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<p class="xmsonospacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Meteor Shower</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beck Center Premieres Steve Martin’s Dazzling Comedy</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">
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<p class="xbody"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org"><span class="xhyperlink0">Beck Center for the Arts</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">is ecstatic to announce the regional premiere of Steve Martin’s
</span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><a href="https://beckcenter.squarespace.com/shows/meteorshower"><span style="color:windowtext">Meteor Shower</span><span style="color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">.</span></a></span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
Written by actor, comedian, author, playwright, screenwriter, producer, </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">musician,
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">and Renaissance Man Steve Martin, this wild and crazy play pulls back the curtain on two married couples and the extreme transformation they experience when the sky is the limit. You’ll have a burning desire
to find out what happens next.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xbody"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Unexpectedly fresh and stamped with Martin’s trademark wit,
<b><i>Meteor Shower</i></b> began at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in 2016 and premiered on Broadway in 2017.
<b><i>Meteor Shower</i></b> starred </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Keegan-Michael Key, Laura Benanti, Jeremy Shamos</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">, and Amy Schumer, who was nominated
for a Tony Award for her role. <b><i>Meteor Shower</i></b> was met with high praise.
<i>Deadline</i> calls it “one of the funniest, and wildest, games of social and sexual one-upsmanship,” and
<i>Towleroad</i> states, “Martin, a genius comedian himself, whips up a gleeful pastiche of tropes recognizable to fans of his ‘90s heyday.”
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Beck Center Artistic Director
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/about/leadership"><span style="color:black">Scott Spence</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> says: “</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Steve
Martin is not only a “wild and crazy guy” but also a wild and crazy playwright! On the surface of his plays things look normal enough, but he loves nothing more than to mess with both time and space, and on top of that, toss in the wildly improbable. He is
always the master of the unexpected, and that’s one of the many reasons I love working on his plays. Oh yeah…and he’s just flat-out funny too!”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xbody"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Beck Center’s production of
<b><i><a href="https://beckcenter.squarespace.com/shows/meteorshower"><span style="color:windowtext">Meteor Shower</span></a></i></b></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> stars Lara Mielcarek* as Corky, Abraham Adams* as Norm, Leilani Barrett*
as Gerald, and Leslie Andrews as Laura. (* Denotes Member of Actor’s Equity Association.) Set design is Cameron Michalak, costume design by Inda Blatch-Geib, sound design by Angie Hayes, lighting and projection design by Tim Chrisman, and stage management
by Jamie Benetto. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xbody"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This limited engagement of
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/shows/meteor-shower"><b><i><span style="color:windowtext">Meteor Shower</span></i></b></a> runs April 1 to May 1, 2022 in the Studio
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Theater as part of </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">the Professional Theater
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Season. Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets range from $10 Smart Seats ® to $34 each. Group and student discounts are available at 216-521-2540 x10.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/shows/meteorshower"><span class="xhyperlink0"><b><span style="color:windowtext">Tickets are on sale now</span></b></span><span class="xhyperlink0"><span style="color:windowtext">.</span></span></a><span class="xlink"><span style="color:windowtext">
</span></span><span class="xlink"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Preview performance is Thursday, March 31, 7:30 pm, before press opening night on Friday, April 1, 2022.
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<p class="xbody"><span class="xlink"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">For updated information on COVID protocols please visit
<a href="https://beckcenter.squarespace.com/new-page-1">beckcenter.org.</a> </span>
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<p class="xbody"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beck Center is located at
<a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=17801+Detroit+Avenue&entry=gmail&source=g"><span class="xhyperlink1"><span lang="FR">17801 Detroit Avenue</span></span></a> in Lakewood, just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free onsite parking is available. For more
information visit<a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/"><span class="xhyperlink0"> beckcenter.org</span></a> or call Beck Center Customer Service at 216.521.2540 x10.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xbody"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This production of <b>
<i>Meteor Shower</i></b> is presented through special arrangement Samuel French, Inc and Concord Theatricals. Programming at Beck Center for the Arts is made possible through the generous support of the Ohio Arts Council. Beck Center gratefully acknowledges
the generous funding provided by the citizens of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xbody"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> on two stages,
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, creative arts therapies for individuals with disabilities, free gallery exhibits year-round, and outreach education
programming.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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