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
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
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! 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
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
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Lincoln and God at Kennedy Center September 3 4 PM 202 544 6973
THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Hosts as Part of the 2011 Page-to-Stage Festival
A SEVENTH STREET PLAYHOUSE STAGED READING OF
LINCOLN AND GOD
by Anthony E. Gallo
IN THE SOUTH OPERA TIER LOUNGE
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 at 4 PM
This two-act drama examines our sixteenth President’s conflict with men and God through defeats, triumphs, and tragedies during the Civil War. Did he hear God in the dialogue, actions, and words of wife Mary, the Reverend Phineas Gurley, friends, colleagues, and enemies? Abraham Lincoln is the only American President who did not claim church membership. What was his relationship with God all about -?-Was he an American Moses-?-or an American Herod? Remain for lively discussion afterward.
Cast and Crew
President Lincoln Jan Forbes
Reverend Phineas Gurley Shanker Singham
Nico Hay Tim Wolf
Mary Todd Lincoln Mellicent Singham
Emily Helm, Willy, Eddy Tarpley Long
Benjamin Helm, J. W. Booth, Captain Bruce Brennan
Roger Taney, Thomas Jones, Narrator Lenny Levy
Dr. Colchester, Woman, Narrator Bonnie Jourdan
Sound Designer and Director Beatrix Whitehall
Questions: Anthony E. Gallo 202 544 6973 agallo2368@verizon.net
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzer9r4g/lincolnandgod/
• NO CHARGE
• COMPLIMENTARY SHUTTLE FROM GW METRO STOP
• OR PARK AT THE KENNEDY CENTER
Hosts as Part of the 2011 Page-to-Stage Festival
A SEVENTH STREET PLAYHOUSE STAGED READING OF
LINCOLN AND GOD
by Anthony E. Gallo
IN THE SOUTH OPERA TIER LOUNGE
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 at 4 PM
This two-act drama examines our sixteenth President’s conflict with men and God through defeats, triumphs, and tragedies during the Civil War. Did he hear God in the dialogue, actions, and words of wife Mary, the Reverend Phineas Gurley, friends, colleagues, and enemies? Abraham Lincoln is the only American President who did not claim church membership. What was his relationship with God all about -?-Was he an American Moses-?-or an American Herod? Remain for lively discussion afterward.
Cast and Crew
President Lincoln Jan Forbes
Reverend Phineas Gurley Shanker Singham
Nico Hay Tim Wolf
Mary Todd Lincoln Mellicent Singham
Emily Helm, Willy, Eddy Tarpley Long
Benjamin Helm, J. W. Booth, Captain Bruce Brennan
Roger Taney, Thomas Jones, Narrator Lenny Levy
Dr. Colchester, Woman, Narrator Bonnie Jourdan
Sound Designer and Director Beatrix Whitehall
Questions: Anthony E. Gallo 202 544 6973 agallo2368@verizon.net
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzer9r4g/lincolnandgod/
• NO CHARGE
• COMPLIMENTARY SHUTTLE FROM GW METRO STOP
• OR PARK AT THE KENNEDY CENTER
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Active Schedule
Busy Schedule. Shooting “Charleston Revisited”, -Lincoln and God-Kennedy Center –September 3, “ Vandergrift!” at Lincolnia –September 12, and Knollwood September 19.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Margherita
NORTHWEST RETIRED MILITARY RESIDENCE
presents
A SEVENTH STREET PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTION OF
MARGHERITA
BY ANTHONY E. GALLO
THE JEWISH MOTHER OF FASCISM COMES TO WASHINGTON
Date July 20 2011, 7:00 PM Where: Gold Room
This historically- based two-act drama examines the 25-year relationship between Margherita Sarfatti and Benito Mussolini between 1911 and 1936 during a three-day encounter in 1939. Margherita, the most influential woman in Benito’s life, is trying to leave the country. He knocks at the door. She is well aware of what he wants. He knows what she wants.
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Cast and Crew:
Margherita Sarfatti Mellicent Singham
Benito Mussolini James Howard
James Bullock James McDaniel
Major Karl Klemmer Jan Forbes
Narrator, Assistant Director Sherman McDaniel
Sound Beatrix Whitehall
Reservations Required: Agallo2368@verizon.net or 202 544- 6973
You must have a photo I.D. to enter the building.
presents
A SEVENTH STREET PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTION OF
MARGHERITA
BY ANTHONY E. GALLO
THE JEWISH MOTHER OF FASCISM COMES TO WASHINGTON
Date July 20 2011, 7:00 PM Where: Gold Room
This historically- based two-act drama examines the 25-year relationship between Margherita Sarfatti and Benito Mussolini between 1911 and 1936 during a three-day encounter in 1939. Margherita, the most influential woman in Benito’s life, is trying to leave the country. He knocks at the door. She is well aware of what he wants. He knows what she wants.
.
Cast and Crew:
Margherita Sarfatti Mellicent Singham
Benito Mussolini James Howard
James Bullock James McDaniel
Major Karl Klemmer Jan Forbes
Narrator, Assistant Director Sherman McDaniel
Sound Beatrix Whitehall
Reservations Required: Agallo2368@verizon.net or 202 544- 6973
You must have a photo I.D. to enter the building.
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