ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY   Role: Ensemble   Production Info: July 22-Aug. 10, 1993 @ Seaside Music Theater Director: Nona Lloyd Choreographer: Chuck Hoenes Musical Director: Milton Granger

In my opinion, the Seaside production of On the Twentieth Century was hard to top! The show is a madcap melodrama set on the famous luxury train line that ran between Chicago and New York City. The set was amazing — beautiful art deco train cars with fully rigged electrical lighting — and the cars separated at the climactic moment of the show to reveal a full-size locomotive barrelling toward the audience! INCREDIBLE! As in our production of The Boys from Syracuse, the ensemble contained some very well-defined personalities. I played a hyperactive boy traveling with his Joan-Crawford-esque mother on the train. I had a slingshot in my sock and used it often!   Click on this link to read more info about Seaside Music Theater.

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Together: The Matron (Elizabeth Murff) and her Son (me!) slobber over newspapers and magazines filled with pictures of Lily Garland (Susan Russell).

Babette: Look, ma! Ronnie’s dancing! (I’m the one on the far left).