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Sold out, three-quarters-full, nearly sold out — that's the report from Interplayers' three fund-raising performances of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters. Ellen Travolta and Jack Bannon donated their skills so that all receipts went toward keeping the theater's doors open. Best of all, playgoers opened their checkbooks and made additional donations.

Recession, gloom, nobody cares, blah blah — and yet there's a cohort of folks around here who want local theater to flourish. Travolta reports that after a similar, previous fund-raising performance, Bannon wrote Gurney to express how much that script moves listeners — and that Gurney wrote back in thanks.

We struggle. But the struggle's worth it.

[ photo: Gurney, from broadwayworld.com ]

Love Letters, Angels and Art

Ellen Travolta and Jack Bannon will appear in an Interplayers fundraiser, in three performances of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, on Friday-Saturday, Jan. 29-30. Tickets: $25.

Honky Tonk Highway has been replaced by Honky Tonk Angels, with revised performance dates of Feb. 4-20.

Casting for the March 10-27 production of Yasmina Reza's Art has been announced: Jack Bannon, Patrick Treadway and Roger Welch.

*Love Letters* in Cheney, May 1-17

A.R. Gurney's *Love Letters* presented by StageWest Community Theater
Directed by Charles Kenfield

Fridays-Saturdays at 7 pm on May 1-2, May 8-9, and May 15-16
and
Sundays at 3 pm on May 10 and 17 only

Tickets: $10

Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 639 Elm St., Cheney
Call 235-4575

[ photo: A.R. "Pete" Gurney, from newyorksocialdiary.com ]