For Immediate Release
December 21, 2009

Vpstart Crow has scheduled one additional performance of A Christmas Carol to make up for the performances cancelled by the inclement weather last weekend.

The performance will be Tuesday evening at 8:00 PM. All tickets for the cancelled Saturday and Sunday performances will be honored.

Please join us to celebrate this White Christmas Present.

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.