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<div class="MsoTitle">FORT SALEM HOSTS<o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>THREE BROADWAY
PERFORMERS<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<h1>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></h1>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></u></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">SALEM – This upcoming weekend,
June 27-29, for three shows only, Fort Salem Theater welcomes three Broadway
singer/dancers in a revue performance of the great songs of Broadway/Hollywood
songwriter, Johnny Mercer. <i>Echoing Back: The Songs of Johnny Mercer</i><span style="font-style:normal"> musically highlights the career of one of the
twentieth centuries most prolific songwriters, most of whose Broadway and film
songs became standards in the Great American Songbook.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Singing “Moon River,” “Days of
Wine and Roses,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “That Old Black Magic,” and “One
for My Baby,” Juliet Ewing, Bambi Jones, and Joyce Nolen are joined by Fort
Salem’s artistic director, Jay Kerr, on vocals and piano, and Granville music instructor
Tim Patrick, on bass.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">“These gals all have impeccable
performing credentials,” boasts Kerr, who has traveled several times to
Manhattan to rehearse with the ladies. “They’ve done the show before with my
pianist/arranger friend, David Hancock Turner, with whom I worked when he was a
student at Princeton. I’m filling in for him. These women are all top-notch
dancers and singers. Juliet was in <i>Footloose,</i><span style="font-style:
normal"> Bambi in </span><i>Nunsense,</i><span style="font-style:normal"> and
Joyce did </span><i>Stop the World, I Want to Get Off </i><span style="font-style:normal">with Sammy Davis. I get to sing a song with these
pros as my backup girls. Sweet!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The show was conceived and is
directed by Karin Baker, who appeared on Broadway in <i>George M! </i><span style="font-style:normal">and </span><i>Coco, </i><span style="font-style:normal">and
was Gower Champion’s tap dance consultant and assistant on the original
Broadway production of </span><i>42<sup>nd</sup> Street.</i><span style="font-style:normal"> Ms. Baker spent years creating songwriter revues at
Trinity School in New York City, where she first presented </span><i>The Melody
Lingers On</i><span style="font-style:normal">, based on the music and lyrics
of Irving Berlin, which has since been presented in theaters and schools
throughout the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p>
<div class="MsoBodyText">Friday evening Salem’s Downtown Business Area boasts
stores and galleries open until 8 PM. The Fort is advertising a 50% discount
for Friday’s performance, to encourage folks who do not have family graduating
from high school that evening to come to the theater rather than observing
graduation from the streets. “We stop short of telling parents to let the kids
get the diplomas and meet them back at the house,” says Kerr. “We still have
two more performances they can come to.”<o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><i>Echoing
Back: The Songs of Johnny Mercer </i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Times;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">plays Friday and Saturday at 8 PM,
with a Sunday matinee at 2 PM. For more information, visit the Fort Salem
website (<a href="http://fortsalemtheater.com">fortsalemtheater.com</a>) or call the box office at (518) 854-9200.</span><!--EndFragment--> <br><div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; "><div>Jay Kerr</div><div>Artistic Director</div><div>Fort Salem Theater</div><div><a href="mailto:jay@fortsalemtheater.com">jay@fortsalemtheater.com</a></div><div>(518) 854-9200</div></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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