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By Molière
A New Adaptation by Stephen Wrentmore
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By Molière, a new adaptation by Stephen Wrentmore
KAREN AZENBERG DIANE L. PARISI Artistic Director Interim Managing Director
3 The theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY The Roy W. and Elizabeth E. Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre
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BAIDOO CELESTE CIULLA SOFIA JEAN GOMEZ LUCY LAVELY KATE MIDDLETON ANDREA MORALES XAVIER REYES ALEX WALTON LINA BOYER GRAYSON KAMEL ZAC THORN Scenic Design Costume Design L ighting Design YOON BAE BRENDA VAN DER WIEL BRIAN TOVAR Sound Design Hair & Makeup Designer Production Stage Manager BRYCE ROBINETTE SAMANTHA WOOTTEN TR ACEY WOOLLEY Fight Choreographer Music Production ZAC CURTIS JULES BENJAMIN & CHRIS PORTER STEPHENDirectorWRENTMORECastingbyBOBCLINECASTING
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Bryce Robinette
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Emily Nacrissa Griffith* Fight Captain
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Sofia Jean Gomez*
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Léandre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tracey Woolley* Stage Manager
ZAC THORN
Zerbinette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ADRIAN BAIDOO*
CELESTE CIULLA*
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XAVIER REYES* Scapin KATE MIDDLETON* ANDREA MORALES*
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LINA BOYER
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association SETTING & TIME Italy, 1960’s by Jules Benjamin and Chris Porter
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ZERBINETTE, HYACINTHA, NERINE
Production Stage Manager
SOFIA JEAN GOMEZ*
Sara Clark, Ivy Frampton, Tredway Driggs, Kandansky, Timpson
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DIRECTOR’S6 NOTE
“Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be done in their day. The work is done, and the virtue of the book has expired.”
It is a flawed offering for a complicated world, presented with a twinkle in the eye and love at its heart . So welcome to Scapin, a play conceived for Pioneer Theatre Company . This world premiere belongs to you . My thanks to the team at Pioneer and this remark able and talented cast, creatives, and crew . Sit back, turn off notifications, and enjoy .
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Sitting in the bookshop at the National Theatre in London, reading my fourth or fifth translation of a different Molière play, an idea hit me . All the scripts I was reading were terrific, inspiring… and entirely of their time . That’s what we needed; An adaptation for our time . I phoned artistic director Karen Azenberg and shared the idea you are about to see…
Actors were, historically, known as players, and play has been a central part of how we put this show together, playing with ideas, words, and our bodies . And laughter, I can’t remember so much laughter in a rehearsal room . Comedy is a serious business, and after so many months of navigating the global pandemic, and its ongoing threat to all of us, it has been cathartic and wonderful to create this show .
“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
Scapin is the naughty servant who, through mischief and misadventure, exposes the fragility of authority . Scapin is a satire, a farce that intends to entertain with a sting in its tail (tale) . Molière was a satirist like Cruickshank, Voltaire, Philip Guston, or Trey Parker and Matt Stone . He holds ‘as t’were the mirror up to nature’ and reminds us that power is there to be mocked and interrogated, not idolized and worshiped .
Stephen Wrentmore, September 2022
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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST
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CIULLA (Arganta) Celeste is thrilled to be back at PTC for the 5th time, having appeared here previously in The Lion In Winter, Clybourne Park, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth. Some of Celeste’s other favorite roles have included: Laura in Tea & Sympathy, Jane in THIS, Costanza in Enchanted April, Tamora in Titus Andronicus, and Gertrude in Hamlet. She is also thrilled to be working with Stephen Wrentmore for a second time! Celeste is a native New Yorker, a graduate of Northwestern and Harvard Universities, a caterer, runner, rock climber, tennis player, violinist, and narrator of almost one hundred audio books with Recorded Books. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA. celesteciulla.com
ADRIAN BAIDOO (Léandre) is from Ghana, Africa by way of Steeler Nation Pittsburgh. Broadway: The Inheritance. Off-Broadway: Separate And Equal (59E59); Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana... (Here); Pirira (West End Theater); On Striver’s Row (Metropolitan Playhouse). Broadway First National Tour: Cinderella. Regional: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, The Muny, Music Theatre Wichita, WVPT. TV: “Royal Pains.” Film: Your Labs Are Normal. Numerous Commercials and Print. BFA University of Michigan and Moscow Art Theatre School Graduate. @AdrianBaidoo
KATE MIDDLETON (Scapin) returns to PTC after appearing in A Few Good Men, Alabama Story, and Oslo. Credits include Broadway/Off-Broadway: Music City (Ground UP Productions), Women Without Men (Mint Theatre), Shear Madness (New World Stages), The Other Place (MTC), The Late Christopher Bean (TACT), Asymmetric (59E59), Pratfalls (Abingdon). Select Regional: Roe at The Goodman (Chicago) and The Fountain (LA), The Huntington, St. Louis Rep., GEVA, Cape Playhouse, Dorset Theatre Festival, Triad Stage, Playmakers Rep., NJ Shakespeare, Weston Playhouse, Warehouse Theatre, Bickford Theatre. TV: “Chicago Fire,” “Elementary,” “Blacklist,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Blue Bloods,” “Mercy,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” Comedy Central. Film: Boston Strangler (2022), The Tender Bar, Spoiler Alert, Set It Up, Noah Wise, 40th, Obits, Showing Up, TIC, April Flowers.
KateMiddletonActress.comANDREAMORALES (Hyacintha) is thrilled to be back at PTC, last seen in the Play-by-Play reading of The Anatomy of Love. Off-Broadway: Chains (Mint Theatre) Regional: Buried Child, Three Musketeers (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Pinkolandia (Two River Theatre), In A Million Years (Ancram Opera House), A Christmas Carol (Kansas City Rep). TV Credits include “Prodigal Son” (FOX), “The Blacklist” (NBC), “Bull” (CBS). For Mikey, always.
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SOFIA JEAN GOMEZ (Géronta) NY credits: Angels in America: Parts 1&2 (Signature Theatre Company), Call and Response written and directed by Patricia McGregor (Public Theatre), Page 73 Productions, New World Stages, Manhattan Theatre Club, New Georges, and Lake Lucille Chekhov Project. Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Old Globe, Yale Repertory, Berkeley Repertory, San Diego Repertory, Goodman Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, Arizona Theatre Company, and The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ. American Theatre magazine named her as the “Actors Playwrights Love.” Yale School of Drama. Intimacy Coordinators of Color Captain Certification. In process: training in Filipino Martial Arts and the Power of Ki with Ka’imi Kuoha.
LUCY LAVELY (Zerbinette) is a New York City based artist, thrilled to return to PTC! She loves Shakespeare, Sondheim, salsa and chips, all the cool shows she’s done, and new plays! Her favorite credits include the world premiere of Possessing Harriet, where Lavely portrayed Elizabeth Cady Stanton at Syracuse Stage, Macbeth (Orlando Shakes & Theater at Monmouth), One Man Two Guvnors (PTC), The White Snake (Baltimore Center Stage), Other Desert Cities (Asolo Repertory Theatre), The Taming (Shakespeare & Co.). Proud member of AEA & SAG/AFTRA. Graduate of the University of Notre Dame (BA) & FSU/Asolo Conservatory (MFA). Lucy runs the Night Shift Theatre Company and is a licensed NYC tour guide. Gratitude to Karen Azenberg, the PTC team, the cast and crew, and thanks to YOU for joining us! @rainbowdaylucy
XAVIER REYES (Sylvestre) Xavier is a Puertorican actor, quite ecstatic to be part of this play! Having worked in the US, Puerto Rico, Japan, and Canada, some credits include: Kinky Boots Broadway National Tour, Night at the Museum, Anna in the Tropics (Barrington), Trading Places (Alliance Theatre), Fun Home, Hair, In The Heights, Rent, West Side Story, and my favorite: Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, here at PTC! Thank you, God, universe, creatives, cast, Bob, Karen and BLOC. Thank you, audience members, for showing up, supporting and being a part of this! I dedicate this piece to Peter Francis James for instilling the love of language once again, Greg Bostwick for allowing me to explore and have fun with stylistic acting and Norm Johnson, a pillar of my actor formation. Alum of Ithaca College.
BRENDA VAN DER WIEL (Costume Designer) is part of the design faculty for the University of Utah Theatre Department and serves as head of the Performing Arts Design Program. She designs regularly for that department as well as for PTC, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and The Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Her
(Octave) Alex Walton is absolutely thrilled to be making his Pioneer Theatre Company debut! Recent credits include Andrew in I Hate Hamlet (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), Henry in Next to Normal (Fulton Theatre), Claude in Hair (Forestburgh Playhouse), and Alex in Hit the Wall at the NYC’s infamous landmark, The Stonewall Inn. TV/Film credits include FBI:Most Wanted and David in the feature film Extra Innings (Amazon Prime). Endless thanks to WTG, the entire Scapin team, and his amazing family.
is making his PTC debut. He is in his final year in the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah. Having almost completed his college journey he is excited to get out into the world and make a life for himself, and he’s just as excited to be in this production of Scapin.
ZAC THORN (Carle) is thrilled to make his debut on the PTC stage. He is in his senior year in the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah. He recently performed in liminal at the University. Zac would like to thank his parents and family for their support, as well as the Victor Jory and Robert Hyde Wilson scholarships for contributing to his STEPHENeducation.WRENTMORE
Design) Previously for PTC, Bae designed costumes and set for The Messenger, the set for Once, and costumes for Once On This Island. Other credits include Don Giovanni (Welsh National Opera), Candide (Tokyo), Closer (Seoul), Oedipus El Rey, The Great Gatsby, Three Sisters, The Importance of Being Earnest, Emma, The Sunshine Boys, Evita, Murder On The Orient Express, The Magic Flute, Anything Goes, As You Like It. UK world premieres include Running the Silk Road (Barbican), Three Thousand Troubled Threads (Edinburgh International Festival), Bedevilled (Crucible), Disconnect, Caridad Svich’s Archipelago, and Howard Barker’s Wounds To The Face. She is a professor at the University of Kentucky, and a member of Local USA 829 and Wingspace. yoonbae.com
LINA BOYER (Nérine) is so excited for the opportunity to be a part of this wonderful play. This is her first show at PTC. Lina is currently a senior in the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah, where she has recently appeared in The Thanksgiving Play and Night Witches. She would like to thank her friends and family for their continued support as well as the John Ballard and Karen Miller scholarship
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(Director & Adaptor) is an award-winning British theatre director, dramaturg, producer, writer, and academic. He teaches at the University of Kentucky. He was Artistic Producer at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts, Associate Artistic Director of Arizona Theatre Company, Artistic Director of the Byre Theatre, St Andrews, and has worked at The National Theatre in London and Tate Gallery. He has directed internationally in theatres from Siberia to San Francisco. Stephen studied at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Oklahoma City University. He was visiting academic at the University of Oxford in 2009 and is a Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme. He is a proud member of SDC.
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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST
SAMANTHA M. WOOTTEN (Hair & Makeup Designer) is excited to join PTC and the University of Utah as Wig Master. Previous career highlights include Wig Master for the Washington National Opera in D.C., Wig and Makeup Designer for Glimmerglass Opera in N.Y., Associate Wig Master for the Los Angeles Opera in CA, and Wig Master for the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.
BRYCE ROBINETTE (Audio Engineer/Sound Designer) is excited to start his first season here at Pioneer Theatre Company. He has toured across the country running theatrical and concert productions such as: the Australian Off-Broadway Company, The Temptations, Pat Benatar, Superband, and many more.
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST
ZAC CURTIS (Fight Choreographer) Zac is a Professor of Theatre Performance at Salt Lake Community College. He also works as an actor, director, and fight director, most recently with Utah Opera, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Westminster College, and the University of Utah. Zac is an instructor of Stage Combat through Dueling Arts International.
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work at PTC includes Sweeney Todd, Fences, Outside Mullingar, Alabama Story, Rent, and Emma. Some favorite designs for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival include Annie, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, and The Count of Monte Cristo. Her work at Utah Shakespeare Festival includes Mary Poppins, Treasure Island, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
BRIAN TOVAR (Lighting Design) Brian is an award winning and Drama Desk nominated lighting designer who has created original work for major Off-Broadway and regional theaters, everywhere. His body of work spans theater, dance, installations, and live events. Brian has developed and collaborated on multiple groundbreaking and award-winning live experiences, earning multiple Clio Awards. Brian is a frequent collaborator with the City of New York and has created and designed multiple art installations in New York City. @tovarbri, BrianTovarDesign.com
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ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA): founded in 1913, represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers nationwide. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #equityworks
EMILY NACRISSA GRIFFITH (Stage Manager) has worked with Pioneer Theatre Company for six seasons. She graduated from UVU with multiple awards for her work, including the Kennedy Center’s Meritorious
Achievement Award. She has also managed Sundance’s Summer Theatre for the past two seasons.
BOB CLINE (Casting) is the founder of Bob Cline Casting in New York. He has cast film, TV, commercials, over 75 national tours, and numerous regional theaters across the country and has been associated with the casting for PTC for many years. Cline is currently a proud faculty member in Pace University’s theatre program, in charge of the senior BFA musical theatre majors. He is the Associate Director of Broadway Artists Alliance, enjoys working with The Open Jar Institute, and often teaches through The Growing Studio and The Actor’s PIONEERLoft.THEATRE
TRACEY WOOLLEY (Production Stage Manager) Some favorite credits include Blue Man Group , Cirque Du Soleil’s Mystere, Dragone’s Le Reve (Las Vegas); Off-Broadway: The Book of Merman (St Luke’s Theater), Verso (New World Stages), The Brobot Johnson Experience (Bushwick Starr); Heathers (New World Stages); Phoenix (Cherry Lane Theatre); 1st National Tour of The Lincoln Center Production of South Pacific, The HipHop Nutcracker ; Regional: The Buddy Holly Story, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Grease, The Witches of Eastwick - National Premiere (The Ogunquit Playhouse), The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (The Cape Playhouse). Proud member of AEA, but even more proud to be a member of my family. Love you guys! CTR
CHRIS PORTER is a songwriter, producer, singer and writer. He’s written with, and for, all sorts of artists including Dagny, Dzeko, Maggie Szabo, Darla Jade and hit the No.1 spot with Thailand’s Singto Numchok. His songs pop up all over: “Love Is Blind” (Netflix), “The One Show” (BBC), “Black Mirror” (Netflix/C4), “Too Hot To Handle” (Netflix), “Children In Need” (BBC), an international placement for Toyota. He wrote and produced the end credits song for Lord Attenborough’s final movie Closing the Ring and also co-wrote same for 2015’s movie Swung. He’s working on exciting material with emerging artists in the UK and internationally, including a project recorded at Abbey Road 2 that’s due for release next year.
COMPANY (PTC): Now celebrating its 61st season, the award-winning PTC is Utah’s premiere professional theatre company and a leading arts organization of the West. Led by Artistic Director Karen Azenberg and Interim Managing Director Diane L. Parisi, PTC presents world-class productions that celebrate diversity in culture and society and serve as the connecting bridge between art and scholarship as an affiliate of the University of Utah.
JULES BENJAMIN is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer and producer. As a live performer he has worked extensively with chart-toppers Chris Farlowe, PP Arnold, Peter Noone, Mike d’Abo, Danny Williams, Glenn Tilbrook, The Fortunes, The Merseybeats and many others, as well as billing with such greats as Olly Murs, Status Quo, Cher Lloyd, Bad Manners and Paul Heaton. As a composer and producer, Jules’ music has graced numerous short films, videos, and the 2018 feature film Artichoke, as well as many corporate projects. Jules has released 13 studio albums and is currently writing a musical about Cuban poet and revolutionary José Martí.
WHO’S WHO IN THENoahCASTBodnar and the U of U Covid Testing Team MaryMattRydmanMunro PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY gratefully acknowledges the following businesses and individuals for their contributions to this production:
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Presenting: Vérité dans le Verre (truth in glass)
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$20,000 UFIRST AWARDS IN SCHOLARSHIPS EACH YEAR 5 TOLOCATIONSCAMPUSLEARNMORESCAN The purpose of this scholarship is to provide financial assistance to students and credit union members whose values and goals reflect the credit union and our outstanding community. In order to qualify for this scholarship, you must be a member of UFirst Credit Union and be currently enrolled in an accredited 2 year or 4 year university or college. Each year, UFirst Credit Union awards $20,000 in scholarships to collegiate students. Those funds are awarded to twelve different individuals: two scholarships in the amount of $5,000, and ten scholarships in the amount of $1,000. Each regular semester (Fall and Spring), UFirst will award six scholarships to qualified applicants. This means that if you are not selected to receive a scholarship in the current semester, you may apply again during a UTAH SHAKES PEARE OUR 2023 SEASON JUNE 21 - OCTOBERVAL7FESTI CORIOLANUS BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE EILEEN AND ALLEN ANES STUDIO THEATRE TIMON OF ATHENS BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WEST SIDE STORY BASED ON A CONCEPTION OF JEROME ROBBINS BOOK BY ARTHUR LAURENTS • MUSIC BY LEONARD BERNSTEIN LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE ENGELSTAD SHAKESPEARE THEATRE A RAISIN IN THE SUN BY LORRAINE HANSBERRY THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
JONATHAN SAYER, AND HENRY SHIELDS THE RANDALL L. JONES THEATRE JANE AUSTEN'S EMMA BOOK, MUSIC, AND LYRICS BY PAUL GORDON • ORCHESTRATIONS BY BRAD HAAK, PAUL GORDON, AND BRIAN ALLAN HOBBS • BASED ON THE NOVEL BY JANE AUSTEN Bard.org • 800-playtix
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Annual Fund Support from Individuals
Cathie Meldrum
Patricia Dalgleish Ashby and Anne Cullimore Decker Michael D. Drews Liz and Rob Ence Lars and Susan Erickson
Dinesh and Kalpana Patel Stan and Jill Vandertoolen Zoe and Lon Richardson, Jr. Harris Simmons
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Roger and Susan Pyper George C. Rackham, Jr. Marv and Beth Rallison Kent and LaRae Scott
Jeff RichardParisKoehn and Sheryl Scott Charitable Fund
Marion Markham
Larry and Sheila Stevens Susan Dolan Stevens
Roger and Mary Lowe
Kathie and Chuck Horman
Ralph and Kayleen Simmons A.J. and Leah Smith
David and Donna Lyon
Dale A. and Rachel B. Kimball
Guy L. and Elaine Thompson Robyn Toone
Lynn C. Miller
Director’s Club ($2,500 – $4,999)
George Maxwell in Memory of Shannon Elizabeth and Amanda Larae AshleyMichaelMaxwellE.NashandBrett Neilson
JudyAnonymousBradyand Drew W. Browning
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Brenda Mueggenborg Maura and Serge Olszanskyj Steve and Alisa Parks
Karen Brewster
Tom and Marsha Swegle
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Robert Lence
Cheryl and Willem Groot Beth C. and Peter T. Hanlon Nancy Melich and J. Alexander Hemphill Lee and Audrey Hollaar Bruce and Maxine Johnson
Most individual donors to PTC choose to support the general work of the company. There are also opportunities to contribute gifts of $5,000 or more to specific productions or projects. For more information call 801-581-6960.
Stephen and Lynda Jacobsen Lofgren Family
John DavidSandraSusanD’ArcyF.FlemingE.GearyE.andSherrie
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David and Julianne Seal Lou Ann Stevens
James L. Macfarlane Gregory and Cynthia Phillips
Alice AssociatesSteiner($1,000 - $2,499)
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A horror comedy that follows a bizarre, broken, and blisteringly brazen journey in reverse.
by Morag Shepherd
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Oh, and they can fly.
Siblings Skye (Sydney Shoell) and Callum (Benjamin Young) love each other, hate each other, and need each other.
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Thomas P. Dillon
Ellen DamonFarrerand Brenda Fedor
Anne and Sandy Dolowitz
Robert and Sue Dintelman
Jennifer Linford
Gary and Ruth Manville John and Pamela Marks
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Angela Brickey in Memory of Clarice Holt
Dennis Coon
Brad and Leslie Campbell Carolyn Carey
Jody
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Dane and Kathy Finerfrock
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Robert Chamberlain
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