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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Although its opening weekend has passed, the worlds of Dr. Katherine Brandt and Ludwig van Beethoven are continuing to collide in
<i>33 Variations</i> at Beck Center. Follow these parallel journeys in the Studio Theater to see how their lives entwine in this creative, imaginative and life-affirming play!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">33 Variations</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> has genuinely moved the critics – see what they have to say!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“This witty, lively and fascinating play is one for both the heart and the mind.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.examiner.com/review/33-variations-is-a-concert-for-the-ears-a-play-for-the-heart">- Kate Miller, Cleveland Examiner</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“Brilliantly acted…catches hold of your imagination”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.examiner.com/review/beck-center-for-the-arts-brings-the-poignant-33-variations-to-stage">- Mark Horning, Cleveland Examiner</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“Thought-Provoking…an intriguing theatrical experience.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.broadwayworld.com/cleveland/article/BWW-Reviews-Beethovan-and-ALS-Cross-Paths-in-the-Thought-Provoking-33-VARIATIONS-at-Beck-Center-20131014">- Roy Berko, Broadway World Cleveland</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“Absolutely engaging…spirited and superb”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.news-herald.com/arts-and-entertainment/20131014/theater-review-beck-center-hits-right-notes-despite-flawed-33-variations#.UlwMGH7ZUfk.facebook">- Bob Abelman, The News-Herald</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#363636;background:white">“Gorgeous language and imagery</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">…a powerful, visceral manifestation of the creative impulse”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.cleveland.com/onstage/index.ssf/2013/10/33_variations_at_the_beck_cent.html">- Andrea Simakis, The Plain Dealer</a><span style="color:#363636;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#363636;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt">Beck Center for the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">presents
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:36.0pt;color:blue">33 Variations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20.0pt">By Moisés Kaufman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Now thru November 17, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Studio Theater<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">8 p.m. FRI & SAT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">3 p.m. SUN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(No performance SAT, October 19)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(7 p.m. start time SUN, October 27)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">STUDIO THEATER<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Directed by Sarah May<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=BECKCENTER"><span style="text-decoration:none">Purchase Tickets Online</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Purchase Tickets Over the Phone: 216.521.2540 x10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Join us for post-show talks immediately following performance noted below. Panels will include local experts from the medical and music communities:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sunday, October 13</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> (3 p.m. Matinee)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dr. Martin Kohn, PhD</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, Center for Ethics, Humanities and Spiritual Care at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, is a faculty member who continues
to pursue ways to incorporate the arts and humanities into medical treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dr. Robert Katz, MD, ENT-Otolaryngologist</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, specializes in treating hearing loss.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dr. Andrew Cluts</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, <a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/events/33-variations/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">physical therapist</span></a> at
Cleveland Clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Saturday, October 26 </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(8 p.m. Show)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dr. Eric Pioro, MD, PhD</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, Director of the Section of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and related disorders at Cleveland Clinic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lisa Bruening, MS, CCC-SLP</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, Director of Care Services and Speech Pathologist, ALS Assoc. of Northeast Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Daniel Shapiro</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, Internationally renowned pianist and a leading interpreter of Beethoven; a faculty member of the Cleveland Institute of Music. His beautiful
recording of the <i>Diabelli Variations</i> is available on CD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Friday, November 8</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> (8 p.m. Show)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dr. Richard Lederman, MD, PhD</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, Cleveland Clinic, Dept. of <a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/events/33-variations/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Neurology</span></a>,
has experience with ALS patients, as well as an interest in the <a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/events/33-variations/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">health issues</span></a> of artists, particularly those that afflicted Beethoven.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Mary Wilson Wheelock</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, Executive Director of the ALS Association of Northern Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood – just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland. FREE onsite parking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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