| PATIENCE was presented on the night of March
9, 1998 in a staged reading. The entire opertta was performed on-book. |
| Rapturous Maidens in the original workshop of Patience:
Anna Mathias, Janellen Steininger, Mary Kay Wulf, Nike Doukas, guest Jeannie
Hackett, Anne Gee Byrd, and guest Jennifer Byrd. |
JD Cullum as Bunthorne in the on-book presentation of March, 1998
Emily Chase as Patience at the Music Center Annex
| Dragoons: Joe Spano, Philip Proctor, David Byrd, Michael
Keenan, Robert Machray and John Apicella |

Patience and childhood sweetheart Archibald Grosvenor (Emily Chase and
John Apicella, doubling as Grosvenor/Dragoon)
Bunthorne decorated for quick sale: JD Cullum

Anne Gee Byrd as Lady Jane, sawing away at a Cardboard Cello of her own
design and manufacture.


| Three Little Maids from... oh, no. Sorry. It's the Aestheticized
Officers: Colonel David Byrd, Major Joe Spano, and Duke Philip Proctor. |
| The roomful of Antaeans and friends express their enthusiasm
-- on this night the light bulb first shines: Say, we thought, this show
might make a good choice for the fall production! Would that be possible? |
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PHOTOGRAPHY: JOAN BORGMAN