by A.R. Gurney
Sep.30,
Oct. 1 - 3 & 7 - 10
directed by Bill Redding
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Cast
Sylvia,
Greg,
Kate,
Tom, Phyllis, & Leslie
Linda Lee Metz
David Knezz
Carolyn Redding
Terry Locke
Director, Bill Redding
Stage Manager, Betty Nelson
Assistant Stage Manager, Susan Sponder
Costume Designer, Carol Ann Suda
Costume Crew
Linda Bremer, Marilyn Darnall,
Marcia Grohne, Sabina Nelson,
Patti Roeder, June Valenta
Lighting Designer Mary Ellen Schutt
Lighting Crew
Tim Atcheson, Dick Jacoby
Peggy Jacoby, Patti Roeder
Makeup Designer Peg Callaghan
Makeup Crew
Mary Dempsey, Janet Ryan Grasso
Marcia Grohne, Dana Janusszyk,
Virginia Swinnen
Musical Arrangement of
“Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye” Joseph Fosco
Photographic Stand-In For Sylvia
Splash Yermakoff-Talsma
Properties Designers
David Bremer, Janel Horvath
Properties Crew
Maggie Bogovich, Tom Pfeil
Set Designers
Linda Roberts, Fred Sauers
Set Construction Chair John Otto
Set Construction Crew
Joe Delaloye, George Dempsey,
Kirby Harris, Mark Hewitt
Richard Ptacek, Fred Sauers
Christy Travis
Set Painting Chair Sandy Squillo
Set Painting Crew
Tricia Boren, Fred Sauers
Sound Designers
Charlie Egan, Liz Egan
Production Box Office Chair Mary Ellen Schutt
Production Box Office Crew
Susan Cardamone, Ruth Cekal,
Janet Ryan Grasso, Terry Kozlowski,
Barbara Lupo, Jean Roeder,
Paulette Sarussi, Sandy Squillo,
Carol Suda, Virginia Swinnen,
Marilyn Wilson
Production Lobby Photo Display Mike Mallon
Production Posters Kathy Kusper
Production Publicity Chair Elizabeth Hubbartt
Production Program Chair Carol Dapogny
Production Program Design John Vilhauer
About the Play
Sylvia was first produced in May, 1995 by
Manhattan Theatre Club. The production starred
Blythe Danner, Charles Kimbrough and
Sarah Jessica Parker
(to whom the play is dedicated) in the title role.
Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Jr. (a.k.a. Pete) was born
on November 1, 1930 into the Buffalo, New York family of Albert and Marion Spaulding Gurney, the middle child of three. He attended St. Paul (New Hampshire) boarding school and earned a B.A. from Williams College in 1952.
With the onset of the Korean War, A.R. Gurney enlisted in the U.S. Navy where he honed his creative skills in the musicals he scripted and composed to entertain the men and women serving in the Armed Forces. The Navy discharged him in 1955, and Gurney enrolled in The Yale School of Drama, earning a Masters Degree in Playwrighting. The playwright married Mary Foreman Goodyear in 1957, and they moved to Massachusetts where Gurney began his professional life as an educator. At first, he taught English and Latin at a boys’ country day
school. Later, he joined the faculty at MIT in Cambridge, where he taught until 1987. Gurney wrote many plays while working as a teacher. In 1958, his Love in Buffalo was produced at Yale, where it set a precedent as the first musical ever produced at the University. Like most of his later plays, this early success speaks primarily to upper middle-class urban life in America. Gurney’s many works have been produced internationally for more than 30 years. Among his most popular scripts are Tom Sawyer (a musical), Scenes from American Life, The Dining Room, Another Antigone, The Cocktail Hour, Love Letters, Later Life, A Cheever Evening, and The Far East, which just completed a Broadway run. A.R. Gurney has been recognized with numerous awards including a Drama Desk Award (1971), a Rockefeller Award (1977), and two Lucille Lortel Awards (1989 and 1994). He has written three novels: The Snowball (also adapted for the stage), The Gospel According to Joe, and Entertaining Strangers.
Canine Wisdom
compiled by Elizabeth Hubbartt
Throughout recorded history (and probably
pre-historic times as well) dogs have played important roles in human lives.
Just look at some of the quips they have inspired.
“If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun
out of owning one.”
–Andy Rooney
“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance and to
turn around three times before lying down.”
–Robert Benchley
“If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as
hard to get along with them as we do people.”
–Karel Capek
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive
evidence that you are truly wonderful.”
–Ann Landers
“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always
go with you in the car, in case the need arises for them to bark violently
right in your ear.”
–Dave Barry
“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
–Charles Schultz
“No one appreciates the very special genius of
your conversation as the dog does.”
–Christopher Morley
“The dog has got more fun out of man than man
has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals.”
–James Thurber
“There is much to be learned from the beasts.”
–Dracula (Bram Stroker)’s
“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too.”
–Wicked Witch, The Wizard of Oz screenplay
