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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a name="OLE_LINK5"></a><a
name="OLE_LINK4"><b><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
26.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Snow Queen opens at Steamer No.10<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></a></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Dates: </span></font></b> <span
lang=EN>Dec. 12, 13, 19, 20 at 3:pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'> Dec. 13, 20 at 11:am;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'> Dec. 30 at 10:am & 1:pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Tickets: </span></font></b> $12
Gen. Adm. - advance purchase discount<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Location: </span></font></b> Steamer
No.10 Theater - 500 Western <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Albany</st1:City></st1:place>
– 12203<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Info</span></font></b></st1:PersonName><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>:</span></b> 518.438.5503 <a
href="http://www.steamer10theatre.org/">www.steamer10theatre.org</a> <a
href="mailto:art4kids@nycap.rr.com">art4kids@nycap.rr.com</a> <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hans Christian Anderson’s
tale of how the love of a child can melt the coldest heart.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Snow
Queen<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Snow Queen is a wonderfully complex combination of human actors,
puppets, and a set made of boxes. The adaptability of the set allows the story
to travel from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Copenhagen</st1:City></st1:place>
to the Snow Queen’s Palace at the North Pole visiting numerous lands
along the way. The actors interact with a variety of puppets that allow the
story’s numerous characters – animal, flowers, and the Sun - to
come to life and tell their portion of the story. The actors also use simple
costumes pieces to become other animals and people; including the River, Crow,
the Lap Woman and the Finn Woman.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Snow Queen is adapted from the Hans Christian Anderson
tale by Steamer No.10 Theatre’s artistic director <st1:PersonName w:st="on"><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Ric</st1:PersonName> Chesser</st1:PersonName> and directed by <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">E<st1:PersonName w:st="on">ric</st1:PersonName> Rose</st1:PersonName>.
The roles of the Snow Queen, Gerda and the Sprite are played by Nicole Plyem, Kai
is played by <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Robert <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Ric</st1:PersonName>e</st1:PersonName>,
along with six other roles. The Narrator and remaining five roles are played by
Suzie Dunn.</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Snow
Queen Synopsis<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The narrator relates the tale of the Snow Queen in seven stories. It
begins with the tale of a Sprite who creates a Magic Mirror that distorts
everything it reflects causing the observer to see only the worst of the world;
and when it shatters the particles are spread across the world. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Kai and Gerda, two children living in adjoining garrets high above <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Copenhagen</st1:City></st1:place>, hear the tale
of the Snow Queen who rules snow flakes and her Palace far to the North. Later
Kai sees the Snow Queen out his window and she seems to beckon to him. When
they are playing Kai gets a speck of the Magic Mirror in his eye and it travels
to his heart which becomes cold and freezes. That winter Kai is playing with
his sled, grabbing on to sleighs and carts and being pulled through town. He
grabs onto an all white sleigh and is drawn out of town where the Snow Queen
invites him into her sleigh, kisses him to protect him from the cold, and make
him forget, then takes him to her Palace. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Gerda goes in search of her friend Kai, has many adventures and is
assisted by numerous animals and people. Eventually she arrives at the Snow
Queen’s Palace where she finds Kai. Her tears melt the ice in his heart
and dissolve the speck of Mirror, freeing him and restoring him to life. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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