Touch The Names
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Opened Jul 4, 2004
Closed Jul 18, 2004
Opened Jul 4, 2004
Closed Jul 18, 2004
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Touch The Names is composed of actual letters written by friends and family to the fallen soldiers memorialized on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. --letters from fellow soldiers, fathers, mothers, daughters, sons and hometown friends.
The cast includes Marylouise Burke (Kimberley Akimbo, Fuddy Meers), Matthew Cowles (film credits include City By The Sea and The Juror), Kristin Stewart Chase (Dear Prudence at the Rattlestick and the upcoming film Stepford Wives), Catherine Curtin (Aunt Dan And Lemon), Zabryna Guevana, Jing He, T.J. Kenneally, Ray Anthony Thomas, Myk Watford (Take Me Out) Charles Weldon (Negro Ensemble Company's A Soldier's Play), and Carolyn McCormick (longtime regular on Law And Order and many stage credits inc. Dinner With Friends). The music and songs will be performed live by 'Mississippi' Charles Bevel, who last starred on Broadway in It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues at Lincoln Center. Presented by Apartment 929.
Added Saturday matinees at 2:00 p.m. July 10th and 17th.
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Letters written to the dead have limited dramatic potential. Since there's no possibility that the person being addressed will ever write back, the conversations tend to be one-sided and excessively maudlin. Staging such letters is a challenge -- one that Touch the Names, conceived by Randal Myler and Chic Street Man, does not meet.
Subtitled "Letters to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial," the show is comprised of actual letters that were left by people visiting the memorial in Washington, D.C. They are from sons that never knew their fathers, women who lost their men to the war, soldiers who survived while their comrades in arms did not, nurses who can no longer remember the names of the men t[...]