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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 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: / 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 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. (C ont’d on P. 20) Synopsis of Scenes

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' i I i* « AND JULIET and Lysander in A MIDSUMMER The NIGHT'S DREAM. Several seasons ago, he toured w m . wrF-iir.R A S tiociA 'i j- s irsjo. as Rosencrantz in Tom Stoppard's play., ROSEN- Company CRANZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Last summer, he w.as a resident m em ber o f the San Diego Shakespeare Festival, where he played Antony in JULIUS CAESAR and. McDuff in When you come Gt.-ni.TCj/ A q Ullfs MACBETH. On Television, Mr. Walken has been 100 S. Elm wood Ave.. B uffalo. N. Y. seen in Hallmark Hal! of Fame's BAREFOOT IN to the theatre- 7 1 G - 8 5 6 - ? 3 5 1 ATHENS, recorded the narration for the CBS special, HISTOIRE D'UN SOLDAT, and, has I appeared on Hawaii Five-O and the N.E.T. Playhouse.

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12 13 I KATHRYN BAUMA'NN PENNY J ERRY Most recently appeared on Broodway in THE has recently completed a run as young Patrick in PENNY WARS directed by Barbara Harris. Prior the Las Vegas production of MAME starring to that-, she was seen as Mary- MacGregor in Susan Hayward. Prior to that he was seen for Onr of Amvricc \ /v vxLargesf Furriers the Broadway production of THE PRIME OF six months in the Broadway production as both r n n MISS JEAN BRODIE. Her pursuit of a theatrical Patrick and Peter, with Janis Paige and. Jane L \J C 1—3 O career has taken her to such regional theatres Morgan. He also played the role of Patrick for UQISDAliE SLDG.4' ^ 403 MAIN ST. as Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland, where ten months with the National Company which FI/TH FLOOR OVER KltlNHANS she appeared in BOY MEETS GIRL and off- starred Celeste Holm. He has appeared as Harlan Broadway in an Equity Library Theatre production in a stock production■ of LIFE WITH FATHER of AS YOU LIKE IT. She has appeared in a starring Tom Ewell. He has appeared in the film Summer Stock production of THE SPIDER'S WEB THE YOUNG RUNAWAYS and in his few- years w.ith Joan Fontaine and has done television (12) managed to tot up fifteen television and commercial work. She received her theatre five radio commercials, one educational film, I t o m training at one of the finest schools in the film dubbing and- guest appearances on T.V. country, the Neighborhood Playhouse. shows. He is currently completing the sixth grade in school and has studied voice for three years, the piano far four and Has recently started lessons on the drums.

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Y. 14202 r Dutch Treat Bar - 7 P.M. — Dinner - 8:30 P.M. o i o J b l © 1™°* The Wednesday Betore feminine footwear Sponsored by the Each Play Opens for information Women's Committee of Studio Arena Theatre All Seats Students and rates ALL PROCEEDS TO GO TO THE THEATRE $2.50 8:30 P.M. $1.50 Reservations: Eleanor Albertson 716 - 853-2752 856-8025 NO ADVANCE RESERVATIONS! SENECA MALL ^ll!inillllll!nilinill!lllllllUni!lllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllU!Ulllllllillllllll!lll!!lil!!!!IIIIUIIIII!!l!!^ 19 WILSON, TALENTED NEW WRITER (Con'Ai irom P. 6) "It's very exciting, but very confusing," he remarked. “It’s a hassle, but a sun hassle. I've been in the doldrums lately, where nothing is happening, Season Ticket Renews/ //m e! not in my career, but in my life. !:or Mr. Wilson, writing generally begins several years before a play is completed. Ideas linger in the back of the mind, swim around there until they Season Ticket Time is just around the corner and Studio Arena The­ bump into one another and make themselves apparent. atre is currently announcing its new schedule of plays for the 1-970- ’When this happens, the young playwright jots his ideas down and tosses them into a big file. "People get used to me,” he laughs, “always carrying a 71 season. That means, of course, it is also Season Ticket Renewal script around with me, jotting down, notes during a conversation." time. May we remind you that with the opening of our next play, Notes on a play "will dribbie in for a couple of years and then one day I'll say: ‘I know what this play is!' And then I can sit down and write the first STOP THE WORLD — I WANT TO GET OFF., the Season Ticket Sale act, maybe in three or four weeks. Then I'll say ‘All right gang, where do we for next year will begin. Next season, which will be S.A.T.’s sixth, go from here?' because by now it is the characters and not the plot that is carrying me." promises to be the most off-beat, exciting season to date, so make "Thun, maybe, I'll write half an act in one night, a part of another act sure you renew your subscription early. the next day. I write as Cezanne painted, a little bit here, a littie bit there . . . no outline. When I’ve got it all down, then I put it together and polish it.” “Lemon Sky." for example, was carried around in his mind “for years On the evening you attend the theatre to see STOP THE WORLD — and years," and finally in 1968 was written down and staged during a summer I WANT TO GET OFF, please remember to bring your season ticket playwrights’ workshop conference at Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theater Founda­ tion in Waterford, Conn. renewal stub along with you, fill it out and leave it at the box office. The play focuses on a young man remembering (through funny-sad con­ This automatically assures you or tickets for all of next season’s versations with the audience and creations which he devises for the stage) his: experience in re-visiting his divorced father and his father's new wife and plays. For further information please call the box office, 856-5650, children. and watch the mails for your Studio Arena brochure which should, be The play treads the thin line suspending an audience’s belief in the illu­ sion of the stage without breaking it. arriving any day now. The play — and Mr. Wilson — reject the avant-garde physical contact with an audience, while still acknowledging the audience’s presence. “I'm interested in exploring the possibilities of theater and not the possibilities of confrontation,” Mr. Wilson notes. "I’m a writer.” “Why? Sam Shepherd (the playwright) said, ‘I didn’t decide it, it’s a mal­ adjustment’ and that's sort of the way it is. But also it is because I can really be honest that way. In school, (University of Chicago) I studied to be a painter and wrote for the hell of it. But I discovered that I had no talent for painting and that writing came easier and better.” Only in the last three years, however, has playwriting been sufficient tor a full-time income. Before that “I worked all the little part-time jobs you have to do when you’re a writer— reservation clerk in the Americana, washing dishes, etc.” But now tilings have changed, “The Rimers of Eldritch” is being produced by regional theaters and colleges and brings in a relatively stable income. Additionally, Mr. Wilson has taken a successful turn as a movie scriptwriter, having just finished a screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ “One Arm.’’ Throughout the success, though, Mr. Wilson has insisted on maintaining touch with “ordinariness.” "If anything,” he laughed, “I am a reverse snob. I tend not to trust in­ tellectuals. I’m very ordinary. I’m trying to live."

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Larkin Abineau Foundation Dr, Bondona Salabari Mernan Foundation, Inc. Bison Liquor Co., Inc. Mrs. J:- Warford Cramer David J. Laub A M & A Company, Inc. Saperston Real Estate Co. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Millonzi John H. Black Company Mrs. David B. Crane Leavers-Frarik, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Scamurra' Buffalo Savings Bank David S. Moss Marvin Block Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Warren B:. Cutting Dr. Alfred Lechner P eter C. Cornell Mr. and Mrs: Robert S. Scheu Alfred M. Saperston John J. Boland III John W. D an fo rth Co. F oundation Irving Lerner Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Schoellkopf IV Mrs. William Dugan Mr. and Mrs. Howard T. Saperston Boss l.irico Lines, Inc. Mrs. Radcliff Dann Mr. and Mrs, Joel N. Lippman Anne S.irie Hubncll Mr, and Mrs. J. Fred Schoellkopf V Mr. and Mrs. Franz Stone Mrs. Henry Bradley Herbert F\ Darling, Inc. Helen Lips Mr. and Mrs. Jos. E. Schuster, Jr. William Marcy, Jr. Western Savings !3;!nk Edward L. B rady II Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Davidson Lisk Savory Corp. William Marcy. Sr. Seneca Steel Service, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brandenburg Davids Couper Lord Marine Midland Trust Company Servotronics, Inc. STAGE MANAGERS B uffalo E lectric Co. Mrs. Frank D.avis Dr. Paul J. Loree Mr. and Mrs. Welles V. Moot Mrs. Augustus H. Shearer $50 to $249 Buffalo Medical Group Charles Deibold III Mrs. W illia m E. Lyle Mr. and: Mrs, Claude S. Shuchter Mr. and Mrs. Welles V. Moot, Jr. Buffalo Optical Co., Inc. Charles H. Diefendorf Mr. and Mrs. John R. Lytle Niagara Foundation for the Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Alford Phillip:Shuman & Sons, Inc. Louis M. Bunis Dipsori; Theatres, Inc. W illia m E. Lytle Dramatic Arts American Airlines Alan Singer i nc The C. H. B yron Com pany, Inc. Mrs. Charles G. Duffy, Jr. Mrs. Harris McCarthy David Sprague American Precision Industries Mr, and Mrs. David Oliver Smith Mrs. Susan H. Caldwell Dr. W illia m D. Dugan James W.. McCloskey Mrs. Charles Whittemore The American Way Mr, and Mrs. Henry Lee Smith; Jr. Mrs. Cameron Baird Dr. and Mrs. John C. Carbonara Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. Norman E. Mack Mrs. H enry O. S m ith Dr. and Mrs. Hubert Carpenter Mr. and M rs. Jam es G. D yett Mr, and Mrs. Vincent Mansell DESIGNERS Mrs. William J. Bakrow Mrs. James Russell Smith Carpenter & Skrter, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Richard: Egan Dr. and' Mrs. George H. Marcy $250 to 5-149 Mr. and Mrs. C harles U. fiant;.- H a rris N. Snyder Dr. Leslie Barnette R. K. C arrigan FMC Corp., Inorganic Chemistry William Marcy, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Solomon A. !:.. Anderson Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Barrel! Charles Carey, Esq. Mr: and Mrs. Stanley G. Falk Dr. Ronald E. Martin Maurice J. Spectoroff John W. Cowper Co. Robert D. F.ernb.ach Dr. and Mrs. L. H. M eisberger, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. S.peller Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Finck Merrill, Lynch, Pierce; Spencer Kellogg Div. of Textron Manley Fleischmann Fenner & Smith Mrs. John S. N. Sprague John R. Flemming, Jr. Messer Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Walter Stafford, Jr. Burt Flickinger H ow ard L, M eyer II- John Steigerwald, Jr. Mrs. Peter Flickinger Donald L. M ille r Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Dann Stev.ens S. M. F lickin g er Co., Inc. Mrs. Donald L- Miller Edmund D. Steven's,. Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Flickinger Mr. and Mrs. Gerard L. Miller Joseph T. J:. S tew art Miss Doris Flierl Helen Mintz Mr. and1 Mrs. J. Ronald Stieger Miss Helen Foster Dr. and Mrs. Carl B, Mischka, Jr. Mr-, and Mrs. Robert H. Stievater Mft and Mrs. Robert Freudenheim M r. and Mrs. R. E. M oot Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Stone, Jr. Mr. and Mrs, Chester 0. Gale Joseph Morey Sweet Kleen Laundry General Electro Mechanical Mr. and: M rs. G. E. M u rray Mr-, and: Mrs. Harlan J. Swift Mr.s. B rya nt G ienny George A. N ew bury: Mr. and Mrs. Mauric.e Tabor Harold Goldman Newccmb-Robb, Inc. T. C. Tanke, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. George Goodyear New York Telephone Co. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Terrill Lawrence R. Goodyear Niagara Frontier Services, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Tirrell Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Hahn Mr. and Mrs, Newell L. A. V ic to r & Co., Inc. M elvin F. Hall Nussbaumer Dr. and Mrs. Frans. Visser’t Hooft Mrs. Eugene Hanavan Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Obletz WGR • TV & Radio Mr. and: Mrs. William H. Harder Mr. and Mrs. Clarence'Obletz WKBW ■ TV Mr. and Mrs. W. D. H assett Arnold Olena Jam es M. W adsw orth Rob.ert C. H aym an Mr. and Mrs. William Oliver Jonas L. W aits, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. N orm an H eilbru n Mrs. Albert C. Olson1 Dr. and Mrs. Robert Warner Mrs. Lauren B. Hitchcock Mrs. Nathan Oppenheimer R ichard -W.ehle Foundation Hodgson, Russ. Andrews, Joseph Palanker & Sons George Weiss, Aluminum Woods & Goodyear Pearce &, Pearce Co., Inc. Company of America Hoover & Strong, Inc. Mrs. Ralph F. Peo Dr. and Mrs. Richard Weiss Mrs. William G. Houck Dr. and Mrs. John H. Peterson Mr. and Mrs; Clarence Weltman Houdaille Industries Dr. and Mrs. Harold F. Peterson Florence B. W endt John F. Huber, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Walter T. Petty W.N.Y. Collum Acoustical J. O akley Irw in George Phillips, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Wickser Ismalia Temple Dr. Julia- C. Piquette Mrs. Philip J. Wickser Edwin F. Jaeckle S. H. Pooley B elting, Inc. Williams Gold Refining Co. Jacobs Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Putnam, Jr. Mrs. Charles R. Wilson Mrs. Robert J. Jewett Mr. and Mrs. C. V ic to r Raiser II Mr,, arid Mrs. Frank Wilton Mr, and Mrs. Douglas Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Calvin G-. Rand Mrs. Eugene Wiseman Mrs. F rederick S. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. George F. Rand 111 Dr. and Mrs. Howard L. Wolfsohn Hugh Johnson & Company Dr. rind Mrs. George Rending Preston Wright Mr. and Mrs, Edwin Johnston, Jr. Mrs. Richard M. Reiser Mrs. Clinton Wykoff Jones Riclv Milk Corp. James H. 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