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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Leading Ladies</span></i></b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> has
audiences in stitches at Coach House! Tickets going fast...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>In
this hilarious show from Ken Ludwig, the award-winning author of <i>Lend Me A
Tenor</i> and <i>Moon Over Buffalo</i>, a pair of down-on-their-luck
Shakespearean actors learn of a dying old lady who plans to leave her fortune
to two long-lost English nephews. They decide to pass themselves off as her
beloved relatives, but when they learn the relatives aren't nephews, but
nieces, their plans change as drastically as their clothing!</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>“Coach
House audiences love being in on the joke ... How could you not laugh out loud
watching a male character attempt to seduce a huge 'woman' in a ridiculously
ugly dress and wig, when we know that 'woman' is really a man in drag?”</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>"Ludwig
also offers plenty of witty wordplay, which actor Scott Shriner gets to enjoy
most as devilishly cunning Leo. ... (Jonathan) Fletcher also is delightful as
the put-upon friend who must go along with Leo's ruse. ... Plenty of the play's
humor is visual, especially Fletcher's great faces as Jack in drag. ... Holly
Humes is spot-on as ditzy Audrey and (Tom) Stephan has the best putdowns as
Doc. Maureen Guerin Johnson also is delightfully grouchy as old Florence."</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>"This
tale of finding love through mistaken identities also elicits comparisons to
the Tony-Curtis-Jack Lemmon movie Some Like It Hot."</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>--<i>Kerry
Clawson, Akron Beacon Journal </i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times","serif"'>Don't miss it! Running through June 6!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><i><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Leading Ladies</span></i></b><b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> continues through June 6. Curtain
times are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2:30
p.m. Dinner or Brunch is available to all theatre patrons prior to every
performance at the Akron Woman’s City Club next door.</span></b><b><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt'><b><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>Tickets are $16. Coach House Theatre is
located at 732 W. Exchange Street, in Akron, next to the Akron Woman’s
City Club, and at the corner of W. Exchange and N. Portage Path. Reservations
may be made by calling our box office at 330-434-7741, or at coachhousetheatre.com.</span></b><b><span
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