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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="3">Theatre lovers have a rare opportunity to hear Tony Award-winning actor Brian Stokes Mitchell in concert with the North Coast Men's Chorus on Saturday, June 23 at 8:00 at the Palace Theatre at PlayhouseSquare. The Chorus will present a shortened concert complete with tap dancing ballerinas and our version of the Von Trapp Family Singers before welcoming Stokes to the stage to join them in a few songs. Then Stokes will finish out the evening with songs from his concert tour.<o:p></o:p></font></font>
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<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">As Robert D. Thomas, music critic for the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Pasadena Star</em> wrote in March, ?Stokes represents an earlier era of Broadway musicals, one that young people today rarely get the chance to experience. However, this show is deeper and richer than mere nostalgia, so if you can get a ticket for tomorrow's final performance, grab it.?<o:p></o:p></font></font>
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<p><font size="2" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NEohioPAL members are being offered a <strong>$5 discount</strong> on tickets to experience this incredible event. Call the PlayhouseSquare Box Office at <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN">216-241-6000 or 866-546-1353 or l</span>og on to </font><a href="http://www.playhousesquare.org/default.asp?playhousesquare=58&objId=2512"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.playhousesquare.org/default.asp?playhousesquare=58&objId=2512</font></a><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"> Please <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN">use the discount code of <strong>MEM</strong> either on-line or via telephone to receive your special $5 off discount. After discount ticket prices range from $10 - $50 with great seats in the $15 - $25 range.</span><o:p></o:p></font></font>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Brian Stokes Mitchell?s Broadway credits include <em>Mail</em> (1988), an all-black revival of George and Ira Gershwin?s <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Oh, Kay</em> (1990), <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Jelly?s Last Jam</em> (1992) based on the works of jazz artist Jelly Roll Morton, Kander and Ebb?s <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Kiss of the Spider Woman</em> (1993), <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ragtime</em> (1998), the 1999 revival of Cole Porter?s <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Kiss Me, Kate</em>, <em>King Hedley II</em> (2001) and <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Man of La Mancha</em> (2002). He appeared in the City Center <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Encores</em>! productions of Jule Styne?s <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Do Re Mi</em> (1999), Bob Merrill?s <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Carnival!</em> (2002), and <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Kismet</em> (2006), and in the title role in the 2002 Kennedy Center revival of <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Sweeny Todd</em>, part of Stephen Sondheim?s 70th birthday celebration.</font></font></span>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Stokes has a number of television and film credits, including the role of John Dolan in <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Roots: The Next Generations</em> (1979), and a seven-year stint as Dr. Justin 'Jackpot' Jackson on <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Trapper John, M.D.</em> from 1979 to 1986. He played recurring roles as Hilary Banks' news anchor fiancé Trevor Newsworthy/Collins on <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air</em> and on <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Frasier</em> as Dr. Frasier Crane?s neighbor and nemesis Cam Winston. He supplied the singing voice of Jethro in the animated feature <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Prince of Egypt</em> (1998). He guest starred in March 2010 on <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ugly Betty</em> as Wilhelmina Slater's ex-boyfriend, Don.</font></font></span>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">On June 9, 2005, Stokes appeared in a concert version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">South Pacific</em> at Carnegie Hall. He starred as Emile, alongside Reba McEntire as Nellie Forbush and Alec Baldwin as Luther Billis. The production was taped and has been telecast by PBS on several occasions. </font></font></span>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">In the fall of 2010, Stokes returned to Broadway to star along with Patti LuPone in the musical version of the Pedro Almodóvar film <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown</em>. This season he appeared on <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Glee </em>as one of Rachel's dads along with Jeff Goldblum.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">2003 Tony Award Best Actor in a Musical <em>Man of La Mancha</em> (nominee)<o:p></o:p></font></font></span>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">2001 Tony Award Best Actor in a Play <em>King Hedley II</em> (nominee)<o:p></o:p></font></font></span>
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