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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Spotlight Players Community Theater, Inc. announces auditions for their summer musical, the </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Producers Joanne Peal and Jonathan Janssen proudly announce the continuation of Spotlight Players Community Theater’s tradition of big, beautiful summer musicals with the 2001 Tony-winning hit show The Producers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael C. Mensching directs a show that is so outrageously entertaining, it will leave you exhausted and wanting more. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With the inspired assistance of Choreographer Heather D’Arcy and veteran Music Director Vince Bonafede, Mensching plans to put on a show that is a hilarious tribute to every show there is, good and bad, about putting on a show.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Producer/Director Mel <A href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/brooks_m.html"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Brooks</SPAN></A> took a real gamble when he adapted his 1968 cult film satire to the musical stage. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The story is outrageous: flop-covered theatrical producer Max Bialystock (Eric Shovah) realizes the road to his financial redemption lies in producing the worst musical ever written, raising more than 1,000 percent of the capital, and pocketing it all when the show is a one-night-only disaster. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Aided and abetted by a timid accountant named Leo Bloom (Jerry Gretzinger), Bialystock options the rights to the worst possible play they can find:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A salute to the Third Reich by
one Franz Liebkind (Greg Dodds), a pigeon-keeping Nazi, called ''Springtime for Hitler.'' And for the worst of all possible directors? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A theater queen to end all theater queens, the lavender-voiced Roger De Bris (Ken Kasch). <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of course, if the show, by some insane chance, were to become a hit, Bialystock and Bloom would be thrown in jail. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Add to the mix a gorgeous Swedish secretary (Laura Tortorici), a fawning sprite of a personal assistant (Ryan Glynn) and an ensemble of singing and dancing Nazis, and you’ve got the makings of a Mel Brooks comedic masterpiece.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">While Mensching faces a daunting challenge directing the nearly 40-member cast, he shares the greatest burden with fellow Set Designer Michael McDermott.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Designing a workable set is the least of their worries:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Making Columbia High School’s auditorium able to accommodate The Producers’ technically complicated set has proven to be the greater puzzle.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Despite the cavernous size of the stage area, lighting and sound limitations cause problems difficult for even this seasoned team to solve.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Fortunately, Spotlight has assembled a top-notch production team to help bring The Producers to bold, brassy life in a technically difficult environment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mensching is aided by Assistant Director Alexis Makey and Stage Manager Matt Sikora.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Chris Persans is Costume Designer, Ric Bello is Sound Designer and David Malson is Lighting Designer.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Tickets for the show are $15.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For reservations or further information, please call 518-210-9758.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">This initial show of our 2009-2010 seasons will be complimented by the Capital District Community Theater Premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Parade</I> in May 2010, and our summer production of 2010 will be <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Curtains</I>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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