The award winning MLS Theatre Company is opening its 2017-2018 season with an amazing work of historical drama, Radium Girls. November 9th, 10th, 11th, and 17th & 18th Time: 7:00 pm All performances are held in the Marion L. Steele High School cafetorium 450 Washington Street, Amherst, Ohio 44001 Due to the subject matter of the play, it is not recommended for young children. Tickets are all General Admission: $5 for thespians, senior citizens and students Opening night is Student Night: only $4.00! $10 for general admission. Box Office Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Advanced Tickets can be purchased https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3123977 <https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3123977>Due to the subject matter, children 5 and under are not permitted at the performance. Priority Reserved Seating available Front Row: additional $5 and Second Row: additional $3 These comfortable seats are the only reserved seating in the theatre For Information, Contact:Joann Perkins, kinler@gmail.com “Bring a Can to Move a Can” at every performance: For every can good brought in you will receive 1 raffle ticket to win 2 Front Row seats for that night’s performance! All food will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank By 1918, radium was a miracle cure and Marie Curie was a national celebrity. Radium was put in everything, from a ‘health elixir’ of radium dissolved in water called RadiThor, to a mixture of paint to make luminous watches and clocks that glowed in the dark. These watches were being used by the soldiers of WWI and their demand was high. Young teenage girls were hired to paint these watches for the Radium Corporation in Orange, New Jersey. These girls became town celebrities, everyone wanted to be them. They glowed like ghosts as they walked home at night from the radium dust on their clothes and skin. Like china painters, they used their mouths to get a fine point on their brushes, which caused them to ingest some of the radium. The company told them radium would make them look younger. After a few years, suddenly they all started having issues with their mouths, and anemia. One by one they began to become deathly ill and die painful deaths. Visits to dentists and doctors did not help, no one could discover the cause. Radium Girls tells the story of how these amazing girls fought day in and day out to find out why they were sick, and then when radiation poisoning was finally named the culprit, their fight turned against the company that not only failed to protect them, but had repeatedly covered up the dangerous effects of radium. The girls’ brave fight against the big corporation that denied all responsibility for their illness had a significant impact on the formulation of occupational disease <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_disease> labor law <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_law>. The MLS Theatre Company is a student-run organization. Every student involved in the productions is between the ages 14-18 and students take care of every aspect of the theatre productions. With a director, tech director, and assistant sponsor supervising, students are given leadership positions in order to design and build the sets, lights, sound, props, costumes, makeup, programs, publicity, and programs for the theatre. Students also run the Box Office and front of house. Each year, three shows are put on for the public. This year's season includes Radium Girls, student directed Winter Festival of Plays and the spring musical, Happy Days. Like "MLS Theatre Company, Troupe 1422" on Facebook and follow @MLSTheatre on Twitter and Instagram for more information and future showtimes. For more information: please contact Valerie Farschman, Drama Director at valerie_farschman@amherstk12.org or 440-225-8718 ****************************************************************** Imagination is the strongest nation on earth. Remember :o) You don't stop laughing because you grow old, You grow old because you stop laughing! Marion L Steele High School theatre program is a recipient of a 2016 and a 2017 Playhouse Square Dazzle Award presented by Patricia and John Chapman!! Playhouse Square Dazzle Award!: http://bit.ly/1HhIH6e <http://bit.ly/1HhIH6e> ******************************************************************