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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Crowds &
critics have spoken: <b><i>Leading Ladies</i></b> is a rollicking
success at Coach House! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Only one weekend
left...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<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><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> --<i>Kerry
Clawson, Akron Beacon Journal </i></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>"This is an
excellent production...(It) has so much going for it that any list of its
successes will fall short."</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>"The
audience's laughter ...often topped the lines. I urge you to call now for
tickets."</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>"Director
Nancy Cates has helped create a pleasing evening (or matinee) in the theater.
She is a gifted director, who digs down into a script and finds every laugh and
makes it work for the cast and the audience."</span></span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>--<i>David
Ritchey, West Side Leader</i></span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>"With such a
strong, talented cast such as the one assembled in Coach House's production of
'Leading Ladies,' the laughter is nearly non-stop."</span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'>--<i>April
Helms, Hudson Hub-Times</i></span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<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>
<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:13.0pt;
font-family:"Times","serif"'>Show Information</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<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><o:p></o:p></p>
<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><o:p></o:p></p>
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