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OPEN AUDITIONS FOR SHAKESPEARE IN THE GROVE 2004

CHESAPEAKE, Va. - (March 12, 2004) - Tidewater Community College will hold auditions for the eighth annual  Shakespeare in the Grove performance of The Taming of the Shrew on March 20. Performers should be
prepared to read from Shakespeare's play.

Auditions are open to anyone and will be held at the TCC Studio Theater on the Chesapeake campus, 148 Cedar Road, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Shakespeare in the Grove series are performed each summer in the outdoor Grove adjacent to the Chesapeake Campus. All performances are free and open to the public. For information contact Ed Jacob at
822-5245.

Tidewater Community College is the second largest of the 23 community colleges in the Commonwealth of Virginia, enrolling more than 34,000 students annually. The 37 th largest in the nation’s 1,600 community-college network, TCC ranks among the 50 fastest-growing large community colleges.   Founded in 1958 as a part of the Virginia Community College System, the college serves the South Hampton Roads region with campuses in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach as well as the TCC Jeanne and George Roper Performing Arts Center in the theater district in downtown Norfolk, the Visual Arts Center in Olde Towne Portsmouth and a regional Advanced Technology Center in Virginia Beach. Forty-three percent of the region’s residents attending a college or university in Virginia last fall were enrolled at TCC.