<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-8ed63a98-d3b9-3c76-ec6f-bc2043e048e7" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">For Immediate Release</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">10/17/16</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Contact: Michael Burns</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Tel: (518) 248-7430</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="mailto:michaelburns@mopco.org" class="">michaelburns@mopco.org</a></span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The Mop & Bucket Co. Headline: Opening Night at New Theatre</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Schenectady’s Arts District Expands as the Mopco Improv Theatre Opens its Doors</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">SCHENECTADY,
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The Mopco Improv Theatre celebrates its opening with an evening of fast-paced, interactive entertainment, courtesy of the Capital Region's premier improv troupe, The Mop & Bucket Company.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">After nine years as resident improv company at Proctors, The Mop & Bucket Improv Company moves to their new home on 10 N. Jay Street in Schenectady. The historic firehouse in the heart of Little Italy underwent a complete renovation over the summer. Now a 70-seat theatre with a cafe and a multipurpose corporate office space, The Mopco will offer an expanded roster of standard and new programing, including new show formats, adult and youth classes, special events, and guest performers--not just the Mop & Bucket Co. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The Mopco Improv Theatre’s opening night performance will showcase two time winner of the Times Union Best of the Capital Region “best local comedian or comedy troupe,” The Mop & Bucket Company. With nothing more than a suggested word or line of dialogue, performers will create scenes, songs, stories, and plays on-the-spot, collaboratively, with no script or pre-planning. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">“Each show is a one-of-a-kind event co-created with the audience,” stated artistic director Michael Burns. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Doors open at 7:30pm on Saturday October 22, 2016, and the show begins at 8:00pm. Light refreshments will be available. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">For more information on upcoming shows, available classes, and the opening night, please contact Michael Burns, or visit the Mopco website: <a href="http://www.mopco.org" class="">www.mopco.org</a>.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">###</span></span><div class=""><font face="Arial" size="3" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" size="3" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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