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<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">TSC - an original play – with music - celebrating Copake’s
200<sup>th</sup> birthday, YOUR TOWN</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></p>
<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Copake, NY – Local
theater company Taconic Stage Co. (TSC) presents <i>Your Town</i>, a play with music
written to celebrate Copake’s bicentennial in April. The script and lyrics are by TSC Founder and
Producing Artistic Director Carl Ritchie with music by Wayne Moore and Chuck
Pelletier. Music director and pianist is Joe Rose and
costumes are thanks to Kevin Draves. The
light-hearted show has romance, songs and laughs for the whole family.</span></p>
<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 16pt;">This celebration of Copake’s 200</span><sup style="font-family: "New serif", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> anniversary
was inspired by Thornton Wilder’s play, </span><i style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Our Town</i><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 16pt;">, as well as by the
actual minutes from the first town meeting in April 1824. It stars Craig
Addams, Diedre Bollinger, Susan Fullerton, Andrew Joffe and Constance Lopez, as
well as some local luminaries. </span></p>
<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Performances will be held the weekend of April 5<sup>th</sup>
– 7<sup>th</sup> at the historic Copake Grange, 628 Empire Road in Copake,
NY. Sponsored by the town as part of its
200<sup>th</sup> bicentennial celebration, admission is free – but reservations
needed - for all four performances!</span><b><span style="font-family:"Cordia New",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"></span></b></p>
<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Since its founding in
2009, TSC has delighted audiences with shows such as the hilarious, original
send-up of growing older, <i>Senior Moments</i>, a spoof of the local vs.
weekender mentality, <i>The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County</i>
and a celebration of middle-age, <i>I Know I Came in Here for Something…, </i>all
written and directed by Ritchie. Other productions include <i>Private
Lives</i>, <i>The Belle of Amherst, The Last Flapper</i> and <i>A Lady of
Letters</i>, just to name a few.</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></p>
<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Carl Ritchie (script
& lyrics, director) was born in New Brunswick, Canada and began his career
as a child actor. After playing Oliver in a 1000 seat venue in his
hometown, he insisted--at age 11--on moving 1000 miles away to Toronto to
pursue an acting career. Subsequently, after living as a teen in Burma
and graduating from high school in the Himalayas of northern India, he attended
the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Ritchie has acted, written
and directed for theaters worldwide, from Rangoon to Soho. He is the author
of over 20 plays, which have been performed in well over a hundred theatres in
the US, Canada and as far away as New Zealand. He and his husband,
Christopher Grant, have had a home at Copake Lake since the mid 90’s and have
been full-time residents for nearly twenty-five years.</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></p>
<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Performances will be
held at the Copake Grange, 628 Empire Road, Copake, NY, 12516 on Friday and
Saturday, April. 5</span><sup style="font-family: "New serif", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> & 6</span><sup style="font-family: "New serif", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> at 7:00 pm and Saturday
and Sunday, April 6</span><sup style="font-family: "New serif", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> & 7</span><sup style="font-family: "New serif", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> at 2 p.m. Tickets are FREE
but reservations must be made at www.copakegrange.org.</span></p>
<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Although this
production is sponsored by the Town of Copake, Taconic Stage Company has been
sponsored by Herringtons, Inc and Kneller Insurance Agency since Day One. Through
thick and thin they have been by our side and we truly appreciate it. Big thanks, Ed Herrington as well as Kirk
Kneller.</span></p><p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp308c4489MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black">Copake, NY: Taconic
Stage Company presents <i>Your Town</i>, an original bicentennial ‘play with
songs’, written by Carl Ritchie with music by Wayne Moore and Chuck Pelletier
and accompaniment by Joe Rose. It stars Craig Addams, Diedre Bollinger, Susan
Fullerton, Andrew Joffe and Connie Lopez, as well as some local
luminaries. It is directed by TSC
founder and Artistic Director Carl Ritchie. At the Copake Grange, 618
Empire Road, Copake, NY, 12516: Friday
and Saturday, April. 5<sup>th</sup> & 6<sup>th</sup> at 7:00 pm and Saturday
and Sunday, April 6<sup>th</sup> & 7<sup>th</sup> at 2 p.m. Tickets are FREE but reservations must be made
at www.copakegrange.org. </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></p></div><br></div></div></body></html>