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<b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-314cae3e-37bd-4f36-ce71-9f13708552d0"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute - summer 2018 Production Season</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(108,108,108);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MEREDITH WILLSON'S</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"THE MUSIC MAN"</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(108,108,108);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Book, Music and Lyrics by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(108,108,108);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MEREDITH WILLSON</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(108,108,108);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Story by</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(108,108,108);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MEREDITH WILLSON and FRANKLIN LACEY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">June 29 - July 8, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><font color="#6c6c6c" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(108,108,108);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-314cae3e-37bd-4f36-ce71-9f13708552d0" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO – Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute opens its 2018 summer season of hits with the acclaimed musical<i style=""> The Music Man</i></span><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">, book , music and lyrics by Meredith Willson, presented at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, from June 29 to July 8, 2018. </span></font></span></span><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-314cae3e-37bd-4f36-ce71-9f13708552d0"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(108,108,108);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;display:inline!important"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">By turns wicked, funny, warm, romantic and touching, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Music Man</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is family entertainment at its best. Meredith Willson's six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy has been entertaining audiences since 1957 and is a family-friendly story to be shared with every generation. </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Music Man</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band that he vows to organize – this, despite the fact that he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain's fall</span></font></p></b></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5ec91498-37c3-909b-af70-cc9da16f1c68"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;display:inline!important"><span style="color:rgb(108,108,108);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font style="" size="4" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"> </span></font></span></span></p></b><span style="" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5ec91498-37c3-909b-af70-cc9da16f1c68"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Performances are Fridays and Saturdays, June 29 & July 6 and June 30 & July 7 at</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"> 7:30 pm; and Sundays July 1 and July 8 at 2:00 PM. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">The show is presented at the Hathaway Brown School, 19600 North Park Blvd., Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122. Tickets are $11-15 and can be purchased online at <a href="http://www.hb.edu/tickets">www.hb.edu/tickets</a>, by calling 216-932-4214 x7270 or at the door (if available) the day of the performance. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Directed and </span></font></span></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">choreographed by Bebe Weinberg Katz, </span></font></font></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>The Music Man</i></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> will also feature musical direction by John Krol, set and lighting design by T. Paul Lowry, costumes by Chialla Geib Fenske and sound design by Carlton Guc. </span></font><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>The Music Man</i></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> boasts a cast of talented HBTI students.</span><br><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4"></font></span></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style=""><font size="4">N</font></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style=""><font size="4">ow in its sixth year, The Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute was </font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">created</font></div><font size="4"> by the Performing Arts Department of the Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights for students 1</font><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap">st</span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> grade – college. HBTI offers coursework in drama, dance and music. HBTI provides high-level training from working artists to young people interested in the performing arts, as well as professional-level production experiences. Students of HBTI's staff of professional artists have gone on to perform on Broadway, in regional theatre, and in film and television. </span></font><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">Visit <a href="http://www.hb.edu">www.hb.edu</a> for complete description of dates, courses and registration as well as a listing of HB's many other summer offerings. </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="" size="4">For more information, contact: Bebe Weinberg Katz, Director- Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute School, <a href="mailto:bkatz@hb.edu">bkatz@hb.edu</a></font></span></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
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