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Playhouse Opens its 2010-2011<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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Season with the delightful musical comedy</SPAN></B></P>
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color=#800080>‘They’re Playing Our Song’ <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Show about Musical
and Romantic Collaboration</FONT></EM></H1>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><FONT color=#800080 size=5 face=Arial>on
Stage from Sept. 9 to 26, 2010</FONT></EM></H1>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Weathervane
Playhouse’s 76th Mainstage season opens with a delightful mixture of comedy and
music with the Tony-nominated <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">They’re
Playing Our Song</I>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">A
wisecracking and successful pop-music composer meets a slightly zany aspiring
lyricist. Will they make beautiful music together? Inspired by the real-life
partnership of Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager, <EM>They're Playing Our
Song</EM> celebrates the ups and downs of a musical and romantic coupling.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><FONT face=Arial>Vernon Gersch
is a successful pop-music composer with a luxury New York City apartment. In
between winning awards for his songs, the somewhat buttoned-down Vernon lives
the good life and nurses his urban neuroses. When the free-spirited Sonia Walsk
breezes into his life and declares her urge to write lyrics with him, Vernon
discovers the possibility of finding a partner in both music and romance.
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><FONT face=Arial>But the
uptight Vernon and the kooky Sonia discover that their opposite personalities
might not create romantic harmony. Will the songwriting team’s professional
success be matched only by personal disaster? Vernon and Sonia confront an
obstacle course of personal hurdles and challenges – all the while singing and
dancing their way through Manhattan in the late 1970s – as they chart the course
of the beginnings of a romantic relationship.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">They’re
Playing Our Song</SPAN></I><SPAN
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is the product of a Broadway trifecta of talent. The musical comedy showcases
the music of award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch, the lyrics of the prolific
Carole Bayer Sager and the wise and witty words of the legendary Neil
Simon.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><FONT face=Arial>Weathervane
Playhouse’s production of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">They’re Playing
Our Song </I>is directed by Jacqi Loewy. The show’s musical director is Jonathan
Swoboda.</FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>The <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">They’re Playing Our Song</I>
Cast and Their Hometowns<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H3></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">William
Kist </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Akron) …Vernon Gersch<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Diana
Nabring </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Cuyahoga Falls)<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>…Sonia
Walsk<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Daniel
Caraballo, Josh Hughes and Aaron Schoonover</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">…The
Voices of Vernon<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Amy
Spencer, Miriam Henkel-Moellman and Rebecca Wolfe</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">…The
Voices of Sonia<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">About the
Show’s Director</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></H3></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">JACQI
LOEWY </SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">returns
to Weathervane after winning several of the Playhouse’s Chanticleer Awards and
after serving at the helm of such WCP productions as <EM>Man of La Mancha</EM>,
<EM>Little Shop of Horrors</EM>, <EM>The Fantasticks</EM>, <EM>The Rocky Horror
Show</EM>, <EM>The Full Monty</EM>, <EM>The Last Five Years</EM>, <EM>Proof</EM>
and <EM>The Laramie Project</EM>. Now in her third decade as a full-time theatre
professional, she is the Artistic Director of Charenton Theater Company, the
Board President of the Cleveland Theater Collective joined the faculty of Notre
Dame College this past fall. Her direction has been seen at the Cleveland Play
House, Dobama Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, TrueNorth
Cultural Arts, the Youngstown Playhouse, the University of Akron, Case-Western
Reserve University and three seasons at Lyric Opera Cleveland. She is also a
commissioned playwright, a busy radio/television/film talent and the creator of
two social-issue pieces: <EM>Mr. Lewis Rules: Stories from the Juvenile Justice
System</EM> (born here at Weathervane with Myron Lewis) and <EM>Both Sides of
the Family</EM> (an interfaith marriage play now booking nationally). As a
performer, she appeared on the Weathervane stage in <EM>Six Degrees of
Separation</EM> and <EM>Prelude to a Kiss</EM> and has also performed on
Broadway and at many of the professional venues here in Northeast Ohio. She was
the Artistic Supervisor for Cleveland's longest-running show (<EM>Tony 'n Tina's
Wedding</EM> at PlayhouseSquare) and she holds a B.F.A. in dance/musical theatre
and an M.A. (University of Akron) in theatre arts.<BR
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">About the
Show’s Musical Director</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></H3></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">JONATHAN
SWOBODA </SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">serves</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
as the Music Director for the Kent State University School of Theatre and Dance.
He has just completed his second year on the faculty. In addition to teaching,
Jonathan has music directed KSU’s productions of <EM>A New Brain</EM>, <EM>Jane
Eyre</EM>, <EM>Rent </EM>and <EM>Oklahoma!</EM> as well as Porthouse Theatre’s
productions of <EM>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum</EM>,
<EM>Annie Get Your Gun</EM><EM><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">, </SPAN>The
25<SUP>th</SUP> Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee </EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">and </SPAN>Bye Bye Birdie</EM>. He is a graduate with
High Distinction from the University of Michigan School of Music and holds a
Masters degree from the University of Nebraska. He has music directed more than
75 productions throughout the country including numerous national tours. He was
an Assistant Director for Purdue Musical Organizations, at Purdue University,
directing numerous vocal and instrumental ensembles. As a pianist, he is equally
at home in the classical world as both a soloist and accompanist. More recently,
he spent three years as a Resident Music Director for PCPA Theaterfest in
California did, and he toured as the Featured Keyboard Artist for the
internationally known performing ensemble Mannheim Steamroller. <BR
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">They’re Playing Our Song</I> Backstage
Team and Their Hometowns<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Stage
Manager – Jonathon Hunter</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> (of
Akron)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Costume
Designer – Jasen J. Smith</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(of Akron)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Lighting
Designer – Kevin Ford</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(of Cuyahoga Falls)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sound
Designer – David Ruggles</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(of Cuyahoga Falls)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Properties
Co-Designers –</SPAN></B><SPAN
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<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Robyn Cooper</B> (of Uniontown) and <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jennifer Maxson</B> (of
Akron)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><FONT face=Arial><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Scenic Designer and Technical Director –
Alan Scott Ferrall</B> (of Cuyahoga Falls)</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Assistant
Technical Director – Kathy Kohl </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Akron)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>About the Show and its Creators<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H3></DIV>
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<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT size=3 face=Arial>About the
Show</FONT></U></H2>
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size=2> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">They're
Playing Our Song</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
premiered in Los Angeles at the Ahmanson Theatre in December of 1978 prior to
its Broadway run at New York City's Imperial Theatre, where it opened Feb. 11,
1979, after playing 11 preview performances. For the 1978-1979 Broadway season,
the show received four Tony Award nominations and five Drama Desk Award
nominations. In spite of losing all these awards to other shows and performers,
<EM>They're Playing Our Song</EM> enjoyed a healthy run in New York. The
original Broadway cast featured Robert Klein as Vernon and Lucie Arnaz as Sonia.
(Eventually, Klein and Arnaz left the production, and some of their replacements
were Victor Garber, Tony Roberts, Diana Canova and Stockard Channing.) After
1,082 performances, the Broadway production closed on Sept. 6, 1981. A
production in London's West End theater district opened Oct. 1, 1980, at the
Shaftesbury Theatre and ran until May 8, 1982.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></P>
<H6><U><FONT size=2>About the Composer</FONT></U></H6>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Composer
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MARVIN HAMLISCH</B>’s own Web site (<A
href="http://www.marvinhamlisch/">www.MarvinHamlisch</A>.com) boasts that he has
won virtually every major award that exists: three Oscars, four Grammys, four
Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globe awards – not mention the awards bestowed
upon him for his groundbreaking show, “A Chorus Line,” for which he received the
Pulitzer Prize.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">He
is the composer of more than 40 motion-picture scores including his
Oscar-winning score and song for <EM>The Way We Were</EM> and his adaptation of
Scott Joplin’s music for <EM>The Sting</EM>, for which he received a third
Oscar. His prolific output of scores for films include original compositions
and/or musical adaptations for <EM>Sophie's Choice</EM>, <EM>Ordinary
People</EM>, <EM>The Swimmer</EM>, <EM>Three Men and a Baby</EM>, <EM>Ice
Castles</EM>, <EM>Take the Money and Run</EM>, <EM>Bananas</EM>, <EM>Save the
Tiger</EM> and <EM>The Informant</EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">.</SPAN></EM> <BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Hamlisch
– who was born in New York City in 1944 – now holds the position of principal
pops conductor for the National Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Seattle
Symphony and San Diego Symphony.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">He
was the musical director and arranger of Barbra Streisand’s 1994 concert tour of
the United States and England as well as of the television special, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Barbra Streisand: The Concert</I> (for which
he received two of his Emmys).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Hamlisch
is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and Queens College (where he
earned a bachelor of arts degree). He believes in the power of music to bring
people together. “Music can make a difference,” he declares on his Web site.
“There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people
together. Music is truly an international language, and I hope to contribute by
widening communication as much as I can.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H6><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><U>About
the Lyricist<o:p></o:p></U></SPAN></H6>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Lyricist
CAROLE BAYER SAGER</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">'s
songbook spans almost 40 years and contains some of the period’s most popular
and successful songs. From the Grammy-winning “That’s What Friends Are For,” the
Oscar-winning “Arthur’s Theme,” and the Oscar-nominated “The Prayer,” to “Don’t
Cry Out Loud” and “On My Own,” her songs have become pop
standards.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Born
in New York City in 1947, she began her songwriting career while still a high
school student. She wrote her first No. 1 hit, “A Groovy Kind of Love,” for the
English group The Mindbenders in 1966. Phil Collins re-recorded it, taking it
No. 1 and the most performed radio hit of 1990. Neil Diamond included it on his
1993 “Up on the Roof” album. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">On
her own Web site (www.CaroleBayerSager.com), she highlights her 10-year
collaboration and close friendship with Peter Allen. They wrote dozens of songs
together including the No. 1 single “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” “I’d Rather Leave When
I’m In Love,” “Everything Old Is New Again” and “There’s a Lady On Stage,” which
were immortalized in the Broadway musical biography of Allen starring Hugh
Jackman, <EM>The Boy From Oz</EM>. Bayer Sager and Allen co-wrote nine of the
musical’s songs and she was the “musical consultant” on the play as well as a
presenter at the 2004 Tony Awards (when Jackman won the award for Best
Performance by a Lead Actor in a Musical for his role). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Honors
for her work include an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, two Golden Globe Awards,
a Tony Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Songwriter’s Hall of Fame
induction, a Distinguished Alumni Award from the New York University Alumni
Association and being honored by the L.A. Chapter of the Recording Academy. Such
artists as Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston,
Ray Charles, Dolly Parton, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Celine Dion and Reba
McEntire have recorded her songs. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H6><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><U>About
the Book Writer<o:p></o:p></U></SPAN></H6>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Book
writer Neil Simon</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
– born in the Bronx, in New York City, on the Fourth of July in 1927 – remains
one of America's most productive and popular dramatists.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Simon's
first play, <EM>Come Blow Your Horn</EM>, opened on Broadway in 1961 and was a
modest hit. After writing the book for composer Cy Coleman’s musical <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Little Me </I>(1962), Simon’s next play was
<EM>Barefoot in the Park</EM>, which ran on Broadway for four years (1963 to
1967). His third play, <EM>The Odd Couple</EM>, opened in New York in 1965 and
introduced two soon-to-be-famous characters, Felix and Oscar, two men with
failing marriages who move in together to save money and find that they have the
same problems living with each other as they did with their
wives.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">At
one point in 1966, four of Simon’s plays were running on Broadway at the same
time: <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Sweet Charity</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Star-Spangled Girl</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Odd Couple</I> and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Barefoot in the Park</I>.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Simon
followed up these hits with plays that began to treat serious issues with comic
touches. He presented works such as <EM>The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
</EM><EM><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">(1969)</SPAN></EM>, the story of a
married man in a mid-life crisis who has a series of affairs; <EM>The
Gingerbread Lady </EM><EM><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">(1970)</SPAN></EM>,
in which a one-time singer, who is now an alcoholic, struggles to make a
comeback; and <EM>The Prisoner of Second Avenue</EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal"> (1971)</SPAN></EM>, which witnesses the nervous
breakdown of a recently fired business executive. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Well
into the 1970s, Simon continued to create characters who struggle to handle
their feelings in difficult situations and who release tension with humor. He
began to share more of himself and his life, including boyhood dreams of
escaping from his family problems and the difficulty of coping with his first
wife's terminal illness. During this period he wrote <EM>The Sunshine Boys
</EM><EM><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">(1972)</SPAN></EM>, <EM>The Good
Doctor</EM><EM><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal"> (1973) and</SPAN></EM>
<EM>California Suite</EM> (1976). In <EM>Chapter Two</EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal"> (1977)</SPAN></EM>, the main character, a widower,
feels guilty over falling in love and remarrying – plot twists that mirrored
Simon’s own life. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Simon
took his signature mixing of honesty and humor to new levels in the 1980s.
<EM>Brighton Beach Memoirs </EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">(1983)</SPAN></EM>, the first in his trilogy of
semi-autobiographical plays, tells the story of a middle-class Jewish-American
teenager growing up in a troubled family. <EM>Biloxi Blues</EM> (1985) deals
with the boy's coming of age and confrontation of anti-Semitism while in the
army. The third piece of the trilogy, <EM>Broadway Bound</EM> (1986) takes
audiences into the boy's young adulthood, as he struggles to establish his
career and sees the problems in his parents' relationship more clearly.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Simon’s
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Lost in Yonkers</I> (1991) delivered a
painfully funny story about the effect an abusive mother has on her grown
children. The play earned Simon the Pulitzer Prize for drama. When Simon's third
marriage broke up, he wrote <EM>Jake's Wome</EM><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">n</I> (1992), in which he introduces
"ghosts" — good and bad experiences of two marriages and their effect on the
third. <EM>Laughter on the 23rd Floor </EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">(1993) – </SPAN></EM>inspired by Simon’s early years
as a writer for the golden age of television – offers a behind-the-scenes look
at writing comedy by committee, as a group of men shout one-liners, each trying
to top the other. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Simon
has also written several screenplays, including <EM>The Goodbye Girl</EM>, which
was nominated for an Academy Award in 1977. He has also adapted many of his
stage plays into both motion pictures and made-for-TV
movies.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Among
his many honors and awards are two Emmys, four Tonys, one Golden Globe, six
Writers Guild of America Awards and one Pulitzer Prize. He was inducted into the
American Threatre Hall of Fame in 1983, was a 1995 Kennedy Center honoree, and
was honored with the 2006 Mark Twain Prize for American
Humor.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Ticket and Performance Information<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H3></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">They’re
Playing Our Song</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
plays on the Weathervane Playhouse Founders Theater stage between Sept. 9 and
26, 2010<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
low-cost preview performance is Thursday, Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m.; the official
opening-night performance is Friday, Sept. 10 at 8 p.m.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">From
Sept. 10 to 26, 2010, 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>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Tickets
for the Sept. 9 preview performance only are $18. Tickets for performances after
Sept. 9 are $24. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">$21
tickets for seniors and college students are available for Thursday and Sunday
performances. Tickets for children ages 17 or younger are $19.50 at all
performances after Sept. 9. Discounts for groups of 12 or larger are also
available.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">For
tickets, call the Weathervane Box Office at 330/836-2626 or connect online to <A
href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/">www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</A>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Weathervane
Playhouse and its dedicated volunteers offer vital performing arts resources for
the people of Northeastern Ohio. We create exciting and thought-provoking shows
with impressive production values. Through educational programs and volunteer
opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds, Weathervane serves the
theater community, our patrons and our volunteers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage
economic growth, education excellence and cultural enrichment for all
Ohioans.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Additional
2010-2011 season sponsors:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">89.7
WSKU-FM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">OMNOVA
Solutions Foundation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sisler
McFawn Foundation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Akron
Community Foundation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Kenneth
L. Calhoun Charitable Trust<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Mary
S. and David C. Corbin Foundation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P></DIV>
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href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/">www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</A></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT 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>