<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><b>Heights Youth Theatre</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><i><br></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><i>presents</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 36px; "><b><br></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ba293f" face="'Book Antiqua'" style="font-size: 36px;"><b>CHICAGO</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><i>directed by nathan motta</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 19px; "><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 19px; ">Kander and Ebb's CHICAGO was originally
conceived as a
"musical vaudeville" where the story of the murderesses
of the Cook County jail were told through the vehicle of a vaudeville
show. This Heights Youth Theatre production abandon's Bob Fosse's notion of
sexualization and black lingerie, and doesn't use the 2002 Oscar winning
film's dark realism approach, and instead stays true to the original
"musical vaudeville" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 19px; ">concept of Kander and Ebbs setting the
action squarely in the roaring 1920s on the stage of an upscale Chicago
speakeasy. A show within a show, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 19px; ">a stage within a stage, this
exciting production of Chicago will be appropriate for a
PG audience (there
are a couple of four-letter words). </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 19px; ">Kander and Ebb's
most famous score
gives us Broadway jazz standards such as All That Jazz,
Razzle
Dazzle, Mr. Cellophane, and the </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 19px; ">Cell Block Tango. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 19px; ">Join us for a Chicago like you've never seen before!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><i><br></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ba293f">Opens Friday, May 11, 7:00 PM</font></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><i><br></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><i>Runs May 11, 12, 17, 18 & 19 - all performances at 7 PM</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; ">Wiley Middle School - Auditorium</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; ">2181 Miramar Boulevard</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; ">University Heights, Ohio 44118</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; ">Tickets $10 - General Admission - cash or check only</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><i><br></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><i>Box office will open 45 minutes prior to each performance</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; ">On May 20 there will be concert version of Chicago performed by the cast of Chicago to benefit Heights Youth Theatre at Dobama Theatre</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; ">Join us for an appetizer and dessert reception at 6 PM with the performance to follow - tickets $20 </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><font face="'Book Antiqua'" size="6"><br></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><font face="'Book Antiqua'" size="6"><i><a href="http://www.heightsyouththeatre.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">www.heightsyouththeatre.org</a></i></font> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><i><br></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><i>Heights Youth Theatre programming is made possible by the generous support of the residents of </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><i>Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><i>the Eaton Charitable Fund,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><i> the Ohio Arts Council and the William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Foundation</i></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="'Book Antiqua'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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