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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:25.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beck Center For The Arts </span></b><b><span style="font-size:25.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Announces 75<sup>th</sup>
Anniversary Kick-off with <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Body" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:25.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">It’s A Madhouse<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><a href="https://www.lakewoodoh.gov/"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lakewood, OH</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">-</span></a><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/youth-theater"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beck
Center for the Arts</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, one of the oldest continuously running Youth Theater programs in the nation is proud to announce the 75<sup>th</sup> Youth Theater Season for 2023-2024.
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“We are elated to be celebrating 75 years of Youth Theater alongside the 90th anniversary of Beck Center for the Arts,” states Sarah Clare, Associate Director of Theater Education. “This season allows us to explore the connections we make and how we are at
our best when we use our individual and unique talents to come together as a community to solve problems and create a better world where we are safe to explore our passions, whether they are deemed ‘nerdy’ or not!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beck Center for the Arts’ Youth Theater alumni include Michael Chernus (<i>Orange Is the New Black</i>;
<i>Manhattan; Severance</i>); Dee Hoty (three-time Tony Nominee); Isabela Merced (<i>Dora and the Lost City of Gold;</i>
<i>Transformers: The Last Night</i>); Rory O’Malley (<i>Hamilton</i>; Tony Nominee,
<i>Book of Mormon</i>); and Daniel Reichard (Drama Desk Nominee, <i>Jersey Boys</i>).
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<p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Ticket prices are $15 Adult/Senior, and $13 Children/Student (ages 18 & under). Please reserve tickets at
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/youth-theater"><span style="color:windowtext">beckcenter.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">, call 216.521.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2540
or simply stop by Beck Center Customer Service in person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Entire season lineup available at:
<a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/youth-theater">beckcenter.org/youth-theater.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/youth-shows/ayouththeatershow"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">It’s a Madhouse!</span></i></b></a></span><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">
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<p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Written by
</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Todd Wallinger </span>
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<p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Direction by Russel Stich
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<b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;letter-spacing:.8pt;mso-ligatures:none">October 26-Oct 29, 2023: Senney Theater.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.8pt;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-ligatures:none">Student Matinee: Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.8pt;mso-ligatures:none">Friday and Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;letter-spacing:.8pt;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.8pt;mso-ligatures:none">Sunday performances at 3:00 p.m</span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:black;letter-spacing:.8pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.8pt;background:white">This show is produced with special arrangement by Pioneer Drama Service, Denver, Colorado</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.8pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Best-selling mystery author Byron Pembroke is dead. Soon after, his highly dysfunctional family gathers on a dark
and stormy evening for the reading of the will. Each family member has their own reason to believe they’ll receive the estate, but the family soon finds out that instead of naming an heir, Byron condensed his fortune into one mysterious object and left it
to... whoever finds it first! The mansion is overrun by a horde of strangers seeking shelter from the storm, and once the strangers find out about the hidden treasure, they soon join in the hunt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">thanks marquee sponsor </span>First Federal Lakewood for their generous support.
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<p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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. For more information on Beck Center programming please visit </span><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/"><span class="Hyperlink1"><span style="mso-effects-shadow-color:black;mso-effects-shadow-alpha:100.0%;mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius:0pt;mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance:0pt;mso-effects-shadow-angledirection:0;mso-effects-shadow-align:none;mso-effects-shadow-pctsx:0%;mso-effects-shadow-pctsy:0%;mso-effects-shadow-anglekx:0;mso-effects-shadow-angleky:0"><span style="mso-effects-shadow-color:black;mso-effects-shadow-alpha:100.0%;mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius:0pt;mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance:0pt;mso-effects-shadow-angledirection:0;mso-effects-shadow-align:none;mso-effects-shadow-pctsx:0%;mso-effects-shadow-pctsy:0%;mso-effects-shadow-anglekx:0;mso-effects-shadow-angleky:0">beckcenter.org</span></span></span></a><span class="None">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Body"><span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Beck Center for the Arts also offers arts education for all ages, all skill levels, and all abilities with classes and lessons in music, dance, visual arts, and theater, as well
as creative arts therapies. Financial assistance is available for qualified applicants so that these programs can be enjoyed by all.
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<p class="Body" style="text-align:justify"><span class="None"><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 on two stages, arts education programming
in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for individuals with disabilities, free gallery exhibits year-round, and community education programming.</span></i></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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