ABOUT OUR 65th SEASON You still have time to purchase tickets at reduced rates to the rest of our 2013-14 slate of musicals, comedies, and dramas. Contact the box office at 410-268-7373 or check the website, thecolonialplayers.org, for details. You can also buy a flex pass of 10 tickets that can be redeemed in any combination of shows for the rest of the season.

★ Next on our schedule is Annie, the delightful musical comedy about America’s favorite orphan and her lovable dog that takes the stage for five weeks in November and December. Annie has a timeless ability to entertain and uplift audiences of all ages and is our gift to you for the holiday season. It is packed full of comedy and sparkling songs by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin such as “Tomorrow,” “Easy Street,” and “N.Y.C.” Thomas Meehan wrote the book of this enduring musical masterpiece with its message of hope that resonates in our troubled times.

★ Coyote on a Fence, which runs for three weeks in January, is a searing drama about two men on death row. Bruce Graham’s play does not ask audiences to judge the men or the judicial system or capital punishment. It is just a powerful drama about the relationships between the men awaiting execution, a prison guard, and a newspaper reporter.

★ Superior Donuts is the name of a Chicago donut shop and also the title of the play by Pulitzer and Tony award winner Tracy Letts that will be presented in February and March. Superior Donuts is a comedy-drama centered on the warm relationship that develops between the elderly owner of a rundown donut shop and a young African-American employee who is full of ideas about how to turn the shop into a thriving, modern business.

★ The idea for our second musical came from a supermarket tabloid story about a half boy/ half bat creature found in a cave. Laurence O’Keefe, Keythe Farley, and Brian Flemming took that idea and turned it into Bat Boy: The Musical, a high-energy and unusual show about an outsider seeking acceptance from residents of a small West Virginia town. There is a wide variety of exceptional music in this show -- gospel, a touch of rock, love songs, novelty numbers, dances; in short, something for everyone.

★ These Shining Lives, which runs in May, is the story of women who were hired in the 1920s to paint numerals on faces of watches and clocks. They were assured that the radium powder used for the glow-in-the-dark numerals was harmless. In Melanie Marnich’s drama, four women refuse to allow the company that stole their health to also kill their spirits -- or endanger the lives of those who will come after them.

★ The season ends in June with Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl’s wildly imaginative comedy/mystery about a woman in a restaurant who takes the cell phone of a dead man at the next table. Thus begins her quirky odyssey into the lives of other people who knew the deceased. The play was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Tony Award nominee.

Colonial Players is continuing its partnership with eCruiser to offer you free shuttle service to and from downtown Annapolis restaurants and parking garages. For pick up before the show, call 443-481-2422 and give your location to the attendant. If an ecruiser is not waiting at the theater after the show, call the same number. The service is free, but patrons are encouraged to tip the driver.

September 20 - October 12, 2013 2013/2014 season - 12 - PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE THE PRODUCTION STAFF COLONIAL This morning I watched my dog Chester chase Director...... Michelle Bruno his tail around and around in circles. I was Producer...... Kaelynn Miller PLAYERS, fascinated. He stopped only briefly, having INC. noticed the tail on the other side of him, Stage Manager...... Emily North reversing direction and whirling the other way, Assistant Stage Manager...... Mary MacLeod but still finding it impossible to capture the 108 East Street • Annapolis, MD 21401 furry clump following him that looked much Set Designer...... Terry Averill Telephone: 410-268-7373 like the cats that prowl our neighborhood. And Lead Carpenter...... Dick Whaley thecolonialplayers.org he has never caught one of them either. Carpenters...... Lee Craft, Norm James, Bob Mumper, Jim Robinson, Ted Yablonski Don’t we all “chase our tails” more often than BOARD OF DIRECTORS Set Decoration...... Terry Averill, Michelle Bruno we would like to admit? Don’t we all hope Corporate Officers: that finally the chase will end in success? Do Set and Floor Painting...... Michelle Bruno, Kaelynn Miller, Emma Panek, Shirley Panek President...... Terry Averill we enjoy the hunt as much as Chester, and Costume Designer...... Vicki Goutzoulis Vice President...... Beverly Hill van Joolen forget the futility? We all strive to overcome Lighting Designer...... Shirley Panek Treasurer...... Kaelynn Miller the limitations, the repetition of our daily lives, Secretary...... Theresa Riffle but we are seemingly trapped by our lives and Lighting Assistants...... Pete Akers, Richard Atha-Nicholls, Terry Averill, Andrea Elward, Directors: our limitations. Ernie Morton, Lyana Morton, Heather Quinn, Sandra Wallace, Amy Wheaton Artistic...... Carol Youmans Lighting / Sound Technicians...... Brittany Rankin, Bronwyn van Joolen Education & Special Projects...... Ron Giddings What if we could walk through a magical door Human Resources...... Shirley Panek and re-enter our lives twenty years earlier or Properties Designer...... Michelle Bruno Marketing ...... Andrea L. Elward even forty years earlier? First off, would we Combat Consultant...... Andrew Pecoraro Operations...... Wes Bedsworth even recognize this new reality, know that we Special Effects Consultants...... Wes Bedsworth, Jeff Mocho, Amy Wheaton Production...... Beth Terranova were not dreaming, but in fact had stepped through our limited three-dimensional and too Play Consultant...... Beverly Hill van Joolen often solid world and had entered some other CP SPECIAL EVENTS timeless dimension? And secondly, would we Program / Poster Design...... Jim Gallagher Season Sneak Peek then change something or someone in our past Photography...... Colburn Images Summer One Act Festival that might “correct” our future? In capturing Program Editor...... Tom Stuckey Promising Playwright Contest our tail, would we know what to do? Post Show Talk Back Program Assistant...... Nancy Long Scholarship Award Well, today we will see. There is a Season Celebration “communicating door” to the past that we Beth Whaley Series can walk through to eviscerate the heavy ACKNOWLEDGMENTS inevitability of our present lives. Sound For information on these events, contact: improbable? Let’s just suspend our disbelief Second Chance, Baltimore [email protected] for a moment just like our heroes Poopay and Pete Akers Ruella do in today’s production. Sandra Wallace Dirk Geratz Front of House Our theater is our “communicating door,” our Blooms Florist, Edgewater portal to a better world, one where anything Box Office...... Carol Youmans Cynthia Farrell Johnson, C. Farrell Johnson Fine Arts, LLC is possible. Here we can actually capture our Subscriptions...... Lynda Cunningham own tails. We can imagine and change our Mary Beth Yablonski reality. But even though the change may not Ushers...... Jeanie Mincher be permanent, I trust you will have enjoyed News & Cues Editor...... Beth Terranova the chase as much as my dog Chester did this Webmasters...... Richard Atha-Nicholls morning. For in the end, that may be the point Wes Bedsworth of it all. - Terry Averill Like us on Facebook! stay up-to-date on what's going on at CP.

- 2 - - 11 - To Our Contributors (continued) DIRECTOR’S NOTES PATRONS Communicating Doors is a thrilling time-travel story wound down to its unforgettable end, Jennifer Abner Valerie Gutterson Sue Norris ride that includes redemption, humor, and I was left with a thought. There are unlimited Barbara E. Aisley Alice Riley Hall Gerald & Monica Oudens suspense. gave us a brilliant play possibilities. Unlimited potential. Every day we Meredith Allison Elizabeth Hepler Vesta & Jack Phiel that, while complicated in the delivery, delivers come to a fork in the road, and while it may not Carol Carman Richard Hillman Mr. & Mrs. J. Douglas Richardson a simple message of hope and perseverance. As seem significant, we make choices that define Alice Chambers Deb & Ken Hoffman Faye & Bernard Rosenberg the play begins in 2014 in war-ravaged London, and shape our lives. This understanding of the Louise J. Chrissos Elia & John Howser Joyce Shue we meet Poopay, “a certified sex specialist.” She potential that exists every day is monumental. Dianne Crews Eugenia Conlin Judge Carol & Allan Sures is called to an appointment with Reece Welles Our production’s process was amazing. From Kenny Ann Sally A. Laing Sara Tomasello at the Regal Hotel, an appointment that will the crew to the cast, they all poured their heart Al & Pat Crosby Lynn G. Landon JL Trepp Richard Davis Shirley G. Lieberman Joan & Bill Weingartner change everything. As this appointment goes and soul into this project. I hope that you feel Allen & Edith Dolgoff Jane Lunney Ellie & Dick Wilson from bad to worse, Poopay ends up fighting this heart as the show plays out. I’m hoping Frances M. Dryer Patricia Lynch Frances & Maureen Wright for her life. She unintentionally travels back that the fork you take in the road exposes your Bob & Doris Gavazzi Earl Marquette John & Judith Youngblood in time, finding herself face to face with other own unlimited potential. Adele Wolpert Greil Bill & Priscilla Mitchell Leila Youngren characters who will be a part of a murderous plot that plays out over 40 years. As the - Michelle Bruno

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The comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” had been production since then in professional Michelle Bruno is thrilled and as Hattie inKiss Me Kate at Colonial Players. delighting Americans for more than 40 years companies, schools, and community theaters to be directing again at Colonial She is staggered by the talent that has been when lyricist and director Martin Charnin came here and abroad and is currently wowing New Players! Directing credits evident from the first day of auditions. Michelle up with the idea of turning it into a Broadway York audiences in a Broadway revival. Annie is include Inventing van Gogh at thanks everyone involved with this production musical. He persuaded writer Thomas Meehan one of those show business rarities -- a musical CP, School House Rock at Red for their professionalism, which made this a and composer Charles Strouse to join him that appeals to children and adults alike. Songs Branch Theatre and direction/ great experience. Everyone’s flexibility from the in his seemingly improbable quest to turn such as “Easy Street,” “Maybe,” “N.Y.C.,” and music direction with The Drama Learning cast to the crew to the production staff helped a comic strip into a musical. They spent 14 the iconic anthem to hope, “Tomorrow,” are as Center’s school program in Columbia, MD. At to create this fantastic endeavor. This was one months writingAnnie and 4 ½ years getting it to enjoyable today as they were 37 years ago, and home both on and off the stage, Michelle lists of the most memorable theater moments that Broadway for an April 21, 1977 opening. Annie the can-do spirit that infuses Annie is equally as some of her more memorable roles a WATCH- Michelle has ever had. Last, but definitely not was an immediate hit. Audiences fell in love relevant today. Annie runs from November 8 nominated role as Armelia in Ain’t Misbehavin’ least, she also thanks her family and friends with its upbeat story of a plucky orphan in a red through December 7 and is a fitting prelude to with Elden Street Players, as Mama Euralie in for their unending support. Special love to her dress and Sandy, her lovable dog. The initial the winter holiday season. Get your tickets now Once on This Island with Red Branch Theatre, husband, Ron Bruno, for all that he is and does. production won seven Tony Awards and ran for online at thecolonialplayers.org or by calling 2,377 performances. It has been in continuous 410-268-7373. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Colonial Players ended the 2012-13 season with on to the West End, London’s equivalent of the highly entertaining production of Taking Broadway. For more than 30 years, at least one Steps, and now we begin a new season with of his works has been in production at a West CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS! another play by Alan Ayckbourn, one of the End theater. Ayckbourn is considered a master world’s most successful and prolific modern of comedy with an emphasis on farce, a genre playwrights. He wrote his first full-length play noted for mistaken identities, quick exits and in 1959 and completed his 77th play this year. entrances, confusing situations, and slamming Each year, two major awards ceremonies are held for plays and musicals produced by In between, Ayckbourn’s fertile imagination doors. Ayckbourn’s awards are numerous. In community theaters in the Washington, D.C. area. Colonial Players is proud to have won the produced such hit plays as How the Other Half 2010, he was honored with a special Tony Award top honors for plays in both competitions presented in 2012. Our production Shipwreckedof Loves, Absurd Person Singular, The Norman for lifetime achievement in the theater. He won the Ruby Griffith Award from The British Players for outstanding achievement in a play Conquests, and . Ayckbourn’s won two Tony awards for writing and directing presented during the 2012-13 season. Going to St. Ives was chosen by Washington Area theatrical home, the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Bedroom Farce in 1979 and collected six other Theatre Community Honors judges as the best play presented during the calendar year 2012. Scarborough, England, is, like Colonial Players, American awards for writing or directing five That production also won the award for best direction for Edd Miller and best lead actress in an arena theater, making his plays especially other plays. In England, he won 10 Oliviers for a play for Lolita-Marie. suitable for our space. Most of his plays have his writing and one for direction. their premiere in Scarborough and then move

- 10 - - 3 - To Our Contributors THE CAST Thank you for your support. Your generous gifts help us to continue to provide educational and training programs, encouragement and entertainment to all who are interested in dramatic arts. NICK BESCHEN he isn’t being typecast. Thanks to Shirley, Drew, (Harold) and Emma for being your fantastic selves and Honorary Members putting up with Mr. Jeff’s eccentricities. Lots Nick is excited to have another The Hon. & Mrs. Martin J. O’Malley Christopher B. Nelson opportunity to work with such a of love to Mom and Dad, who I know would be The Hon. & Mrs. Joshua J. Cohen VADM & Mrs. Michael H. Miller talented cast in Colonial Players’ here if they possibly could. production of Communicating LIFE MEMBERs Doors. Nick’s most recent roles include Dr. LILIAN OBEN Cdr. William R. Curtis Frank McLane Hyde Col. USMC (Ret.) (Ruella) Fred & Paula Fishback Judi Hilton-Hyde & Mrs. Richard W. Smith Lyman Hall in CP’s 1776 and multiple roles in Robert Giddings Irene E. Norton Allan Starkey Dignity Players’ Almost Maine. Among Nick’s Communicating Doors is Bill & Peggy Griswold Ronald Powell Mrs. Benjamin B. Wills, Jr. favorite roles have been Bobby in Run for Your Lilian’s first production with Daniel G. Higgs Dr. & Mrs. James W. Ross Wife Hamlet Colonial Players, and she is and Horatio in with Pasadena producers Theatre. When not on stage, Nick runs his own humbled to be a part of such a home improvement business in Annapolis. Nick talented, committed, and welcoming cast and Bill & Susan Allen Gary & Janice Jobson Norman & Judith Shackelton Wes Bedsworth & Kaelynn Miller John Kokron Robert Sherer would like to thank Leigh for all her love and community. A corporate and legal marketing Tim Brown Eleanor M. Perfetto & Ray Strong support!! Enjoy the show. communications professional by trade and an James W. Cheevers John H. McLeod Beth Terranova avid painter, photographer, and writer of short Ray & Rebecca Flynt Nancy Morgan Victoria C. Waidner DAVE CARTER womanist fiction when time allows, Lilian is George L. Helwig David & Patricia Mutschler Richard & Catherine Whaley Meg Hosmer Richard & Mary Rea John & Judith Wobensmith (Julian) enjoying rediscovering a passion for theater that Communicating Doors is Dave’s was first ignited during her boarding school years Directors second project with Colonial in England, Wales, and Kenya. She is thankful Fred & Donna Arquilla Alice F. Kurs Mel & Joanne Sykes Players, but this time he emerges to find this passion undiminished - despite the Don & Lucy Arthur ADM & Mrs. Charles R. Larson Philip Tawes interruptions of “grown-up” responsibilities and Arthur & Bernardine Chomas Manfred & Anne Muecke D. Romaine Towers from behind the scenes to Edward E. Cohee, Jr. Michael & Sage Mumma Mary C. Walker appear on stage after a long hiatus from acting. global relocations - in the adult world. Lilian’s Tim Dangel Bob & Barbara Stern Karen Whaley He was stage manager for the June production theater experience includes roles such as The Dr. Stephen & Christine Killian Sandra Sundeen Carol & Jack Youmans of , his first experience with Colonial Little Coochie Snorcher That Could inThe Vagina Players, and he is extremely excited to be back Monologues, Calpurnia in To Kill A Mockingbird, Designers as a player. Most of his theater experience was Mademoiselle/Ms. Granville in Daisy Pulls It Off!, Richard Atha-Nicholls Lois & Noel Milan Jim & Charlotte Robinson and even a stint as Willy Wonka in a production Mal & June Fordham Thea B. Pinskey Marcia Sandground on the West Coast, where he was involved with Michael J. Keller South Arundel Anne Sloan shows such as Lend Me a Tenor, Oedipus, and of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. Her Linda & Roger Lark Veterinary Hospital Gazella & Bill Weigand Our Country’s Good. His training began with professional training includes study at The Helen Fisher Leitch Sharry & Don Reed Mr. & Mrs. Richard Willis Citrus College and extended to The London Barrow Group, New York, and The Studio Theater Dan & Nancy Long William & Maryada Ritchie Mary Beth & Ted Yablonski Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Dave feels Acting Conservatory, Washington, D.C. When that most of what he brings to the stage comes she isn’t acting or fighting writer’s block, Lilian SPONSORS from the people he has worked with in the is also a volunteer peer counselor at Whitman- Anonymous Dr. & Mrs. Charles O. Heller John & Constance Robinson Walker Health in Washington. Art Things, Inc. Duncan & Dianne Hood Michele & Earl Schaffer theater as well as the great thing we call Life. Jim & Judy Barrowman Bill & Helena Hunter John & Judy Schuyler Charles & Mary-Jo Bedsworth Betty & Robert Hyers Ed & Sue Senasack JEFF MOCHO PAMELA WOODWARD Dr. Michael & Ellen Berger Chris & Becky Jones Grace Shapiro (Reece) (Poopay) Janet & Nick Berry Bernard & Hannah Kaufman Irwin & Maxine Silber Pat & Karen Brown David & Katherine Larrabee Art & Angela Smookler Jeff is thrilled to return to Pamela is so excited to make her James Church Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Liddick Dennis & Maureen Sullivan Colonial Players after appearing way back to the stage as a part Judy Crews-Hanks Lynne Malley Joan & Rolph Townshend as the unexpected guest in of the team here at Colonial Charles & Marcia Davis Barbara Marder Pat & Stephen Troy 2010’s The Unexpected Guest, Players! Prior to her four year Robert & Janet Downey Joyce Miller Dr. Stephan & Tamara Tymkiw “retirement’” (during which she became a Carol & Joe Friend Para & Miller Families Mr. & Mrs. Maynard Wells when he met and fell in love with the leading Frank & Verna Galloway Mr. & Mrs. Henry L. Mortimer Brian & Susan Whaley lady, Shirley Panek. Recently he played Brad, a chiropractor), Pam was involved in theater at La Mike & JoAnn Gidos Philippe & Sandy Ourisson Virginia & Chris White plain man with A Devil Inside; a Nazi in a film Salle University in such roles as Abby Brewster Doris Gomoljak Ed & Jeanne Paglee Elizabeth L. Wilson called Madeline; a bully stepfather, Toobie; in Arsenic and Old Lace, The Witch in Into the Natalie Green Dan & Joan Placido Dr. Jim & Gail Wise and a card-carrying Klansman cop in In the Woods, and Hope Cladwell in Urinetown: The Willie & Laura Gumula Edward & Marcia Price Carvel & Margaret Wolfe Tylar & Carol Ann Hecht David & Diane Rey Karen & John Wright Heat of the Night. Despite all this he swears Musical. She is so honored to be working with Dr. Ross & Patricia Heisman Carolyn Rhoads

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Wes works as a Senior Systems Engineer in EMILY NORTH such a talented cast and crew as she shakes off SARAH WADE Washington, D.C. (This is so he can afford to play (Stage Manager) the cobwebs. “You all are amazingly talented, (Jessica) at the theater in his free time.) Wes also sings in A new face to the Annapolis and I am so grateful for your patience and support Sarah returns to the Colonial two choirs at his church. He would like to thank theater scene, Emily (Miz to her as I tripped, stumbled and rolled (purposely or Players stage after performing his parents, his sister Susan for occasionally good friends) has been stage not) across the stage.” When she’s not on stage, the role of Kitty in last June’s putting up with her older brother, and Kaelynn managing for several years. Pam loves working with her patients, being back Taking Steps, another Alan for allowing him to have a second love: playing Before her foray into the Colonial Players, she in the Mid-Atlantic area, and assembling Ikea Acykbourn comedy. She appeared as Lola Heart with power tools at the theater. worked at Anne Arundel Community College as furniture. She would like to thank especially in the Benevolent Man Society’s production a student, at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre Beth Terranova for making auditions less of an of Blank Spaces. Prior to that, she was the MICHELLE BRUNO in Rochester, NY as an intern, Roane State option and more of a requirement, her family Charwoman in CP’s 2012 production of A (Properties Designer) Community College in Harriman, TN as a jack- and friends for traveling farther than usual to Christmas Carol and appeared in the Bits ‘n (See About the Director) of-all-trades, and anywhere else she could be see her as another dominatrix (“just trying to Pieces festival of short plays as Ionesco in meddling backstage. She is engaged, and her make you proud, Dad!”), and, of course, Patrick. The Shepherd’s Chameleon and as the Girl fiance, David, hopes she will actually marry him Now on to our next production: the wedding! in Starcrossed. Sarah played the roles of Bet this November and not make him wait even and the Widow Sowerberry in Compass Rose VICKI GOUTZOULIS more, as he has currently been waiting for five Theater’s production of Oliver! and worked as (Costume Designer) The Miracle Worker To years and counting. She has worked at many You are our best PR sound designer for and Vicki is excited to be working jobs and is currently a flower delivery driver for Kill a Mockingbird for Compass Rose. “Much with The Colonial Players. Her Blooms Florist in Edgewater. Emily is incredibly If you enjoyed the show, please love to my family and friends for understanding previous costuming credits grateful to her parents for their never-ending recommend it to your friends. that I can’t tonight, I have rehearsal.” at other theaters include The support, to David for letting her pursue her k Brides of March, Ragtime, The Pajama Game, dreams no matter where they lead, the Colonial The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, Our Players for this incredible opportunity, her actors Town, and The Music Man. for not causing her to develop any more gray hairs, and her director Michelle for helping her KAELYNN MILLER to have the most fulfilling stage management (Producer) experience of her career. She sincerely hopes THE STAFF you love the show just as much as she does. Kaelynn embarks upon her

fifth season of involvement at Shirley Panek Colonial Players in the new-to- Terry Averill Wes Bedsworth (Lighting Designer) her role of producer. She has (Set Designer) (Sound Designer) been involved in many productions over the last Shirley is back as lighting Terry is active in many areas Wes has been involved with five years, both on the stage and off in a variety designer in the first show of the at Colonial Players including over 30 productions at Colonial of roles, from actor to smushed banana cleaner to season. Normally seen on stage, acting, directing, and designing Players since he joined CP in set painter to last-minute button sewer to usher she was very excited to take lights and sets. He previously 2007. His favorites include to costume designer. Kaelynn currently serves on the challenge of lighting this unique show. was set designer for Kindertransport and Earth Moon Over Buffalo, Kindertransport, Enchanted as Treasurer on The Colonial Players Board of Other lighting designs includeTrying , Moonlight and Sky at CP and worked with Edd Miller on April, Mrs. California, The Diviners, Little Women Directors. To pay the bills, she works in the music and Magnolias, and Chapter Two (2012 WATCH set design for I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now and 1776. He won the 2010 WATCH award for industry as a customer service representative nominee) at The Colonial Players, and Art at Change, which he also directed. Other directing outstanding sound design for Earth and Sky and for an instrumental accessory distributor, where Dignity Players. Shirley would like to thank credits at Colonial Players include Romantic has been nominated for best sound design for some days she actually gets to use her bachelor’s Michelle for her inspiration and vision for the Comedy, Sunlight, and Kindertransport. Terry Hauptmann, Kindertransport, and The Diviners. degree in music. Kaelynn sends many thanks to show. Thanks also to the cast and production won a Washington Area Theatre Community Wes serves as Operations Director on the CP the Communicating Doors production team, cast, staff and crew for their patience during tech Honors award for his lighting of Earth and Sky. Board, Technical Director on the Production and crew for being so dedicated and excited, week. “Love to Drew, Emma, and Jeff - the lights He has acted in a number of productions at Team, and as one of the Webmasters on the and sends love to her friends and family for their that make my life brighter.” Bowie Community Theatre and directed their Marketing Team. Wes graduated with a B.A. lifelong support, especially to Wes, for sharing and productions of Language of Angels and Love, from McDaniel College. When he’s not doing dragging her back into this wonderful, completely Sex and the IRS. He is an architect and is in his electrical work, plumbing, fixing something crazy world of theater all those years ago. second term as president of Colonial Players. broken, or automating something at CP, - 8 - - 5 - 65th Season 337th Season Production

THE COLONIAL PLAYERS, INC. presents

Written by Alan Ayckbourn

Directed by Michelle Bruno

The Cast PLACE (in order of appearance) The action takes place in a sixth-floor suite Julian...... Dave Carter in the five-star Regal Hotel in London. Poopay...... Pamela Woodward Reece...... Jeff Mocho TIME Ruella...... Lilian Oben May, 1974 Harold...... Nick Beschen October, 1994 Jessica...... Sarah Wade July, 2014

THERE WILL BE ONE INTERMISSION BETWEEN ACT I AND ACT II.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Taking photographs and using any recording devices are strictly prohibited. Smoking is prohibited throughout the building.

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