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State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College Digital Commons at Buffalo State Studio Arena Programs Studio Arena 3-26-1970 Lemon Sky Studio Arena Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/saprograms Recommended Citation Studio Arena, "Lemon Sky" (1970). Studio Arena Programs. 52. http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/saprograms/52 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Studio Arena at Digital Commons at Buffalo tS ate. It has been accepted for inclusion in Studio Arena Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons at Buffalo tS ate. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STUDIO A r e n a THEATRE =JlllllM!!!lill!lii!!!liI!liiijlilN!ll!niiN!i!!IIII!!l!i!li!!il!!lilill!!!!‘~ STJDIO arena THEATRE O c f o r / e s s EXECUTIVE PRODUCER NEAL DU SROCK ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF = 752 Eimvvood Avenue = William Firestone, Executive Assistant Kathryn Kingdon, Assistant Director = Buffalo, New York = Gail Johnson, Executive Secretary Blossom Cohan, Director of Publicity 1 est 1925 SS5-0205 | William E, Lurie, Business Manager Kate Selover, Publicity ^ll!llllllllllllllllllllllllll|l!llllllillllllll|l!lll!lllllllll|||||||||||||||i Eleanor Albertson, Maintenance Secretary Marion Copeland, Theatre Party Representative Patricia Jo Nagel, Garda Miller. Box Office Managers Frank Szaba, House Manager Warren Enters, Associate Director Jane Keeler, Director Emeritus Norma J. Sandler, Theatre School Director PRODUCTION STAFF Steve Andersen, Stage Manager Gary Mueller, Assistant Stage Manager Peter J. Gill, Electrician Richard Mueller, Property Master Pearl Smith, Wardrobe Supervisor Jerry Brace, Technical Director Perry Lee, Assistant Technical Director Steve Sobell, Technician Marie Rogers, Wardrobe Mistress BOARD OF TRUSTEES Welles V. Moot, Jr., President Franz T. Stone, Chairman Harold M. Esty, Jr., Vice-President Ira G. Ross, Vice-President Charles J. Hahn, Secretary Mrs. Charles E. Mott, Associate Secretary Paul Bauer, Treasurer Seymour B. Abeles Mrs. G.erald D. Albertson 643 Main Street William R. Bailey COM E GROW YVITII US Robert R. Barrett (V2 Block from Theatre) Peter B. Flickinger ;md The besl solution for contemporary, individual William H. Harder Mrs. Lauren B. Hitchcock 1551 Niagara Falls Boulevard and corporate banking needs is a Frederic K. Houston OPEN TILL 4 A.M./ SNACK OR MEAL moderate size bank, large enough io handle Stephen Kellogg Irving Levick almost any transaction, compact John R. Lytle Frederic P. Norton enough to give each one close and Mrs. Clarence Obletz c o n t i n u i n g p o r s o n a ! a 11 e n t i o n . Roger W. Putnam, Jr. Calvin G. Rand Mrs. David L, Robb A member of The Bank of New York Company, Inc. Allen D. Sapp Gerstman ii Gerstman Robert O. Swados Member FDIC, A Full Service Bank George L. Wessell Main & Swan — INSURANCE — HONORARY TRUSTEES Father James M. Demske Dr. E. K. Fretwell, Jr. Dr. Joseph Manch 1318 GENESEE BUILDING N i a g a r a William L. Marcy, Jr. Martin Meyerson h t m f c r Lars Potter Buffalo, N.Y. 14202 853-4440 B a n k o f Mayor Frank A. Sedita Mrs. Roger W. Putnam, Jr., N e t w o r k President, Women’s Committee Notes On The Playwright Neal Du Brock, Executive Producer LAN FORD WILSON was born in Lebanon, Missouri, in 1937 and grew up in Ozark, Missouri. He began writing plays while presents attending the University of Chicago. He was first produced in New York at the Cafe Gino, and had ten subsequent productions there and six at the Cafe LaMama. His first off-Broadway production was HOME FREE at the Cherry Lane, which has been sold to motion pictures. by THIS IS THE RILL SPEAKING was done in the SIX FROM LA MAMA series at the Martinique. His play THE RIMERS OF Lanford Wilson ELDRITCH won the Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award in 1967 fur "Bos'. off- Broadway Play.” Hill and Wang have D in 'd ad by published two volumes of his plays, BALM IN Gil.FAD AND OTHI'R PLAYS. In Warren Enters England, he has been published by Methuen. His short piece, WANDERING, was part of COLLISION COURSE, pre with sented off-Broadway in 1968. THE GINGHAM DOG opened at the Washington Bonnie Bartlett / Kathryn Baumann Theater Club in Washington, D.C., in 1968 and was presented on Broadway in the Spring of 1969, directed by Alan Schneider and starring Diana Sands and: Charles Durning / Lee McCain / George Grizzard. It has been published by Hill 'and Wang. He has just completed the screenplay for ONE ARM, by Shawn McGill / Frank Martinez III Tennessee Williams, and has also written the libretto for the opera version of Tennessee Williams’ SUMMER AND SMOKE. He is currently working on two Christopher Walken new plays fo r the theatre, and has been commissioned by Granada Television in England to write a play for them. Mr. Wilson is a member of the New Dramatists Committee, The Playwrights Unit of the Scenery and Costumes Designed by Lighting Designed by Actors Studio, received a Rockefeller Grant in 1967, and an ABC Fellowship in StophcMi J. J IlmhIrickson David Zierk Motion Picture Writing at Yale for 1968. His plays have been produced in England, Scotland, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Australia, Canada, France and Yugoslavia. 46th PRODUCTION, MARCH 26-APRIL Z6, 1970 BOX OFFICE TELEPHONE (716) 856-5650 Wilson, Talented New Writer Characters His "Lemon Sky' for Studio Alan .................................................................................. Christopher Walken By ANTHONY BANNON (Reprinted from the Buffalo Evening News, March /, 1970) “ I'm a writer and I tend to take it very seriously.” — Lanford Wilson. Douglas .................................................................................. Charles Durning ‘‘Lanford Wilson is a brilliant playwright." Newsweek Magazine. “ But I hope that doesn’t make me a fanatic. Because I don't like fanatics at all.” — More from Lanford Wilson, speaking the other day on the phone to Buffalo. Ronnie (his wife) ................................................................... Bonnie Bartlett It was 4 o’clock, half an hour after Mr. Wils.on had gotten out of bed, having played scrabble until 6 in the morning with the girl across the Green wich Village street. Penny .................................................................................. Kathryn Baumann ■■Really,1’ he continued, "I’m one of hayseed ordinariness, glossed over with sloppy theatricality” and he was speaking of his way of life rather than his art, of course. Lanford Wilson (born April 13, 1937, in Lebanon, Mo.) is one of America's C a ro l..................................................................................................Lee McCain most talented new playwrights: Winner of the Drama Desk Vernon Rice Award and well praised for “The Rimers of Eldritch” and "Gingham Dog,” among other works. Jerry .............................................................................................Shawn McGil The Studio Arena Theater will premiere a three-act Wilson play, "Lemon Sky,” starting March 26. It will be a busy month, March, not at all one of “ordinariness,” for Lanford Wilson. Around the same time the Studio presents "Lemon Sky,” the Jack ..................................................................................... Frank Martinez Washington Theater Club will premiere another Wilson play. So that means Mr. Wilson will be commuting between Washington and Buffalo during re hearsals, forgetting the scrabble game in Greenwich Village. 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