Butterflies Are Free

By Leonard Gershe

Directed by Dejon Ewing

Noveember 17, 18, 19, 1983

   The Story  

When you're a young bachelor in your own apartment for the first time, even if it's a cramped cold water flat, you know what exhilaration is. If a pretty actress moves into the next apartment, you've got an even better beginning. Don has it better yet: the actress has proposed friendship and the removal of the connecting door. Well into the play, the audience and the actress discover that Don is blind. He is escaping from an overprotective mother and trying to learn if he has the talent to become a song writer. When mother and the girl meet, and the two simply do not mix. Mother breaks up the relationship and the actress packs herself off to live with a director. When mother realizes how she has demoralized her son, and wishes the other woman was back. In comedy wishes can come true.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French.

  The Cast   

Don Baker	Steve Hobus
Jill Tanner	Judy Kadau
Mrs. Baker	Ginny Evans
Ralph Austin	Chet Sweet

  Production Staff   

Director	Dejon Ewing
Assistant Director	Ann Durbin
Set Design	Greg White
Set Construction	Greg White, Ron Calvin, Janet Calvin, Gerald Reynolds, Maggie Nelson, Ann Durbin, Judy Kadau
Props	Loree Simpson, Melanie Eslick, Judy Kadau, Chet Sweet, Ann Durbin, Greg White
Lighting	Don Himpel, Debbie King
Costumes	Loretta King, Loree Simpson, Maggie Bicker, Liz Frazier
Sound	Greg Teachman
Publicity	Jeanette Nichols, Bob Cox, Greg White, Dennis Clover
Programs	Melanie Eslick, Ann Durbin
House Management	Mary Jarvis