This production, an AEA Project Code offering go up by Tom Fulton, and Andrew May, was the precursor to the soon to be formed Cleveland Theater Company, yet another semi-futile attempt to provide work for Cleveland-based professional actors. I came on board fairly late in the process. Allen Leatherman had been cast as Polonius, but got a job in Pittsburgh or somewhere for actual money and so fled the premises. Tom called me and, with a modicum of reluctance as my wife and family were in Chicago while she was working on her MDiv at Seabury-Western, I accepted the role. I remember leaving early (before curtain call) one night because I had to drive to Evanston in time for the Easter sunrise service in which Jamin, then in the third grade was playing in the bell choir. I had my priorities straight.

In any case, the production was enough of a success, that soon we found ourselves doing The Apple Tree at JCC in the Heights, and within a couple of years, CTC moved to CSU and, the rest, as they say...