[Capdist-announce] RPI Players Presents 1776 - OPENS FRIDAY!

[Samantha Malanche]

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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
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> CONTACT:
> RPI Players
> RPI Union
> 110 8th Street
> Troy, NY 12180
> Phone: 518-276-6503
> Fax: 518-276-6920
> rpi-players at rpi.edu
> www.players.rpi.edu
>
> Troy, NY - The RPI Players present their spring musical:
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> 1776
> Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards
> Book by Peter Stone
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> Directed by Samantha Malanche
> Musical Direction by Franklin R. Leavitt
> Choreography by Abby Todd
>
> Performances will be held in the RPI Playhouse on 15th Street in  
> Troy on
> April 29, 30 and May 5, 6 & 7 at 8 pm &
> May 1 at 2 pm
>
> $10 General Admission
> $8 Students and Seniors
> $5 with an RPI ID
>
> The RPI Players invite you to attend their 274th show and the final  
> production of their 81st season, 1776. During an unbearably hot and  
> seemingly endless summer in Philadelphia, the Second Continental  
> Congress stumbles their way through arguments, political alliances  
> and bouts of homesickness toward the completion of a Declaration of  
> Independence that almost wasn't signed. This Tony Award-winning
> musical comedy about a rag-tag group of men and their journey in  
> birthing a new nation is sure to provoke laughter, sympathy and  
> moral ambiguity.
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> The RPI Players is a student-run community theater. While RPI  
> students are the primary participants in the organization, auditions  
> and production roles are open  to all community members.
>
> To reserve tickets, visit http://players.union.rpi.edu/Shows/showPage.php?id=5
> or
> Call our box office at 518-276-6503
>
> Visit our Facebook event at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=217374611609528