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an evening with the tart-tongued daughter of Theodore Roosevelt
"If you haven't got anything good to say about anyone, come and sit by me." Editor's Pick - Washington Post ***** (five stars) Maryland Theatre Guide WashingtonPost.com It's June of 1971. Tricia Nixon is getting married. And every reporter in town is determined to interview the last bride married in the White House, 80-something year old Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Alice was the ultimate political celebrity. Her father was perhaps America's favorite President, Theodore Roosevelt; she married a future Speaker of the House. She was tall, gorgeous, and outrageous. Everywhere she went, Alice made headlines for her shocking behavior. It drove her father crazy. The ghost of TR haunts Alice and forces her to confront the truths in her own life: her unhappy relationship with her daughter, the infidelity of her husband, her own marital indiscretion, and the lifelong quest for her father's approval. For press inquiries, please contact Kate Donnelly 413-351-1057 Kdonnelly278@g.rwu.edu Joy Davidson (Alice Roosevelt Longworth) debuted in Rossini's "Cenerentola" with Greater Miami Opera and has sung with the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala Milano, New York City Opera, Madrid Opera, and San Francisco Opera. She performed her signature role, Bizet's "Carmen," more than 300 times. In concert, she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and the Leningrad Symphony. Davidson returned to the theatrical stage in 1999 for Terrence McNally's "Master Class." She performed the role of Maria Callas in another play by Alma H. Bond, "Maria: The Life and Loves of Maria Callas." The one-woman show premiered at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, FL and sold out the Kravis/Rinker Theatre in West Palm Beach. "Alice: An Evening with the Tart-Tongued Alice Roosevelt Longworth" by Kitty Felde, gave Miss Davidson an opportunity for a second one-woman tour de force at the Philharmonic Center in 2010. In the 2012 season, the Philharmonic Center for the Arts has engaged Miss Davidson for "Tea at Five" by Matthew Lombardo which captures the fiery spirit of Katharine Hepburn in another one-woman show. Will Cooke (Theodore Roosevelt) has appeared in many dramatic and musical productions for the past thirty-five years in Central New York. Locally he has performed with Studio Theater (Hugh, THAT FACE), Taffety Punk (John Dee, BURN YOUR BOOKES), Vpstart Crow (Henry II, THE LION IN WINTER), Virginia Shakespeare Festival (Norfolk, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS), and others. He is a graduate of Georgetown University (A.B.), holds a certificate from The British American Drama Academy, and an MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting of the George Washington University. Stevie Zimmerman (director) trained at the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds in England, where she was awarded a Master's degree, with Distinction in Directing. She received her Bachelor's degree from Oxford University. As Associate Professor of Theatre at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford, she directed many productions, including Ibsen's Ghosts, Euripides' The Trojan Women, The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville Barker, Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado About Nothing, Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Necessary Targets by Eve Ensler, Lorca's Yerma, and Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel. At the newly formed Playhouse on Park, she directed the first professional production to ever be mounted in West Hartford, Collected Stories by Donald Margulies and A.R. Gurney's Love Letters. Stevie made her DC area debut with By Jeeves at 1st Stage Theatre. DCTheatreScene.com said, "Heroic performances bespeak a heroic director; this one is Stevie Zimmerman!" Kitty Felde (author): By day, she's a public radio reporter covering Capitol Hill. But in real life, Kitty Felde is an award-winning playwright. |
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