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<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><font
size=6 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:22.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>Clinton’s Ditch –
Saga of the Erie Canal<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
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src="cid:image001.jpg@01CADFCA.899C4C30"><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman";font-weight:bold'>Dates: </span></font></b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> April
30 at 7:pm -- May 1 at 3:pm & 7:pm -- May 4, 11, 21 at 10:am<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Admission:</span></font></b><font size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> $12
General Admission – advance purchase discount<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Where: </span></font></b><font
size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Steamer No.10 Theatre – <st1:address
w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">500 Western Ave.</st1:Street> <st1:City w:st="on">Albany</st1:City>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">12203</st1:PostalCode></st1:address><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:PersonName
w:st="on"><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Info</span></font></b></st1:PersonName><b><font
size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>:</span></font></b><font
size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> (518)
438-5503 <a
href="mailto:info@steamer10theatre.org">info@steamer10theatre.org</a> <a
href="http://www.steamer10theatre.org/">www.steamer10theatre.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jackie
McGee falls asleep in history class and “wakes up” in a dream to
find <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>her
history teacher leading her through the history of the <st1:place w:st="on">Erie
Canal</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Steamer No.10
Theatre has toured <st1:City w:st="on">Clinton</st1:City>’s Ditch to
schools and theatres across <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">New
York</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
and the region for 14 years since its debut in January of 1997. This
year’s production features a new set as well as new cast members.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Clinton’s
Ditch </span></font></b><font size=3><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>is
an hour-long production with music that brings 200 years of <st1:place w:st="on">Erie
Canal</st1:place> history to life. It covers the need for a canal,
debate over building it, construction, the opening celebration – The
Wedding of the Waters, and life on the canal. The show explores the
waterway that opened the Ame<st1:PersonName w:st="on">ric</st1:PersonName>an
West to trade and settlement, securing <st1:City w:st="on">New York City</st1:City>’s
position as dominate port-of-entry for the East Coast of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> and the
nation’s financial capital.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Cast includes: Suzie
Dunn as the teacher – Mrs. Rose; Nicole Plyem as Jackie McGee; <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Robert Rice</st1:PersonName> as DeWitt <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Clinton</st1:City></st1:place>; Heidi Nathanielsz as Siobhan.
The show is written and directed by <st1:PersonName w:st="on"><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Ric</st1:PersonName> Chesser</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman"'>- 30 -</span></font><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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