OLLI101306 - There’s No Business Like Show Business

Course Description

A Study Group in Staged Reading presents: 

There’s No Business Like Show Business

Hosted by: Jean Haskell
Wednesday, July 28 from 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
(Registration closes June 28 at 9:00 AM)

OLLI members are invited to join the 2021 Study Group in Staged Reading for our first off-Broadway performance,There’s No Business Like Show Business. Readings, listed below, include a mix of old and new poems, stories, monologues, and short plays. Come for the entire program or drop in to hear a friend or two.

Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer.
          Reader: Elizabeth Knudsen

Blessed Silence, by Mary Ann Smyth, from Flash Fiction Magazine, 1998
          Reader: Lee Yeager

Welcome to Holland, a monologue by Emily Perl Kingsley.
          Reader: Robin Siegel

The Persistence of Possibility, a play by Karen Elias.
          Reader: Laura Nebel

The Incident, an original story by Valarie Potter
          Reader: Valarie Potter

My Apology, a Play by Keith Barker
          Readers: John Abrams, Reenie Boehm

The Lady of Shalott, by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1842)
          Reader: Eilen Levinson

Things Vaccinated People Still Should Not Do, by Eli Grober, from The New Yorker,
Shouts & Murmurs, March 29, 2021
          Reader: Bob Bronstei
I’m Your Daughter
          Reader: Toni Harris

The Story of an Hour, a short story by Kate Chopin (1894)
          Reader: Kay Dowgun

Excerpts from The Song of Songs
          Reader: Julia Bruton-Sheppard

My Trouble as an Actor by Ben Hecht (excerpt from his autobiography, A Child of the Century)
          Reader: John Abrams

The Green New Steal, a Play by Corey Payette.
          Reader: Helene Rosenman

Monologue from the play, Curse of the Starving Class, by Sam Shepard
          Reader: Ray Yost

The Penguin, a Play by Nicolas Billon.
          Reader: Dave Thomas