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Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, both born to wealth and position, are childhood friends whose lifelong correspondence begins with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards, and continues through the boarding school and college years into adulthood.  Although both eventually marry, their attachment remains strong, even as Andy becomes a successful attorney and gets involved in politics, and Melissa’s life as an artist and her struggles with alcohol leave her emotionally fragile.

TUC’s production will feature two casts, dividing up the performance dates.

February 2, 4, 10, 12: Robert Mitchell and Cathy Graff

February 3, 5, 9, 11: Timothy Reed and Katherine Dubois Reed

Timothy Reed and Katherine Dubois Reed met through The Upstart Crow, when Tim auditioned for a production of Ibsen’s The Master Builder that Katherine directed.  Both have performed in dozens of productions with TUC.  They have been married for 37 years.

Robert Mitchell and Cathy Graff, our other husband-wife duo, also met doing theatre, in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Actors Theatre of Columbus, of which Mitch was a founding member.  They were seen together in TUC’s most recent production, Bury the Dead.