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Playhouse’s ‘Breaking the Code’ Examines the Enigmatic World War II Codebreaker
Alan Turing and his Tragic Downfall <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><FONT size=5 face=Arial>Tony-winner Michael
Rupert Directs Weathervane Ensemble</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'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Weathervane
Playhouse’s 2010-2011 Founders Theater season continues with the intriguing
historical drama <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Breaking the Code</I> –
live on stage for just one more weekend - Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. (a benefit
performance for Community AIDS Network, PFLAG, Violet's Cupboard and Fusion
Magazine), 22 at 8 p.m., 23 at 8 p.m., & 24 at 2:30 p.m..
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Breaking
the Code</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
examines the incredible life and tragic downfall of British mathematician Alan
Turing, whose intricate code-breaking work during World Ward II played a major
role in enabling Allied forces to foresee German
maneuvers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Weathervane
Playhouse welcomes Tony Award-winning actor <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Michael Rupert</B> as the guest director of
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Breaking the Code</I>. Rupert is the
inaugural guest director in the Playhouse’s new <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Brennan Guest Director program</B>, which
is sponsored by Akron philanthropist <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Ann
Amer Brennan</B>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Breaking
the Code</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
is a biographical drama about a man who broke many codes throughout his life.
The play’s focus is on Alan Turing, who was born in London, England in 1923. An
eccentric genius and cryptographer, Turing cracked the complex German “Enigma”
cipher (or “code”) during World War II. Turing’s covert operation for the
British government directly aided the Allied victory over the Axis
powers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">During
the war years, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at
Bletchley Park, which was Britain’s secret codebreaking agency. Since his work
was classified as top secret for years after the war, no one knew how much was
owed to him when he was put on trial for breaking another code – the code
against homosexuality, which was illegal at that time in
Britain.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Turing
was criminally charged with “gross indecency” and was sentenced in 1952 to
undergo estrogen hormone treatments. (Homosexuality was not decriminalized in
England until 1967.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">On
June 8, 1954, Turing’s cleaning woman discovered his lifeless body. An
investigation by British authorities determined Turing’s death to be a suicide
by cyanide poisoning, but many other people (including Turing’s mother) insisted
that his death was accidental. Following a popular Internet campaign to clear
Turing’s name, the then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown offered an official
public apology on behalf of the British government in September 2009 for
Turing’s treatment by authorities in the post-war years.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Playwright
Hugh Whitemore’s<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Breaking the Code</I> is
about Turing as a person, what happened to him, and the lasting impact of his
life.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Breaking
the Code</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
is sponsored by the Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation
in memory of Paul A. Daum. The proceeds from a benefit performance (Thursday,
Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m.) will be shared among the following groups and
organizations: CANAPI (the merged organization formed between Community AIDS
Network and the Akron Pride Center), Violet’s Cupboard (an Akron agency serving
people with HIV and/or AIDS), PFLAG Akron (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and
Gays), <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Fusion</I> magazine (a Kent State
University student-produced publication addressing sexual-minority issues) and
Weathervane Playhouse (the producer of <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Breaking the Code</I>).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H3
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Breaking the Code </I>Cast and their Ohio
Hometowns<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Richard
Worswick </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Bath Township) … Alan Turing<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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Robert
Branch </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Grafton)<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>… Mick
Ross<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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Harriet
DeVeto </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Akron)<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>… Sara
Turing<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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Gabe
Riazi </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Akron)<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>…Ron
Miller<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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Alex
Cikra</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(of Hartville) … Dilwyn Knox<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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Tom
Stephan</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(of Stow) … John Smith<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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jennifer
Klika</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(of Cuyahoga Falls) … Pat Green<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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Nicholas
Varricchio</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(of Mentor) … Christopher Morcom and Nikos<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H3
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">About
the Show’s Director</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MICHAEL
RUPERT </SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">–
a</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">three-time
Tony Award-nominee and Tony Award-winner (for Best Supporting Actor in Musical
for the 1986 revival of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Sweet
Charity</I>) – is directing Weathervane Playhouse’s production of <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Breaking the Code</I>. As an actor, his
Broadway credits include <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Legally
Blonde</I>, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ragtime</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Falsettos</I> (Tony nomination), <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">City of Angels</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Mail</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Sweet Charity</I> (Tony Award, Drama Desk
Award), <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Pippin</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Happy Time</I> (Tony nomination). His
off-Broadway performance credits include <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Elegies</I> and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Putting It Together</I>. As a composer, his
works include <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Mail</I> (L.A. Drama
Critics nomination) and <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">3 Guys Naked from
the Waist Down</I> (Drama Desk nomination).</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Breaking the Code</I> Backstage Team and
their Ohio Hometowns<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Stage
Manager – Martha Kaltenbach</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(of Akron)<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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Costume
Designer – Jasen J. Smith</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(of Akron)<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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sound
Designer – Ian S. Haberman</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
(of Sharon Center)<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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Properties
Co-Designers –</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Dane C.T. Leasure </B>and<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Jonathon Hunter</B> (of
Akron)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><FONT face=Arial><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Scenic
Designer and Lighting Designer – Alan Scott Ferrall</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> (of Cuyahoga Falls)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><FONT face=Arial><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Dialect Coach
– Catherine Burke</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> (of
Kent)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Assistant
Technical Director – Kathy Kohl </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Akron)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H3
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">About
the Show and its Creators<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><U><FONT
face=Arial>About the Play’s Production History<o:p></o:p></FONT></U></SPAN></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Breaking
the Code</SPAN></I></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
premiered in England on Sept. 15, 1986, at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre (in the
Surrey County town of Guildford) under the direction of Clifford Williams. The
play then transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London’s West End
theater district, where it opened Oct. 21, 1986. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">With
the same director, the play opened on Broadway Nov. 15, 1987, at the Neil Simon
Theatre, where it played for 169 performances before closing April 10, 1988.
Original London cast members Derek Jacobi (as Alan Turing) and Michael Gough (as
Dilwyn Knox) reprised their roles in New York.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face=Arial>The New York production received three
Tony Award nominations (Jacobi for Best Actor in Play, Gough for Best Featured
Best Actor in Play and Williams for Best Direction of a Play) and two Drama Desk
Award nominations (Jacobi for Outstanding Actor in a Play and Gough for
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play).<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Lead-actor
Jacobi repeated his critically acclaimed role of Alan Turing for a 1996 United
Kingdom film version of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Breaking the
Code</I>, which won a 1998 Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Drama. In
America, the film was broadcast on PBS-TV. (In a clever bit of casting, Nobel
Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter played the role of John Smith in the film
version.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H6><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><U>About
the Playwright</U></SPAN></H6>
<H6><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">HUGH
WHITEMORE</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
is an English playwright and screenwriter who was born in Tunbridge Wells in
1936 and was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. For television, he
won an Emmy Award and a Writers Guild of America Award for HBO's <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Gathering Storm</I>. His additional TV
credits include <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">My House in Umbria</I>,
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">A Dance to the Music of Time</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Concealed Enemies</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Nixon: The Final Days</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Rebecca</I> and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Elizabeth R</I>. In addition to <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Breaking the Code</I>, his stage plays
include <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Stevie</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Pack of Lies</I>, and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Letter of Resignation</I>. His screenplays
include <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">All Creatures Great and
Small</I>, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Jane Eyre</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Utz</I>, and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">84 Charing Cross Road</I>. He is a two-time
recipient of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H6>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H3
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Ticket
and Performance Information<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Breaking
the Code</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
plays on the Weathervane Playhouse Founders Theater stage between Oct. 7 and 24,
2010.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
low-cost preview performance is Thursday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m.; the official
opening-night performance is Friday, Oct. 8 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: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Between
Oct. 7 and 24, 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; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Tickets
for the Oct. 7 preview performance only are $15 each. Tickets for performances
after Oct. 7 are $21 each. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">$19
tickets for seniors and college students are available for Thursday and Sunday
performances. Tickets for children ages 17 or younger are $17 at all
performances after Oct. 7. 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: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
Thursday, Oct. 21 performance (at 7:30 p.m.) is a benefit performance whose
proceeds will be shared among the following groups and organizations: CANAPI,
Violet’s Cupboard, PFLAG Akron, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Fusion</I> magazine and Weathervane
Playhouse. Normal ticket prices apply for this
performance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Breaking
the Code </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">is
recommended for ages 13 and older. For tickets, call the Weathervane Box Office
at (330) 836-2626 or connect online to <A
href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/"><FONT
color=#800080>www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</FONT></A>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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: 11pt; 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: 11pt; 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>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>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></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Additional 2010-2011 season sponsors<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>89.7 WSKU-FM<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>OMNOVA Solutions Foundation<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Sisler McFawn Foundation<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Akron Community Foundation<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2>Mary S. and David C. Corbin
Foundation<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Weathervane
Playhouse’s<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">‘Long
Day’s Journey Into Night’ Depicts<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">a
Searing Portrait of an American Family<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align=center><EM><FONT size=5>Eugene O’Neill’s
Dramatic Masterpiece to Play in Weathervane’s Intimate John L. Dietz
Theater</FONT></EM></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><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'">Weathervane
Playhouse’s 2010-2011 Dietz Theater series opens with the landmark dramatic
masterpiece, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Long Day’s Journey Into
Night </I>– live on stage from Oct. 28 to Nov. 13, 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'">Celebrated
American playwright Eugene O’Neill dissects his own family to create an
autobiographical portrait of a dysfunctional American
family.<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
production is directed by Jerrold Scott, an associate professor of d<EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal">irecting, acting and speech at Case Western Reserve
University. The production is sponsored by Margaret J.
Dietz.</SPAN></EM></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Long Day’s
Journey Into Night</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> unfolds on
a single day in August 1912 between 8:30 a.m. and midnight in the living room of
the Tyrone family's summer home. In this domestic setting, a husband, his wife
and their two sons attempt to make peace with a painful past while struggling to
reconcile the equally tormented conflicts of the present. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Head-of-the-household
James is an acclaimed actor. Although well off financially, James nurses a
cruel, miserly streak. Mary, his wife, has recently returned from a sanitarium
for her persistent addiction to morphine, but she may not yet be cured of her
habit. Elder son Jamie is the ne'er-do-well, rakish brother who squanders his
money and his time, presenting a cynical front to the world. The sensitive,
intellectual Edmund (Jamie’s younger brother) has most likely contracted
tuberculosis after traveling the world at sea. Meanwhile, all three of the
Tyrone males struggle with an addiction of their own to
alcohol.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2
face="Times New Roman"> </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'">Armed
with an emotional arsenal of regret, accusations, concealment, blame, resentment
and denial, the Tyrone family members are quick to re-visit old arguments and to
re-open old wounds. In <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Long Day’s Journey
Into Night</I>, O’Neill examines the question of whether a family can live
happily in the present when faced with such bitter grudges of the
past.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2
face="Times New Roman"> </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'">Published
and produced on the stage only after his death in 1953, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Long Day’s Journey Into Night</I> enshrined
O’Neill’s legacy as a literary lion, and the original Broadway production won
the 1957 Tony Award for Best Play. Posthumously, O’Neill also received the 1957
Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this play.<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>
<DIV
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div">
<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">Long Day’s Journey Into Night
</I>Cast and their Ohio Hometowns<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><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'">Brian
M. Bartels </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Rocky River) … James Tyrone<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><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'">Mary
Jane Nottage </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Solon)<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>… Mary Cavan
Tyrone<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><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'">Aaron
Calafato </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Broadview Heights)<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>… James Tyrone,
Jr.<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><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'">Joseph
Dunn </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(of
Kent)<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>…Edmund
Tyrone<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><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'">Amelia
Britton</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) … Cathleen<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>
<DIV
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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
Director of </SPAN></STRONG><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Long Day’s
Journey Into Night</SPAN></I><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'">JERROLD
SCOTT </SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">is
an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland who holds
an M.F.A. from the University of South Carolina. He is a director, actor, and
speech consultant. At CWRU, he held the inaugural Climo Junior Professorship
from 2004 to 2006, until his subsequent promotion to associate professor with
tenure. Prior to his CWRU appointments, he was a lecturer at Catholic University
of America and instructor in the Acting Conservatory of The Studio Theatre. He
has also taught at The Ohio State University and George Mason University. As a
fellow at The Shakespeare Theatre, Jerrold studied classical theatre performance
under the direction of Michael Kahn. He also completed certification at The
Summer School at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London (RADA).
<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
serves as artistic director of the Eldred Theater at CWRU. In addition to the
many shows he has directed at Eldred, he has also staged a number of shows at
the Potomac Theatre Company, where he also held the position of artistic
director. Other selected directing assignments and venues include <EM>Heartbreak
House</EM> and <EM>The Real Thing</EM> with the Case/Cleveland Play House MFA
Ensemble; <EM>As You Like It</EM> for the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival; <EM>A
Doll's House</EM>, <EM>A Midsummer Night's Dream</EM> and <EM>Polish Joke</EM>
for the Beck Center for the Arts; <EM>Quilters</EM>, <EM>I Do! I Do!</EM>, and
<EM>Deathtrap</EM> at the Fredericksburg Theatre Company; and <EM>Private
Lives</EM> at the Little Theatre of Alexandria (for which he won "Best Director"
and "Outstanding Production" at the LTA Awards in 1999). He has served as an
assistant director at many theaters, including RADA and the Actors' Theatre of
Louisville under Obie Award-winning Lisa Peterson, and is an associate member of
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).<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'">During
his eight years in Washington, D.C., he performed at The Shakespeare Theatre,
Theater of the First Amendment, The National Theatre, the Source Theatre, and
the Washington Stage Guild. Other regional performance venues include The
Cleveland Play House; The Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival in Pittsburgh; the
Contemporary American Theatre Company in Columbus, Ohio; and Spoleto Festival
U.S.A. in Charleston, South Carolina. He is a proud member of the Actors' Equity
Association (AEA) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
(AFTRA), and is still active in commercial performance/voice-over
work.<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'">In
addition to his work on various CWRU department committees, he serves as the
faculty advisor for IMPROVment at CWRU, serves on the Graduate Committee of the
College of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the Farm Management Committee
for Squire Valleevue Farm. He served as chair of the University Undergraduate
Faculty's Committee on Undergraduate Admissions from 2005 to 2007. On the
national level, he is the Focus Group Representative for the Directing Program
of the Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE).
<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>
<DIV
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<P
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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'">The
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Long Day’s Journey Into
Night</I></SPAN></B><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=2> </FONT></SPAN></I><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'">Backstage
Team<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P
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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'">and
their Ohio Hometowns<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P></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"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Stage
Manager – John S. Catlos</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> (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=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>
<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
Designer and Assistant Technical Director –</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
Kathy Kohl (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><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Scenic Designer and Technical Director –
Alan Scott Ferrall</B> (of Cuyahoga Falls)</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Lighting Designer – Alan Scott Ferrall
</B>(of Cuyahoga Falls)<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></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>
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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'">Long
Day’s Journey Into Night</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
plays in Weathervane Playhouse’s John L. Dietz Theater between Oct. 28 and Nov.
13, 2010. (The Dietz Theater is Weathervane Playhouse’s intimate, 48-seat
“second stage” within its Weathervane Lane facility.)<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
preview performance is Thursday, Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m.; the official
opening-night performance is Friday, Oct. 29 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'">Between
Oct. 28 and Nov. 13, 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. Two additional
performances include a 10 a.m. performance for school groups on Wednesday, Nov.
10 and a 2:30 p.m. performance on Saturday, Nov. 13.<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=MsoBodyText>Tickets for all performances of
the play are $18 each. The 48-seat Dietz Theater features general-admission
seating only.</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'">Discounted
tickets for school groups are available for the 10 a.m. performance on
Wednesday, Nov. 10. (School groups should contact the Weathervane Box Office to
arrange for a booking to this daytime matinee.)<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><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'">Long
Day’s Journey Into Night </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">is
recommended for ages 13 and older. For tickets, call the Weathervane Box Office
at (330) 836-2626 or connect online to <A
href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/"><FONT
color=#800080>www.weathervaneplayhouse.com</FONT></A>.<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>
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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 Play and the Playwright<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H3></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><U>About the
Play’s Production History<o:p></o:p></U></SPAN></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2
face="Times New Roman"> </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'">Long
Day’s Journey Into Night</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
was never produced or published during Eugene O'Neill's lifetime. He presented
the play as a gift to his third wife, Carlotta Monterey, on the occasion of
their twelfth wedding anniversary in July of 1941. O’Neill described this gift
to his wife as a “play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood. A sadly
inappropriate gift, it would seem, for a day celebrating
happiness.”<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"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In 1942,
O'Neill placed a sealed copy of the play in the document vault of his publisher,
Random House. His instructions directed his publishers and heirs to not publish
the play until 25 years after his death, and O’Neill formalized this arrangement
in a 1945 contract.<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'">After
O'Neill died in 1953, Carlotta turned over her rights to the play by donating it
to Yale University, thus getting around the 1945 contract that O'Neill had
initiated. In 1956, Yale published <EM>Long Day's Journey Into Night </EM>in
book form, and its copyright page stipulated the conditions of the gift from
O'Neill's widow: “All royalties from the sale of the Yale editions of this book
go to Yale University for the benefit of the Eugene O'Neill Collection, for the
purchase of books in the field of drama, and for the establishment of Eugene
O'Neill Scholarships in the Yale School of Drama.”<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
publication of O’Neill’s “missing play” proved to be irresistible to the theater
world; a fully staged production was inevitable. Stockholm, Sweden, was the
location for the first stage production of <EM>Long Day's Journey Into
Night</EM>, where it premiered Feb. 2, 1956, at the Royal Dramatic Theatre.
(During his lifetime, the Swedish people had produced and celebrated the plays
of O'Neill with a fervor and appreciation unmatched in his American homeland –
owing perhaps, as some literary critics have noted, to O’Neill’s professed
admiration of the “literary debt” he owed to Swedish playwright August
Strindberg, who influenced his writing greatly.)<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
the first American production of the play, director Jose Quintero assembled a
cast that included Frederic March as James Tyrone, Sr., Florence Eldridge as
Mary, Jason Robards, Jr., as Jamie, Bradford Dillman as Edmund, and Catherine
Ross as Cathleen. After a pre-New York try-out at the Shubert Theater in New
Haven, Connecticut, the production opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre
on November 7, 1956, where it played for 390 performances before closing on
March 29, 1958. A critical success, the production won the Tony Award for Best
Play and the best-play award from the New York Drama Critics Circle. O’Neill
received the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Drama posthumously.<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'">In
the years since its first New York production, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Long Day's Journey Into Night</I> has been
revived on Broadway four times: in 1962 (a Swedish-language production), in 1986
(with Jack Lemmon as James Tyrone), in 1988 (with Jason Robards as James Tyrone,
Sr., and Colleen Dewhurst as Mary Tyrone) and in 2003 (with Brian Dennehy as
James Tyrone, Sr., and Vanessa Redgrave as Mary Tyrone).<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'">Notable
film and television adaptations of the play include:<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="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">n<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In
1962, Ralph Richardson and Katherine Hepburn headlined director Sidney Lumet's
motion-picture adaptation. Jason Robards, Jr., reprised his Broadway role as
Jamie.<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="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">n<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In
1973, an ABC-TV production starred Laurence Olivier as James Tyrone,
Sr.<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="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">n<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In
1982, an all-black cast (starring Earle Hyman as James Tyrone, Sr., and Ruby Dee
as Mary Tyrone) aired on ABC-TV in 1982.<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="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .25in"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">n<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In
1987, cable-TV network Showtime aired a new adaptation with Jack Lemmon as James
Tyrone, Sr., Kevin Spacey as Jamie and Peter Gallagher as Edmund.
<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'">Weathervane
Playhouse first produced <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Long Day’s
Journey Into Night</I> during its 1963-1964 season (at the Playhouse’s former
home on Copley Road in West Akron). Robert Belfance directed the
production.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><U><FONT
size=2>About the Playwright<o:p></o:p></FONT></U></SPAN></H6>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=2
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></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'">EUGENE
GLADSTONE O’NEILL</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">
was born Oct. 16, 1888 in New York City. Because his father (James O’Neill) was
an actor, young Eugene spent his early childhood years traveling the country by
train, living out of hotel rooms and hanging around backstage. Owing to the
nomadic life of a stage performer, James and his wife, Ella, decided that
boarding schools were a better fit for Eugene and his older brother, James, Jr.
Eugene was educated at Mount Saint Vincent, a strict Catholic school in the
Bronx borough of New York City, and also at Stamford, Connecticut’s Betts
Academy, a secular school. Summers were spent at the family’s summer home near
the Thames River, in New London, Connecticut. (Nicknamed Monte Cristo Cottage,
after his father’s most famous and lucrative stage role, the house later became
the model for the Tyrone family’s summer house in <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Long Day’s Journey Into
Night</I>.)<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'">When
it came time for college, O’Neill chose Princeton University, where he studied
for only one year before departing in 1907 in search of what he later called
“life experience.” According to one biographer, he had also begun to spend a
great deal of time with his heavy-drinking brother, James, who "made sin easy
for him," as O’Neill later proclaimed. Another biographer notes that O’Neill’s
three main concerns at this time were “books, alcohol, and
women.”<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'">During
the next six years, O’Neill found plenty of experience in a variety of places.
He fell in love and married the first of his three wives, Kathleen Jenkins. Soon
thereafter, however, O’Neill left his wife and traveled to Honduras, where he
worked in a gold mine. (“Found no gold but contracted malarial fever,” O’Neill
later wrote of these years.)<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'">Even
after the birth of their son, Eugene, Jr., in 1910, O’Neill returned to work at
sea, with stops in Buenos Aires and England along the way. By 1912, with his
marriage ended in divorce, O’Neill continued to drink heavily, attempted suicide
and developed a bad case of tuberculosis.<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
moved back home to his parents’ house only to find his father depressed and his
mother addicted to morphine (circumstances that inspired his eventual play, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Long Day’s Journey Into Night</I>). Back in
New London, he found work as a reporter for the local newspaper, but he
continued to struggle with ill health. After a six-month stint in a sanitarium
to recover from his tuberculosis, O’Neill decided to become a playwright, and he
began to write persistently.<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
published five of his one-act plays in 1914 (with the help of his father’s
money). He enrolled in a playwriting class at Harvard University but his studies
and writing competed with his continuing urge to drink and carouse. Next, he
joined the Provincetown Players on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and here he staged
a number of his plays successfully. The troupe also performed several of his
plays in New York City at its second theater in Greenwich Village, and many of
these later moved “up town” to Broadway theaters. This period marked the
beginning of O’Neill’s theatrical and literary ascent.<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'">In
1918, he married his second wife, Agnes Boulton; the two later welcomed a son,
Shane, and a daughter, Oona. His 1920 play, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Beyond the Horizon</I>, earned O’Neill his
first Pulitzer Prize. The 1920s marked a period of prodigious output and
favorable productions for O’Neill. Among the many plays he wrote during this
decade were <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Anna Christie</I> (which
earned him a second Pulitzer Prize in 1922), <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Emperor Jones</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Hairy Ape</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">All God’s Chillun Got Wings</I>, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Desire Under the Elms</I> and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Strange Interlude</I> (which earned him a
third Pulitzer Prize in 1928). In spite of his professional triumphs, the 1920s
were also a period of great personal pain for O’Neill. In a four-year span, his
mother, father and brother died. And his marriage to Agnes ended in divorce
after his affair with Carlotta Monterey (whom O’Neill married less than a month
after his divorce with Agnes was finalized in 1929). <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'">In
1929, Carlotta and Eugene moved to France but they returned to America in the
1930s, settling first in Georgia but ending up in Danville, California, where
the couple remained until 1944 in a place they called Tao House (and which today
is operated as the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site.) In describing
O’Neill’s marriage to his third wife, many literary biographers claim that
Carlotta helped to organize O’Neill’s life so that he could dedicate his
energies to writing. But the marriage, many biographers note, came with its own
set of troubles, as Carlotta became addicted to potassium bromide (which, at the
time, was widely used as a sedative and an anti-convulsant drug). The two
separated several times but never divorced.<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'">O’Neill’s
ties with his children were equally tenuous. He was not close with either
Eugene, Jr. (who struggled with alcoholism and committed suicide in 1950) or
Shane (who struggled with an addiction to heroin and also took his own life in
1977). In 1943, 18-year-old Oona married the 54-year-old film
actor/director/producer Charles Chaplin. Oona’s famous husband was roughly the
same age as her equally famous father – and O’Neill, who disapproved of the
coupling, disowned his daughter and never spoke to her
again.<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'">Between
1934 and his death in 1953, O’Neill published only two new plays: <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Iceman Cometh</I> (published in 1940 and
first performed in 1946) and <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">A Moon for
the Misbegotten</I> (completed in 1943 and first performed in
1947).<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'">After
a lifetime of illness and infirmity – not to mention his struggles with
depression and alcoholism – O’Neill spent the final decade of his life with a
shaky, Parkinson’s-like tremor in his hands that crippled his ability to write.
At the age of 65, he died on November 27, 1953 in a hotel room in Boston.
(According to a report published in <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The
New England Journal of Medicine </I>in 2000, O’Neill’s actual cause of death was
not alcoholism or Parkinson’s disease but rather a disorder known as late-onset
cerebellar cortical atrophy. The 2000 report contends that this likely inherited
condition was the most likely cause of his death.)<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, O’Neill is the only American dramatist to ever receive the
Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1936) and he remains the only four-time winner of
the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.<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><o:p><FONT size=2
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></P></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Janis Harcar<BR>Director of Advancement<BR>Weathervane
Playhouse<BR>330-836-2323 X16<BR><A
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