WRITTEN BY: Ellen Byron
PERFORMED AT: Corning Community College, Corning, NY
PERFORMED ON: September 26-28, 1996
DIRECTOR: Clare Reidy
SPONSORED BY: CCC Two-Bit Players
CAST:
* RADIO D.J.- David Alan Scott Jr.
* BEV DAVIES- Sally Egan Wittig
* ROOTIE MALLERT- Shannon K. Molloy

PLOT: When music star Elvis Presely's Graceland mansion is opened to tourists, Bev (Sally Wittig) struggles with Rootie (Shannon Molloy) to see who'll be the first tourist to enter the building. A one-act comedy/drama.

HISTORY: On September 17, 1996, Clare asked me to record my voice for one of the audio-taped portions of this one-act play. Putting on a light Southern accent, I pretended to be a radio DJ playing an Elvis music marathon.
My part was recorded in between some excerpts of Elvis songs, and was played at the beginning of all three performances. It was the first role I ever performed without having to be onstage or backstage, though I did watch and video-tape the second performance. I also helped open and close the curtain during the third, last performance.
The same tape with my DJ announcement was used ten months later in a summer '97 production of the same show.

This play was part of a double-feature. The other one-act was...

WRITTEN BY: Ellen Byron
DIRECTOR: Clare Reidy
CAST:
* ROOTIE DEJAUN- Kelly McDermott Galvin
* BEAU DEJAUN- Thomas D. Schink

PLOT: The prequel to "Graceland," in which young Rootie (Kelly Galvin) watches her brother (Tom Schink) leave home to fight in the Viet Nam war.