The play centers on the lives of three Jewish widows. Lifetime friends – Ida, Doris and Lucille are part of a club, The Cemetery Club. Every month they meet at Ida’s house in New York for tea then trundle off to the cemetery to remember the good times and gossip with deceased husbands. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. Sam meets the widows at the cemetery while visiting his late wife and changes their lives forever.  A budding romance between Sam and Ida is squashed by Doris and Lucille (who later are guilt-stricken when their influence nearly breaks Ida’s heart).

PERFORMANCE DATES: October 9 – November 2, 1991

CAST: Ida – Jeanette Magouirk, Lucille – Mary Beth Riegel, Doris – Sarah Simpson/Brown, Sam – Steve Letro, Mildred – Carol Woydziak

CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Jill Austen, Assistant Stage Manager – Roger Maas, Light Board Operator – Chris Pyle, Costume Design – Joanne Welchel, Set Design – Darleen Smith, Claudia Pyle, Sarah Simpson/Brown, Courtney Simpson, Jim Brown, Light Board Operator – Greg Smith and Jim Johsnon, Hair/Make up – Johnny Martinez

MENU: Cream of broccoli soup, roast beef, parsley buttered potatoes, mixed vegetables, dinner roll, peach cobbler.  Catering provided by Faye Trent, Brona Love, Stacy Cross, Milly White, Darleen Clifton Smith, Claudia Pyle, Barry Metcalf, Ken Pervenanze, Dana Wilkening, members of the Company.

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