Kurt Beattie Carlo Scandiuzzi Artistic Director Executive Director

ACT – A Contemporary Theatre presents

Opening Night September 16, 2010

Seasonal support provided by:

A Contemporary Theatre Eulalie Bloedel Schneider Foundation Artists Fund

The 2010 Mainstage Season is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend Buster Alvord.

THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS By David Rambo Drawn from the life and letters of Ann Landers With the cooperation of

Originally produced by The Old Globe, San Diego, California

Jack O’Brien: Artistic Director Louis G. Spisto: Executive Director THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. in New York.

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I stumbled on Ann Landers’ column one day when I was an eleven-year-old kid on Long Island, leafing through our daily TABLE OF CONTENTS Newsday. Up until then I’d never cared much about anything in the paper other than Yankee box scores, but she hooked me A-1 Title Page with a bizarre letter. A woman wrote in about how much she A-2 Welcome to ACT loved her husband, but for one alarming habit of his: when he drank martinis, his preferred cocktail, he couldn’t help taking A-3 The Company out the olives, shaking the booze off, then stuffing them up his nose. Dear Ann, what am A-4 Up Next I to do about this, the woman wanted to know. I remember laughing so hard I fell on the floor. I don’t remember Ann’s reply. I think, on occasion, she just printed a letter for her A-5 Director’s Note reader’s amusement. But from that moment on, I became a fan, in spite of myself. A-6 Program Notes In the 1950s and early 1960, when newspapers were still numerous and Now, in an age of doctoral A-8 Who’s Who distinct, Ann Landers was a cultural degrees, accredited gurus, A-10 Giving Message presence. She was the popular member and oceans of information, of a group of middlebrow press A-11 Ongoing Support, Special Thanks, personalities and columnists like her Landers might seem quaint, Special Fund Donors sister Abby and the longshoreman and even under qualified. philosopher Eric Hoffer. They were A-12 Community Partners & Patrons the everyday psychologists and advisors sprung from the post-war populist heart of American society, ministering to an outwardly conformist and inwardly crazy America. A-13 ACT Circle of Donors Their wisdom had the ring of common sense, of intelligence tempered by life. Despite A-16 Board of Trustees, their commercial obligation to entertain, the tone of their ruinations had a democratic ACT Staff inclination, an unspecialized hard won decency, like a good country doctor who’s heard it all. Unlike showbiz and gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Walter Winchell, who were fundamentally contemptible, a coven of gleeful destroyers and liars in the political service of media thugs like William Randolph Hearst, Landers and her cohorts aimed to help people. Now, in an age of doctoral degrees, accredited gurus, and oceans of information, Landers might seem quaint, and even under qualified. But I think we should remember that she respected and took seriously the real pain and confusion of her readers in the letters they wrote. She considered her answers with the aid of experts and did her best with wit and care to help them. What I love most about David Rambo’s “The Lady With All The Answers” is its heart. It captures the struggle of a throaty, optimistic soul like Ann Landers trying to answer the difficult challenges of her life and ours with the truth. And, with a bit of humor when appropriate, how she somehow made us feel that we were capable of changing ourselves and the world for the better.

Kurt Beattie Artistic Director

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Cast

Julie Briskman Eppie Lederer ("Ann Landers")

Production Team

Valerie Curtis-Newton Director Martin Christoffel Scenic Designer Melanie Taylor Burgess Costume Designer Robert Aguilar Lighting Designer Brendan Patrick Hogan Sound Designer To come/holding space Assistant Lighting Designer JR Welden Stage Manager Verhanika Wood Production Assistant

Setting: The study of a luxurious high-rise apartment in , late June 1975

Running Time: Two hours. There will be one intermission.

The Actors and Stage Managers in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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(L to R) Anne Allgood in Das Barbecü, photo by Chris Bennion; Mark Siano & The Freedom Dancers, photo by Stephen Vest; Judd Hirsch in Below the Belt, photo by Chris Bennion; Cast of A Glimmer of Hope or Skin or Light, photo by Kevin Kauer; Nick Garrison in NEW VOICES, photo by Victoria Lahti.

As we continue the 2010 season of Mainstage plays, we want Seattle Dance Project, Mark Siano & The Freedom Dancers, to recognize, salute, and THANK the people that make Young Playwrights Festival, Moisture Festival, New Century this possible: YOU, our audience. Your attendance at ACT Theatre Company, KT Niehoff / Lingo Dance, Short Stories represents an important gesture of support, for which we are Live, Pinter Fortnightly, and RAWSTOCK to name just a few. very grateful. 2010 at ACT is unique in that through our Our vision of becoming Seattle's downtown center for the arts Central Heating Lab initiative, we have grown our mission is certainly becoming a reality. And how is this all possible? beyond Mainstage plays, to also produce for our community a Because of YOU, our dear audience. And for that, we are vibrant variety of live entertainment spanning theatre, music, forever grateful. film, dance, visual art, and more. Since early January, our stages THANK YOU for supporting us and our vision for have lit up with partner artists such as 14/48, Shadow & Light, contemporary arts!

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A gleefully gruesome comedy from the Oscar-nominated author of In Bruges.

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A Brief History Of by Stephanie Advice Columns Timm

Advice columns can be tracked as far He afterwards went to Eton, and he affirms back as 1693, when the first British that the whippings there were not half so women’s magazine, The Ladies’ Mercury, severe as thos of his governess. promised to answer questions relating —Yours obediently, M. Walker to love with the “zeal and softness becoming to the sex.” According to It was also popular for general magazines Guardian reporter Kathryn Hughes, during the Victorian period to run all the readers were instructed to send competitions with prizes for the best letter. in details of baffling instances of male The grandmother of all advice behavior like prospective fiancés taking columnists was Dorothy Dix, a too long to propose, to a coffee house pseudonym used by Elizabeth Meriwether near St. Paul’s and wait for “the Ladies Gilmer, the daughter of a well-connected Society” there to crack the code, or at Southern family who had come to least come up with some bracing advice Tennessee from Virginia who was largely Eppie Lederer visiting wounded soldiers in Viet Nam. about not bothering. While most of the topics contained in advice columns were about women’s One out of four people in this country issues, they were popular in men’s periodicals as well. The Athenian Mercury is mentally unbalanced. Think of your targeted ordinary people from middle three closest friends; if they seem ok, and lower classes. Complaints in the magazine about a “Knot of Apprentices then you're the one. misbehaving with a servant maid of no good reputation” were frequent. The Sir, —On this subject, and in reply to the self-educated. Gilmer’s first columns magazine warned apprentices that such mother who complains of her untoward were amusing, literate social satire, many behavior risked “scandal and danger” to boy, I would advise her to read the remarks geared to early women’s issues. They their reputations, and the termination of of a young gentleman in the supplemental were an instant success, and readers indenture could be ruinous to a young conversazione of the Englishwoman’s began writing to Dorothy Dix for advice. man prospects, and were a threat to his Domestic Magazine for April last, and then In 1917 a national syndicate picked “Fame, Estate, Body and ‘tis to be fear’d she will find a cure for her troublesome son. up Dorothy Dix. By the 1930s she was Soul and all.” After innumerable whippings had failed, the receiving 400 to 500 letters a day. Even In the Victorian period, some governess took it into her head to dress him after achieving wealth and fame, she magazines printed entire letters that in his sister’s clothes, which, though the feat answered each of her letters personally. offered opinion rather than advice, was accomplished after much kicking and Beatrice Fairfax, another name though for the most part, the practice plunging, had the desired effect; and he tells inextricably linked to the lovelorn genre, was to print only the answers to readers’ us that whenever he transgressed or failed was Marie Manning who originated letters, leaving out the question, or only in his lesson, if his governess rang the bell, her column in 1898. Both Dix and referencing it in the letter. This letter and desired the housemaid to bring some Fairfax initially responded to traditional from 1870 was taken from The Lady’s petticoats, &c,, he either begged pardon for his romantic/social problems of the times, Own Paper: offences or set to diligently to learn his lesson. but soon dealt with more essential

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One of the last pictures taken of Eppie Lederer, 2001 everybody everything before you photo by Chris Walker. go to bed. Some Landers Lore No. of years Esther Lederer wrote the Ann Landers column: 47 ------Date of Esther’s first Ann Landers quandaries as well. Dix and Fairfax provided column: practical, often progressive advice— October 16, 1955 counseling women to seek education, ------and to independently prepare to fend for Date of Esther’s last Ann Landers themselves in a man’s world. Gilmer often column: spoke of her personal difficulties as the July 27, 2002 basis for her empathy for the problems of (posthumous publication) others. Both the Dix and Fairfax columns ------quickly became national institutions, their No. of newspapers running Ann mutual success also due to their appearance Landers’ column at the height of in an era when the depersonalization of Top: Eppie staying in shape to deal with the daily mail. Above: its popularity: Chicago Sun-Times file photo by Gene Pesek. 1200 urban life was weakening the handling of personal and emotional problems within their boyfriends. Picking up the rapidly ------the domestic environment. Help was changing thread of public morality in the No. of readers at the height of its now being sought outside the family via 1950s were a pair of advice columnists popularity: the printed word, and the Dix/Fairfax who together cornered a national market 90 million columns were an impartial source of that they still dominated into the 1990s, ------advice for many women of the period. Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, No. of letters received per day by Ann Landers: In the 1890s, readers questioned the pseudonyms used by twin sisters Esther propriety of receiving gentlemen callers and Pauline Lederer respectively. 2,000 (on average) ------without a chaperone. In the 1930s it Advice columns now are increasingly No. of letters read by Esther had become women’s primary concern. online. While printed advice columns are Lederer personally: By the 1940s girls were wondering if it still widely read, modern readers can click 200 to 500 per day was acceptable to take a vacation with on Dear Mrs. Web, which sits online.

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Executive Underwriters ArtsFund/Mary Helen Moore Diversity Fund Emerald City Shoe Repairs & Northgate Cobblers* ($100,000+) Ballinger Family Foundation Epicenter Fitness* ArtsFund Columbia Crest Winery* Fales Foundation Trust Continental Airlines* Horizons Foundation Season Sponsors Elizabeth George Foundation Market Place Salon & Day Spa* ($50,000 - $99,999) Harvest Foundation Marquis Jet Partners A Contemporary Theatre Foundation National Endowment for the Arts MCSB Inc. Eulalie Bloedel Schneider Artists Fund The Seattle Foundation Moby’s Restaurant* Nesholm Family Foundation Washington Athletic Club* Pacific Place Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, City of Seattle The Peg & Rick Young Foundation Pike Brewing Company* The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Wyman Youth Trust Taproot Foundation* Stage Partners ($5,000 - $9,999) Media Partners Producing Partners Apulent Catering and Special Events Company* KING-FM ($25,000 - $49,999) Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation 4Culture The Daily Grill* Amazon.Com Inc. Joanie’s Catering* *Support provided through in-kind contributions The Boeing Company Responza* Getty Images* Tony’s Events & Catering* John Graham Foundation Tuxedos & Tennis Shoes* JPMorgan Chase Foundation The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Benefactors PONCHO ($1,000 - $4,999) Washington State Arts Commission AC/R Services, LLC* Beim Foundation Performance Partners Bill Speidel Enterprises ($10,000 - $24,999) City Hardware* Alaskan Copper & Brass Company Consolidated Restaurants, Inc.*

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ACT would like to recognize and thank all of the individuals who have made contributions to A Contemporary Theatre. The Circle of Donors is invaluable to the success of our mission, ensuring a nurturing environment for the celebration and development of contemporary theatre. Without the generous support of the individuals in the ACT Circle, none of this would be possible.

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$100,000+ Jane & Peter Barrett Melissa Haumerson Kellanne Henry Mrs. Nancy Alvord Patricia Daniels & Bill Kuhn Lura & David Kerschner Stephanie M. Hilbert Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Allan & Nora Davis Josef Krebs Stephen B. Hilbert Gladys Rubinstein Jane & David R. Davis Steven & Anne Lipner Fran & Walter Holder Eulalie M. & Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi James Degel & Jeanne Berwick, Jeff Manzolli & Sing Bing Kang Gary & Parul Houlahan Eulalie Bloedel Schneider Berwick Degel Family Foundation Mark & Susan Minerich David B. Johnson Anonymous Gordon W. (Skip) & Midge Gilbert Alan Rabinowitz Lew & Sonia Johnson Fund Gilman Family Foundation Jacquelyn Rardin Robert Johnston $50,000 – $99,999 Thomas & Christine Griesa William Saltzstein Lisa & Norman Judah David & Joyce Veterane James & Barbara Heavey Michael C. Shannon Deborah Killinger John Hill M. Darrel & Barbara Sharrard Greg Kucera & Larry Yocom $35,000 – $49,999 Jane W. & James A. Lyons Debra Sinick & David Ballenger Joanne M. Kuhns Kurt Beattie & Marianne Owen Marcella McCaffray David E. & Catherine E. Skinner Petra Franklin Lahaie Louise J. & Samuel B. McKinney Robert & Shirley Stewart George & Linda Lamb $20,000 – $34,999 Kristin Olson Kim Stindt & Mark Heilala Jim & Michele Lechner Chap & Eve Alvord Jo Anne & Donald Rosen Annette Toutonghi & Bruce Oberg Laura Lundgren Laurie Besteman & Jack Lauderbaugh Jean Viereck & Robert Leventhal Jim & Kathy Tune Alice Mailloux Paul & Paula Butzi Clifford & Karen Webster Chris & Tory Visser Theodore & Mary Ann Mandelkorn Linda & Brad Fowler Robert & Marjory Willkens RenŽe Salant & Sam Weis Andrew & Cynthia Marin Chuck Sitkin Anonymous (2) Jane & Leonard Yerkes Bill & Holly Marklyn Anonymous Barbara Martyn $3,500 – $4,999 $1,000 – $1,999 Pamela Burns McCabe $15,000 – $19,999 Alaskan Copper Works Bill & Janette Adamucci Ann McCurdy & Frank Lawler Becky & Jack Benaroya Daniel Alexander John Akin & Mary Stevens Brenda & Thomas Melang Jean Burch Falls Susan & Lauren Anstead Kendall & Sonia Baker Michael & Sarajane Milder Michael & Leslie Lebeau Ed & Betty Bottler Victoria Bennett Gloria & David Moses Katherine & Douglass Raff Colin Chapman Jon & Bobbe Bridge Dayle Moss & David Brown Richard Hesik & Barbara Johns Nancy Buckland & John Scearce Pam Mulkern $12,500 – $14,999 Katherine Ann Janeway & H.S. Dr. William Calvin & Dr. Katherine Bill & Mary Ann Mundy Allan & Anne Affleck Wright III Graubard Mardi Newman Linda & Ted Johnson Kelly Miller & Ruthann Stolk Diana & Charles Carey James Nichols Douglas & Nancy Norberg Nadine & John Murray John & Arlene Carpenter Chris & B.J. Ohlweiler Linda & George Ojemann Dr. Arnie & Judy Ness Ronald & Leila Cathcart David Osgood Marcia & Klaus Zech Grace Nordhoff & Jonathan Beard Donald Cavanaugh Valerie Payne The Nordhoff Family D.T. Challinor Douglas James Perry $10,000 – $12,499 Brooks & Suzanne Ragen Ms. Cindy Chin Mary Pigott & Roger Giesecke Linda Brown & Larry True H. Stewart Ross Linda & Randy Clark Bill & Beth Pitt Betsy & Charles Fitzgerald Eric and Margaret Rothchild Kathy Clark Pamela & Gilbert Powers Gregory & Diane Lind Barry & Colleen Scovel Judy & Bob Cline Ann Ramsay-Jenkins & William M. Herman & Faye Sarkowsky Carol & Ron Sperling Sue & Robert Collett Jenkins Elaine Spencer & Dennis Forsyth Charles & Benita Staadecker Theodore & Patricia Collins Craig & Melissa Reese Don & Colleen Stevens Katherine Diamond Ken Sanchez & Larry Anderson $2,000 – $3,499 Janice Dilworth & Greg Denton Barbara Sando $7,500 – $9,999 Kermit & Danna Anderson Lori Eickelberg Pat and Bud Schafer William & Sandy Justen Melinda & Walter Andrews Joanne R. Euster Sean Shanahan & Kathleen McGill McKibben/Merner Family Heidi Beck Jeannie Falls Stacya & David Silverman Foundation Peter & Fran Bigelow Jim & Gretchen Faulstich Anne & Langdon Simons John Siegler & Alexandra Read, MD Mr. & Mrs. Walt W. Braithwaite Gary H. Ferguson Ronald Spaulding Brian Turner & Susan Hoffman Corinne A. Campbell Deborah Fialkow Sam & Janet Stanley David & Shirley Urdal Steven & Judith Clifford Carl & Jan Fisher Dana M. Stout Vijay & Sita Vashee Grad & Susan Conn Martin Gibbins & Paula Crockett Craig & Patty Tall Anonymous Kathy & Don DeCaprio Boyd & Ann Givan Tamzen Talman Darrel & Nancy Dochow Mr. & Mrs. Richard Greaves Taucher Family Foundation $5,000 – $7,499 Betty M. Ederer Joel & Angie Gregory Andrew Telesca Richard & Constance Albrecht Eliza Flug-Coburn Libby Hanna & Don Fleming Mark & Arlene Tibergien Stewart Ballinger Richard & Mary Beth Gemperle Lawrence & Hylton Hard Sergei Tschernisch Joan & Larry Barokas Natalie Gendler Daniel & Whitney Hazzard Eric Weber

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ACT BOARD OF Dan Alexander Benita M. Staadecker Jane W. Lyons Esther Schoenfeld TRUSTEES Joan D. Barokas Rob G. Stewart Louise J. McKinney Marvel Stewart* Lance Becker Kristen J. Summersby Gloria A. Moses Philip M. Condit Laura P. Besteman Sita Vashee Nadine H. Murray A CONTEMPORARY Chairman Kyle Branam Chris K. Visser Douglas E. Norberg THEATRE Brian Turner Paul Butzi Clifford Webster Kristin G. Olson FOUNDATION President Ron J. Cathcart Dr. Sheree Wen Donald B. Paterson Kelly Miller Philip M. Condit Colin Chapman Scott F. Wilson Eric Pettigrew Vice President, Development Chairman Grad Conn Kyoko Matsumoto Wright Pamela Powers Kermit Anderson Chair Katherine Diamond Katherine L. Raff Chuck Sitkin ACT ADVISORY President Charles Fitzgerald Brooks G. Ragen John C. Siegler Vice President at Large, Board Whitney V. Hazzard COUNCIL Catherine Roach Development Chair Vice President Richard Hesik Sheena R. Aebig Jo Anne Rosen Alan J. Rappoport Katherine L. Raff Stephanie Hilbert Dr. Ellsworth C. Alvord, Jr.* Sam Rubinstein* Vice President, Audience Secretary John E. Jacobsen II Aubrey Davis David E. Skinner Development Chair Catherine Roach William J. Justen Daniel D. Ederer Walter Walkinshaw* Daniel B. Hazzard Treasurer Petra Franklin Lahaie Jean Burch Falls Dr. Robert Willkens* Vice President, Facilities Chair Brad Fowler Lauren Mikov Jeannie M. Falls David E. Wyman, Jr. Ingrid Sarapuu Lucinda P. Richmond Judy J Ness John H. Faris Jane H. Yerkes Treasurer Brian Turner Dr. George Ojemann Carolyn H. Grinstein Elaine Spencer Shannyn Roberts Sara Comings Hoppin EMERITUS *In memoriam Secretary Barry B. Scovel C. David Hughbanks COUNCIL Brad Fowler Sean Shanahan Jonathan D. Klein Richard C. Clotfelter Past President John C. Siegler Keith Larson* P. Cameron DeVore*

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