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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Stow Players Presents <b><i>Levitation<o:p></o:p></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><o:p> </o:p></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Humor and pathos are mixed in the Stow Players’ winter production, <b><i>Levitation</i></b>, a dramedy by Timothy Mason, as the Players continue their 62<sup>nd</sup> year of quality community theater at the Heritage Barn in Stow’s Silver Springs Park. A homecoming/memory play, <b><i>Levitation </i></b>opens Friday, January January 22, 2016, and runs through Saturday, February 6.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <b><i>Levitation </i></b>is set in the year 1979. Disillusioned Joe Dahl (Brian Westerley of Akron) comes home to Minneapolis from New York City, where he earned his living as a newspaper headline writer and spent his spare time writing morbid plays. On his first night back, Joe returns from an evening of clubbing and dancing at 2:30 a.m. and is surprised when his father (Richard Szczepinski of Mantua) appears from the darkness of the garden, where he has been quietly scanning the August skies for meteor showers. He then encounters his mother Ada (Lorena Goold of Stow), his sister Jean (Anna-Jeannine K. Herman of Akron), his nephew Michael (William Landis of Cuyahoga Falls), and a host of other characters played by Cristy Wright of Copley, Mason Shuman of Kent, Dave Hinebaugh of West Akron, and Charlie Pierce of Akron. Everyone Joe meets on his family’s back porch or back yard show him the healing power of miracles, and they teach him – with a mixture of comedy and drama – to face his life with a new kind of strength.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Alex J. Nine of Akron is the director of <b><i>Levitation</i></b>; Kendra Schaefer of Cuyahoga Falls is stage manager. Props are being handled by Stow Players president/treasurer Pat Robertell-Hudson; lights and sound by Bill Morgan; set design and construction by Tom Marshall.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Levitation</span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> opens on Friday, January 22, 2016, and runs for three weekends, through February 6. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8:00 pm, and there is one Sunday matinee, January 31, at 2:30 pm. Ticket prices are $13 for General Admission and $10 for Senior Citizens and students. Tickets are paid with cash or check only.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> All Stow Players productions are the Heritage Barn in Stow’s Silver Springs Park, with access from the back entrance on Young Road only. Call 330-655-6051 for reservations and information. Visit the Stow Players website at <a href="http://www.stowplayers.net">www.stowplayers.net</a> or email at <a href="mailto:info@stowplayers.net">info@stowplayers.net</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>