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Deep Roots

playing Blythe young paramour in Undiscovered Country to opposite Becky (then Becky Gelke) as a seren dipitous lastminute replacement in To Whom It May Concern, which being friends" Blythe reminded him As Feshval famiy member Clvistopher "I think you said you spent one night on the couch, and that was it "'s DEEP TRACKS Reeve offirmed "Al roads lead to waliamstown." in this some vein the roads of ho grande domes of the Fostvval lood us to plothorg of ortst history like this which is soch an essential part af fhe energy that keeps the foshval ruoning year after year. The rehearsal periods may be compressed and the runs so brief that if you blink you miss a show, but it's performed not on the mainstageo but in St John's Church. (in rue Wiliam stown felicity, after our conversation coloborotions wilth members of this seoson's comppony Becky and her fellow company wwoold return to rehearse in the basement of WHERE'S CHARLEY? the annual confuence of audience TONIGHT AT 8:30 lavorites and rising kalent from which o long collaborations, and perhaps more importantly, friendships, ore founded. It's in that tradition that we now wekome playwright Lucy Boyle, actor Finn Wirock, and former NanEquity compony member Heather Lind, he "small childran" of The Blue this same church.) Becky and Dylan costarred together for a mere handful of performances in Williamstown before the show moved to New York "Oh! l've been directed by Bob before!" DAVID HYDE to run for another five months "And that's when we fell in fove," Becky PIERCE THE LEARNED LADIES As we gathered in the'62 Center Stoge lounge to chat with some of the incredible company of The Blue Deep Becky Ann Baker shared he surprise recalled Blytho's last appearance on the Williamstown stage when she glittered in Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 alongside her corrent costar Jack Gilpin Alihough this is e first lime Bob Balaban has directed Blytho on the slage, their history cxtends back to when they were, as he put it, "small children" When Jack expressed his surprise at this during our conversahon. Bob clarified "Well I fhink I was 22 and Blythe wos a very Doep company as Bob might put it, to the Williamstown family in wihat we can only hope wil be the first of many fimes their paths will cross. with which she had realized while was in 2000 JACK GILPIN checking hor flem credits only days before that she hod previously worked with Bob Balaban. What then wos at THE TALE OF THE WOLF JESS Eric Shethar first most striking about their conversa lion was not necessanly he many STONE THE SEA GULL momenhs their palhs have crossed, but that with careers as rich as theirs they can't even recall all the times they've worked together! But as we listened to Blythe Danner, Becky Ann Baker, Jock Gipin, and their director Bob Balaban, i became clear hal memo ries of their times onstage and off were in no short supply .********/.. CANDIDA 'ancient 23 andahall And she usod lo always say to me, Tm so old, I'm just too old to be doing his! She was like 23 and a hal I'm not kidding This first encoonter was not Hhe unseen ELISABETH MATERSTON PATRICIA collaborahon of a director and octor but as hvo performers sharing the slage when Blythe and Bob played a young couple in a musical (some lyrics to which Blythe remembers to this day) Although Becky and Blythe first shared the stoge in 1988 (when Baker wached over Danner as the Eunice lo CLARKSON BECKY ANN A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY her Blanche Dubois in a New York produchon of A Streetcar Named Desirel, hree years prior they also BAKER UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY shared a co star on the Williamstown To Bob, Blythe is not only an old friend but in fact the person he credits as "the reason Igot married to my wife." Whie he was out of me city filming a role, Blyhe stayed at his apartment in New York. When he relorned, she had yet to find a place of her own, so she convinced him to slay with one of his friends. As Bob matteroffactly put it, I moved in with a friend of mine and we stopped boards hree years prior when, os Becky playfully reminded Blythe, "he man I ulhmately married was playing your lovert THE SEA GULL This would be Dylan Baker (who read the role of Charlie, which Jack Gilpin now plays in the world premiere, when The Blue Deep was featored as one of our Fridayse3 readingsl, who that summer went straight from NICHAEL GREIF NIKOS PSACHARAPOULOS BLYTHE DANNER FESTIVAL FAMILY ROADS BLYTHE BECKY'S ROADS Reerch Canpiledby tero Keen Arn oinn ben Vender Dead by Alander oo

Deep Roots

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A center spread infographic designed for the Williamstown Theatre Festival for the 2012 performance of THE BLUE DEEP.

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