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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Beck Center For The Arts’ Youth Theater
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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mean Girls (High School Version) Opens THIS Friday</span></i></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.lakewoodoh.gov/" target="_blank"><b><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Lakewood, OH</span></b><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">-</span></a><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/youth-theater" target="_blank"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Beck
Center for the Arts</span></a><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">, one of the oldest continuously running Youth Theater programs in the nation is proud to announce the </span></span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mean
Girls (High School Version)</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">during
the 75<sup>th</sup> Youth Theater Season.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Beck Center Youth Theater teen students will rule the halls and cafeteria like only drama queen teens can in </span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/youth-shows/meangirls" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Mean
Girls </span></i><i><span style="color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">(</span></i><i><span style="color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">High
School Version</span></i></a></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">)</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sarah Clare, Associate Director of Theater Education, shares, “It is such a joy to get to work on a show that I love, based on a movie I love, with students
and a creative team that I love. These kids blow me away with their incredible talents in rehearsal. I can’t wait for these kids to prove that when it comes to the potential of young performers, that [their] limit does not exist!”</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">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 (The Last of Us, <i>Dora and the Lost City of Gold</i>); Rory O’Malley (<i>Hamilton</i>, Tony
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#242424;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Nominee, <i>Book of </i></span><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mormon</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">);
and Daniel </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#242424;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Reichard (</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Drama Desk Nominee, <i>Jersey
Boys</i>).</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xbody" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ticket prices are $15 Adult/Senior, and $13 Children/Student (ages 18 & under). Great for
ages 13 and up. Please reserve tickets at </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/youth-shows/meangirls" target="_blank"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">beckcenter.org</span></a><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">,
call 216.521.2540 or simply stop by Beck Center Customer Service in person.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/youth-shows/meangirls" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;letter-spacing:.1pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Mean
Girls The High School Version</span></i></b></a><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">’s<b><i><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> </span></i></b></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">book
was by written by Tina Fey, music by Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Neil Benjamin. This live theater piece is based on the Paramount Pictures film <i>Mean Girls.
</i>Directed by Sarah Clare with </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Music Direction by Heidi Herczeg<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt">, and Choreography by Emma Victoria Clark, this production
runs March 15-24, 2024 in the Senney Theater. There is a </span><span style="letter-spacing:.8pt">Student Matinee on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.</span><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt"> Curtain times for the remainder are
</span><span style="letter-spacing:.8pt">Friday and Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday performances at 3:00 p.m.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.8pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Audiences follow Cady Heron as she navigates the transition from growing up on an African savanna, to the wild and vicious ways of suburban
Illinois. She takes on The Plastics, led by the vicious and beautiful Regina George. But, when Cady and her friends devise a "Revenge Party" to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.8pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">This show is produced with special arrangement by Music Theatre International (MTI).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Entire season lineup available at: </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/youth-theater" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">beckcenter.org/youth-theater.</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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