Looks like your trio of intrepid theater-goers - Jimmy Mitchell, Tatia Loring, and Russ Conway (... plus Faithful Tonto) are getting ready to head on out to Centralia, Washington next week-end to see our man Culp and Rita Moreno, on stage, in a benefit performance of LOVE LETTERS.
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We promise a full report of our adventures .... If anyone else is planning to attend, please let us know. Otherwise our little troop will cheer on Robert and proudly represent us all. I don't know the theater's policy about taking pictures, but with your 3 trained agents on hand, we'll arrange something ... (I'm packing my "lipstick cam" just in case).
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No, no, Russ! Haven't you been keeping up? Kelly's going to be live on stage, not in a film.
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The Chronicle - the newspaper up in the Centralia area - had an article about Bob and LOVE LETTERS the other week ...
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... and this week it's Rita Moreno's turn. Here's part of the article ....
Fox Theatre Welcomes Hollywood Legends
Moreno, Culp to Grace Centralia Stage
By Kathy Hall
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Two stars of the Hollywood variety will light up the stage of Centralia's historic Fox Theatre next week, as they bring A.R. Gurney's "Love Letters" to life.
"What's exciting is this is one night only. It won't happen again, and it won't happen anywhere else," said Scott White, president of Historic Fox Theatre Restorations." We want people in Lewis County to take pride in and enjoy this wonderful opportunity in theater."
Actors Rita Moreno and Robert Culp will perform "Love Letters" at 8 p.m. June 6, a one-time-only production being staged to benefit the restoration of the Fox Theatre.
"It is so unique. It's like nothing they've ever seen before," Moreno said of the production in a telephone interview from Berkeley, Calif., on Friday." It is going to absolutely engage (the audience) within minutes of the curtain going up. They'll say 'Oh my God, I'm so glad I came.'"
Moreno is the only woman to win the four biggest awards in show business the Oscar (for film), the Emmy (for television), the Tony (for stage) and the Grammy (for recording artists). She and Culp have worked together only once before, in an episode of the television series "Trackdown" in 1959. Moreno said she can't wait for the opportunity to work with Culp again.
"I can't wait to do it. I only wish we could have three or four more nights," she enthused. "I know we're just going to love it."
As you might imagine, "Love Letters" follows a couple through years of correspondence, from their early 20s until their 60s. It is a play director Ted Weiant has been doing for almost 20 years, and said the experience is never the same.
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"The theater keeps us human. It involves us in a way a movie can't involve us," Weiant said. "When you go to the theater, something else happens to you. When you're with another person and experience that cerebral, ethereal thing that can only happen in theater, you take that with you the rest of your life.
"Knowing the focus here is to restore a theater that has such importance to the community, we want to bring more people in," Weiant continued. "We want to share their experience and let people know the value of it."
For the full article, go to:
http://www.chronline.com/articles/2009/05/28/life/doc4a1ececa503fb885789112.txt
As always,
Tatia
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