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     Well, ThankYou, here's the post about the Murder on the Nile production with Great Falls's Center Stage company in 1992. The group was only five years old then and had acquired an old movie theatre in downtown. Dona Stebbins and her husband Grant were founding members and benefactors. I acted with Dona in Lion in Winter. I learned from the Great Falls Tribune newspaper site that Center Stage went dark last season with debts of $5,000. Membership had dwindled to just fifteen or so.

    Murder on the Nile  was staged at the Ursuline Center as, much to the chagrin of director Ed Moran, the theatre was far from ready to put on a show never mind host an audience. Thanks to James Livingston, who made mementos for the cast and crew, little books of photographs taken in the green-cum-dressing room and other ephemera like the local reviews, I have a solid aide de memoire. I'd only been in Great Falls since July and this production went up on November 27th. I played Simon Mostyn, creepy penniless playboy,

     Debra Norman played Kay Mostyn; Scott Barrera the sleuthing priest; Samantha Courtney, Jacqueline de Severac; Allen Lanning, Smith a political extremist; Grace Wendt, Christina Grant niece and charge of her aunt, Miss ffoliot-ffoulkes played by Maria Crocetti. Tom Broderick played  Dr. Bessner; Gayle Robinson Kay's french maid; Joe Lawson ships steward; Tom Jacobson the ships Scottish manager McNaught. We had great fun, apart from a few powder burns occasionally and squeezing onto a tiny stage.