storytelling and creative drama.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>New Kids on the Block: Puppets &
Plays</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Ages 3 to 5</DIV>
<DIV align=center>July 5 - 9</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Monday - Friday</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $110</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a snack!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>New Kids on the Block: Music &
Dance</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Ages 3 to 5</DIV>
<DIV align=center>June 14 - 18</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Monday - Friday</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $110</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a snack!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080><STRONG>The Audition Workshop</STRONG> is
an summer session for students age 7 to 16.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>This workshop will help students create an
"audition package" for each student consisting of the following:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>a Dramatic monologue, comedic monologue,
classical monologue & a musical audition with steps.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Audition Workshop</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Ages 7 to 16</DIV>
<DIV align=center>June 28 - July 2</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Monday - Friday</DIV>
<DIV align=center>1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $160</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a snack!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080><STRONG>Musical Theater</STRONG> is a
summer session custom designed to meet the needs of individual
students.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>The class will build skills in voice,
dance, and audition technique. Each student can work at his or her own
pace.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Musical Theater, Act One</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Ages 5 to 9</DIV>
<DIV align=center>July 19 - 30</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Mondays - Fridays</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $220</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a snack!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Musical Theater, Act Two</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Ages 9 to 14</DIV>
<DIV align=center>June 14 - 25</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Mondays - Fridays</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $220</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a snack!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>The <STRONG>Broadway Dance Camp</STRONG>
is a summer session custom designed to meet the needs of beginning and
intermediate students.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>Theater training in movement for the
stage, dance steps and combinations, acting & audition techniques allows
each student to advance at his or her own pace.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>Collaboratively, students create a
performance for the final day of class.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Broadway Dance Camp, Act One</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Ages 7 to 16</DIV>
<DIV align=center>July 5 - July 16</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Monday - Friday</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $160</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a snack!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Broadway Dance Camp, Act Two</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Ages 7 to 16</DIV>
<DIV align=center>July 26 ~ 30</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Monday - Friday</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. ~ 1:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $160</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a snack!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>Students in the <STRONG>Character
Workshop</STRONG> will focus on the understanding of creating a
character.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>Such as creating a physical life
and voice, understanding given circumstances in the world of the play and
understanding how your character is different from you.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>Students will discover many ways a
character can behave, think, feel, experience things and express themselves
differently than the actor.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>Students will have the opportunity to
apply these skills through scene work, which will be presented on the final day
of class.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Character Workshop</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Ages 7 to 16</DIV>
<DIV align=center>June 28 - July 2</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Monday - Friday</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $160</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a snack! <BR></EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center><BR><FONT color=#000080><STRONG>Vocal Music Technique</STRONG>
covers the fundamentals of vocal technique, and is suitable for beginners to
intermediate singers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>Specific topics include posture, breathing
and support, eliminating muscular tension, resonance, and diction.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>Each student will apply these techniques
through work on 2 vocal pieces, a musical theater number and a classical
piece.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>Time is allotted for group exercises and
voluntary solo singing.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Vocal Music Technique, Session I</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Ages 10 to 14<BR>July 12 - July 16</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Monday - Friday</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon</DIV>
<DIV>Tuition $110<BR><EM>Please bring bottled water & a snack!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Vocal Music Technique, Session II</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Ages 14 to 18</DIV>
<DIV align=center>July 12 - July 16</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Monday - Friday</DIV>
<DIV align=center>1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV>Tuition $110<BR><EM>Please bring bottled water & a snack!</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080><STRONG>Summer Stock</STRONG> is a
workshop designed for students who have already had some theatrical
experience.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>Students will produce and design a full
production to be performed on our mainstage.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>The title of this piece is TBA – check our
website for more information.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080>The final performances will be held on
August 6 & 7 at 7:00 p.m. Space is limited!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV></DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Summer Stock 2010, Title TBA!</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Ages 13 to 18</DIV>
<DIV align=center>July 26 to August 7</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Mondays - Fridays</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $325</DIV>
<DIV align=center>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a lunch!</EM></DIV></DIV>
<DIV align=center>Performances: Friday, August 6th and Saturday, August
7th</DIV>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
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