PATCHOGUE, NY – NOVEMBER 22, 2005 — The Clare Rose Playhouse, a community theatre located on the Suffolk campus of St. Joseph’s College, will continue its 2005-06 season with the children’s holiday classic, A-Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Musical. The show will run on December 3 and 4.

This A.A. Milne story, set to music by James W. Rodgers, features Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends helping Eeyore have a very merry Christmas. Milne’s wit and special understanding of young people make this play one of his most successful. The show is appropriate for very young children and audience participation is encouraged. All tickets for this show are priced at $6. Show times are 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. For more information, please call the box office at 631-654-0199.

The Clare Rose Playhouse, which serves as a major teaching facility for the College’s theatre courses, is accessible via the South Service Road of Sunrise Highway, just east of Exit 52 (Waverly Avenue) in Patchogue, on the northeast corner of the campus of St. Joseph’s College. A former cottage converted in 1985 through the generosity and guidance of the man for whom it is named, the Playhouse serves as a major teaching facility for the college’s theater courses and is a training ground for young actors. The Playhouse is the site of community theater productions of musicals, dramas, comedies, cabaret acts, musical performances, dance troupes and comedians.

About St. Joseph's College

St. Joseph’s College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Long Island, the College offers degrees in over 21 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs through its School of Arts and Sciences and its School of Adult and Professional Education. Graduate degrees are also offered including an Executive MBA, a Master of Science in Management, a Master of Science Degree with a Major in Nursing, a Master of Arts in Literacy/Cognition and a Master of Arts in Infant/Toddler Early Childhood Special Education.