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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br>
April 6, 2012<br>
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<font style="font-weight:bold" size="5">RAISING ROMEO & JULIET</font><br>
<font style="font-weight:bold" size="4">Transcending Barriers to Parent/Teen Communication</font><br>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-weight:bold">Great Lakes Theater presents a connective
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pre-show </span><span style="font-weight:bold">discussion/performance event that explores
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parent/teen communication featuring parenting coach, <br>
Amy Speidel, before <span style="font-style:italic">Romeo & Juliet</span>.</span></font><br>
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CLEVELAND, OH – Great Lakes Theater (GLT), <span style="font-weight:bold">Cleveland’s Classic Company, will present a pre-show discussion and performance event with parenting coach and national presenter with Loving Guidance, Inc. and Senders Parenting Center,
Amy Speidel, entitled <span style="font-style:italic">Raising Romeo & Juliet</span></span>, in conjunction with the company’s production of Shakespeare’s classic,
<span style="font-style:italic">Romeo & Juliet,</span> at the <span style="font-weight:bold">
Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare on Sunday, April 22nd</span>. Commencing at 1:30 p.m. with a pre-show discussion featuring Amy Speidel in the Hanna Theatre’s Salon, the event will culminate in a performance of Great Lakes Theater’s main stage production of
<span style="font-style:italic">Romeo & Juliet </span>at 3:00 p.m. as part of GLT’s Classics and Conversations audience engagement series.<br>
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Amy Speidel is a national presenter with Loving Guidance, Inc. as well as with Senders Parenting Center. She is also a certified Parent Coach. Amy teaches the principles of Conscious Discipline®. She aspires to support all adults who come in contact with children
by sharing Conscious Discipline® with them through practical, user friendly seminars and workshops. Having been a foster parent, a birth parent and an adoptive parent, Amy knows the beauty and challenges of the journey with children.<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Tickets</span> for the discussion/performance event
<span style="font-weight:bold">range in price from $15-$40</span> and are available by calling
<span style="font-weight:bold">(216) 241-5490 x302 or by ordering online at </span>
<a href="http://www.greatlakestheater.org/event/parents" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">www.greatlakestheater.org/event/parents</a><span style="font-weight:bold">.
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Great Lakes Theater, Cleveland’s Classic Company, has brought the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience since 1962. The first resident company of PlayhouseSquare, GLT celebrates its 30th year in downtown Cleveland
this season. On its main stage and through its extensive education programming, Great Lakes Theater positively impacts 85,000 adults and students annually.<br>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-weight:bold">Todd Krispinsky</span><br>
Marketing and Public Relations Director<br>
Great Lakes Theater<br>
1501 Euclid Avenue, Suite 300<br>
Cleveland, OH 44115<br>
(216) 241-5490 x317<br>
www.greatlakestheater.org<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Great Lakes Theater</span><br>
<span style="font-style:italic">Cleveland's Classic Company @ the Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare</span><br>
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