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Valley Little Theatre<br>
November 2010 News </u></font></h1>
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size="2"><a href="http://www.CVLT.org">www.CVLT.org</a>
• 440-247-8955<br>
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<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2"> Hello everyone!</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">CVLT wishes to thank <a
href="http://www.cacgrants.org/"><b>Cuyahoga Arts and
Culture</b></a> and the tax payers of Cuyahoga
County for our increased grant funding ($34,379 annually
for the next two years). This is roughly $4,400 more per
year than CVLT has received since the CAC award began,
and was raised based on an increase in the theatre's
annual income since the initial award in 2008. This
grant funding, along with assistance from the Ohio Arts
Council and direct support from generous patrons like
you, goes a long way in helping our 99%
volunteer-operated organization to make ends meet.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Be sure to tune into
WVIZ/PBS ideastream® this Wednesday at 8:00 PM (EST) to
see <b>Tim Conway</b> on <i><a
href="http://www.wviz.org/WVIZ/backstage">Backstage
With…</a></i> This interview was recorded on June 8,
2010 during Tim's visit to CVLT. Host Scott Simon
conducted the interview, and audience questions came
from some of CVLT's <i>Accent on Youth</i>
participants, along with CVLT's Julia Kolibab and others
(including a surprise appearance by another local TV
legend…)</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Also, please take a
moment to <a
href="http://fox8.cityvoter.com/chagrin-valley-little-theatre/biz/55303"><b>vote
for CVLT</b></a> as your favorite local theatre on
the <a
href="http://fox8.cityvoter.com/chagrin-valley-little-theatre/biz/55303">Fox
8 HotList</a> and, if you use Firefox, Google Chrome,
or Internet Explorer to shop online, you can save money
on your <b>holiday gifts</b> with valuable discounts at
most major web retail sites by installing the <a
href="http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/chagrin-valley-little-theatre-cvlt">CVLT
Goodshop toolbar</a>. (Or you could simply buy them a
<a href="http://www.cvlt.org/bricks">brick paver</a>!</font>)</p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">We've got a busy
schedule this month, with two musicals (<i><a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/lastfiveyears.php">The
Last Five Years</a></i> has audiences spellbound at
the River Street Playhouse, and <i><a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/annie.php">Annie</a></i>
is sure to delight your family on the main stage) plus a
new comedy (<i><a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/hillary.php">Hillary:
A Modern Greek Tragedy</a></i>, a witty look at the
life of Mrs. Clinton opening later this month), and <a
href="http://cvlt.org/auditions.php">auditions</a> for
our first show of 2011. Read on for all of the details.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">See you soon,<br>
Your Friends at CVLT</font></p>
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<li> <b><font color="#2d0d4e" face=" Georgia, Times New
Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Happening in November…</font></b>
<ul>
<li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>November 3 - Tim Conway on<i><a
href="http://www.wviz.org/WVIZ/backstage">
"Backstage With…"</a></i></b></font> <font
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>at 8 PM</b></font></li>
<li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>Novemer 5, 6, 12, 13 - </b><i><a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/lastfiveyears.php"><b>"THE LAST FIVE
YEARS"</b></a></i></font></li>
<li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>November 14 & 15 - <a
href="http://cvlt.org/auditions.php">AUDITIONS
for <i>"Bloody Murder"</i></a></b></font></li>
<li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>November 19 - December 19</b></font>
- <font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><i><a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/annie.php"><b>"ANNIE"</b></a></i></font></li>
<li><b><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">November 26 - December 11 -
<a href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/hillary.php">"HILLARY:
A Modern Greek Tragedy"</a></font></b></li>
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<li> <b><font color="#2d0d4e" face=" Georgia, Times New
Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Coming in December…</font></b>
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<li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b> <a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/gingerbread.php">Holiday
Show & Gingerbread Tea</a> - December 11
& 12</b></font></li>
<li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b><a
href="http://www.chagrinfallsstudioorchestra.org/">Chagrin
Falls Studio Orchestra's Holiday Show</a> -
December 22</b></font></li>
<li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b><a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/newyear.php">Decades
of Divas: A New Year's Eve Cabaret</a> -
December 31 </b></font></li>
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<h2 align="center"><font color="#000000" face="
Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4"><b><i><a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/jekyllandhyde.php"><br>
Annie</a></i></b></font> </h2>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b>November 19 -
December 19<br>
Fridays & Saturdays at 8<br>
Sundays 11/28, 12/5***, 12/19 at 2 PM </b></font></p>
<p align="center"><b><font color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Book
by Thomas Meehan / Music by Charles Strouse
& Martin Charnin</font></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><font color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Directed
by Brendan Sandham<br>
Musical Direction by Diana Kullgren <br>
Choreographed by Hannah Zielger <br>
Produced by Kourtney Highland-Jones</font> </b></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>TICKETS: </b>$16,
$12 student/senior</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Buy tickets
online at<br>
<a href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/annie.php">CVLT.org/81stSeason/annie.php</a>
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or call 440-247-8955</b></font> </p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Everyone's favorite orphan
is back at CVLT for the holiday season in the
classic musical written by Thomas Meehan, with
the Strouse/Charmin songs you know and love,
like "Tomorrow", "Easy Street", "Maybe" and
"It's the Hard Knock Life"</font>.</p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"> Based upon the popular
Harold Gray comic strip <em>Little Orphan Annie</em>,
the musical ran for nearly six years on
Broadway, setting a record for the Alvin Theatre
(now the Neil Simon Theatre). It spawned
numerous productions in many countries, as well
as national tours, and won the Tony Award for
Best Musical. <em>Annie</em> returns to
Broadway in 2012.</font> </p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"> *** Tickets for the
December 5th matinee are available exclusively
through Friends of WomenSafe, a 501(c)3
non-profit with the sole mission of generating
unrestricted funds for WomenSafe. Since 1980,
WomenSafe has served victims of domestic
violence throughout NE Ohio by providing crisis
shelter, counseling, legal advocacy, relocation
and therapy services free of charge. If you wish
to attend the 12/5 matinee performance, we
encourage you to call (440) 285-3741 for
tickets. </font></p>
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<h2 align="center"><font color="#000000" face="
Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4"><b><i><a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/lastfiveyears.php"><br>
The Last Five Years</a></i></b></font></h2>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b>NOW through
November 13</b></font><br>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3"><b>Fridays & Saturdays
at 8</b></font> </p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">at <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/riverstreet.php">CVLT's
River Street Playhouse</a><br>
56 River Street, adjacent to the main building</font>
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<p align="center"><b><font color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Directed
by Jacqi Loewy<br>
Accompanied by Dan Kamionkowski<br>
Produced by Cindee Catalano-Edelman </font></b></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>TICKETS: </b>$10
<br>
(not recommended for younger audiences)</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Buy tickets
online at<br>
<a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/81stSeason/lastfiveyears.php">CVLT.org/81stSeason/lastfiveyears.php</a></b></font><font
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><br>
or call 440-247-8955</font> </p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">From Jason Robert Brown,
the Tony Award winning composer behind <i>Parade</i>,
<i>Songs for a New World</i>, <i>Urban Cowboy</i>
and <i>13</i>, comes this intimate musical
about the rise and fall of a modern
relationship, performed with two actors and a
piano in CVLT's smaller River Street Playhouse
venue.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Jamie Wellerstein (Andrew
Rothman) is an up-and-coming novelist who left
Columbia U. to pursue his literary career in
NYC. Cathy Hiatt (Rebecca Marks) is a struggling
theater actress from New Jersey. Their story is,
at face value, a classic arc; Jewish boy meets
Catholic girl, they fall in love, marry, and
eventually fall apart. </font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">But in <i>The Last Five
Years</i>, the composer lays out his story
through an unusual twisting of the timeline;
Cathy tells her side of the relationship
starting with the post-mortem, while Jamie
begins his telling of the story with the first
date. The two characters move in opposite
directions through time, alternating dove-tailed
solo musical performances, only meeting to sing
as a duo at their engagement and wedding in the
middle of the tale. The unique bi-directional
storytelling style balances the soaring highs of
fresh love with the crushing lows of the breakup
through fifteen memorable songs.</font></p>
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<h2 align="center"><a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/hillary.php"><font
color="#000000" face=" Georgia, Times New
Roman, Times, serif" size="4"><b><i> Hillary:
A Modern Greek Tragedy<br>
with a (somewhat) happy ending</i></b></font></a></h2>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b>November 26 -
December 11<br>
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM </b></font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">at <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/riverstreet.php">CVLT's
River Street Playhouse</a><br>
56 River Street, adjacent to the main building</font></p>
<p align="center"><b><font color="#000000"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Directed
by Yvonne E. Pilarczyk</font></b></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>TICKETS: </b>$10
<br>
(not recommended for younger audiences)</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Buy tickets
online at<br>
<a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/81stSeason/hillary.php">CVLT.org/81stSeason/hillary.php</a></b></font><font
color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><br>
or call 440-247-8955</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Playwright Wendy Weiner
blends the life of protagonist Hillary Rodham
with a heavy dose of laughter and Greek
mythological madness! As a girl in Illinois,
Hillary (Amy Pelleg) worships at the altar of
Athena (Erin Scerbak), the no-nonsense goddess
of wisdom and war. Hil's devotion angers
Aphrodite (Kacey Durbin), goddess of love and
beauty, who curses her with Bill Clinton (Mark
Moore), described by the play's Greek chorus
(Mark DePompei and Catherine Remick) as "a man
of mythical charm and appetites."</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Follow Hillary from high
school to Wellesley, from Yale Law School to
Arkansas, and from the White House (where a
suspicious intern causes some conflict) to the
Senate…<i>Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy with a
(somewhat) Happy Ending</i> is a "Hillary-ous"
comedy that will take you to Hell and back!</font>
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<h3><font color="#2d0d4e" face=" Georgia, Times New
Roman, Times, serif" size="3">AUDITIONS for <i><a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/bloodymurder.php">Bloody Murder</a></i></font></h3>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Ed Sala presents an Agatha
Christie-style "whodunit", with six suspicious
characters locked in Lady Somerset's countryside
estate, trying to unravel a murder. The wealthy
Lady is convinced that they are merely
characters in a mystery story, and the play
itself becomes a hilarious battle between the
writer and his creations!</font> </p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>Audition Dates: </b>
Sunday, <b>November 14th</b> 1-4 PM and Monday,
<b>November 15th</b> 7-10 PM</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Auditions will be held in
the dance studio at the River Street Playhouse,
56 River Street (the white one-story building on
the other side of the parking lot from the main
theatre building).</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Major Quimby - late 50's to
early <br>
70's Devon Tremaine - 40's and 50's <br>
Charles Pomeroy - 25 to 40 <br>
Mr. Woo - 30's to 50's <br>
Lady Somerset - 60's to 70's <br>
Jane - 50's to 60's<br>
Emma Reese - 20's to 30's <br>
Countess - 30's to 40's </font> </p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Several actors play more
than one character.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Acting resumes and
headshots are welcome, but not required.
Auditionees will be reading from the script.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>Show Dates:</b> January
14 - February 5, 2011, Fridays & Saturdays
at 8</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>Directed by</b> Douglas
Farren</font></p>
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<h2><font color="#000000" face=" Georgia, Times New
Roman, Times, serif" size="4"><b><i> <a
href="http://cvlt.org/81stSeason/index.php">
Still time to SUBSCRIBE and SAVE!</a></i></b></font>
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<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Our 81st Season features <i>over
20</i> events and shows to entertain you, and
buying a Season Subscription now saves you money
on our 6 Main Stage productions!</font> </p>
<ul>
<li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>$75 Regular
Subscription</b>: One ticket to each main
stage show (that's a 25% savings!)</font> </li>
<li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"><b>$65 Senior/Student
Subscription</b>: One ticket to each main
stage show (20% <i>further below</i> the
already great senior/student discount!)</font></li>
<li><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2"> <b>$100 Flex Pass
Subscription</b>: <i>EIGHT </i> tickets to
use in <i>any</i> combination for <i>any</i>
of our main stage productions. Maximum savings
and maximum flexibility for your entertainment
dollar!</font> </li>
</ul>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="3"><b>Subscribe today by
calling the Box Office<br>
or visiting <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/81stSeason/index.php">www.cvlt.org/81stSeason</a></b>!</font></p>
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color="#2d0d4e" face=" Georgia, Times New Roman,
Times, serif" size="3"><b>UNIQUE HOLIDAY GIFT? <br>
TRY BRICK PAVERS!</b></font> <br>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">What a unique and lasting
gift for the theater lover on your list this
season! Starting at just $75, you can get your own
custom-engraved brick paver ordered for our front
entrance sidewalk at <a
href="http://www.cvlt.org/bricks">http://www.cvlt.org/bricks</a></font></td>
<td align="justify" bgcolor="#c4f2d9" valign="top"><font
color="#2d0d4e" face=" Georgia, Times New Roman,
Times, serif" size="3"><b>ADVERTISE IN OUR
PLAYBILL!</b></font> <br>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Last chance - you can still
get your message in front of hundreds of
theatergoers throughout the entire 81st Season at
incredibly low prices. Contact Diane Gotliebowski
at <a href="mailto:ads@cvlt.org">ads@cvlt.org</a>
or 440.223.5953!</font></td>
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<p align="center"><font color="#666666" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Chagrin Valley Little
Theatre is generously funded by Cuyahoga County
residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. The Ohio
Arts Council helps fund our organization with state tax
dollars to encourage economic growth, educational
excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.</font></p>
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