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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hudson Players Announce Their 69<sup>th</sup> Season<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hudson’s Community Theater Announces Schedule for 2013-14. <u>Season Tickets Now Available!</u> Interested Directors are Encouraged to Apply<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Hudson Players, Hudson's long running, award winning community theater, officially announces their 69<sup>th</sup> season of high quality shows. Promising to live up to their slogan of “Good Shows, Good Friends, Good Times”, the Hudson Players begin the year in November with an enlighteningly funny farce, <b><i>Black Comedy</i></b>, continue with the hysterically funny, fast paced musical comedy <b><i>Lucky Stiff</i></b>, and concludes with a major fresh from Broadway musical comedy that is still yet to be announced. In addition, the group will a world premier holiday in conjunction once again with The Largely Literary Theatre Company. This new holiday offering called, <b><i>The</i> <i>Christmas Pudding: A Largely Literary Yuletide Feast</i></b>, will be presented for the first time ever on Hudson’s stage and will offer audiences a broad spectrum of Christmas favorites. Directors are currently being sought and interested candidates are urged to contact the group at <a href="mailto:info@hudsonplayers.com">info@hudsonplayers.com</a> right away.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Season Tickets are currently available at </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'><a href="http://www.hudsonplayers.com/"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.hudsonplayers.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and include tickets to all three main productions for the cost of only two full price tickets. That’s three shows for the price of two! Season ticket holders are also offered free exchanges, reduced price tickets to the holiday show and reserved seats for the season.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The players also offer the ability to host group outings and fundraisers before or after their productions with available onsite meeting rooms, private pre-show receptions and parties and group and fundraising ticket rates. In addition, they have a popular dinner and show option with Hudson’s Restaurant on the Green, which is also available for season and individual show purchase.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The 69<sup>th</sup> Season will start out with <b><i>Black Comedy</i></b>, a enlighteningly funny farce by Peter Shaffer being presented November 1, 2, 8, 9, 15 & 16, 2013. This side splitting comedy features reverse lighting where light is dark and dark is light. Thus characters stumble around blindly in the light but the audience never searches for laughs. The story from acclaimed playwright Sir Peter Shaffer (Amadeus, Equus) starts when a power outage foils the plans of a young sculptor to impress his fiance’s father and a millionaire art collector with furniture he ‘borrowed’ from his out of town neighbor. His schemes are plunged into chaos when a fuse blows and his neighbor returns. Unexpected guests, aging spinsters, errant phone cords and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the stolen items before the light is restored, but ensure that hilarity ensues. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Next up is <b><i>The Christmas Pudding: A Largely Literary Yuletide Feast</i></b>, adapted by Mark Dawidziak and Sara Showman, being presented December 7 & 8, 2013. Featuring Christmas selections of all types by such writers as Mark Twain, J.M. Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hans Christian Andersen, Frank Stockton, G.K. Chesterton, Ogden Nash, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Washington Irving, this two act world premier is family friendly and<i> </i>will be packed with a wide assortment of Christmas goodies. The selections include poems, songs and stories that strike a variety of moods: everything from the sentimental and spiritual to the sarcastic and silly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Following will be a production of the hysterically funny fast paced musical comedy <i>Lucky Stiff</i> to be presented February 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 28 & March 1, 2014. Written by Lynn Ahrens, with Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and based on the book “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, <b><i>Lucky Stiff</i></b> is a zany, off beat, and very funny murder mystery farce complete with slamming doors, mistaken identities, missing money and of course a corpse in a wheelchair. The story revolves around an unassuming English shoe salesman who is forced to take the embalmed body of his recently murdered Atlantic City uncle on vacation to Monte Carlo. Should he succeed in passing his uncle off as alive and showing him the required sites he stands to inherit $6,000,000. Of course if he doesn’t the money goes to the dogs…literally. Winner of Washington’s Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Finally the Hudson Players 67<sup>th</sup> season will finish up with a production of a soon to be announced major musical comedy fresh from Broadway and the touring circuit.” Running April 25, 26, May 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 16 & 17 of 2014, this show is sure to entertain and keep audiences laughing, smiling and singing it’s songs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Single show tickets are only $14 each with group, senior and student discounts available. Fundraising opportunities are also available for interested organizations along with group rates. Season and show sponsors are still being welcomed. Season and individual tickets can be purchased at <a href="http://www.hudsonplayers.com">www.hudsonplayers.com</a> or by calling 330-655-8522.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Hudson Players are an all volunteer non-profit community theater organization and one of the longest running theater troupes in the area. Volunteers are always welcome to assist with a variety of tasks including publicity, poster distribution, set building, costumes and more. Auditions to their shows are open to all with no restrictions. Please send an email to </span><a href="mailto:info@hudsonplayers.com"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>info@hudsonplayers.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> if interested or call 330-655-8522. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style='margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Additional information is available at www.hudsonplayers.com.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>