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<div><b style="font-size:18px">Cleveland Professional Premiere of</b></div>
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<div><font color="#007f00"><b style="font-size:36px">THE TOXIC AVENGER</b></font></div>
<div><span style="font-size:15px">June 2-26, 2016</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:15px">Cain Park Alma Theater</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:15px"><b><font color="#007f00">Directed by NATHAN MOTTA. Music direction by JORDAN COOPER.</font></b></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:15px">Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro. Music and Lyrics by David Bryan.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:15px">Based on Lloyd Kaufman's film,<i> The Toxic Avenger</i>.</span></div>
<div><b><font color="#ff0000" style="font-size:15px">AUDITIONS FEBRUARY 19-21, 2016. Audition details to follow.</font></b></div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Helvetica">Five actors play 30 roles in “this toxic love story with an environmental twist.” </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:11pt">Melvin Ferd the Third, an aspiring earth scientist, wants to clean
up the most polluted town in New Jersey, Tromaville. Foiled by the mayor's bullies, Melvin is dumped into a vat of radioactive toxic waste, only to reemerge as THE TOXIC AVENGER, New Jersey's first superhero. Affectionately known as Toxie, this new hero is
a seven-foot mutant freak with superhuman strength and a heart as big as Newark. He's out to save New Jersey, end global warming, and woo the blind librarian in town.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:11pt">Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, THE TOXIC AVENGER was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award for “Outstanding Book of a Musical as well as a Lucille Lortel Award for
“Outstanding Musical.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Helvetica">The original cast from the Alley production of THE TOXIC AVENGER got together in June of 2015 with the show's authors for a concert at 54 Below in New York City: </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLF80C4246A734E550&t=12&v=voZhE0C6Oic">https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLF80C4246A734E550&t=12&v=voZhE0C6Oic</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Times"></span></p>
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