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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.65pt;background:white'><strong><b><font
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font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><strong><b><i><font
size=5 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:red;font-style:italic'>Mercy Killers<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></strong></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.65pt;background:white'><strong><b><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>by Michael Milligan (FREE and open
to the public)</span></font></b></strong><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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word-spacing:0px'><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>Broadway
actor comes to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Buckeye</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> to perform his One
Man Play about health care system.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333;font-weight:
bold'>Broadway veteran and Ohio native, Michael Milligan will present his new
play,</span></font></b><span class=apple-converted-space><b><font
color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:#333333;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></span><strong><b><i><font
size=2 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:red;font-style:italic'>Mercy Killers</span></font></i></b></strong><b><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>, at the</span></font></b><span
class=apple-converted-space><b><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></span><b><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>ALLEN THEATRE
SECOND STAGE (PLAYHOUSESQUARE) ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013 @ 7PM.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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word-spacing:0px'><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333;font-weight:
bold'>TICKETS are available at the door only, and the event is FREE AND OPEN TO
THE PUBLIC. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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word-spacing:0px'><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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word-spacing:0px'><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>The ‘</span></font><strong><b><font
size=2 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:red'>Mercy Killers</span></font></b></strong><span
class=apple-converted-space><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'> </span></font></span><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>Tour’- a collaboration with
Single Payer Action Network, SPAN is organizing performances in Columbus,
Athens, Dayton, Cleveland, Akron, and Toledo to help raise awareness about the
continued dysfunction of the American health care system.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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word-spacing:0px'><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.65pt;background:white;
orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>Over 60% of
all bankruptcies in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
are the result of medical debt. “What most people don't realize is that
in the majority of those bankruptcies, the person involved actually had
insurance at the onset of their health crisis,” says Milligan. “</span></font><strong><b><font
size=2 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:red'>Mercy Killers</span></font></b></strong><span
class=apple-converted-space><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'> </span></font></span><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>is my attempt to translate those
statistics into the human experience indicated by those numbers.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.65pt;background:white;
orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'><strong><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'> </span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.65pt;background:white;
orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>The play
explores these themes through Joe, a man being interrogated by the police over
the death of his terminally ill wife. A red blooded American, Joe is sympathetic
to the Tea Party and the libertarian convictions of self-reliance and the
‘free market.’ However, when his cancer-stricken wife has her
health insurance revoked and they become trapped in the labyrinth of the health
care system, Joe’s faith in the American Dream is put to the test and he
is driven to make a fateful act.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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word-spacing:0px'><strong><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'> </span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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word-spacing:0px'><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'>“Michael
Milligan's </span></font><b><font size=2 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:red;font-weight:bold'>Mercy
Killers</span></font></b><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'> is a
powerful play that illustrates the urgency of replacing our dysfunctional
health insurance system. In this painfully accurate portrayal of the
personal struggles of one couple, Milligan makes public the suffering that
thousands of American families experience in private. I was
inspired by the performance, and energized to move our state from health
insurance for some, to health care for all.” <strong><b><font
face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-family:"Lucida Grande"'>John Marty,
State Senator, MN.</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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word-spacing:0px'><font size=2 color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: 2;
widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'><strong><b><i><font size=5 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:red;font-style:italic'>Mercy
Killers</span></font></i></b></strong><b><font size=5 color=red
face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";
color:red;font-weight:bold'>, by Michael Milligan<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: 2;
widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><b><font
size=5 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:red;font-weight:bold'>Allen</span></font></b></st1:PlaceName><b><font
size=5 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:red;font-weight:bold'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Theatre</st1:PlaceName></span></font></b></st1:place><b><font
size=5 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:red;font-weight:bold'> Second Stage<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;orphans: 2;
widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'><b><font size=5 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:red;font-weight:bold'>Monday,
February 11, 2013 @ 7:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'><b><font size=5 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:red;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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word-spacing:0px'><b><font size=5 color=red face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:red;font-weight:bold'>For
Information about the play and ‘The Tour’ visit:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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