Sunrise At Hyde Park

SUNRISE AT HYDE PARK Politics ● Power ● Secrets ● Music ● Love WORDS & MUSIC by Tom Wilson Weinberg DIRECTED by Bill Buddendorf DESIGNED by Kevin Broad PRODUCED by Lee Kramer LAUREN HOPE GATES as Lorena Hickok HEIDI HAYES as Eleanor Roosevelt BRENDAN DALTON as Ray Corry FRI, OCT 25, 7:00 & 9:00 PM SAT, OCT 26, 7:00 & 9:00 PM SUN, OCT 27, 2:00 PM WILLIAM WAY COMMUNITY CENTER, 1315 Spruce St. All seats $20. Running time 70 minutes. Tickets/info SunriseAtHydePark@gmail.com 1932: Lorena Hickok, hot-shot reporter for the Associated Press, is assigned to interview Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of New York State’s Governor and Presidential candidate. Hickok wants to be covering wars, crime and corruption. The shy, reluctant Eleanor wants to be left alone. This awkward interview changes the lives of both women. 1962: Ray Corry, an ambitious, young curator at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Museum, pressures the ill and aged Hick to donate her 30 years of letters, the intimate correspondence of two remarkable women. Corry is shaken by the content he discovers - the passion and complexity of the Eleanor/Hick relationship and the impact the letters have on his own life. Based on ELEANOR & HICK words & music by Tom Wilson Weinberg, book by Peggy Stafford, original direction by Darren Katz Performances of SUNRISE AT HYDE PARK benefit the ACLU-PA Foundation.