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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Only 6 more chances to catch</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Mel Brooks’</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Tony Award-winning hit musical</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><b><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">THE PRODUCERS</span></i></b><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 18pt"></span></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">at the Beck Center for the Arts</span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><b><u><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Final performance dates & times:</span></u></b></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">8 pm – Friday, August 13 & 20</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">8 pm – Saturday, August 14 & 21</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">3 pm – Sunday, August 15 & 22</span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Order tickets online 24/7 at
<a href="http://www.beckcenter.org" target="_blank">www.beckcenter.org</a> or call 216-521-2540 x10.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Here’s what the reviewers are saying about
<b><i>The Producers</i></b> at the Beck Center… </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">“If you’d like a hearty laugh or simply a gay romp with Adolf and Eva, get yourself to the Beck Center for the Arts before August 22.”</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="right"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">~Kate Miller,
<i>Cleveland Examiner</i><b></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">“In the Beck Center production, director Scott Spence captures all that is wonderfully irreverent in this musical. The casting could not be better.
<i>The Producers</i> keeps it happy, snappy, and gay!”</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="right"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">~Bob Abelman,
<i>Member, International Association of Theatre Critics</i><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">“Scott Spence and company pull out all the stops…in a production that will keep you laughing long after the curtain closes.”</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="right"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Fran Heller,
<i>Cleveland Jewish News</i></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">For a complete Who’s Who in the Company go to
<a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/theater/Producers%20Who's%20Who%20.pdf" target="_blank">
http://www.beckcenter.org/theater/Producers%20Who's%20Who%20.pdf</a>. </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">About the Show</span></u></i></b><u><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">It’s 1959, and a new musical by Broadway producer Max Bialystock flops, closing after just one performance. Enter mousy accountant, Leo Bloom, who discovers that under the
right circumstances a producer can actually make more money with a flop than with a hit. Max convinces Leo to enter a scheme to produce the worst flop ever,
<i>Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgarden</i>, and bilk investors to the benefit of Max and Leo’s bank accounts.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Based on the classic Mel Brooks’ 1968 cult comedy film,
<i>The Producers</i> was a huge hit on Broadway, winning a record 12 Tony Awards. The
<i>New York Times</i> calls <i>The Producers </i>“fast, fierce, shameless, vulgar and altogether blissful.”</span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Tickets are $28 for adults, $25 for seniors (65 and older), $17 for students (with valid ID), and $10 for children (12 and under). An additional
$3 service fee per ticket is applied at the time of purchase. Group discounts are available for parties of 13 or more.
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">For tickets, call the Beck Center box office at 216.521.2540, ext. 10, or purchase seats online at
<a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none">www.beckcenter.org.</span></a> Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free onsite parking
is available.</span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Beck Center’s production of
<i>The Producers</i> is produced through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI) and is sponsored by Maloney + Novotny LLC, Ulmer & Berne LLP, West Roofing Systems, Cox Communications, the Ohio Arts Council, and Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.<b> </b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: gray">Posted by:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: gray">Fran Storch</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: gray">Beck Center for the Arts</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: gray">Publications Manager</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: gray">17801 Detroit Avenue</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: gray">Lakewood, OH 44107</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: gray">(216) 521-2540 x20</span></p>
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