WRITTEN BY: Ellen Byron
PERFORMED AT: Corning Community College, Corning, NY
PERFORMED ON: July 17, 20, 24, 27, & 31; and August 3, 7, & 10, 1997
DIRECTOR: Clare Reidy
SPONSORED BY: CCC Two-Bit Players
CAST:
* RADIO D.J.- David Alan Scott Jr. (same as 1996 production)
* BEV- Ann Milliken Reidy
* ROOTIE- Shannon Molloy (same as 1996 production)

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

HISTORY: When the Fall '96 production of this play was being put together, Clare got me to record my voice as a D.J. announcement for the opening of the play. The recording (mixed in with excerpts of Elvis songs) was used for all three performances of that production.
Ten months later, the same recording is being used for a new version, using half of the same actors from the previous one.
This new "Graceland" was part of a newly-created summer festival called REVELS, a series of various plays performed from mid-July to mid-August.
The summer production of this play gave a total of eight performances. Adding that to the three from the previous year, "Graceland" will now be the play that I've performed in more times than any other--and I never even had to be onstage!
Though not onstage, I did attend the July 20 performance. Though my name wasn't listed in the summer program, it was mentioned in the pre-show announcement at the beginning of the show.

Since "Graceland" was being redone, it only made sense to bring back...

WRITTEN BY: Ellen Byron
DIRECTED BY: Clare Reidy
CAST:
* BEAU- Michael A. Malandra
* ROOTIE- Kelly McDermott Galvin (same as 1996 production)

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