For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls (1998)

WRITTEN BY: Christopher Durang
PERFORMED AT: 171 Cedar Arts building, Corning, NY
PERFORMED ON: February 15
DIRECTOR: Stephen Miller
SPONSORED BY: 171 Cedar Arts
CAST:
* AMANDA, THE MOTHER- Jerine Gelder
* LAWRENCE, THE SON- David Alan Scott Jr.
* TOM, THE OTHER SON- Stephen Miller
* GINNY- Evelyn LaCroix

PLOT: A Southern dweeb (David Alan Scott Jr.) is introduced to a potential girlfriend (Evelyn LaCroix) by his brother (Stephen Miller). A one-act parody of a story called "The Glass Menagerie."

HISTORY: I never did get over the cancellation of CCC's Fall 1996 one-act production of "For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls". With me already cast as Lawrence, the play would have, in my opinion, kept me "in the loop" with the other CCC student actors. Instead, its cancellation was the beginning of the end of my initially high status with the CCC Two-Bit Players drama club.
One year and two months later, I got a call from Stephen Miller. He asked me if I was interested in doing a play with 171 Cedar Arts, which I hadn't before. I was delighted to find out that he wanted me to be in "For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls," and that I would be playing the same role that I would have had in the CCC production of it.
Rehearsals began the next day, with me finally making use of the script I had been given so long ago for that cancelled CCC production.
The play was performed along with a Christopher Durang monologue given by Mary Cameron. The show was part of a new acting program taught by Stephen Miller.

PHOTOS:
* Me and Jerine, during a rehearsal at the Masonic Temple (photo by Stephen Miller)
* The cast of "...Southern Belle" (photo grapher unknown)