<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 36px; ">Mercury Summer Stock</span></font></font></b></p><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Presents</span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 64px; ">GRAND HOTEL</span></font><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 64px; "><br></span></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">"It is a production that is revealing, wonderfully theatrical, and not to be missed." </span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: right;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Bob Abelman, The News-Herald</span></font></font></p><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">At A Glance</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">What: Mercury Summer Stock’s<b> <i>GRAND HOTEL </i>- Final 4 Performances</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">When: July 27-30.<span> </span>All performances at 7:30PM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Where: The Brooks Theatre in The Cleveland Play House. 8500 Euclid Ave. Cleveland. 44106<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Cost: $18.00 for Adults and $15.00 for Students (with valid ID) / & Seniors (60+)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Tickets: call 216.771.5862, or order online at </span><a href="http://www.mercurysummerstock.com/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">www.mercurysummerstock.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">People come, people go. Wave of life, overflowing…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Mercury Summer Stock continues its thirteenth season at the Cleveland Play House with the rarely performed musical, <b><i>GRAND HOTEL</i></b>, July 15–July 30, 2011. Directed and choreographed by MSS Artistic Director Pierre-Jacques Brault, this <b><i>GRAND HOTEL </i></b>brings out all the drama, desire and lust for life set forth in the groundbreaking 1931 film and in the subsequent Tommy Tune directed Broadway hit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">1928. Berlin. The city's decadent high life is in full swing at the world's most opulent resort, the Grand Hotel. Inspired by the Oscar-winning film starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, & Joan Crawford, Maury Yeston's award-winning musical creates a masterful portrayal of six disparate and desperate characters - all linked by being in the same hotel on the same night.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Futura; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Shenandoah Musical Theatre major and Sandusky, OH, native Nate Huntley, leads the 17-member ensemble cast as Baron von Gaigon. Cleveland theatre favorites Holly Felier (Grushinskaya), Dan DiCello (Preysing), Amiee Collier (Raffaella), Emily Grodzik (Flaemmchen) and Brian Marshall (Kingelein) portray the six hotel guests whose lives are dramatically and forever altered by a one-night stay in Berlin’s decadent Grand Hotel. MSS resident musical director Ryan Neal conducts. Flashy costumes, hot jazz music and a love-triumphs-over-all story line, <b><i>GRAND HOTEL</i></b> is the perfect night out with your loved ones, or that stranger you have been not-so-secretly stalking!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Come Begin, in Old Berlin, You’re in the Grand Hotel!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><strong>Cast</strong></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="35%"><em>Colonel Doctor Otternschlag</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/goldman_mort.html">Mort Goldman</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Rohna</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/aldrich_christopher.html">Christopher Aldrich</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Erik Litnauer</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/ramos_jonathan.html">Jonathan Ramos</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Hermann Preysing</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/dicello_dan.html">Dan DiCello</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Sandor</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/falkofsky_jason.html">Jason Falkofsky</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Zinnowitz</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/gilpin_trey.html">Trey Gilpin</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Otto Kringelein</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/marshall_brian.html">Brian Marshall</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Flaemmchen</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/grodzik_emily.html">Emily Grodzik</a><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/gibb_rob.html"></a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Baron Felix Von Gaigern</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/huntley_nathan.html">Nate Huntley</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Raffaela</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/collier_amiee.html">Amiee Collier</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Grushinskaya</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/feiler_holly.html">Holly Feiler</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Jimmy 1</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/sumlin_eugene.html">Eugene Sumlin</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Jimmy 2</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/martin_marcus.html">Marcus Martin</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Madame Peepee</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/hunkins_joanna.html">Joanna May Hunkins</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Josef Schilinger</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/fedele_dominic.html">Dominic Fedele</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Tootsie 1</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/myor_jennifer.html">Jennifer Myor</a></td></tr><tr><td><em>Tootsie 2</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/brucato_nicole.html">Nicole Brucato</a></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Director</td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/brault_pierre.html">Pierre-Jacques Brault</a></td></tr><tr><td>Assistant Director</td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/beacham_kelvette.html">Kelvette Beacham</a></td></tr><tr><td>Music Director</td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/neal_ryan.html">Ryan Neal</a></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td height="21"><em>Stage Manager</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/verbelun_cindi.html">Cindi Verbelun</a></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td height="20"><em>Lighting</em></td><td><a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com/company_bios/hunter_jonathon.html">Jonathon Hunter</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Closes July 30, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">At The Brooks Theatre in the Cleveland Play House<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">8500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland OH 44106</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><u><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Group Rates</span></u><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma; "> and information available by calling 216.771.5862, emailing <a href="mailto:mercuryss@mac.com">mercuryss@mac.com</a> or visiting us at: <u><a href="http://www.mercurysummerstock.com/">www.mercurysummerstock.com</a></u>.</span></p>
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