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I am so excited to announce that Starlight staff and cast members of "Dearly Beloved" and this December's "Christmas Belles" will be meeting with the playwrights, Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten on August 23rd, where we plan to have a good old fashioned southern potluck!  "Dearly Beloved" played to sell-out crowds in February, making it the highest attended show at Starlight since it opened in February 2006. It is the first in a triology of plays about the Futrelle sisters, their family and friends in Fayro, Texas. The second of the triology, "Christmas Belles," will be performed this December at Starlight. And the following season, Starlight will produce the final play in the trilogy "Southern Hospitality".
Jessie, Nicholas and Jamie are traveling around the country this summer meeting with theater companies who have or plan to produce one of their shows. I am so excited that they have included us in their tour! We thought it was great that Jessie called us on opening night to wish us "break-a-leg" but this is even more exciting! Jessie contacted me through our web site as soon as we announced that we were going to do "Dearly Beloved" and we have been in touch ever since. She has been a great help when we had questions about line interpretations or characters. How often can a director or actor go DIRECTLY to the author(s) of a play when they had a question about something in the play! If you saw "Dearly Beloved" you'll remember that in order to save money, Twink (Emily English), one of the Futrelle sisters, decided to make it a potluck wedding, thus we are planning on having a potluck dinner when the playwrights come to visit just in keeping with the theme! Check out their very impressive bio's below [CLICK "Read More"] (and you'll see why we're all so excited about meeting them!) and we'll keep you posted on how the visit goes, and put some pictures up on the web site! Linda Granger, Executive Director |
