The Play is Titled: THE WATCH LIST

The play opens in the office of the Civil Freedoms Group of America [C.F.G.A.]. A defender of individual civil liberties, the C.F.G.A. suddenly finds itself in the position of having terminated one of its own employees because her name appeared on the federal Terror Watch List. Act two and Act three take place in the Newark Police Department after an explosion has ripped through the C.F.G.A.'s offices. The police must determine what - or who - caused the blast. The clues they uncover lead them to a stunning, almost incomprehensible conclusion. The cast includes six men, six women. The play runs approximately two hours with two intermissions.
****************************************************************************************************

2004
Anita Yellin Simons
Sponsored by CTAM member group: Alpena Civic Theatre

The Play is Titled: GOODBYE MEMORIES

Goodbye Memories is a universal story of parents, children, friends, sexual awakenings, and the special spirit of a talkative, attention-loving girl named Anne Frank. The play takes place during the final month of freedom before Anne and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam. Anne was not very different from teens of today. She fights with her sister, argues with her mother, laughs with her friends, and flirts with her first boyfriend. She is especially close to her father whom she adores. Anne is at her best when with her two friends Hannah and Jacque. She can gossip, imitate school chums and talk about boys while also learning about herself and her relationship with others. Anne "the flirt" shines when she is with her new friend Hello Goldberg and also reveals some of her innermost thoughts. Anne was just beginning to blossom sexually and intellectually right before going into hiding.

Goodbye Memories is presented in two acts and runs approximately 90 minutes, plus an intermission. The cast includes two women, four teenage girls, one man and one teenage boy. The setting is the Frank's living room, Anne's bedroom, the rooftop and one exterior scene.
********************************************************************************************
2003
Dick Hill
1508 Lenawee
Lansing, MI 48915

The Play is Titled:  GUS & ANGIE

Gus Mahlzon drives his daughter, Angie, crazy. Always an eccentric, he's become even more so since retiring and moving in with his single, schoolteacher offspring. He spends hours in his LazyBoy wearing a pyramid made of clothes hangers and duct tape, and his local access cable show, "Thinking About Life With Gus", is an embarrassment. He's also an embarrassment to his new black friend, Betty, when he tries to talk "street", to "get down with my brothers and sisters..."

When Gus begins to meddle in Angie's personal business, harangues her for wasting her life and talents, and plays matchmaker between her and an old schoolmate, he really sets her off. Signs that he's drinking, instances of speaking gibberish, and the ultimate betrayal, showing her private writings to one of her students, trigger a confrontation in which she thunders, "What made you think you could do something like this?...the booze? Senility?, too many sessions with that stupid pyramid, what? Just what the hell is going on in that head of yours?" only to learn that what's going on in his head is astrocytoma.

Gus' obsession with the "big thoughts" of life, his determination to see his daughter embrace her own life with passion, arise from the knowledge that an ugly spider shaped packet of death is growing in his brain. An agreement is reached, he will change his mind and undergo the risky surgery that might leave him a vegetable, but also might save his life, and she will finally crawl out of the shell she retreated to after an early tragedy. Life, and possibly death, are ultimately faced with courage, and a great deal of ribald, irreverent humor and heady word play along the way. This comedy/drama calls for one set, four actors.
**********************************************************************************************

2002
Michael Burgan
Windsor, CT

The Play is Titled:  MAYOR MAC is about choices; both political and personal involving 6 men, 2 women and 4 minor parts
*********************************************************************************************
2000-2001
1999-2000 Joyce's Choices by Linda LaRocque [South Haven]

1998-1999 Second Chances by Ronald Bernas [Grosse Pointe]
1997-1998 813: American History by Allan Dreyfus [Ann Arbor]
1996-1997
1995-1996
1994-1995
1993-1994
1992-1993 The Pledge by David Warnshuis & Steven Gnewskowski [Grand Rapids]
1991-1992
1990-1991
1989-1990

1988-1989
1986-1987
1985-1986
1984-1985
1983-1984 The Thunderer by Marilyn Mattys [Saginaw]
1982-1983 The Great Bardo or How Does Your Garden Grow by John l. Beem [Ferndale]
1981-1982 Farewell Party and The Cure by Wenta Jean Watson [Kalamazoo]
1980-1981 The Silence of Chan Foh by Joe Mattys [Saginaw]
1979-1980 By the Book by Richard Lewis & Gordon Laing

1978-1979 Sisters by Roger Rochowiak [Lansing]
1977-1978 The Zoo Keeper by Carol Duffy [Ann Arbor]
1976-1977 When I Grow Up by Carol Duffy [Ann Arbor]
1975-1976 Evidence indicates no winner was declared this year
1974-1975 A Ritual of the Blacks by Ray Adams [Detroit]
1973-1974 Jake & Jill by Raymond Maurin [Ironwood]
1972-1973 Home to Stay by Robert Well [Dearborn]
1971-1972 Uncle Herman's Mole Tamper by Wayne Harlow [Grand Rapids]
1970-1971 A Room With a Harwood Floor by Wayne Harlow [Grand Rapids]
1969-1970 Way Leads Onto Way by Patrick William [Bay City]

1968-1969 A Tooth for a Tooth by Vic Zink [Rochester]
1967-1968 To the Dogs by Robert McElya [Easter Michigan University]
1966-1967 Just so Long and Long Enough by Robert Barton [Kalamazoo]
1965-1966 Dirty Old Sam by Dorothy Zatell [Lathrup Village]
1964-1965 The King's Mistress by George Long [Rochester]
1963-1964 A Lovely Day for a Picnic by Shirley Slater [Lansing]