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September 3, 2004                                         Contact:  Don Weiss

                                                                                        First Run Theatre

                                                                                        (314) 680-8102

                                                                                        d_weiss@firstruntheatre.com

 

Reading of Tennessee Williams’ Play “A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur”

 

CREVE COEUR –It wasn’t too long ago when you could take a ride on the St. Louis County Streetcar Line from St. Louis City to Creve Coeur Lake and think you were deep in the country. Go back to those days for the reading of Tennessee Williams’ play “A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.”

 

The event will be held Saturday, September 18, at 8 p.m. at CityPlace Auditorium (CityPlace I). Ticket pricing is as follows: Door price/ $20. Advanced Reservation $15/general public and $10/seniors (age 60+) & students (with valid ID). Call 680-8102 to call in reservations. You may pay at door with cash or check. Limited reservations, so call now. Ticket price includes reception following reading of play.

 

CityPlace I is located just north of Olive Blvd and CityPlace Drive, behind Provisions Restaurant. Parking is available in the parking garage. Disabled parking and seating is available.

 

The play is set in 1935 where Dorothea, a youngish high school civics teacher, rooms with Bodey, a plain but kind-hearted German-American spinster. Dorothea dreams of marriage to her lover, the principal. Bodey, in an attempt to spare her feelings, hides the morning newspaper, which carries a notice of the principal’s engagement to another. Bodey also hopes to make a match between Dorothea and her fat, cigar-smoking brother and tries to persuade Dorothea to join them for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake.

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Their departure is delayed by the arrival of Helena, a snobbish, tart-tongued art teacher, who wants Dorothea to share an apartment with her in “La Due.” In between, Miss Gluck, the upstairs neighbor, a spinster whose mother has recently passed away, enters the scene with hilarious results. A nearly slapstick struggle evolves between Bodey and Helena for Dorothea’s future.

 

The reading of the play is sponsored by the cities of Creve Coeur and Olivette and produced by First Run Theatre, the new live theatre company-in-residence at DeSmet High School.

 

Event proceeds to benefit First Run Theatre and the Tappmeyer Homestead Foundation. First Run Theatre is dedicated to producing new, unpublished plays by St. Louis-area playwrights with the core purpose to discover the next Tennessee Williams. The Tappmeyer Foundation is working to raise the necessary funds to preserve, restore, and furnish the 1880s Tappmeyer Homestead consistent with an early St. Louis County farm home.

 

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