Viewing page 15 of 37

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[double line]]
CAST 
(in order of appearance)
Troy Maxson  JAMES EARL JONES
Jim Bono, Troy's friend RAY ARANHA
Rose, Troy's wife MARY ALICE
Lyons, Troy's oldest son by a previous marriage CHARLES BROWN
Gabriel, Troy's brother FRANKIE R. FAISON
Cory, Troy and Rose's son COURTNEY B. VANCE
Raynell, Troy's daughter KARIMA MILLER

The play is set in the backyard of the Maxson house, itself in an urban neighbourhood of a Northern American industrial city.

ACT I
Scene 1: A Friday evening, fall 1957.
Scene 2: The next morning.
Scene 3: A few hours later.
Scene 4: The following Friday.

ACT II
Scene 1: Saturday, fall 1957.
Scene 2: Friday, spring of 1958.
Scene 3: Three days later.
Scene 4: Two months later.
Scene 5: Summer of 1965.

THERE WILL BE ONE INTERMISSION BETWEEN ACTS

UNDERSTUDIES
Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.
Troy - Gilbert Lewis.
Rose - Ethel Ayler; Cory - Byron Keith Minns; Bono/Gabriel - Mike Hodge; Lyons - Vince Williams; Raynell - Tatyana Ali.

[[line]]

[[advertisement]]

[[boxed text- A big hit with theatregoers.
Elizabeth White.
Use the card that gets rave reviews.
The American Express [[Copyright symbol]] Card.
987 1st Ave., 759-7850.
Come to Elizabeth White,
your home away from home.
[[Copyright symbol]] American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. 
1987

[[image - black &white photograph of a credit card receipt, a pen and an American Express card]]

[[/advertisement]]

28

[[end of page]]
[[start of page]]

[[advertisement]]
  
[[line]] 
DEWAR'S PROFILE:
[[line]]

ALESSANDRA FERRI
HOME: New York, N.Y.
AGE: 23.
OCCUPATION: Principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre.
HOBBY: "Trying to find the time to have one."
LAST BOOK READ: Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar.
LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Dancing the lead in Romeo and Juliet and Giselle during the ABT's latest season. No mean feat. 
WHY DO I DO WHAT I DO: "All little girls want to be ballerinas; I just never changed my idea."
QUOTE: "I'm Italian, and we're never neutral. About anything".
PROFILE: Focused, passionate and strong-minded. At ninety-seven pounds, she's nobody's weakling.
HER SCOTCH: Dewar's "White Label" and Perrier. "After the barre, the bar. Where would you go to stretch out?"

[[image- black and white photograph of Alessandra Ferri sitting on the floor, wearing dancer's leggings and a tank top, staring into the camera with her head on her right shoulder. A bunch of roses in the background above her left shoulder, and in the ground in front of where she is sitting. In colour, a bottle and a glass of White Label Dewar's Blended Scotch Whiskey]]

86.8 PROOF: Copyright 1986 SCHENLEY IMPORTS CO. 
PO BOX 1169, RADIO CITY STATION, N.Y., N.Y. 10101

[[/advertisement]]