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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Courier New">Performance Announcement:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Pirates of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Penzance</st1:place></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Show dates July 11-14 at 8 pm</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Spotlight Players Community Theater, </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Tickets:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$10.00, Group rates available.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Call for more information: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tickets Number: 330-5190</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Spotlight Players Community Theater, of East Greenbush, is delighted to announce the performances of their summer musical spectacle, The Pirates of Penzance, July 11-14, at 8pm, at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Columbia</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">High School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">92 Luther Road, East</st1:Street> <st1:City w:st="on">Greenbush</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NY</st1:State>, <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">12061</st1:PostalCode></st1:address>. Much like newer Broadway versions of Sweeney Todd and Company, this show will not have an off-stage orchestra, but will instead feature characters that will play all of the instruments on stage.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The production is co-directed by East Greenbush resident Michael Mensching, director of the sold out The Full Monty at
Schenectady Light Opera in 2006, and by playwright <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Brendan McDermott</st1:PersonName>, a Columbia High School graduate, and the writer-director of Web and Haunted.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>In the musical, The Pirates of Penzance the young pirate apprentice Frederick is about to be freed from his indentured period.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The honorable Frederick, who was mistakenly apprenticed to the pirates by his partially deaf nursemaid Ruth, has decided to leave the pirate life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now a free man, Frederick leaves for the shore.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Frederick, who has never seen a woman besides Ruth, instantly falls in love with Mabel, one of the daughters of Major General Stanley.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Soon though, the pirates arrive, and want to marry the rest of Major General Stanley’s daughters.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Major General Stanley enlists the help of the police to stop the pirates.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Frederick</st1:place></st1:City> desires to help Major General Stanley and the police to help protect the ladies, but soon he discovers that due to a technicality, he is still bound by duty to remain an apprentice to the pirates.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All is well in the end when it is discovered that the pirates have noble blood and would in fact be suitable husbands for Major General Stanley’s daughters.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>“We have been very fortunate to have some of the most talented musical talent in Capital District join this production,” said Mensching.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“We have some of the best voices you are going to hear on stage, including several members of the Mendelssohn Chorus. And, the fact that some of these actor/singers are the best piano players in the local musical theater community helps.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The production features several actors/singers/musicians, much like the TONY award winning staging of the recent revivals of Sweeny Todd and Company.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In those productions, the actors actually play the instruments on stage as part of a seamless production that integrates all of the aspects of the musical onstage.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“It is really quite a daring
and innovative staging approach, and gives us the opportunity to take a lot of risks,” said McDermott.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“ I think it’s the kind of musical where people can come, on a date, by themselves, as a family and enjoy the kind of British humor that was the basis for Monty Python.”</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Spotlight Players is funded through the auspices of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">East</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Greenbush</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School District</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, and provides family entertainment for the entire community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“This is a family-friendly classic that is sure to entertain and delight all ages.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The affordable price of $10 dollars makes this a very good bargain for live entertainment for a family night out,” said Ferne Dutkin, president of Spotlight.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>CONTACT: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Michael McDermott</st1:PersonName>, 518 669 5414, irishmike518@yahoo.com</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Spotlight Players Community Theater, Inc. is the provider of quality community sponsored musical and dramatic productions in <st1:place w:st="on">East Greenbush</st1:place>.</FONT></P></DIV></div></body></html>