
By A.R. Gurney
Director - Sue Beukema
Benefactor, Patron, Season and General Admission tickets will go on sale February 10, and are $15.00 for adults and $10.00 for youth.
The box office is staffed weekdays, starting February 10, from 12:00 - 1:00 PM and 6:30 - 7:30 PM, and one hour before each performance. For reservations, call our Box Office at 641-792-1230.
You are welcome to leave a message with your ticket request and phone number and the staff will reserve your tickets and call you back with confirmation.
When Andrew Makepeace Ladd III accepts an invitation to Melissa Gardner’s birthday party, and Melissa writes a thank-you note to ask just why he got her “The Lost Princess of Oz” (answer: she looks like a lost princess), a romantic friendship and correspondence destined to last for almost half a century is born. Both from affluent, East Coast families -- Melissa has more money, but Andy has better parents -- the friends communicate with each other through angst-ridden boarding school experiences, European adventures, failed marriages, and the ups and downs of career. Over the course of their lives, Andy and Melissa’s relationship goes through many changes, as the sometimes-sweethearts/sometimes-friends go through periods of estrangement, and the intense, clandestine affair which will accelerate Melissa’s emotional breakdown. Despite the painful differences which will ultimately tear them apart, they remain each other’s most trusted confidante, and are “true lovers” on paper, if not on the earth. A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters is a tender, tragi-comic, and nuanced examination of the shared nostalgia, missed opportunities, and deep closeness of two lifelong, complicated friends. While spanning five decades and numerous locations, it is staged simply, with two actors behind desks or sitting in cozy chairs, letting their words describe a world of emotion.
Who's Who in the Cast and Crew
Performance Date | Role | Actor |
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Feb 14 | Andrew Makepeace Ladd III Melissa Gardner | Jamie Grout Lynette Baker |
Feb 15 | Andrew Makepeace Ladd III Melissa Gardner | Lonnie Appleby Tiffini Steele |
Feb 16 | Andrew Makepeace Ladd III Melissa Gardner | Brad Magg Jessica Lowe Vokes |
Feb 21 | Andrew Makepeace Ladd III Melissa Gardner | Joel Mills Melissa Dalton |
Feb 22 | Andrew Makepeace Ladd III Melissa Gardner | Travis Padget Hilary Montalvo |
Feb 23 | Andrew Makepeace Ladd III Melissa Gardner | Conor Fudge Jennifer Earl |
Stage Manager | TBD |
Stage Crew | TBD |
Props | TBD |
Lights | TBD |
Sound | TBD |
Set Design & Construction | TBD |
Costumes | TBD |
Makeup | TBD |
Hair | TBD |
Approach
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