<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">I usually do not contribute any thoughts on local productions, but I recently had the pleasure of seeing the musical 13 at Beachwood Community Theatre with my 12 year old daughter ...and we were both blown away. It is beautifully directed, acted, executed, and I urge anyone who enjoys contemporary musical theatre to get yourselves to their closing weekend! Info below. </div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Marc Moritz</div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; 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background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Proudly presents<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">“1 3”<span> </span>t h e<span> </span>m u s i c a l<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Fridays May 4, May 11, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">May 18,</a><span> </span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">8 pm</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Saturdays May 5, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://6" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">May 19, 7:30 pm</a><span> </span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Saturday May 12, 2 pm<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><span> </span>Sundays<span> </span>May 6 & May 13, 2 pm<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><span> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Who doesn’t remember turning “13”?<span> </span>It’s an awkward time with or without the<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">stress of preparing for a Bar Mitzvah.<span> </span>“13” is also a hit musical with lyrics<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">and music by Jason Robert Brown and book by Dan Elish, and Robert Horn.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Plot:<span> </span>12 year old Evan Goldman is uprooted from NYC and forced to move with his<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">mother to Indiana.<span> </span>He must maneuver his way through a new Jr. High school<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">trying desperately to "fit in", while preparing for his Bar Mitzvah.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">“13” is a high-energy musical about growing up, dealing with change and learning<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">That “becoming who you want to be - begins with discovering who you are”.<span> </span>It's<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">a musical written for teens, performed by teens and appeals to the “13” year old<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">lurking within each of us.<span> </span>All of these fabulous actors are ages 12 – 17.<span> </span>Performers<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">hope to give back to the community by donating profits from refreshment sales to<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">3 important causes.<span> </span>The first weekends refreshment proceeds will benefit<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">breast cancer research.<span> </span>The second weekend’s refreshment proceeds will be<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">donated to assist people with degenerative muscular diseases and the third<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">weekends profits from refreshments will benefit ALS research.<span> </span>“It’s a beautiful<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">message to send to both the cast and the community. BCT's philosophy,<span> </span>“When a group of people<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">come together for a common goal why not also give back to the community at the<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><font> </font>same time?”</div><div></div></body></html>