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your calendars!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tickets now on
sale!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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May 6</SPAN></I></B><B><U><SPAN
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style="FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT color=#993366><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5>Schenectady Civic Players proudly
present…<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="Z-INDEX: 0; POSITION: absolute; MARGIN: 13px auto auto 0px; WIDTH: 697px; HEIGHT: 116px; mso-ignore: vglayout"><EM><FONT
size=3 face="Arial Black"></FONT></EM></SPAN><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"><FONT size=3>Joseph Kesselring’s hilarious
farce & American theater classic . . .</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'"></SPAN><EM><FONT color=#0000ff size=7
face=Creepy> -- Arsenic and Old
Lace --</FONT></EM></P>
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Directed by Randy McConnach</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></I></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <FONT
size=1>Debbie May<I> (as Abby Brewster), </I>Robert L. Hegeman<I> (Teddy
Brewster), </I>Cynthia Welch<I> (Martha
Brewster)<o:p></o:p></I></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: purple"><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">
Beware the Brewster sisters of Brooklyn, New York, especially if you’re a lonely
older bachelor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Meet charming and
innocent sisters Martha (played by Cynthia Welch) and Abby Brewster (played by
Debbie May,) a dangerous dynamic due with a chilling sense of “charity,” along
with an outrageously eclectic supporting cast in a magnificently macabre and
madcap masterpiece.</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText3><I><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple"></SPAN></I><STRONG><EM><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple"> Making up the rest of Schenectady
Civic’s eclectic cast are Richard Cross, Sara Fitizzi, Robert L. Hegeman, Daniel
B. Martin, Richard Messina, Richard Michael Roe, John J. Quinan, Michael Rzepka,
Michael Shaefer, Phil Sheehan, Matthew Surman and Don Wheeler.</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></EM></STRONG></P>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <EM><FONT
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</FONT></EM></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT face="Arial Black"><FONT size=6><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: red">-- May 6, 7, 8 and 11 thru 15 --</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></EM></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><EM><FONT
face="Arial Black">(WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY at 7:30 pm;<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS at 8
pm;<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SUNDAYS matinees at 2:30
pm)<o:p></o:p></FONT></EM></SPAN></H2>
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align=center><STRONG><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #660033; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=6>at the Schenectady Civic Playhouse
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=1>12 South
Church St. in Schenectady’s historic Stockade
District<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">FOR
TICKETS ($15), call </SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The
Playhouse</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">
(518) 382-2081<o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Or order on-line
24 hrs. a day at</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A
href="http://www.civicplayers.org/"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">www.civicplayers.org</SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></P>
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