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(in order of appearance)

“The Strangest Kind of Romance”

(A Lyric Play in Four Scenes)

The Landlady............................................................................... Beth Griffith*

The Little Man........................................................................ Franco Pistritto*

The Old Man............................................................................... Joseph Rose*

The Boxer.............................................................................. Clinton Faulkner

NOTE: The name of the cat, Nitchevo, means “nothing.”

Setting: A furnished room in a small industrial city of the middle-western states.

“Hello from Bertha”

Bertha....................................................................................... Gloria Sauvé*

Goldie.......................................................................................... Susan Case*

Lena..................................................................................... Valarie Tekosky*

Setting: A bedroom in a brothel in “the valley,” a notorious red-light section of
East St. Louis.

~~15-minute intermission~~

“The Last of My Solid Gold Watches”

Mr. Charlie Colton........................................................................ Joseph Rose*

Negro Porter........................................................................... Frank Bowman*

Harper....................................................................................... Kelly Gilmore

Setting: A hotel room in a Mississippi Delta town.

“Talk to Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen…”

The Woman........................................................................... Janet Girardeau*

The Man.................................................................................. Jeff Burchfield*

Setting: A furnished room west of Eighth Avenue, Manhattan.

“The Lady of Larkspur Lotion”^†

Mrs. Hardwicke-Moore............................................................. Marilyn Duryea*

Mrs. Wire................................................................................. Sheila Dehner*

The Writer..................................................................................... Mark Solari

^†Larkspur Lotion was a common treatment for body crabs and lice.

Setting: A furnished room in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

All plays are set in the mid-1940s–1950s.

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

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