Dinner with Friends

Welcome!

Please bookmark this page for future reference. It will serve as the quickest way to get updates to the rehearsal calendar, cast and crew list and other important information, along with other resources that will help us as we put together this show. Our poster design is now ready for you to download and print on 8 1/2x 11" paper for handy distribution to your friends and relatives, and the final T-shirt art is ready to preview!

In case you hadn't guessed, your director is a geek. I spend my workday tethered to the Internet; the best way to reach me quickly is by e-mail, and I always check it from home before heading to the theater.

If you need to miss a rehearsal due to illness or emergency, back up your e-mail with a phone call to the theater answering machine at 928-4603.

If you come across Web sites that might be useful to the cast or crew, send them to me, and I'll add them to the page.

What's here:

• On-line resources
• Cast and crew list (version 2.3 - more crew members added; printable .pdf format)
• Rehearsal calendar
• Map to off-site rehearsals
• Important dates
• T-shirt art & price list (get your order to Heather Emberson by retreat, Dec. 30).

On-line resources

• ACT Web page for this production
• Donald Margulies on Wikipedia
• Donald Margulies' faculty page at Yale
• PBS interview with Margulies on winning the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner With Friends
• New York Times article on the play's Pulitzer
• Playbill interview with Margulies
• Recipes for the dishes mentioned in Act I
  • Salsa al pomodoro (fresh tomato sauce)
  • Grilled rosemary lamb chops
  • Pan-seared scallops with pumpkin risotto
  • Limon-mandorle-polenta (Lemon almond polenta cake) - improved recipe with US measurements; I cut it in half for the version we sampled at rehearsal on Nov. 19 and pronounced it delicious.

Important dates

• Oct. 7, 6:30 p.m. - Board meeting. Budget approved
• Oct 22-24 - Auditions, 7:30 p.m., ACT. All crew members are encouraged to attend.
• Monday, Oct 29, 7 p.m. (NOTE TIME): First read-through. All cast and crew.
• Monday, Nov. 19 - Cast photos and poster photo will be shot by Charlie Prince before rehearsal. Please be at the theater by 7:30 pm
• Saturday, Dec. 1 - DWF cast and crew usher for "Goodbye, Charlie." Please be at the theater by 7 p.m.
• Sunday, Dec. 8 (optional) - Volunteer open house at ACT, 1-4 p.m. If you're interested in learning more about the theater and how it works, feel free to drop by.
• Saturday, Dec. 15 (time TBA): Newsletter tabbing party. Please stop by to help prepare the newsletters that will promote our show for mailing.
• Sunday, Dec. 16, 2 p.m. We take the stage and start building our set. Cast and crew should plan to attend, and if you have strong, tool-smart friends, bring them along! We have a specific need for 8 able-bodied people to move the components of the revolve platform to the theater, starting around 1 p.m.
• Sunday, Dec. 30 - Retreat. Noon- ??? All cast and crew. Note date change from original calendar.
• Jan. 7-10, 2008: Dress rehearsals. Cast and crew call: 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise announced.
• Jan. 11: OPENING NIGHT. Join us after the show to celebrate; location TBA.
• Jan. 19: CLOSING NIGHT; cast and crew party after the show at Jan Donnelly's house.
• Sun., Jan. 20: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Set strike. MANDATORY for all cast and crew.

Calendar

A printed version of the calendar is available, but this on-line version is more up-to-date and complete. Get in the habit of checking it regularly. If you have a (free) Google calendar of your own, you can add your rehearsals to it by clicking on the rehearsal in question and choosing "add to calendar" (I have yet to test whether my updates will automatically synch with the calendars of those who do this, so if anyone wants to be a guinea pig, let me know.)