ON GOLDEN POND

October 21 - 30, 1994
By Ernest Thompson

On Golden Pond is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Directed by Gil T. Rodello

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

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TICKETS
$6 Adult / $5 Senior/Student

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CAST
Norman Thayer, Jr. / Arthur O’Keefe
Ethel Thayer / Nina McCoy
Charlie Martin / Don Jefferis
Chelsea Thayer- Wayne / Marla Norton
Billy Ray, Jr. / Joe Davey
Bill Ray / Thomas Greaney

PRODUCTION CREW
Director / Gil T. Rodello
Stage Manager / Josh Colling
Master Electrician / Bill Nelson
Set Design / Teresa Findorff-Johnson
Set Construction / Teresa Findorff-Johnson, Ben Benedict, The Davey Family, Bob Urwin, Cast, Crew
Poster / Dan Pegoda, Shelly Davey
Props / Wendi Bien, Cast, Crew
Program / Emily Rodello
Photography / Robin Bachtler Cushman