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Three Postcards
February 9, 2004
CARROLLTON, GA - Step into a trendy Manhattan restaurant where the wine is divine, the music captivating and the conversation stimulating, and join the University of West Georgia Theatre Company as it explores the ups and downs in the lives of three life-long friends in Three Postcards.
The company will present the off-beat, imaginative musical play by Craig Lucas and Craig Carnelia at the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 18-21, at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Feb. 22, at 2:30 p.m.
Three Postcards focuses on the revealing conversations of three young women— Big Jane, Little Jane and K.C.— who share their daydreams and memories while meeting for dinner. Three Postcards was named one of the year’s 10-Best in Time Magazine and is included in the Burns-Mantle anthology Best Plays of 1986-1987 as Best Musical of the Season.
For his work as a writer, playwright Craig Lucas has received the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Obie and the Outer Critics Circle and George and Elizabeth Marton awards, as well as fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. The author of the movies Prelude to a Kiss, Longtime Companion and Reckless, he has also received three Drama Desk nominations and a Tony nomination, and he has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Song and lyrics writer Craig Carnelia has been in the musical theatre scene since 1978, and he has won a number of major songwriting awards. He is a 1991 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theater Award recipient and has received a Tony nomination for his work. Carnelia has also written the lyrics for the Broadway musicals Sweet Smell of Success and Is There Life After High School.
The cast of the musical includes Michelle Theriac from Cumming, Stephanie Polhemus from Atlanta, Andrea Washington from Newnan, Tim Reynolds from Savannah and Bernie Wong from Carrollton.
Tickets are free for students and employees of West Georgia and $5 for the general public. For more information or to make a reservation, call the Townsend Center at 770-836-6694 or visit its web site at www.townsendcenter.org.
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