Richard Mancini (Director) is very happy to be home again with Lou and company on the 12th show he’s directed for Curtain Call since 2005. Here in the DRT, he’s previously staged The Diary of Anne Frank, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Cactus Flower, The Days of Wine & Roses, Sherlock Holmes & the Adventure of the Suicide Club, You Can’t Take It With You, On Golden Pond, The Graduate, and Crimes of the Heart; and in the Kweskin, Same Time, Next Year and The Philadelphia Story. Unless his math is wrong (which it certainly could be), this show marks the 60th area mainstage production that Rich has directed over the past four decades. Recent credits elsewhere within the last several years include Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Outside Mullingar, George Washington Slept Here, Fences, and Album. Rich gratefully raises a bottle of Captain Morgan in tribute to his amazing cast – Linda, Christina and Kevin; playwright Paul Stroili, for an absolutely wonderful script; a terrific crew (including John, Jamie, Meghan, and his beloved Sheila T.); Lou, Jan and the entire Curtain Call staff; his family and friends; and a special shout-out to Francis Piazza, MA, University of Michigan ‘70 – who (along with Kat Kalina Piazza) not only graciously loaned virtually all of the UM memorabilia you’ll see on our stage, but – as Rich’s first director, high-school drama teacher, and later, theatre-going friend – launched and inspired him on a theatrical journey that’s lasted more than 50 years.