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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6">Mercury Summer Stock & Dana Aber</font></span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;">present</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 36px;">Five Fingers Open, Two Fingers Crossed</span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">A FREE cabaret of new musical theatre works! </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sunday, July 14th, 5:30 pm </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Regina Hall Notre Dame College </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">1857 South Green Road, South Euclid, OH 44121</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large; ">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Mercury Summer Stock and Dana Aber
present: <i>Five Fingers Open, Two Fingers
Crossed</i>, a cabaret event to be performed on Sunday, July 14<sup>th</sup> at
5:30pm at the Regina Auditorium on the Notre Dame College Campus. The event
will feature songs from new, bound-for-Broadway musicals written by
up-and-coming composers and lyricists from all over the globe, including Mercury
Summer Stock’s own Aliyana Stewart who contributed both music and lyrics. This
concert production will feature over a dozen of Mercury’s favorite singers, all
of whom are committed to using their uniquely talented voices to bring new work
to the area of Cleveland.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The work being featured in the concert includes songs from
award-winning writers whose work has been featured at many notable places
including Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Yale, Goodspeed Opera House,
Barrington Stages, the New York Musical Theater Festival, the Midtown
International Theater Festival, NYU, Prospect Theater Company, Penn State
Musical Theater Festival, Pittsburgh City Theater, Sidney<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Theatre Company, Diversionary Theater,
Indiana University, Two Rivers Theater, and many, many more. <o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Performers include off-Broadway’s Dana Aber (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Erotic Broadway Vintage Variety </i>Off-Broadway,
Actors Theatre Louisville, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Gay Bride of
Frankenstein</i> NYMF), also serving as the concert’s co-producer and Emcee; Sara
Masterson (New York Film Academy, Playhouse Square), Julie Myers-Pruchenski (Cleveland
Opera, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival), Kelvette Beacham (Virginia Musical
Theatre, Cain Park), Dan DiCello (Cain Park, Fine Arts Association), Sean Grandillo
(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</i> natl
tour, Dobama Theatre) , Nicholas JP Bernard (Geva Theatre Next Stage, SUNY
Fredonia ),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Aliyana Stewart
(Flatrock Playhouse), Alex Stevenson (Oklahoma Thalian Hall Opera), Jake
Sokoloff (Hofstra, Smithtown Performing Arts Center), Dani Apple (Stagedoor
Manor, Cain Park), Justin Woody (Cleveland Institute of Art, Near West Theatre),
Jackie Komos (Ohio Light Opera), Cindi Verbelun (Cleveland Play House), and
also Jackie Cassara (Theatre-by-the-Sea, Sugarloaf Mountain Amphitheatre), mother
of New York’s Michael Cassara. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white">Mercury Summer Stock (MSS),
founded in 1998 by graduates of Baldwin Wallace, exists to create extraordinary
theatrical experiences, and to advance theatre as a means of educating,
challenging and inspiring the Greater Cleveland community and its young people
through family-friendly programming of rarely-seen and premiere works,
innovative staging, and through its educational outreach and My First Musical
program. This 15<sup>th</sup> season celebration features the Tony
Award-winning musical <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Ragtime</i> by
renowned duo Ahrens & Flaherty, currently playing through July 20<sup>th</sup>
also at the Regina Auditorium. Drewe and Stiles’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Peter Pan</i> will open on August 2<sup>nd</sup>. Tickets to these
shows can be purchased on <a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com">mercurysummerstock.com</a> or by calling 216-771-5862.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The concert is a free event, but there is a suggested
donation of $10. Reservations are not required, but can be made by emailing <a href="mailto:mercurysummerstock@gmail.com">mercurysummerstock@gmail.com</a>.
The Regina Auditorium is at 1857 S Green Rd, Cleveland, Ohio, 44121. Visit
<a href="http://mercurysummerstock.com">mercurysummerstock.com</a> for more information.</font></span></p><div apple-content-edited="true"><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; "><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-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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Mercury Summer Stock<br>216.771.5862<br><a href="mailto:mercuryss@mac.com">mercuryss@mac.com</a><br>www.mercurysummerstock.com<br><br></div></div></span></span>
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