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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Gotham B";color:black">Accessible Performances of
<i>Marie and Rosetta </i>at your Cleveland Play House<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Gotham B";color:black">Get your front-row seat to music history in the making. “The Godmother of Rock n’ Roll” and 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Early Influence Inductee Sister Rosetta Tharpe
— who influenced performers from Elvis to Hendrix — plucks prim-and-proper Marie Knight from a rival gospel show. The two challenge one another on music, life, and The Almighty. This story of letting loose, finding your voice, and freeing your soul is a soaring
music-theatre experience chock full of roof-raising performances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">Audio Described Performance<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 | 7:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">Allen Theatre (Playhouse Square)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">A trained audio describer will verbally describe the visual elements – actions, costumes, scenery – of the performance during pauses in the stage dialogue so that visitors who are blind or
have low vision can envision what is taking place on stage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">Open Captioned Performance<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4 | 2:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">Allen Theatre (Playhouse Square)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Gotham B";color:black">A four-foot-long LED sign will scroll three lines of text from an experienced captioner in-sync with the spoken dialogue on stage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;background:white">For tickets visit
</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#444444"><a href="https://goo.gl/XuQvjy">https://goo.gl/XuQvjy</a></span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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