<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><br></div></span></div><div class="im" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><b>Heights Youth Theatre</b></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><i><br></i></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><i>presents</i></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 36px; "><b><br></b></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><font color="#ba293f" face="'Book Antiqua'" style="font-size: 36px; "><b>CHICAGO</b></font></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 19px; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: 19px; ">Cell Block Tango. </span><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="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ba293f" face="'Book Antiqua'" size="6"><i><br></i></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: xx-large; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#9d1d17">May 17, 18 & 19 - all performances at 7 PM</font></i></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><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="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8f1a14"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8f1a14">On May 20 there will be concert version of Chicago performed by the cast of Chicago to benefit Heights Youth Theatre at Dobama Theatre</font></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: x-large; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8f1a14">Join us for an appetizer and dessert reception at 6 PM with the performance to follow at 7 PM - tickets $20 </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8c1914">(cash or check only)</font></span></div><div style="text-align: center; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090000" face="'Book Antiqua'" size="5"><i>**to make a reservation e-mail heightsyouththeatre@gmail.com**</i></font></span></div><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; width: 22px; margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div id=":sp" class="ajR" role="button" tabindex="0" aria-label="Show trimmed content" data-tooltip="Hide expanded content" style="background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); 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border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div style="text-align: center; "><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 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 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 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 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 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></body></html>