This show is about why people do the things they do. Why they run, why they stay.
So is Wildwood. When you look around our company, you'll find a slew of students (whether in college, graduate, or high school), three teachers, two Congressional staffers, a librarian, an aspiring roller coaster engineer, a "freelance political operative," a professional gambler, a puppeteer, even a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. And that's just scratching the surface.
Notice something about that list: there are a whole lot of us pursuing lives beyond the proscenium. Yet we've been here working on the following performance between four and seven days a week for the last three months, not even mentioning the work that preceded auditions. This, despite the fact that we haven't "given our lives to the theatre."
We're here because this is what we wanted to be doing, with whom we wanted to do it. We're here because we thought it would make us happy. We're here, as a wise man far cheesier than myself once said, to give a gift (and to segue back into the show) maybe even one "of love" to all of you.
It's not always thus. There have been, and probably will be again, those for whom WST is primarily a line on a resume, a rung to step on and leave behind. And since they're a part of our community too, some will always run, while others of us choose to stay while we can.
We hope you enjoy Wildwood Summer Theatre's production of The Baker's Wife as much as we have and as much as we continue to. That's a little thing called amateurism. And it's what this theatre does best.
Dan Morenoff
Director, 1996
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