<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Spotlight Players is launching their 2008-09 season with a revival of last season’s immensely popular <B><I>The Complete History of America, Abridged</I></B> .<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Created by three writers, 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>Humorless historians might bristle, and a few right-wingers will get their hackles up over not-so-loving references to Ronald Reagan and Jesse Helms. Everybody else will roar.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Think of the story of the founding of Jamestown told as a riotous white-boy rap. Think of the witch-hunting Puritans of Massachusetts with a pastor named the Rev. Feral Orwell, who leads his youthful parishioners in games of Pin the Blame on the Warlocks and Hangman. Think of Lewis and Clark as a vaudeville team, with jokes so lame that they ought to be passing out crutches at the door.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A large cast of historical characters is waiting to entertain on Spotlight’s stage.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Spotlight’s Winter 2008 production of <B><I>The Complete History of America, Abridged</I></B> played to enthusiastic, crowded houses with rave response, due in large part to its skilled cast.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eric Shovah, Adam Coons and Michael A. McDermott return for this production, and they’re promising even more laughs that before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“To watch these three actors play a wide range of characters is a great part of the fun”, says Spotlight President, Ferne Dutkin.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“They work incredibly well together! " </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><I><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The Complete History of America, Abridged</SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> will be performed October 10<SUP>th</SUP> and 11<SUP>th</SUP> at 8pm in the Columbia High School auditorium, Luther Rd. in East Greenbush.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Tickets are $12 – call 477-8330 for<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> reservations or further information.</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P>Michael McDermott<BR>(518) 669-5414</P>
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