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PERFORMANCE ON
JANUARY 19TH IS SOLD OUT
A SECOND PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 20TH AT 2:00PM HAS BEEN ADDED
Award-winning
actress, director and resident of the Coachella Valley, JUDITH CHAPMAN,
is getting ready to hit the boards again. On January 19, 2008, Chapman
is bringing a cast of Emmy-winning STARS from DAYTIME TELEVISION to THE
PALM CANYON THEATRE in Palm Springs, California for a one night benefit
performance of "THE TRIAL OF THE CATONSVILLE 9.”
This compelling drama is based on an actual event in 1968 when a group
of priests, nuns and lay persons entered a Federal Building in
Catonsville, Maryland and burned selective service cards in protest
of Americas' involvement in Vietnam. All were brought to trial. "The
play is not so much about politics as about human decency" claims
Chapman. She had seen a staged reading put on by TIM ROBBINS' group
"THE ACTORS GANG,” and Chapman said, "I was so profoundly moved by the
play, the message and the commitment of the actors involved, I decided
then and there, to put together my own production using the best of the
best of Daytime."
With the help and support of board members of "THE ACTORS GANG,” THE
PALM CANYON THEATRE and Amanda Smith, her partner in
HAPPY HOUR PRODUCTIONS, this exciting project will be a first
for Palm Springs, and another first for Chapman, who will also direct.
Known as Gloria on the CBS Soap Opera, The Young & the Restless, Judith
will be sharing the stage with Emmy-winning actors CHRISTIAN LeBLANC
(Michael Baldwin, “The Young and the Restless”), MICHELLE STAFFORD
(Phyllis Newman, “The Young and the Restless”), GREG RIKAART (Kevin
Fisher, “The Young and the Restless”), KRISTOFF ST. JOHN (Neil Winters,
“The Young and the Restless”), RON HALE (Mike Corbin, “General
Hospital”), VINCENT IRIZARRY (David Chow, “The Young and the Restless”)
EMILY O'BRIEN (Jana Hawkes, “The Young and the Restless”), JOHN CALLAHAN
(Edmund Grey, “All My Children”), DANIEL GODDARD (Cane Ashby, “The Young
and the Restless”) and the list goes on.
Proceeds from the event will go to KIVA, an organization that makes
small loans to individuals around the world that they might grow a
business and become more self sustaining. THE PALM CANYON THEATRE,
Coachella Valley's only Actors' Equity Theatre, had this to say,
"Whenever Judith directs or performs here, an award always follows, we
are very excited about our latest collaboration, and look forward to
welcoming Hollywood to our theatre."
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..."With the $60 price of your ticket,
you will be contributing in peaceful, compassionate, non-political ways
to the solving of the worlds problems..one person, one business, one
loan at a time...and an evening of Great Theatre...."
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