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By Londos D’Arrigo April 8-17, 2011 Directed by Rolland Roebuck Cast: Ralph Mafongelli as Dr. Krapinski Jim Jacques as Martin Wheeler Pat Forkner as Angie Drayton Lynn Klemm as Traci Drayton Rolland Roebuck as Larry Drayton Crew: Set Design....Bernie Markevitch Light Design....Bob Gosewehr Sound Design....Nic Gilbertson Light Operator....Kyle Sibbald Sound Operator....Lisa Droese Stage Crew....Judy Maupin and Lisa Droese Marketing....Tara Williams The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. Setting: A living room of an upscale home in a Florida gated community. Present time. Memories Dinner Theatre 1
D I R E C TO R S N O T E S While growing up, my parents always said, “When you go to bed at night, take one moment and ask, ‘What one thing did you learn today? Finding that one thing will have made the day worth living.” Life is a journey and the play, “Spreading it Around,” brought my parents’ words came back to me. Our main characters, Angie and Martin, show us how important it is to keep looking for those “new things” each day can bring. It is not the reaching of goals, but the journey that gives life true meaning. I hope you leave this show with renewed resolve to “journey on.” - Rolland Roebuck, Director BIOGR APHIES Jim Jacques (Martin Wheeler) Jim has performed here at Memories and with many other theater groups over the years. He has appeared at Memories in A Bench in the Sun and Mixed Emotions. Some of his other show credits include: Caught in the Net, The Dinner Party, Dancing at Lughnasa, Music Man, Same Time Next Year, & Prisoner of Second Avenue, to mention a few. Jim lives in Saukville with his wife Sandy.
Lynn Klemm (Traci Drayton) Lynn is no stranger to the stage at Memories. She has been performing here for some 14+ years. Over the past 7 years as one of the owner of Memories, she is thrilled to see the growth that has taken place in the dinner theater aspect of this facility that she loves so much. Lynn’s favorite Memories’ roles include; Louise in Always… Patsy Cline, Sister Amnesia in Nunsense, Doris in Same Time Next Year, Louise in Wally’s Café and her performance in the musical review Some Enchanted Evening. Lynn would like to thank her husband, Bob, of 31 years, for his continued love and support of her crazy and demanding involvement in theatre. She would also like to thank the audiences for their support. It is wonderful to look out at the tables and see the faces of so many friends.
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Pat Forkner (Angie Drayton) Pat’s performance roles are far too numerous to mention. She has appeared here at Memories in Side by Side by Sondheim, Mixed Emotions, Cemetery Club, The Queen of Bingo, A Bench in the Sun and March of 2009’s production of The Spitfire Grill. Pat is always thrilled to be working at Memories.
B I O G R A P H I E S ( c o n t .) Ralph Maffongelli (Dr. Krapinski) Theater comes as naturally to Ralph as breathing. He has been involved in over 475 productions in a variety of venues, including dinner theater, Off-Broadway, summer stock, academic, and community theater. He’s worn countless hats in those productions, from acting to directing and everything behind the scenes. He was the director of the Sheboygan Theatre Company for 28 years. He has been married for 33 years and in his free time can be found volunteering at church and working on his model railroad.
Rolland Roebuck (Larry Drayton) Rolland is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He has been the driving force behind Memories Dinner Theater for the past 20 years. He would like to thank all of you in attendance and those who have supported our theater in the past. Thank you for making a dream come true.
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Harold and Burt, longtime friends, live in a retirement home and spend their days on a bench in the garden bickering. A once-famous actress moves in and gives them something new to argue over. When they learn their home is to be sold, and they will have to find new residence, the three join forces to prevent this upsetting development. “Very wise, very moving, but most of all, very funny.” - Mel Brooks.
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Fall 2011 Oct 28- Nov 6, 2011 Murder at the Howard Johnson’s Comedy by Sam Bobrick and Ron Clark All is fair in love? Even murder? That’s the question posed by this light and funny suspense comedy about a love triangle in a Howard Johnson Motor Inn. Mitchell, a commonplace dentist who sees himself as heroic, and his mistress Arlene, plan to murder her husband Paul, a blundering used car salesman, til Arlene discovers Mitchell has been unfaithful, unsettling ally loyalties and sending the murder plots flying. “A holiday of laughter. . . Beautifully polished, very funny very American comedy.” WNB Dinner and Show $30, Show-Only $17 For tickets, call 262-284-6850 or visit us online anytime at www.memoriesballroom.com Dec 9-18, 2011 The Christmas Schooner Book by John Reeger, Music and Lyrics by Julie Shannon Join us as we recreate the voyages of /The Molly Doone in this criticallyacclaimed holiday musical about a Michigan shipping captain who braves the deadly winter weather to bring Christmas trees to homesick German-American families in turn-of-the century Chicago. Sail with us along the shorelines of Lake Michigan from Manitowoc to Racine in a show that’s sure to please the whole family. Dinner and Show $30, Show-Only $17 For tickets, call 262-284-6850 or visit us online anytime at www.memoriesballroom.com
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