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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Contact: Stephen Sanborn, The Two Of Us Productions<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> (day) 518 387 4155 (home) 518 329 6293<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>______________________________________________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoBodyText><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoBodyText><b><span style='color:black'>WHAT:</span></b><span style='color:black'> </span><b><i>The Lady And The Clarinet, </i></b>by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Michael Cristofer, an exploration of <span style='color:black'>aspects of love from a tantalizingly abstract perspective. Cristofer doesn’t provide any easy answers concerning questions of the heart, but instead demonstrates love’s ability to manipulate human behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.6pt;mso-para-margin-top:.8gd;text-align:justify'><b><span style='color:black'>WHEN: </span></b><span style='color:black'> Feb. 17<sup>th</sup> through 26<sup>th</sup>, 2023. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and Sunday matinees are at 3pm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;margin-top:2.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'>Fridays - Feb. 17<sup>th</sup> & 24<sup>th</sup> <sup> </sup>at 7:30pm<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;margin-top:2.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'>Saturdays - Feb. 18<sup>th</sup> & 25<sup>th</sup> at 7:30pm<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;margin-top:2.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'>Sundays - Feb. 19<sup>th</sup> & 26<sup>th</sup> at 3pm<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='color:black'>WHERE:</span></b><span style='color:black'> The comfortable & intimate Theater at the Copake Grange is located at 628 Empire Road in Copake NY, right down the street from the Clock Tower Pub in the center of town. Masking is recommended for the safety of all. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.6pt;mso-para-margin-top:.8gd;text-align:justify'><b><span style='color:black'>TICKETS:</span></b><span style='color:black'> Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for Students & Seniors. Please call for Group Rates. For advance reservations visit <a href="http://www.thetwoofusproductions.org/"><span style='color:black'>www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org</span></a> or call 518-329-6293. Make your reservations early for the best seats on the date you want! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><h1><span style='color:black'>The Lady And The Clarinet … <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span style='color:black'> presented by The Two Of Us Productions<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>The Two Of Us Productions, the award winning theater company based in Copake NY, is pleased to open their 2023 season of live in-person theater with <b><i>The Lady And The Clarinet, </i></b>by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Michael Cristofer. Performances are Feb. 17<sup>th</sup>, 18<sup>th</sup> 19<sup>th</sup>, & the following weekend of February 24<sup>th</sup>, 25<sup>th</sup> & 26<sup>th</sup> 2023. Presented in collaboration with The Copake Grange in the intimate theater at the historic Grange Hall in Copake NY., you don't want to miss this exploration of <span style='color:black'>aspects of love from a tantalizingly abstract perspective. Cristofer doesn’t provide any easy answers concerning questions of the heart, but instead demonstrates love’s ability to manipulate human behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span style='color:#1E1915;background:white'>The scene is the cozy New York apartment of <i>Luba</i>, a woman successful in business but less fortunate in her private life. She is awaiting a male dinner guest and has engaged a clarinet player to provide romantic background music. Falling into a reverie, Luba begins to reminisce about the three men who have meant the most to her in her life, which leads to a series of intriguing flashbacks. In the first Luba is sixteen and meets <i>Paul</i>, a young employee of her father's, who initiates her into the mysteries of sex, but bores her otherwise. Then comes <i>Jack</i>, a high-powered television producer who is successful, exciting and funny, but also married to someone else. Finally there is <i>George</i>, a rich widower who keeps the house for her but looks elsewhere for love. As the play ends the unanswered question is whether her new dinner companion will, at last, be "the man" she has been searching for, but as the nonspeaking <i>clarinet player</i> so eloquently suggests with smiles, shrugs & instrumental trills, the prospects (</span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1E1915;background:white'>measured by Luba’s past</span></i><span style='color:#1E1915;background:white'>) are not too promising.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoTitle style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><i>The Lady And The Clarinet Player </i><span style='font-weight:normal'>features Constance Lopez as <i>Luba</i>, Eamon Martin as <i>Paul</i>, Bill Solley as <i>Jack</i>, John Leinung as <i>George</i>), and Stephen Sanborn on clarinet. The Theater at the Copake Grange’s historic grange hall provides <span style='color:black'>an intimate performance space that brings the audience into this engrossing romantic comedy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Performances of <b><i>The Lady And The Clarinet </i></b>are 2 weekends only – Feb. 17<sup>th</sup>, 18<sup>th</sup> & 19<sup>th</sup>, and the following weekend of Feb. 24<sup>th</sup>, 25<sup>th</sup> & 26<sup>th</sup>, 2023. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and Sunday matinees are at 3pm. The comfortable & intimate Theater at the Copake Grange is located at 628 Empire Road in Copake NY, right down the street from the Clock Tower Pub in the center of town. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for Students & Seniors. Please call for Group Rates. For advance reservations visit <a href="http://www.thetwoofusproductions.org/"><span style='color:black'>www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org</span></a> or call 518-329-6293. Make your reservations early for the best seats on the date you want! Masking is recommended for the safety of all. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText style='margin-bottom:4.0pt'><span style='color:black'>The Two Of Us Productions is well known throughout the Hudson Valley for presenting quality theater, both musicals and dramas. Their recent productions of <i>A Shayna Maidel, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, Chicago, Les Miserables, next to normal, Deathtrap, Lend Me A Tenor </i>and <i>Jesus Christ Superstar</i> have all been recognized by the Theatre Association of NYS with multiple awards, including <i>outstanding work by the company, outstanding performance by the orchestra, excellence in direction, </i>and many <i>cast ensemble</i> & <i>individual actor awards</i>.<i> </i> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify'><span style='color:black'>These performances are supported with funds from <i>Hudson River Bank & Trust Foundation</i>, <i>Stewart’s Shops</i>, <i>Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation</i>, <i>Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation</i>, <i>Greylock Federal Credit Union</i>, and <i>Key Bank Foundation</i>. This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Columbia County Council on the Arts dba. CREATE Council for the Arts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>