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Many people live their lives filled with regrets, if only's, and what if's. Local playwright, Bob Baker, has taken this concept and written an intriguing play based on the life of an aging Hollywood starlet--Virginia Tate--and focused on the regrets, choices, twists, and turns in her life. The play also explores the lives of the other characters and significant choices they made or are making that will determine their future. This show poignantly points out the consequences of every decision or choice we make.
"Almost Dorothy" is showing now through July 1 at the Renaissance Theatre in the historic Lincoln Mills Village Commissary Building on Meridian Street in Huntsville. This charming theatre has an intimate setting for an audience of 85 people and offers an entirely different theatre experience from a larger space such as the Von Braun Playhouse.
Baker calls this play a "bittersweet valentine to Hollywood." It is filled with references of movie stars and films from the late 1930's up to the present time of 1992. Actress Virginia Tate seems to have worked with all the famous in Hollywood, if only as an "extra" with "no lines." Virginia says that "as the big stars aged, they began to resemble the saddles they rode on." In her later years, she worked wardrobe and went on tour with Bob Hope. We see Virginia change from the serious, levelheaded, confident 17-year-old to the worn-out, disillusioned starlet living her last days.
