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<DIV><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="http://www.WeathervanePlayhouse.com"><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>
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<DIV align=center><FONT color=#000080><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>NEW!!</FONT>
Shakespeare Performance Intensive</STRONG> is a summer workshop designed as a
<STRONG>crash course </STRONG>in Shakespearean language and performance.
Students will learn how to approach Shakespeare's text as well as fundamentals
of acting Shakespearean plays, specific memorization techniques and
characterization methods. Specific skills include: Acting with iambic pentameter
and scansion, using operative words and level of commitment - both physical and
linguistic. Collaboratively, students will create a performance for the final
day of class. <STRONG>Karen Sabo</STRONG> has studied Shakespeare at
the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and at Shakespeare &
Company in Massachusetts. She has played numerous roles in Shakespeare
productions, and directed her own adaptation of The Tempest for the Jonesborough
Repertory Theatre in Tennessee. She has taught Shakespearean acting techniques
to private students and as part of traditional acting classes for many years.
Karen is currently teaching at Baldwin-Wallace College.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=4>Shakespeare Performance
Intensive</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Prerequisite: Previous class or performance experience
required.</EM></DIV>
<DIV align=center>13 to 18 years old </DIV>
<DIV align=center>July 12 - 23</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Mondays - Fridays</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Instructor: Karen Sabo, AEA</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $300</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a lunch!</EM></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT size=5>Additional Summer Camps
2010</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<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>
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<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>Instructor: Rachel Galambos</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>Instructor: Rachel Galambos</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>Instructor: Rachel Galambos</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>Instructor: Kristin Benner</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>Instructor: Kristin Benner</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>Instructor: Kristin Benner</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>Instructor: Sarah Bailey, M.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>
<DIV align=center>Instructor: Sarah Bailey, M.M.</DIV></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 9</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Monday - Friday</DIV>
<DIV align=center>10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Instructor: Karen Sabo</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $160</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a lunch!</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>Instructor: Kristen Benner</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $160</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a lunch!</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>Instructor: Kristin Benner</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Tuition $160</DIV>
<DIV align=center><EM>Please pack a lunch! <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>
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<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 align=center>
<DIV align=center>Instructor: Sarah Bailey, M.M.</DIV></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 align=center>
<DIV align=center>Instructor: Sarah Bailey, M.M.</DIV></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</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG><EM>It's All in the Timing</EM> by David
Ives</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>Directed by Robert Putka</DIV>
<DIV align=center>Technical Direction by Charles Korecki</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>
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