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<BODY id=compText> <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Does the term “American History” summon mind-numbingly dull filmstrips with droning voices retelling our country’s founding and development with less snap than a wet, tattered American flag?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Spotlight Players will be offering something different to break up the winter doldrums.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B><I><FONT color=darkred>The</FONT> <FONT color=blue>Complete</FONT> <FONT color=darkred>History</FONT> <FONT color=blue>of</FONT> <FONT color=darkred>America,</FONT> <FONT color=blue>Abridged</FONT></I></B> is not your middle school history class!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Created by Reed Martin, Adam Long and Austin Tichenor, who call themselves the Reduced Shakespeare Company, this show is history<I> Rocky and Bullwinkle</I>-style -- fractured, with no desire to get it right and a concerted effort to offend.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Purist historians might bristle, but everybody else will roar.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>This hilarious production stars Adam Coons, Michael A. McDermott and Eric Shovah playing America’s most well-known historical figures recounting American history at lightening speed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From Columbus to Clinton, these three talented actors will put a new spin on how America, as we know it, came to be.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">The Complete History of America, Abridged</SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> will be performed February 1 and 2 at 8pm, and Sunday February 3 at 2pm in the Columbia High School auditorium, Luther Rd. in East Greenbush.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Tickets are $12 – call 477-8330 for<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> reservations or further information.</SPAN></SPAN></BODY>