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normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Independence Community
Theatre closes its current season with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;
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color:#0070C0">“Songs for a New World”</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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normal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333;background:white">“Songs
for a New World”</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#333333;background:white"> features
music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. It
has been described as an abstract musical, a series of songs connected by theme
rather than narrative. The </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">rousing
score blends elements of pop, gospel and jazz, featuring tight harmonies and
darling vocals. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#333333;background:white">It is a song cycle that takes
the audience on a journey of life told though passionate, uplifting and soul
wrenching music. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The audience is transported </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2129;background:white">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><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Conceived by Daisy Prince</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Directed by Dawn Sniadak Yamokoski</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Music Direction by Bryan Bird</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;">Cast: Ian Atwood, Derrick Winger, Trey
Gilpin, Alicia Fogal, Nan Golz and Kimberly Sullivan</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Show dates: May 19 and
20 at 8 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Performances are at:
Independence Old Town Hall, 6652 Brecksville Rd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cost: $12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Reservations:</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="letter-spacing:1.1pt">216-447-0443.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Produced
by special arrangement with Music Theatre International.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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