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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=7 face="Script MT Bold"><EM> -- Opening
Tomorrow (Friday) !!! --</EM></FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>By
By TOM STOPPARD<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></I></B><B><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Directed
by Chris Foster</SPAN></I></B><B><I><SPAN
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</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">searingly insightful, brutally honest,
wonderfully comic, endearingly romantic adult comedy<SPAN
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face="Times New Roman"><B><I><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN
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</SPAN>May
<FONT size=5>-- May 4, 5 & 6 and May 9 through 13
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size=1>(</FONT></SPAN><FONT size=1>Fridays & Saturdays at 8 pm,
Wednesday & Thursday 7:30 pm, Sundays matinees only at 2:30
pm)</FONT></SPAN></I></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=2>Tom Stoppard, the Oscar-winning writer of the movie <B><I>Shakespeare in
Love,</I></B> creates an adult comedy full of the pain and the folly of
love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN class=description>A two
time Tony Award winner, this intellectually and emotionally engaging backstage
comedy portrays an articulate and romantically idealistic playwright whose
second wife is trying to merge worthy causes with her art as an actress. She has
met a "political prisoner" named Brodie who has been jailed for radical
thuggery, and who has written an inept play about how property is theft and how
the state stifles the rights of the
individual.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><STRONG><FONT size=1
face="Arial Black">Making up the cast of Schenectady Civic Players and
Capital District performers are Judie Bouchard, Anna Kroup, Amy Lane, Ben
McCauley, Duncan Morrison, Pat Rooney and Patrick White. <FONT
color=#0000ff>(NOTE: Open attachment to see cast
photos)</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P>
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</SPAN><FONT color=#ff0000>at the Schenectady Civic Playhouse
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>12 South Church St. in
Schenectady’s historic Stockade District (518)
382-2081<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></H2>
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TICKETS ($15). <U><FONT size=2>Purchase in person</FONT></U> at Proctors
Box Office, 432 State Street. <U><FONT size=2>Order and charge by
phone</FONT></U> at </SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
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346-6204.</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
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