Iowa Premiere Production
November 2-11, 2007
(Wed/Thur. at 7:30. Fri/Sat. at 8:00. Sun. at 3:00)
by Richard Greenberg
Directed by Stacy Lempares Brothers
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize of Drama
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Sponsored by Rich Eychaner
LINK TO THE DES MOINES REGISTER REVIEW.
"...what an enchanting and enchanted take on baseball Mr. Greenberg has created ... passionately personal and lyrically analytical. It's a sensibility that is so smart, raw and sincere all at once that you may find tears in your eyes ... an unconditional, all-American epiphany ... to cherish." -New York Times
Darren Lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion New York Empires, is young, rich, famous, talented, handsome and so convinced of his popularity that when he casually announces he’s gay, he assumes the news will be readily accepted by everyone. It isn’t.
Friends, fans and teammates react with ambivalence, and when the slipping Empires call up the young phenom Shane Mungitt to close their games, the ambivalence turns to violence.
Angry, lonely, guilt-ridden and confused, Darren finds some unlikely solace in the form of friendship with his new business manager, Mason Marzac—a brilliant but repressed guy, who, as everyone around him copes with disenchantment, blooms in the ecstatic discovery of baseball.
ADVISORY: Recommended for mature audiences, due to language, subject matter and nudity.
Production Team
Director...............................Stacy Lempares Brothers
Production Stage Manager....Piper Harlan
Scenic Designer................. Jim Wilcox
Lighting Designer.................Jim Trenberth
Props Coordinator................Joy Kripal
Set Construction..................Paul Mostrom
Costumes............................Malary Harris
Cast
Davey Battle.................Pernell Ferguson
Toddy Koovitz..............William Mort
Mario Rodriguez...........Jon Schroeder
Kippy Sunderstrom.......Jordan Whalen
Jose Martinez.............. Enrique Cruz
Skipper .......................J.P Richardson
Mason Marzac..............Ellis J. Wells
Jason Chenier ..............Don Watts
Darren Lemming............Edward Vasquez
Shane Mungitt..............Adam Sandroni
Takeshi Kawabata........ Chris King
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