For Immediate Release
December 18, 2009

Due to the inclement weather, Vpstart Crow is postponing the performance scheduled for Saturday evening until Sunday evening. There will be two performances on Sunday, one at 3:00 PM and the other at 7:00 PM. Tickets for Saturday's performance will be honored at the Sunday performances.

Saturday, December 19 Performance - Postponed - Tickets honored on Sunday

Sunday, December 20 Performances at 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM.

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.

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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.