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<b><font color="#cc3300" size="4">“THE EXPLORERS CLUB”, A
FREE-WHEELING FARCE AND WITTY SPOOF,<br>OPENS JANUARY 29 AT
SCHENECTADY CIVIC PLAYERS</font><br><br>SCHENECTADY – The Explorers
Club, a free-wheeling farce and witty spoof of bold Victorian
adventurers by Nell Benjamin, and directed by Mark Stephens, opens
Friday, January 29 and runs through Sunday, February 7 at Schenectady
Civic Players’ 12 South Church Street playhouse in Schenectady’s
historic Stockade district.<br><br>The location is London, 1879. The
prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants
to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible. True, this female
candidate (played by Cristine M. Loffredo) is brilliant, beautiful,
and has discovered a legendary Lost City, but the decision to let in a
woman could shake the very foundation of the British Empire. Grab your
safety goggles for some very mad science involving deadly cobras,
irate Irishmen and the occasional airship. Time Out NY calls it “two
parts Blackadder, a dash of Shaw, shake wildly, and garnish with fresh
feminist ire.”<br><br><font color="#330099">The Civic Player’s
cast features Jeff Lurie (as Lucius Fretwell), Cristine M. Loffredo
(as Phyllida Spotte-Hume/Countess Glamorgan), Nick Muscatiello (as
Harry Percy), Joel A. Bramer (as Luigi), Jason Biszick (as Professor
Cope), Phil Sheehan (as Professor Sloane), Tom Heckert (as Professor
Walling), Michael Schaefer (as Sir Bernard Humphries), and Randy
McConnach (as Beebe/Irish Assassin).</font><br><br><font color="#ff3300">The
Explorers Club runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday (January 29, 30 and
31) and Wednesday through Sunday (February 3 through 7). Wednesday and
Thursday curtains are at 7:30 pm; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm; and
Sundays are matinees only at 2:30 pm. </font></b>
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<b><font color="#cc3300" size="4">Tickets,$17. Order tickets on-line
at www.civicplayers.org Or call the Playhouse 382-2081.<br></font><br>#
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