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HATTIE: "Well I'm breaking into that country club next year!"
AMY LEE: "Huh! You and what army?"

Liane Loui, Gigi Jhong and Lisa Marie Nakamura in a scene from ReAct's Laundry & Bourbon.
Photo: David Hsieh.


The Cast

(in order of appearance)

Elizabeth Calder
Gigi Jhong
Hattie Dealing
Lisa Marie Nakamura
Amy Lee Fullernoy
Liane Loui


HATTIE: "These jockey shorts they're so big. They're not that wide. They're for a narrow body, but they're so long..."

Lisa Marie Nakamura as Hattie and Gigi Jhong as Elizabeth in a scene from ReAct's Laundry & Bourbon.
Photo: David Hsieh.


Directed by
David Hsieh


The Crew

Stage Manager, Scenic Designer, Properties & Publicist
David Hsieh
Lighting Designer
Rick Wong
Costume Designer
Lee Ann Hittenberger
Light Board Operator
Paul Byrne
Sound Operator
Duane Mortensen
Sound Engineers
Richard D. Eidal
Rick Wong

Lighting Crew
Ron Choi
Melvin Inouye

Rehearsal Stage Manager
Colleen Parker
Head House Manager
Jackie Englehart
Box Office Managers
David Hsieh
Colleen Parker
Stephanie Santos
Joseph S. Yang

Ushers
Hing Lam
Joseph S. Yang


HATTIE: "Damn that's a pretty sunset."
ELIZABETH: "Yeah, it's my favorite time."

Lisa Marie Nakamura and Gigi Jhong in the final scene from ReAct's Laundry & Bourbon.
Photo: David Hsieh.


Reviews

>>Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Preview)
>>Northwest Asian Weekly (Preview)
>>Seattle Post-Intelligencer
>>The Stranger
>>Seattle Times
>>Seattle Gay News
>>Patron Comments

 

HATTIE: "You hang onto Roy" 
ELIZABETH: "I intend to."
Lisa Marie Nakamura and Gigi Jhong
in ReAct's Laundry & Bourbon.
Photo: David Hsieh.

Laundry & Bourbon


By James McLure

September 8 - 25, 1994
Theatre Off Jackson


ELIZABETH: "I remember the first day he drove into town in that car."
HATTIE: "So do I."
Gigi Jhong and Lisa Marie
Nakamura in ReAct's
Laundry & Bourbon.
Photo: David Hsieh.

 

ELIZABETH: "Why, Hattie, your new dress looks a lot like Amy Lee's doesn't it?"
Liane Loui as Amy Lee, Gigi
Jhong as Elizabeth and Lisa
Marie Nakamura as Hattie in
ReAct's Laundry & Bourbon.
Photo: David Hsieh.


The Program

The Setting

The back sun-porch of the Calder Home on the outskirts of Maynord, Texas, one hot summer afternoon in late August, 1971.



Laundry & Bourbon

was first presented by the McCarter Theatre Company at Princeton, New Jersey, in March, 1980, as part of a double bill with Lone Star, under the title 1959 PINK THUNDERBIRD.

Production Notes

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ReAct's presentation of Laundry & Bourbon was produced by special arrangement with DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC.


HATTIE: "Oh! Would you look at that woman!" 
ELIZABETH: "Where." 
HATTIE: "There!"
Lisa Marie Nakamura and Gigi
Jhong during the TV gameshow
scene from ReAct's
Laundry & Bourbon.
Photo: David Hsieh.

 

ELIZABETH: "I wished tonight was ten years ago. And Roy was coming to pick me up in that pink Thunderbird."
Lisa Marie Nakamura as Hattie
and Gigi Jhong as Elizabeth
in a scene from ReAct's
Laundry & Bourbon.
Photo: David Hsieh.


Special Thanks To...

Deena Burke for dialect support
Manuel R. Cawaling for production support
Gertrude Chiang & Chu-Shen Tao for loaned props
Dr. Richard D. Eidal for loaned props
The Elliott Bay Book Company for promotional support
Audrey Fan for rehearsal space
Kathy Hsieh for production and administrative support
Kinko's Copies for copying support
Duane Mortensen for production support
Lisa Marie Nakamura for production support
The Northwest Asian American Theatre for loaned set pieces
The Play's the Thing Drama Bookstore for promotional support
The Seattle Police Department East Precinct for rehearsal space
The Univeristy of Washington School of Drama for rehearsal space
Patti West for technical support
Rick Wong & Rk Productions for videography

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