For Immediate Release
December 10, 2009

As part of Vpstart Crow's community outreach and focus on making live theater accessible to all, we will be offering a special performance of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol featuring an American Sign Language interpreter for the hearing impaired. This special one-time presentation will take place Saturday, December 12th 2009 at 8:00 pm at the Cramer Center in Old Town Manassas.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Join Ebeneezer Scrooge on a whirlwind journey through the past, present and future as he learns what's most important in life. This adaptation with original work by Stephen J. Cramer features a huge cast of talented Manassas area performers and staff of all ages from 5 to still 35. The Old Town Manassas tradition is celebrating it's 11th straight year in the Cramer Center.

SEE PICTURES FROM THE SHOW

Performances are 12/4/2009 through 12/20/2009, Friday and Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 3.

The performances will be at:
The Cramer Center
9008 Center Street
Manassas, VA

For more information, please contact Mr.Okouchi at info@vpstartcrow.com or (800) 660-8580, or visit www.vpstartcrow.com.

ABOUT VPSTART CROW PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Founded in 1994, Vpstart Crow Productions, Inc. (pronounced “upstart”) is a non-Equity and non-profit professional theatre company dedicated to performing the works of William Shakespeare and other theatre classics. Vpstart Crow’s mission is to produce live theatre as a vital, accessible and exciting part of community life. Employing a resident company of local professional actors and artists of the highest caliber, Vpstart Crow is dedicated to breaking down the barriers between audience and actors in a performance style that is thought-provoking and altogether vpstartling.

The term “vpstart crow” comes from one of Shakespeare’s rival English playwrights, Robert Greene. In his 1592 pamphlet, Groats-Worth Of Wit Bought With A Million Of Repentance, Greene criticizes Shakespeare: “… for there is an vpstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tigers hart wrapt in a players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum (“Johnny-do-it-all” or “Jack-of-all-trades”), is in his owne conceit the onely ‘Shake-scene’ in a countrey.” In fact, Vpstart Crow spells its name with a “v” rather than a “u” in reference to the way the English language was written in Shakespeare’s day.