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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#540000;background:white">NEWS RELEASE</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white">Melanie YC Pepe</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white">Artistic Director</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#C00000;background:white">Auditions tonight from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#C00000"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#C00000">Weathervane Playhouse is looking for
<i>a few good men</i> to audition for roles in HAIR. Ladies who are interested in joining our ensemble are invited to audition as well!
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white">Be ready to learn a short dance combination.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white">Synopsis</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white">Hair</span></i><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"> tells the story of Vietnam-era youths awkwardly but exuberantly
creating their own rite of passage through the confusion around them. Among them are Claude and Berger; a pair of friends battling against Claude's draft notice, and Sheila, who is in love with both of them, but her politically-active lifestyle leaves her
little time to act on her feelings. Ultimately, Claude decides that the hippie life isn't for him and goes to Vietnam. With themes of alienation and civil disobedience Hair illustrates the '60s generation's search for meaning through various "be-ins," "love-ins"
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white">Director</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white">Gwen Arment, a New York City resident, guest directs at Weathervane! In the New York area, she has directed at the Abingdon Theatre, Theatre
315, The Theatre Arts Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre (associate producer 1995), Broadway Theatre Institute for Musical Mondays Theatre Lab (Artistic Director 2002–2003) and The Century Center. Nationally, she also has directed at the South Jersey Regional
Theater; Arundel Barn Playhouse in Maine; Charles Playhouse in Boston; Pennsylvania Stage Company; Mishler Theatre in Altoona, Pennsylvania; and at the Royal Palm Festival Theater in Florida where she received Carbonell nominations for choreography and performing.
As a teacher of professional actors, alongside guest faculty instructors from the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2004, Gwen co-founded and currently remains the artistic director and producer for Hell’s Kitchen Musicals (HKM),
a company which develops new works with readings, staged readings and showcases. Most recently, HKM produced the new musical,
</span><i><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Peg O’ My Heart</span></i><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white">, for New York City's 2011 Midtown International Theatre Festival. It won the award for best musical. Among the many celebrated
artists with whom Gwen has worked are Gower Champion, Peter Gennaro, Donald Saddler, Christopher Hewitt, Bob Herget, Tommy Tune, George Faison, Ron Lagomarsino and Gwen Verdon.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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