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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">OPENING
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">THIS
<span style="color:black">FRIDAY!<br>
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">*<u>BOGO DEAL - FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY (see below!)<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Near West Theatre presents:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:72.0pt;font-family:"Engravers MT",serif;color:#00B0F0">ASSASSINS</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Engravers MT",serif;color:#00B0F0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">July 15-16, <span style="color:black">
2016<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Book by John Weidman<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr.</span></i><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#ED7D31;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">ON THE EVE OF THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, NEAR WEST’S SUMMER YOUTH THEATER PRESENTS STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S EXAMINATION OF THE AMERICAN DREAM, THE HAVES AND THE
HAVE-NOTS, AND GUNS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Performances:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">July 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 & 31<br>
<span style="color:black">(Thurs., Fri. and Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m.)</span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">*<span style="color:black">Tickets can be purchased at
<a href="http://www.nearwesttheatre.org">www.nearwesttheatre.org</a>,<br>
or by calling our Box Office at 216-961-6391 from 11am-4pm M-F.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Accessibility notes: Near West Theatre's new home is fully accessible! Dedicated spaces will be available to view the performance
from a wheelchair.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">“We’re the other national anthem, folks, the ones that can’t get in to the ball park.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">There’s Another National Anthem, folks, for those who never win…
<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">for the ones who might have been.”– from “Another National Anthem”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Sondheim’s signature blend of intelligently
stunning lyrics and beautiful music, with a panoramic story of our nation’s culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America’s four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing, and
alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most unexpected musical ever written.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">*BOGO DEAL - FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">As we stand in this spotlight on Cleveland, Near West Theatre offers an experience of 34 young people in Assassins, a musical that, in the words of Director Bob Navis, asks us to have a place in our hearts "for
all individuals, all ideologies, all nations...to listen and learn in order to create an openness that breeds care, empathy, healthy perspective and loving action."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Discover this historical musical by Stephen Sondheim and take in this thoughtful group of young people in "whose eyes is the hope we all seek." Entertaining. Unexpected. Beautiful.
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>BUY ONE GET ONE FREE TICKETS<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Valid for Opening Weekend Performances Only, Fri. & Sat. July 15 & 16.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Advance sales only - <b>Monday through Thurs, July 11<sup>th</sup> to 14<sup>th</sup>
</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Valid on general admission tickets only ($10 adults; $8 children). Discount applies to lower priced ticket<br>
• Must purchase tickets in person or over the phone (no online sales) - 216-961-6391 or at 6702 Detroit Avenue<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Mention BOGO discount at the time of purchase – discount cannot be applied retroactively<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’ll see you there!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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