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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">New Ground Theatre Festival<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>New. Theatre. Festival | May 3-12, 2012<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Roe Green, Honorary Producer<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Join the thousands of others who experience what’s new in theatre during Cleveland Play House’s annual New Ground Theatre Festival (formerly FusionFest). Each year, CPH presents a variety of new theatre work – from Cleveland-born collaborations
to nationally recognized artists.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This year’s festival features a collaboration with The Cleveland Orchestra; performances by former
<i>Daily Show</i> correspondent Lauren Weedman; an innovative performance combining evolution and hip-hop; and a new play reading from this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, Quiara Alegría Hudes (reading features actor David Zayas, who plays Sgt. Angel
Batista on Showtime’s <i>Dexter</i>!)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tickets (per performance)<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>$20-$69 (see shows for specific pricing)<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Student tickets: $15<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>NEW! “Pay What You Can” available for any of the three play readings<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Buy Tickets: (216) 241-6000 or visit <a href="http://bit.ly/GDWjaj">
clevelandplayhouse.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">**View video trailers for <b><i><a href="http://youtu.be/4clJI1r9jcI">BUST</a></i></b> and
<b><i><a href="http://youtu.be/gfcNjn8qXIg">The Rap Guide to Evolution</a></i></b>, or keep reading for details on each production!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">New Ground Line-up<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/new-ground-theatre-festival/2011-2012/every-good-boy-deserves-favor">Every Good Boy Deserves Favor (EGBDF)</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By Tom Stoppard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Music by André Previn<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May 3-5 | 7:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tickets: $20-45<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Presented by Cleveland Play House and The Cleveland Orchestra<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Written by Tony and Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard, <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Every Good Boy Deserves Favor</span></em> features orchestral music by Grammy and Academy Award winner André Previn. Stoppard’s
play is a swift 65-minute hilarious and stinging satire on state-sponsored repression. Brilliantly witty and mischievously funny, it centers on two cellmates, both named Alexander Ivanov – one a political protestor and the other a madman who ‘conducts’ an
orchestra that only exists in his head.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The play will be performed in the new Allen Theatre with a cast of six actors and 35 Cleveland Orchestra musicians.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">These performances by The Cleveland Orchestra are funded in part by the Keithley Fund for Artistic Collaboration. Sponsored by Benesch Attorneys at Law.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/new-ground-theatre-festival/2011-2012/bust">BUST</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Written and performed by Lauren Weedman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May 10-12 | 7:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tickets: $25<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BUST</span></em> is Lauren Weedman’s semi-autobiographical play built around her experiences working as a volunteer advocate in a Southern California prison for women. With one foot in
Hollywood and the other in jail, the former <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Daily Show</span></em> correspondent careens wildly between the two worlds, taking us on a hilarious, poignant, and completely unforgettable ride. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://youtu.be/4clJI1r9jcI">View the video trailer!</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/new-ground-theatre-festival/2011-2012/the-rap-guide-to-evolution">The Rap Guide to Evolution</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Written and performed by Baba Brinkman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May 11 at 7:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May 12 at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tickets: $25<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A novel species of theatre combining the wit, poetry and charisma of a great rapper with the accuracy and rigor of a scientific expert, Baba Brinkman’s
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Rap Guide to Evolution</span></em> uses hip-hop as a vehicle to communicate the facts of evolution while illuminating the origins and complexities of hip-hop culture with Darwin as the inspiration. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://youtu.be/gfcNjn8qXIg">View the video trailer!</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">New Play Readings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/new-ground-theatre-festival/2011-2012/first-annual-roe-green-award-new-play-reading">First Annual Roe Green Award</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May 5 at 4 p.m.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tickets: Pay What You Can<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Quiara Alegría Hudes is the winner of the first Roe Green Award, presented annually to a nationally recognized playwright. The award includes a $7,500 cash prize; a week-long residency including rehearsals; a master class with CPH’s Playwrights’
Unit, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University students; and a public reading of a new play. For her residency, Hudes will workshop a new play set in Philadelphia, titled
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Daphne's Dive.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">This reading features both local and national actors, including
</span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dexter</span></em><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">’s David Zayas!<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal"><a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/new-ground-theatre-festival/2011-2012/the-fagin-effect"><i>The Fagin Effect</i></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">May 12 at 4 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-style:normal">Tickets: Pay What You Can</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Written by CPH Artistic Director Michael Bloom, <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Fagin Effect</span></em> is a pastiche of Oliver Twist in which the original characters are used to tell a new story that takes place
in London, 1850. As entire neighborhoods are demolished to make way for the first underground railway, the appearance of a young man in the 'shop' of one Julius Fogel presents an opportunity for some of London's dregs to turn their lives around with the assistance
of a real estate developer named Whitelaw.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/new-ground-theatre-festival/2011-2012/dorothy-silver-playwriting-winner">Dorothy Silver Playwriting Winner</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">May 6 at 6 p.m.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tickets: Pay What You Can<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This year’s winner is Steven Peterson for <i>Paris Time</i>. Americans in Paris live the dream life. But for an expatriate Jewish wife and her Gentile husband in 2002, the dream shatters as synagogues burn all across France. They must
learn to restore a family they had lost.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And don’t miss the New Ground centerpiece production, <b><i><a href="http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/main-stage/2011-2012/in-the-next-room-or-the-vibrator-play">In the Next Room, or the vibrator play</a></i></b>, extended through May
13 due to audience demand! This show features male nudity and is recommend it for mature audiences.
<i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Sponsored by Ambiance, the Store for Lovers.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">New Ground Theatre Festival is sponsored by Ohio Arts Council, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, and Ohio Savings Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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