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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=7 face="Script MT Bold"><EM> <FONT
color=#ff00ff> -- Final Week!!! <FONT
size=5><STRONG>(Wednesday thru Sunday)
--</STRONG></FONT></FONT></EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT
size=3> "Playwright Tom
Stoppard . . . poses interesting questions in a stunning production at
SCP. See it."</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT size=3>
PAUL LAMAR <FONT size=2>THEATER
REVIEW</FONT> </FONT><FONT size=2><EM>for the Sunday
Gazette</EM></FONT></STRONG><EM> </EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5><FONT size=3><EM><FONT color=#ff00ff
face="Script MT Bold"> </FONT></EM></FONT></FONT><FONT
size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT
face="Arial Black"><EM><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><IMG
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SCHENECTADY CIVIC PLAYERS proudly
presents . . .</EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><EM></EM></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
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<FONT color=#000000
size=4> Tom
Stoppard's</FONT></o:p></EM></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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Directed by Chris Foster</FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=3><B><I><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">a</SPAN></I></B></FONT><B><I><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=3>searingly insightful, brutally honest,
w</FONT></SPAN></I></B><B><I><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT size=3>onderfully
comic, endearingly romantic adult
comedy </FONT></SPAN></I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><B><I><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"></SPAN></I></B></FONT> </P>
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face="Times New Roman"><B><I><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"></SPAN></I></B></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B><I><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt"><FONT
size=7> </FONT><FONT size=6>-- May 9, 10, 11, 12 &13
--<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></I></B></FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B><I><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></I></B></FONT><B><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>( Wednesday & Thursday at 7:30 pm,
Friday & Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday matinee only at 2:30
pm)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P></SPAN></SPAN></I></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; COLOR: #660033; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></I></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=1>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></DIV>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </SPAN><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=#ff00ff>(NOTE: Open attachment to see cast photos of Amy Lane, Pat Rooney
and Patrick White.)</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
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">(518)
346-6204.</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
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