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LOVE LETTERS
Presented by Fairfield Footlighters
Feb. 20-March 1
Fairfield

Directed by James C. Davis

Andrew Makepeace Ladd III writes his first letter to Melissa Gardner to tell her she looks like a lost princess. They are both seven years old. For the next fifty years, through personal triumphs and despair, through wars and marriages and children and careers, they pour out the secrets of their hearts to each other. They defy a fate that schemes to keep them apart, and lives – through letters – for the one most meaningful thing, their undying love for each other.

A unique and imaginative theatre piece comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together and went their separate ways, but continue to share confidences. A wry and poignant tale told entirely through the first scrawled valentines of childhood to the last goodbyes. Over the course of a 50-year correspondance, Andres and Melissa reveal themselves, their hopes and ambitions, their dreams and disappointments, in a “love affair” that takes them from grade school to middle age.

• Fri, Feb. 20 at 8pm (Cast: April & Coby Osborne)
• Sat. Feb. 21 at 8pm (Cast: Heidi & Robert Schiller)
• Sun, Feb. 22 at 2pm (Cast: Melissa & Kevin Noll)
• Fri, Feb. 27 at 8pm (Cast: Bekka & Michael Reardon)
• Sat, Feb. 28 at 8pm (Cast: Erin & Ryan Heinrich)
• Sun, March 1 at 2pm (Cast: Jeannie & Tim Meyers)

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THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES
Presented by Fairfield Footlighters
Nov. 14-23
Fairfield

Directed by James C. Davis

Cast: Chris Server as Artie Shaughnessy, Jackie Marshall as Bananas Shaughnessy, Cindy Miller as Bunny Flingus, Helen Mullen as Corrinna Stroller, Diane Minnich as Head Nun, Teresa Riestenberg as Nun #2, Spencer Berta as Ronnie Shaughnessy, Philip Wilder as Billy Einhorn, Michael Reardon as White Man & FG Anderson as MP/Policeman

Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zoo-keeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York where he lives with his wife, Bananas, much to the chagrin of Artie’s downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus, who’ll sleep with him anytime but refuses to cook until they are married. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie’s son Ronny goes AWOL from Fort Dix stowing a home made-bomb intended to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium. Also arriving are Artie’s old school chum, now a successful Hollywood producer, Billy Einhorn with starlet girlfriend in tow, who holds the key to Artie’s dreams of getting out of Queens and away from the life he so despises. But like many dreams, this promise of glory evaporates amid the chaos of ordinary lives.

• Fri-Sat, Nov. 14-15 at 8pm
• Sun, Nov. 16 at 2pm
• Fri-Sat, Nov. 21-22 at 8pm
• Sun, Nov. 23 at 2pm

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AN EVENING OF ORIGINAL ONE ACT PLAYS
Presented by Fairfield Footlighters
Sept. 26-Oct. 5
Fairfield

Directed by Bekka Eaton Reardon

WORDS IN THE AIR by Bridget Ossman
Missy must honor her dying mother’s last request to visit Aunt Paula, to whom Missy has never been close. In fact, Aunt Paula has been estranged from the family for years, but Missy never knew why…until now.

MAMA’S BIBLE by Victoria Bailey
The story of a family of sisters; a widow several-times-over, a pie-making opera addict, a typical grandmother, a curmudgeon, and a teenager.

• Fri-Sat, Sept. 26-27 at 8pm
• Sun, Sept. 28 at 2pm
• Fri-Sat, Oct. 3-4 at 8pm
• Sun, Oct. 5 at 2pm

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