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<div style="text-align:center;"><SPAN style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:14pt;">A Different Kind of Valentine's Day Cabaret at Saratoga's Caffe Lena</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">Love isn’t always hearts and flowers. In the cabaret-show universe, it can be a wayward barber, cynical status seekers, a romantic cannibal, an angry Argentinian, a confused convolvulus, and even an overzealous cabbie. <br /><br />From the theater ballads of Irving Berlin and Stephen Sondheim to music-hall songs by Noël Coward and Flanders & Swann (with at least one stop along the way by Tom Lehrer), this Valentine’s Day program is a funny, fast-paced tribute to the art of the not-quite love song.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">The performance takes place at 8 PM Friday, February 14 at Caffè Lena, 47 Phila Street, Saratoga Springs, NY. Tickets are $15 ($12 for members, $7.50 for students and kids) and may be reserved online at <A href="http://www.caffelena.org/events-calendar/event-detail/?id=a0FG000000LhW4QMAV">caffelena.org</A> or by calling 1-800-838-3006. Video clips can be seen at <A href="https://www.facebook.com/Songstoamuse">facebook.com/songstoamuse</A>.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><I>About the Artists:</I></SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><B>Byron Nilsson</B> is an actor and singer who appeared in many productions with the NYS Theatre Institute, in shows ranging from <I>1776 </I>and <I>Miracle on 34th Street </I>to <I>Macbeth</I>. He has appeared with the Syracuse Opera, Albany Pro Musica, and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. His play <I>Mr. Sensitivity </I>was featured at the 2009 New York Fringe Festival. As a writer, he contributes regularly to Albany, New York's Metroland magazine, for which he has reviewed restaurants and covered arts events for many years.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><B>Amy Prothro</B> just finished an acclaimed run in the Irving Berlin-themed cabaret show <I>I Love a Piano </I>at the Farmers Alley Theatre in Michigan. She has performed in theatres from coast to coast including: The Kennedy Center, Jupiter Theatre, The Ordway Center, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, The Barnstormers Theatre, Virginia Repertory Theatre, Fullerton CLO, Farmers Alley Theatre, Tidewater Regional Repertory, Welk Resort Theatre, Majestic Theater and Hermosa Beach Playhouse. Playing such diverse roles as Catherine (Proof ), Mistress Quickly (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Theda Blau (It Had to Be You), Agnes Gooch (Mame), Jacqueline de Severac (Murder on the Nile), and Polly Baker (Crazy For You). Amy received her MFA from The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University and BFA from The Boston Conservatory. </SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><B>Malcolm Kogut</B> is skilled at playing and writing both popular and sacred music, and, in the latter realm, won the National Association of Pastoral Musicians Musician-of-the-Year Award. He has two CDs of original works to his credit, along with many published piano and choral books. He has played in the pit for shows with all the major Capital Region theater groups; he's also in demand when visiting performers pass through. When away from the keyboard, he loves exploring the nooks and crannies of the Adirondack mountains.</SPAN></div>
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