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color=#ff0000>Italian American
Reconciliation<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></B></P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
color=#008000>Explores the Pitfalls of Love and
Marriag</FONT>e<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><EM><FONT
color=#ff0000>Comedy is by the Oscar-, Pulitzer- and
Tony-winning<o:p></o:p></FONT></EM></SPAN></H1>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><EM><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><FONT color=#008000>Writer of ‘Doubt’ and
‘Moonstruck’<o:p></o:p></FONT></EM></SPAN></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
color=#008000 size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Weathervane Playhouse presents John Patrick Shanley’s <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Italian American Reconciliation</I>, a comic
folktale of love and marriage and all its accompanying antics, live on stage
from April 29 to May 16, 2010.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Set in New York City’s Little Italy neighborhood, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Italian American Reconciliation</I> is a
fanciful, lighthearted and zestfully comic exploration of male/female
relationships, and the sometimes disconcerting (and very funny) dilemmas that
can ensue.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Huey Maximilian Bonfigliano is a man with a problem: After divorcing his
shrewish first wife, Janice, he feels he cannot regain his “manhood” until he
woos and wins her one more time. Huey’s plan might sound crazy, but it makes
perfect sense to him – if for no other reason than to put his damaged marriage
behind him permanently.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Huey’s lifelong friend, Aldo Scalicki, tries to persuade Huey to forget
about Janice and urges him to instead focus on winning the heart of his new lady
friend, Teresa. Huey, though, won’t take no for an answer and cajoles single-guy
Aldo to plead his case to Janice. Will Janice capitulate to her ex-husband? And
can love survive once Teresa learns of Huey’s convoluted scheme? The
heartwarming and comical <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Italian American
Reconciliation</I> demonstrates the lengths to which a man will go to prove his
capacity to love and to be loved.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
color=#008000>The Acting Ensemble<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">JEREMY
JENKINS</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(Aldo Scalicki)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MICHAEL
OLSON</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(Huey Maximilian Bonfigliano)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">KAYCEE
ZACK</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(Theresa)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MARCI
PAOLUCCI</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(Aunt May)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">AMANDA
DAVIS </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(Janice)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">ELYSE
RAMIREZ</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(Girl)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
color=#ff0000>The Design Team<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Greg
Bealer</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(Stage
Manager)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Judy
Willemsen</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(Sound Designer)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jill
Filo</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(Costume Designer)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">David
Ruggles</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(Lighting Designer)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Tom
Abdoo</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
and <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase">Sylvia Collier</SPAN></B> (Properties
Co-Designers)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Alan
Scott Ferrall</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(Scenic Designer/Technical Director)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Kathy
Kohl</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(Assistant Technical Director)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H3
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
color=#008000>About the Director<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>For Weathervane Playhouse, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase">JIM FIPPIN</SPAN></B> directed last season’s<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Love! Valour! Compassion!</I> and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me</I> in 2007. As
the Artistic Director of Coach House Theatre in Akron from 2000 to 2007, Jim
staged productions of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Chapter Two</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Betrayal</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Last of the Red Hot Lovers</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Art</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Private Lives</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</I> and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">A Life in the Theatre</I>. As an actor, he
has appeared on stage at Porthouse Theatre, Weathervane Playhouse, Coach House
Theatre and with the Ohio Shakespeare Festival. His acting resume includes roles
in <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">King Lear</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Romeo and Juliet</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Hamlet</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Another Antigone</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Lion in Winter</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Odd Couple</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Uncle Vanya</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Real Thing</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Macbeth</I> and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Custer</I>. In 2005, the Akron Area Arts
Alliance recognized him as the area’s outstanding theater artist. Jim earned his
bachelor of fine arts in theatre from Otterbein College, where he met his wife,
Elaine. Together, they live in Wadsworth with their daughter, Emelie.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
color=#ff0000 size=2><EM> </EM></FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><EM><FONT
color=#ff0000>About the Play’s History<o:p></o:p></FONT></EM></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Italian
American Reconciliation</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
was originally presented as a staged reading at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre
Center’s National Playwrights Conference. The show then opened in a full
production off Broadway in New York City on Oct. 30, 1988 at Manhattan Theatre
Club’s City Center Stage II under the direction of the playwright. <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2><FONT color=#008000><EM>About the
Playwright<o:p></o:p></EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>American playwright, screenwriter and director John Patrick Shanley may
perhaps be best known for his recent Broadway hit <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Doubt</I> (2005) and his not-so-recent
Oscar-winning screenplay for <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Moonstruck</I>
(1987).<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1950, he was the youngest of five
children in an Irish-Catholic family. Shanley’s father, an immigrant from
Ireland, was a meatpacker, and his mother worked as a telephone operator. After
being expelled from Cardinal Spellman High School, a priest arranged for Shanley
to attend a private school, Thomas More Prep School, in New Hampshire, where he
began to delve into writing. After high school, he enrolled at New York
University but left after a year due to bad grades. Next, he enlisted in the
United States Marine Corps, where he served for a two-year stint. He returned to
New York University after his military service ended, and in 1977 he graduated
at the top of his class.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Shanley had already started writing plays by then. In his early twenties,
he later recalled, "I tried the dialogue form, and it was instantaneous," he
told <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">American Theatre</I>. "I wrote a
full-length play the first time I ever wrote in dialogue, and it was produced a
few weeks later." By the early 1980s, he had written a half-dozen works, and
some of the one-act plays were staged together in a 1982 production titled <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Welcome to the
Moon</I>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Shanley’s first major New York production was <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Danny and the Deep Blue Sea</I>, which
opened off-Broadway in 1984 with actor John Turtorro.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>A generous National Endowment for the Arts grant freed him from the long
series of jobs he usually held in order to make ends meet, including elevator
operator, apartment painter and bartender. When the NEA funds began running low,
he thought that if he wrote a screenplay instead of a play, he might earn enough
from selling it to Hollywood to get by for another year or so. The result was
the romantic comedy Moonstruck, which won Shanley the Academy Award for best
screenplay.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Shanley’s success with <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Moonstruck</I> created new Hollywood
opportunities. He penned the screenplay for The January Man (1989) and Joe
Versus the Volcano (1990), the latter of which he also directed. Even after his
forays into Hollywood, continued to write plays into the 1980s and 1990s,
usually working in off-Broadway theaters and often directing his own works.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>In 2005, Shanley scored a triple run of theatrical awards when his play,
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Doubt: A Parable</I>, was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award for Best Play and the Tony Award
for Best Play. In 2008, he directed a film version of <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Doubt</I> starring Meryl Streep, Phillip
Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
color=#ff0000> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2><FONT color=#ff0000>Ticket and Performance
Information<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Italian
American Reconciliation</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> plays
on Weathervane Playhouse’s Founders Theater stage from April 29 to May 16,
2010.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>The low-cost preview performance is Thursday, April 29; the official
opening-night performance is Friday, April 30 at 8
p.m.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Between
April 29 and May 16, performance days and times are Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.,
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Tickets
for the April 29 preview performance only are $15. Tickets for performances
after April 29 are $21.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>$19 tickets for seniors and college students are available for Thursday
and Sunday performances. Tickets for children ages 17 and younger are $17 for
all performances after April 29. Discounted tickets are also available for
groups of 12 or larger. Due to language and adult situations, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Italian American Reconciliation</I> is not
recommended for children under the age of 13.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>For tickets, call the Weathervane Box Office at (330) 836-2626 or connect
online to </FONT><A href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/"><FONT
color=#800080 size=2>www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</FONT></A><FONT
size=2>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>* * *<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><U>The
Mission of Weathervane Playhouse<o:p></o:p></U></SPAN></H2>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">To
be a volunteer-based, professionally directed theater that serves the community
by engaging, educating, entertaining and enriching the quality of life for
Northeast Ohioans.</SPAN><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"><FONT
size=2> </FONT></SPAN></o:p></SPAN></U></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to
encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for
all Ohioans.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Additional 2009-2010 Season Sponsors:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>89.7 WKSU-FM<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>The Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust, KeyBank
Trustee<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Janis Harcar<BR>Director of
Advancement<BR>Weathervane Playhouse<BR>330-836-2323 X16<BR><A
href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com">www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>