Successful staging of Vandergrift! at Lincolnia in Virginia last night.

Some viewer comments

A note to let you know how much we enjoyed a staged reading of Tony Gallo's marvelous play "Vandergrift!" last night (Sept. 12) at the Lincolnia Senior Center in Fairfax County, VA. It should be required viewing for all borough residents, it's that good. For us, it brought back many fond memories. Inez is a Vandergrift native, of course, and after our marriage we spent nine years there before moving to Virginia in 1967. We visit Vandergrift periodically and it was our distinct pleasure to tour the museum earlier this year. What a grand enterprise, All involved should be proud.

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Faye and I thoroughly enjoyed "Vandergrift." You captured the essence of the industrial eras represented in a very entertaining fashion. At the finish I selfishly wished Ida Tarbell would have adhered to her fleeting determination to go to the Methodist Church, but I realize that would have been disloyal to McMurtry's preference for Presbyterianism. Thanks for having this delightful performance at Lincolnia

Vandergrift! @ Lincolnia in Fairfax

Lincolnia Senior Center in Virginia presents A Seventh Street Playhouse production of
VANDERGRIFT! by Anthony E. Gallo Monday, September 12, 7:30 PM
A historic comedy about a real town in Pennsylvania In the early 1890’s, steel tycoon George McMurtry tries to produce a unique marriage between architecture and industrialism to build a workingman's paradise in southwestern Pennsylvania designed by Frederic Law Olmstead. The issues then were immigration, the environment, labor unions, class distinctions, discrimination, and housing. Familiar? Of special interest to Presbyterians, steelworkers, Catholics, Scotch-Irish, Jews, Methodists, fortune tellers, Poles, labor unions, Italians, Pennsylvanians, segregationists, landscape architects, journalists, and stray dogs. Our American civilization?
Cast– Ida Tarbell- Tarpley Long ; George McMurtry -Jan Forbes; Frederic Law Olmsted, Jr. – Tim Wolf; Katherine Townsend–Jean Forbes; Archie Davis–Lenny Levy; John Dunmore –Bruce Brennan; Elbert Gary –Bruce Smith; Violet–Jean Forbes ; James Whitworth-James McDaniel; Burgess McIntyre – Pat Martin: Narrator-Bonnie Jourdan Sound Director:- Beatrix Whitehall; Questions: Agallo2368@verion.net or 202 544 6973 Lincolnia Senior Center 4710 N Chambliss St, Alexandria, VA 22312 (703) 914-0223 Cross Streets: Between Lincolnia Rd and Beauregard St No charge or donations: ALSO: AT MILITARY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE IN NW WASHINGTON, DC SEPTEMBER 19 AT 7 PM

Vandergrift! @ Lincolnia in Fairfax

Lincolnia Senior Center in Virginia presents A Seventh Street Playhouse production of
VANDERGRIFT! by Anthony E. Gallo Monday, September 12, 7:30 PM
A historic comedy about a real town in Pennsylvania In the early 1890’s, steel tycoon George McMurtry tries to produce a unique marriage between architecture and industrialism to build a workingman's paradise in southwestern Pennsylvania designed by Frederic Law Olmstead. The issues then were immigration, the environment, labor unions, class distinctions, discrimination, and housing. Familiar? Of special interest to Presbyterians, steelworkers, Catholics, Scotch-Irish, Jews, Methodists, fortune tellers, Poles, labor unions, Italians, Pennsylvanians, segregationists, landscape architects, journalists, and stray dogs. Our American civilization?
Cast– Ida Tarbell- Tarpley Long ; George McMurtry -Jan Forbes; Frederic Law Olmsted, Jr. – Tim Wolf; Katherine Townsend–Jean Forbes; Archie Davis–Lenny Levy; John Dunmore –Bruce Brennan; Elbert Gary –Bruce Smith; Violet–Jean Forbes ; James Whitworth-James McDaniel; Burgess McIntyre – Pat Martin: Narrator-Bonnie Jourdan Sound Director:- Beatrix Whitehall; Questions: Agallo2368@verion.net or 202 544 6973 Lincolnia Senior Center 4710 N Chambliss St, Alexandria, VA 22312 (703) 914-0223 Cross Streets: Between Lincolnia Rd and Beauregard St No charge or donations: ALSO: AT MILITARY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE IN NW WASHINGTON, DC SEPTEMBER 19 AT 7 PM