[Capdist-announce] See Love Letters for half the price of other productions-- and a free play in addition!

[Michael McDermott]

Spotlight Players Community Theater, Inc. announces a special February production of Love Letters, performed in tandem with The Harry and Sam Dialogues, as part of a Valentine’s Day special weekend of performances focused on love and lifelong friendships.  This package will feature an intermission of live harp music and catered deserts between performances.  
 
Come see these TWO productions for HALF the price of other productions of Love Letters alone!  For $12 you can have anentire evening of Love, Romance, Friendship, Laughter`and Tears.
 
Love Letters by A. R. Gurney was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play centers on just two characters, Melissa Gardner--  carefree, artistic and passionate, traditional, in a non-traditional way, and Andrew Makepiece Ladd III-- forthright, boy scout-like, wholesome and true to his values and morals.  The two characters age through the years as they read their correspondence to each other.  They discuss the hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats that have passed between them throughout their separated lives. It is only at the sad ending that they realize they were really love letters all along. The play will feature Spotlight Board member Eric Shovah as the elder Andrew, partnered with Gail Garrison as the elder Melissa.  Both actors were featured in the Spotlight summer production of Stephan Sondheim’s Into the Woods.  The younger versions of the characters will be portrayed by Adam Coons, who will do
 double duty in the second show of the evening,  and Victoria Sheehan.  The production is directed by Brian Avery.
  
The Valentine’s Special will open with the first half of our “twofer”, The Harry and Sam Dialogues, which is a wonderful comedy about two life long friends, and the travails their friendship takes through life, marriages, affairs, compromises, forgiveness and understanding.  On the surface, The Harry and Sam Dialogues appear to be philosophical discussions between two blue-collar types who are way out of their league, but their discussions are surprisingly lively. They use what they can from their own lives – like a glass of milk and Ding-Dongs-- to make sense of what everything means. They discuss all the big questions: Is there life after death? How are men and women different? And, of course, if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Harry and Sam are old friends who like to pass the time posing outlandish questions to one another. "If ya had the choice would ya rather love a woman whose top half was
 a fish and whose bottom half was a woman or a woman whose top half was a woman and whose bottom half was a fish?" Harry asks. "Good question," responds Sam. The questions are off the wall, but they slowly reveal the two men's characters, and allow them to take stock of each other while avoiding mundane, but important, life matters. The play by Karen Ellison plays out in a series of dialogues that reveal the true nature of friendship and commitment.  This production features Adam Coons, who has graced the Spotlight stage with
both The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and The Complete History of America, and first time Spotlight actor Eric Fialkoff.  The production is directed by Michael McDermott.
 
Performances are scheduled for February 12—14 at 8 PM and February 14 and 15 at 2 PM. 
 Performances are scheduled forFebruary 12—14 at 8 PM and February 14 and 15 at 2 PM.  Call 210-9758 for tickets.  All Tickets are $12.
 
Spotlight performs at the Columbia High School Auditorium,962 Luther Road, East Greenbush , NY, 12061.
 
Two plays and live music for only $12? Sounds like the perfect Valentine''s date!