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<p class=MsoNormal><span
style='color:black'>October 10, 2008</span><span
style='color:black'><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black'>For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><b><u><span style='font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-variant:small-caps;
color:black'>The Spitfire Grill<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>October 31, November 1, 2, 7, 8, 9.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Friday/ Saturday @ 8 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sunday matinee at 2 PM</span></b><b><u><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-variant:
small-caps;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><b><i><span style='font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='color:black'>Clifton Park: <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>Not So
Common Players</span> opens <i>The Spitfire Grill </i>October 31st at the
Shenendehowa HS East Little Theater<span style='font-variant:small-caps'>. </span></span>Performances
continue November 1, 2, 7, 8, 9. Friday and Saturday @ 8 PM, Sunday matinee at
2 PM. Free musical theatre sponsored by the Town of Clifton Park.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='color:black'> </span><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>The
Spitfire Grill</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> is an
American </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theater"
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theater"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:black'>musical</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>
with music and book by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Valcq"
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Valcq"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>James Valcq</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>
and lyrics and book by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Alley"
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Alley"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Fred Alley</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>,
based on the film by </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_David_Zlotoff"
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_David_Zlotoff"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:black'>Lee David Zlotoff</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>. The </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-Broadway"
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-Broadway"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>Off-Broadway</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>
production by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playwrights_Horizons"
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playwrights_Horizons"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Playwrights Horizons</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> began previews at the Duke Theatre on
42nd Street on September 7. It won the Richard Rodgers Production Award, administered
by </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters"
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>The American Academy of Arts and Letters</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>.</span><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>A feisty parolee sets out on a journey to
follow her dreams, based on a picture from an old travel book she saw in
prison, to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at
Hannah's Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers for the only
eatery in the depressed town, so newcomer Percy suggests to Hannah that she
raffle it off. Entry fees are one hundred dollars and the person who writes the
best essay about Gilead and the Grill wins the grill and the two-story
house attached. Soon, mail is arriving by the wheelbarrow full and
things are definitely cookin' at the Spitfire Grill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.4pt'><span style='color:black'>Produced by Sally Burke, directed
by Don Countermine with musical direction by Vince Bonafede, <b><i>The Spitfire
Grill</i></b>, a modern folk tale set in the fictional town of Gilead,
Wisconsin gets its title from the town’s "only place to
eat", the Spitfire Grill. Soon after <b>Hannah (Barb Mahlman)</b>
grudgingly gives <b>Percy (Alana Sangiacomo) </b>a job at the Grill, Hannah is
injured and is forced to depend on Percy to keep the Spitfire
open. Percy’s cooking leaves much to be desired and she is
assisted in the kitchen by <b>Shelby (Laura Tortorici)</b>. Percy,
thwarted by Shelby’s husband <b>Caleb (Dennis Chmura)</b>, courted
quietly by <strong>parole officer Joe (Matt Streifert)</strong> and
gossiped about by the townspeople, led by the irascible <b>Effy (Debbie May)</b>
by story’s end, all the characters have learned many of life's
lessons and achieved “freedom from their self-imposed
imprisonment,” which becomes the play’s resolution. There is also a
<b>“visitor” played by Bill Depew. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.4pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Critique:</span></u><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> In </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Magazine"
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Magazine"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:black'>New York Magazine</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:black'>, John Simon wrote, “It is not often that material moves me
to tears, but this was one of those occasions. <i>The Spitfire Grill</i> has
the heart and soul that your Producers and Full Monty’s cannot begin to
approach. What even in normal times would be a joy is, in these troubled ones,
sheer nourishment.” He later included the show in his “Best of
2001” list. Other critics also commented on the show’s poignancy
vis-à-vis the </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11%2C_2001_attacks"
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_attacks"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>September 11, 2001 attacks</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>. “If after the events of recent
weeks you need any reason at all to embrace life again, the musical you've been
waiting for has arrived. <i>The Spitfire Grill</i> is one of the most heartfelt
musicals of recent years, its homespun charms as inviting as a warm winter
blanket” wrote Matthew Murray reviewing the show for <u>Talkin’
Broadway.</u></span><b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='color:black'>For more information, contact the <b>Sally Burke, 877-5648;
Pat O’Donnell @ 371-6681.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='color:black'>L/R Top: Debbie May, Laura Tortorici, Bill Depew, Alana
Sangiacomo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='color:black'>Bottom: Dennis Chmura, Barb Mahlman, Matt
Streifert<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='color:black'>At </span></b><b><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;
color:black'>The Spitfire Grill<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='color:black'><img border=0 width=497 height=373 id="Picture_x0020_1"
src="cid:image001.jpg@01C92AD6.9ACDDB40" alt=PA060138.JPG></span><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='color:black'><img border=0 width=354 height=153 id="Picture_x0020_3"
src="cid:image002.jpg@01C92AD6.9ACDDB40" alt="spitfire%20top%20sm.jpg"></span><span
style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><b><u><span style='font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-variant:small-caps;
color:black'>The Spitfire Grill<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>October 31, November 1, 2, 7, 8, 9.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Friday/ Saturday @ 8 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sunday matinee at 2 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Shenendehowa HS East Little Theatre Free</span></b><b><u><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-variant:
small-caps;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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