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Community Theatre closes its current season with</font><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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color:#0070C0">“Songs for a New World”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font size="3">With a
rousing score that blends elements of pop, gospel and jazz, featuring tight
harmonies and darling vocals,<span class="apple-converted-space"> “</span><i>Songs
for a New World”</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:#1D2129;background:white">transports its audience from the deck of
a Spanish sailing ship bound for a new land, to the ledge of a New York
penthouse. Characters range from a young man in the Bronx who dreams of
becoming a famous basketball player, to a forlorn and neglected Mrs. Claus
lamenting as Christmas approaches.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><font size="3">Music and
lyrics by Jason Robert Brown<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><font size="3">Conceived
by Daisy Prince<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><font size="3">Directed
by Dawn Sniadak Yamokoski<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><font size="3">Music
Direction by Bryan Bird<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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text-align:center"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;background:white">Cast: Ian Atwood, Derrick Winger, Trey Gilpin, Alicia
Fogal, Nan Golz </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and Kimberly Sullivan</span></font></div>
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Aharoni;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Show dates: May 5,
6, 12, 13, 19, 20 at 8 pm; Sunday matinee on May 14 at 2 pm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Tw Cen MT";mso-bidi-font-family:Aharoni">: Independence
Old Town Hall, <span class="address">6652 Brecksville
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Tw Cen MT";mso-bidi-font-family:Aharoni">eservations:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Tw Cen MT";mso-bidi-font-family:Aharoni"> <span style="letter-spacing:1.1pt">216-447-0443. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Aharoni;letter-spacing:1.1pt">F</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Aharoni">or more
information, visit our website at </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Aharoni"><a href="http://www.independencetheatre.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Aharoni">Produced by special
arrangement with Music Theatre International.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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