A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR
by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

St. Louis: a sunny June morning during the Depression. Four women, survivors in harsh times, are forced to grapple with life’s broken promises, unfulfilled dreams, and their profound need for companionship and love.


starring Janet Girardeau*, Jillian Lindig*, Christina Nicosia*, Nicola Sheara*, Ken Thompson*
directed by Wallace Norman

CAST & CREW

JANET GIRARDEAU
is pleased to be working with Nicola Sheara and the TheaterSounds company. She has performed extensively in theater, film and TV, and runs a summer theater in Hunter, NY dedicated to the work of Horton Foote. She is delighted to be expanding her exploration of Tennessee Williams having recently performed in ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: THE OUTTAKES.

JILLIAN LINDIG
is a veteran of Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tours, LORT, Film and TV.

CHRISTINA NICOSIA frequently appears with W-WOW in their live performances of classic radio mysteries. THE SHADOW as Margo Lane, NERO WOLFE, THE FAT MAN, PHILLIP MARLOWE, and ELLERY QUEEN as Nicky Porter. She starred in the Bedtime Sketch Comedy shows FEED THE RICH, BEDTIME-A-GO-GO, and GIN & COMIC, and is a member of the improv group Kundalini Komedy which will perform a weekly show at Gotham City Improv in NYC beginning in April. Favorite roles include Julia in 1984, Lady Anne in RICHARD III and Laura in THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Her show MAN OF INFINITE DESIRE, a one-woman retelling of the Faust myth from the point of view of Mephistopheles, was performed last summer as part of the 6th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.

WALLACE NORMAN (Director) dons a number of theatrical hats, and is happy to have the chance to put on his dusty director’s fedora for TheaterSounds. Mr. Norman has directed staged readings in New York City, for the Woodstock Theatre Company, and last year directed the cabaret performance of singer John Ormond at Don’t Tell Mama, in New York City, which was taped for, and part of which was aired, on 60 Minutes. As an actor and singer has appeared in more than sixty productions in Off-Broadway, Regional and Stock theaters. In July, he will appear in Woodstock in “Songs of The Theatre, A Cabaret Concert” with Vicky Devany and musical director Bill Lewis as part of the Byrccliffe Centennial Celebration. He is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of WOODSTOCK FRINGE, a new theatre company, and will present “On The Fringe, A Festival and Theatre And Song” at the Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock in August of this year.

NICOLA SHEARA has performed on Broadway (GRAPES OF WRATH: Tony Award - Best Production,) Off Broadway, and in regional theaters across the country. Hudson Valley audiences have seen her in LOVE LETTERS and COLLECTED STORIES with Performing Arts of Woodstock, and in three productions at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany. Ms. Sheara's work as a director has been seen in the area at PAW, Shadowlands, at the Bardavon (THE THREEPENNY OPERA), and at the Rhinebeck Theater Center starting May 23 with the musical comedy NUNSENSE. Daytime serials include LOVING and LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING. Ms. Sheara records books on tape, several of which can be found on the shelves of the West Hurley Library.

KEN THOMPSON has appeared in the Hudson Valley area in Performing Arts of Woodstock's WENCESLAS SQUARE, ZOO STORY at UPAC's Back Alley Theatre, Shadowland's Social Security and THE MOUSETRAP; and Law & Order: SVU.

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