University Theatre Department of Theatre and Drama University of Wisconsin-Madison presents
VALPARAISO By DON DELILLO October 22 – November 6, 2010 Mitchell Theatre Director – Jeremy Thomas Poulsen Choreographer – Lauren Peterson Set Designer – Katy Lai Costume Designer – Katie Gray Lighting Designer – Katie H. Kudrick Sound Designer- John Salutz Media Designer – Dale Kaminski Technical Director – Christina Keryczynskyj Stage Manager – Alex Nelson Dramaturgs – Jeff Casey and Karen Wurl is a proud media sponsor for the production. Valparaiso is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. First produced by the American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts Robert Brustein, Artistic Director; Robert J. Orchard, Managing Director This production will have a pre-performance lecture 10/28/10; post-performance discussion 11/4/10 This production is made possible with grant support from The College of Letters and Science Anonymous Fund.
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THE CAST Michael Majeski...........................................................................................................................Santiago Sosa Livia Majeski.................................................................................................................................... Liz Cassarino Delfina Treadwell...................................................................................................................................Jaki-terry Teddy Hodell........................................................................................................................................... Joe Lullo Interviewer/Captain........................................................................................................................Karl Iglesias Interviewer/Flight Attendant...................................................................................... Christopher Tiernan Interviewer/Flight Attendant....................................................................................................... Kayla Mock Interviewer/Camera Operator.......................................................................................Josephine Jackson Setting: Living room of the Majeski house and various other locations, then studio of the Delfina Show. There will be one 15-minute intermission
AC K N OW L E D G M E N T S UW Department of Communication Arts, Wisconsin Pulblic Television, Williamson Bicycle Works
F R O M T H E D I R E C TO R O F U N I V E R S I T Y T H E AT R E It seems that technology and the electronic media keep getting more intertwined with our day-to-day lives to the point of overdosing on it. How many of us are constantly checking our smart phones and commenting on the many networks that are out there? How many of us are walk around with earbuds in our ears, effectively shutting out the environment around us? I must admit that I am fascinated by the new technology as well as frightened by it. Valparaiso seems a perfect piece to stir up even more discussion about the effects of media and technology on our daily lives. Believe me when I tell you I have learned a lot more about the possibilities of electronic media just listening in on the production meetings for the show. This production will serve as the MFA thesis work for our directing candidate, Jeremy Thomas Poulsen, and we wish him well and further success as he continues with his work in theatre. Valparaiso is also one of the Theatre and Drama department’s highlighted productions during the campus-wide celebration of the Year of the Arts. I would like to thank the Communication Arts department for their generous assistance and help with some of the technical elements of this production. It is this kind of cross-departmental collaboration that adds to the strength of the whole university. Once more I thank you, our audience, for being here in the theatre and supporting our season. Please consider becoming a Friend of University Theatre and please make it a point to take advantage of the many events going on in all the different arts disciplines on campus during this Year of the Arts. With Aloha, David Furumoto Director of University Theatre
D I R E C TO R ’ S N O T E S Don DeLillo is best known for his politically charged essays and novels such as White Noise, Underworld, and Point Omega, which take the reader on a journey through the lives of ordinary Americans as their paths cross and wind around each other towards devastating events. Although his plays are less known, his storytelling remains dramatic and poetic. Written in 1999, Valparaiso resonates perhaps more so today with 24-hour news cycles and our tightly-worded sound bites. Valparaiso takes us on a journey that will sound familiar to any one of us— that is, any one of us who wakes up in the morning after hitting the snooze alarm to brush our teeth, drink our coffee, and rush out the door to our jobs; any one of us who works for a living, trying every day to please some boss just to pay the bills and feed our families, often with something we picked up on the way home because we are too tired to cook; any one of us who, when we finally get the chance to sit down and relax, turns on the TV and sees moment after moment 2 University Theatre
D I R E C TO R ’ S N O T E S ( c o n t .) of other peoples’ lives flash before us, people who are stronger, wealthier, better looking, and more fulfilled, happier than we will ever be; any one of us who has ever longed to be famous, to be rich, to drive a fast car. With all of this beating around in our heads, how do you tell the difference between identity and desperation? How can any one of us be expected to differentiate between who we are and who we are supposed to be? We are proud to present DeLillo’s play by bringing together an ensemble cast of both graduate and undergraduate actors and designers. Throughout our rehearsal process, we have focused on identity, i.e. what makes us human and why we desire more. We have looked at the new American dream, i.e. the desire to have wealth and fame, the need to possess everything around you, and the joy found in seeing others suffer. Why do we enjoy seeing others suffer? Maybe because it makes us feel alive, it makes us feel human. When the world is buzzing around you in nanobytes and radiowaves, it is easy to get caught up in the primal urge to flee, fight, to build and to destroy. Why? Maybe we believe it isn’t real. It’s just computers and images, flashes of light and smoke. Or is it? I would like to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful cast and crew for their hard work and commitment to this production, my design team and my dramaturgs for their valuable insight and talents, and my choreographer/assistant director for helping me to accomplish my goals and see my vision come alive. I would also like to thank Professor Norma Saldivar for her guidance and support, along with my husband, Michael, for always being there. These are the people for who, if it were not for them, this production would not be possible, because they have each brought their own experiences and expertise to this production with professionalism and panache. I invite you to watch and listen to the world in front of you, to the world around you, to get lost in the moment, as you see the whites of the actors’ eyes. Is it just theatre, flashes of light and smoke, or is it something more? You decide. Vivir! Jeremy Thomas Poulsen
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S TAT U S U P DAT E : T H E R E C E N T H I S TO R Y O F C E L E B R I T Y When it premiered, Valparaiso seemed to presage the zeitgeist of American mass culture to come. After all, reality television would take off the following year (2000) when Survivor hit the US airwaves. Reality TV had been around in one form or another since the early days of TV, as with Candid Camera. Even before Survivor or American Idol became national obsessions, television at the end of the 20th century loved to catapult otherwise unremarkable Americans into the limelight. Local and national news programs and tabloid talk shows (Oprah, The Phil Donahue Show, Geraldo and, yes, Jerry Springer) gave thousands of Americans their 15 minutes of fame. Fame, however fleeting or tawdry, was trickling down from the real celebrities and transubstantiating real people into “real celebrities.” We were all celebrities; it was only a matter of time. But it wasn’t just that nobodies were becoming petite celebs; the other side of the equation had changed too: the shining star of “real” celebrities dimmed by association. In the 1992, Joey Buttafuoco became infamous for his philandering with the underaged Amy Fisher, after the latter shot his wife. Tawdry stories like Buttafuoco’s were nothing new, but the media devoured the story and he became a minor celebrity overnight. When President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky became public and the media pounced on the story, the presidency was engulfed in a sex scandal that seemed absurdly trivial, especially when compared with Watergate or the Iran-Contra scandal of the Reagan Administration. The reverential aura of the office of the presidency, which had served to keep John F. Kennedy’s numerous extra-marital affairs under wraps, had lost its protective power. The president was subject to the same public shaming as Joey Buttafuoco, the same late night barbs from Jay Leno and Letterman. Celebrity barely seems to be a distinction anymore, since the public eye is lured so easily to look in fascination at almost anything that glitters (though it may not be gold). Of course, part of this may be that we Americans love chastising our celebrities almost as much as we enjoy adoring them. Tiger Woods, Jon & Kate and John Edwards have garnered attention of late because they fell so far and gave us a chance to wag our collective finger in disapproval. But, if reality TV demonstrates how everyone can be a celebrity, can’t we say that it merely echoes the reality that we all live within? We are all celebrities, though most of us don’t realize it. Facebook has made you, dear reader, into a star. Your casual, passing thoughts are disseminated across the internet to hundreds, even thousands, of people. Candid photos of you are uploaded instantly to the world wide web to be consumed by legions of friends. Some smart phones even indicate your position in space instantly. Your “relationship status” will be commented on by numerous observers, and those comments will be commented on by others. Isn’t a Facebook page a sort of self-made tabloid newspaper dedicated to the minutia of your life? 4 University Theatre
PROGR A M The internet had been imagined by earlier generations as a space where we could all be anonymous, where all that was solid would melt into air, where we would assume completely different identities, but instead it has become an extension of the material world. We have colonized virtual space with our lives and our thoughts. Have we robbed the internet of its fantastical possibilities by making it a mere reflection of our reality, a commentary on the “real” world? Or like Michael— the protagonist of Valparaiso—do we exist not merely as a physically embodied person on the dreary plain of reality but also as a carefully curated persona in virtual space, a person whose birthday is a matter of public record, a virtual you shinning brightly, a burst of photons, a body electric, with a carefully composed status update, letting the world know who and how you are? Perhaps Michael achieves precisely what we all want, not celebrity but to become another kind of being, a being whose existence, like Delphina’s, transcends her physical body and is projected out into the world living on screens, humming and glowing across the world. Isn’t it strange that when a young person dies today, the first image we see on the news is their Facebook page. We don’t see the corpse. We see the body electric that lives on after them. Jeff Casey Dramaturg
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P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Theatre Research Liaison.............................................................................. Mike Vanden Heuvel Assistant Director.....................................................................................................Lauren Peterson Assistant Stage Managers..................................Nick Barsuli, Mike Hennessey, Xingning Xu Projection Consultant............................................................................................... Erik Gunneson Assistant Costume Designer.........................................................................Christopher Tiernan Master Carpenters..................................................................... Allyn Weber and Bailey Padesky Lead Carpenters..................................................................... Kaleena Stenshaug and Jim Vogel Scenic Artists............................................................................................ Katy Lai and Xingning Xu Run Crew............................................................................................ Don Creedy, Harry Gollakota, Karl Iglesias, Dustin Moench, Jenesoo Park, Gayle Jamaal Smaller Jr., Joshua Yang, Liu Yuli Properties Mistress....................................................................................................... Cynthia Dean Costume Shop Crew.............................................................Katie Engler and Ashley Glowwski Master Electrician......................................................................................................... Kelsey Warren Assistant Master Electricians....................................................................................Buddy Lamers Sound Board Operator.............................................................................................. Buddy Lamers Production Assistants...................................................Dominique Chestand, Elizabeth Phan, Stephanie Siller, Kelsey Warren Theatre Shops Crew.................................................................... TH 160 Allen Logan, Amy Bahr, Wesley Beck, Ben Bouche, Amanda Brauer, Lauri Brenning, Jeffrey Cartright, Dominique Chestand, Jennifer Current, Ariane DeFrancesco, Peter Den Hartog, Erika Dickerson, Ashley Dye, Kyle Goryl, Joe Malone, Lisa Marten, Renee Mcdonald, Niketa Miller, Elizabeth Phan, Brittany Schmidt, Tara Sisco, Chelsea Stockhaus, Allen Tseng TH 161: Jon Hause, David Korab, Dustin Moench, Alexandria Odekirk, Alissa Taylor, Yeng Thao, Ryan Williams, Joshua Yang, Nicholas Barsuli, Sean Douglass, Aaron Johnson, Kayla Mock
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Actors Liz Cassarino (Livia Majeski) received her undergraduate degree at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH and is a 2nd year MFA actor. Her Madison credits include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party (Bartell Theatre), Into the Woods and Blood Wedding. Other credits include Oklahoma (American Theatre Company), Lysistrata, Chess, Baby!, and The Diary of Anne Frank (Nat’l Tour). She was also involved in a new play reading at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (Waterford, CT). She has done voice-over, television and film work mostly in NYC and Chicago and is pleased to call Madison her home, for now. Karl Iglesias (Interviewer/Captain) Actor, musician, dancer, poet, director. The flexibility of his talent is what posits 6 University Theatre
Karl Iglesias as one of the most indisputable rising performers of his generation. The Milwaukee native is currently a junior majoring in Theatre and Drama as a member of The First Wave Hip Hop Theatre Ensemble. Karl recently debuted his one-man show, If a Tree Falls, and was a featured artist in the 2009 Hip Hop Theater Festival in New York City as a part of the Young, Gifted, and Hyped series. Not too long after, the work debuted internationally at the Contact Theatre in Manchester, England. Josephine Jackson (Interviewer/Camera Operator) started her acting career at the Bush Madrona Youth Theatre in Seattle, Washington. She later went on to perform with Seattle’s Little Theatre Off Broadway and study with Seattle’s Northwest Actors studio. After taking a hiatus from acting she is back this fall in
W H O ’ S W H O ( c o n t .) Valparaiso at UW Madison’s University Theatre. When she’s not acting you can find her studying at Grainger Hall where she is currently pursuing her MBA in Brand and Product Management and she will be graduating in May 2011. Joe Lullo (Teddy Hodell) is a second year MFA acting student at UW Madison. Past UW credits include The Baker in Into The Woods and a Woodcutter in Blood Wedding. Joe spent the past summer out at American Players Theater. Prior to arriving in Madison, he toured with Missoula Children’s Theatre, and CLIMB Theater. He also acted for summer stock and dinner theatre venues in Wisconsin. Joe would like to thank the entire cast and crew for all of their amazing work on this ambitious and challenging production. Many thanks to all of my family and friends. Vivir! Kayla Mock (Interviewer/Flight Attendant) This UT fall season will begin Kayla’s third year with the theater department and third year at UW. She is a junior majoring in Gender and Women Studies and Theatre and Drama. Previous performances at UW include UT’s production of HAIR (2009) and UTA’s Dog Sees God (2010). This year, she began studying French as she plans to sow her wild oats in France before going to grad school to become a Certified Nurse Midwife at UCSF. Kayla’s life is all very interesting and frankly too short for this paragraph. To learn more, visit: http:// www.facebook.com/kaylamock1. Mon poulet botter les fesses de votre poulet! Santiago Sosa (Michael Majeski) is an MFA acting student from Guayaquil, Ecuador. In 2002 he earned a BFA in directing and a BFA in acting from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Santiago traveled as an actor for seven years after college working with companies such as Muse of Fire Shakespeare Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Company, Magic City Actors Theatre, Theatre Downtown, All Things to All People, as well as being the co-founder and artistic director of the From the Branch national touring theatre company based out of Birmingham, Alabama for five years and now he is here in Madison! Recently Santiago worked as an actor in the Apprentice Program at American Players Theatre.
jaki-terry (Delfina Treadwell) made her UW-Madison debut in last year’s production of Blood Wedding directed by Norma Saldivar. She was also in the spring production of The Zen Substitute directed by David Furumoto. A secondyear MFA-Acting/TCSA candidate, Ms. Terry is one of two contributing writers of Conversations, a play conceived and directed by Danielle-Aneesha Fuller that recently debuted at the Strand Theatre in Baltimore, MD. Christopher Tiernan (Interviewer/ Flight Attendant is very excited to be appearing in his second show with the University Theater. You may have seen him last spring as Cinderella’s Prince in UT’s production of Into the Woods, or as Black this summer in MTM’s production of The Wild Party. Originally from Los Angeles, Chris is a senior at UW Madison majoring in Theater and History. He would like to thank his family and friends for all of their support, as well as the design and production team who worked on Valparaiso for creating such a dynamic show.
Artistic/Production Staff Jeremy Thomas Poulsen (Director) is a 3rd year M.F.A. Directing candidate and this is his thesis production. For the university, he has directed The Lady from the Sea, First You’re Born, co-directed two evenings of one-act plays, which included his own play Hidden Lives; and assistant directed Blood Wedding, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Greeks. He has a B.A. in Directing and Theatre Producing from Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri, where he also served as assistant artistic director for Mind’s Eye Theatre for four years. He will soon be working with the Det Kongelige Teater (The Royal Theatre) and Betty Nansen Teatret in Copenhagen, Denmark. He would like to thank the wonderful team of actors, designers, and technicians for all their hard work; his mentor Professor Norma Saldivar; his two shining stars for watching over him; and his husband, Michael, for his love and support. Lauren Peterson (Choreographer/ Assistant Director) is a political science University Theatre 7
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W H O ’ S W H O ( c o n t .) major in her final semester. Past choreography includes The Wild Party with Music Theatre of Madison; Therapy: A Musical Revue and The Vagina Monologues with UTA; Mercury Players Theatre’s Blitz; and assistant choreography for Middleton Player’s Theatre’s The Rocky Horror Show. She thanks the many individuals at the university and in the community who have supported her over the last five years, especially Jeremy for the opportunity to work on this cutting-edge production and Norma Saldivar for teaching her to make active choices onstage and in life. Katie Gray (Costume Designer) is enjoying her 2nd year as an MFA graduate student in costume design at UW. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts from Susquehanna University. She is incredibly excited to represent the costume design branch of “Team Katie” for Valparaiso. Katie wishes to thank all of the family and friends who help to keep her (relatively) sane...more or less. Past productions include Closer, Narukami: The Thunder God, Three Days of Rain, The Lark and Waiting for Godot. Most recently, Katie designed University Theatre’s summer production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Dale Kaminski (Media Designer) is an artist that has been working in the field of performance for over 30 years as both a performer and technician. His current work exists at the intersection of the live and mediated. He utilizes the power of digital technologies to synergize a new hybrid of performance; one that can control a wide palette of emotive devices giving the audience an unprecedented experience. He is very happy to be involved with the UW-Theater department as he continues to work towards his Master of Fine Arts degree here in Madison. Katie H. Kudrick (Lighting Designer) A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Katie is a third year UW MFA student in Lighting Design. Her other design work includes Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (StageQ), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (University Theatre), Blood Wedding (University Theatre), UW’s 2010 MFA Kabuki Showcase, An Evening with
W H O ’ S W H O ( c o n t .) Fred Ho (UW Arts Institute), and Penn State URTC’s As You Like It and Six Degrees of Separation. Katie has also recently served Into the Woods, Hair, War of the Worlds, and Unto These Hills: A Retelling (Cherokee Indian Reservation, NC) either as Assistant Lighting Designer or Master Electrician. Katie would like to thank her family, fellow grad students, professors, and advisor Ann for their continued guidance and support. Katy Lai (Scenic Designer) is in her second year as a UW MFA student in scenic design. She designed The Lady from the Sea for UT last year. She worked as the Scenic Artist for UT’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Before moving to Madison, she was the Production Director for ABA Productions Ltd in Hong Kong and also Set Designer for Around the World in 80 Days and the Peter Pan Asia Tour 2007-2008. She also worked in stage management, production management and in all other aspects of technical theater in Vancouver, Canada and Hong Kong.
John Salutz (Sound Designer) is a fourth year undergraduate student, hoping to continue his education in graduate school. He has designed lighting and sound for several shows in Madison as well as elsewhere in Wisconsin, including Four Seasons Theatre’s Side by Side by Sondheim, the Peter Quince Performing Company’s The Pajama Game, and the Madison Theatre Guild’s Hot L Baltimore, which won the 2010 Bartell Theatre Award for Sound Design. He is very excited to be designing for the first time with University Theatre and would like to thank Ann Archbold, Bethany Heili, Casey Martin, and Karen Yesterdale. Christina Keryczynskyj (Technical Director) is excited to be working on her second show as a TD for UT. She is a super-senior emphasizing in technical direction and will be graduating in May with a degree in Theatre and Drama. Recent UT credits have included TD’ing The Revolt of the Beavers and ATD’ing Into the Woods
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W H O ’ S W H O ( c o n t .) and Narukami. Christina is happy to be moving on to new and exciting things after graduation, but she will greatly miss the family she has gained here. She would like to thank everyone that has supported her the last few years, including her family, friends, fellow students, mentors, and teachers. Alex Nelson (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working on her second show with Jeremy Thomas Poulsen. She is once again amazed by his ability to pull words off a page and turn them into magic. Aside from stage managing, Alex putters about in UW’s scene shop, and from time to time she even bothers to go to class! She has read every Oz book several times. Thanks to my fabulous
ASMs Nick and Mike, the ever supportive team SMUT, D. Stew, Chuck, all of the other teachers that inspire me, and my family and friends for tolerating me. Jeff Casey (Dramaturg) is a PhD Theatre Research student at UW-Madison in his second year. He earned a BA in Philosophy and English Literature and an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. His original play Hermetic was staged at UW-Madison last spring as part of the Theatre & Drama Graduate Student Association’s Open Stages project. His papa was a rodeo; momma was a rock ‘n roll band.
U N I V E R S I T Y T H E AT R E S TA F F Director of University Theatre..............................................................................David Furumoto General Manager..................................................................................................... Michele Traband Production Manager................................................................................................... David Stewart UT Technical Director.................................................................................................... Dan Lisowski Scene Studio Supervisor...........................................................................................Chuck Mitchell Costume Studio Supervisor...............................................................................................Jim Greco Electrics and Sound Studio Supervisor ................................................................. Casey Martin UT Office Manager.....................................................................................................Cindy Schkirkie House Managers.......................Mary McAvoy, Carol Carlson, Erin Hood, Liz Foster-Shaner PR/Marketing Assistant . .......................................................................................... Molly Richards Literary Manager....................................................................................................... Sandy Peterson Scene Shop Assistants................................................................Walter Claassen, Cynthia Dean, Katy Lai, Michael Maloney, Cole Muth, Allyn Weber, Jennifer Reider Lighting Assistants............... Katie Kudrick, Erik Barry, Jonathan de Leon, Brandi Mitchell Costume Assistants...............................................Katie Gray, Sarah Woodworth, Emily Smith DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DRAMA FACULTY, ACADEMIC AND CLASSIFIED STAFFS
Department Chair...................................................................................................Ann M. Archbold Acting/Directing Faculty/Staff........................................... Patricia Boyette, David Furumoto, Norma Saldivar, Patrick Sims, Susan Sweeney Design/Technical Faculty/Staff..........................Ann M. Archbold, Gail Brassard, Jim Greco, Dan Lisowski, Casey Martin, Chuck Mitchell, David Stewart, Joe Varga Theatre Research Faculty/Staff.......................................... Aparna Dharwadker, Kristin Hunt, Michael Peterson, Mary Trotter, Michael Vanden Heuvel, Manon van de Water Theatre for Youth Director........................................................................... Manon van de Water Theatre for Cultural and Social Awareness Director.............................................Patrick Sims Department Administrator...................................................................................Melinda Menard Departmental Office Staff................................................................. Jean Hauser, Brenda Weiss Departmental Advisor.............................................................................................Barbara Clayton 10 University Theatre
F R I E N D S O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y T H E AT R E The FRIENDS of UT is a group of individuals that serves as a support organization for UW Madison’s University Theatre, providing members with opportunities to connect with and offer support for student actors, dramaturgs, directors, and designers involved in University Theatre productions. FRIENDS of UT plan and host receptions prior to productions, enjoy exceptional performances together, and work to encourage broader awareness and appreciation of the UW Department of Theatre and Drama throughout the community. Funds raised by FRIENDS of UT will provide much needed production support, including technical enhancements such as state-of-the-art equipment upgrades, as well as special guest artist residencies that will support the training of our students. In the past, Friends of UT have enjoyed invitations to a special post-performance reception with Olympia Dukakis as well as a pre-performance discussion with show directors. They sponsored a visit with Anthony Rapp (from the original Broadway cast of RENT). Funds raised were used to support a Suzuki acting workshop with Brandeis Professor Eric Hill and several guest sound designers. This fall, the group will sponsor a day trip for FUT members and UT students to Ten Chimneys in Genesee Depot, WI. We are proud to share the names of the FRIENDS of UT with you throughout this season. FRIEND ($50-$249) Roger & Elizabeth Gray Heather & Samuel Murn Jeanne Whitish Guy Plunkett III & Joanne Harper Plunkett Louis & Julie Swedarsky Hal & Shirley Winsborough Susan Cook & Roger Pierson Dr. Jay & Sabrina Gold Shawn & George Klasek Bonnie D. Lewis Eric Mueller & Torrie Kopp Mueller
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