Also Appearing Daily in the Owen Lobby!
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Actress Kathy Wheeldon as Ann Landers
Actress Kathy Wheeldon as Ann Landers
DEAR ANN LANDERS:
The Omaha Community Playhouse has the opportunity to create an exhibit about your life and work. Ann, for more than 40 years, you were the world’s best read and most widely syndicated newspaper column, a fixture in 1,200 newspapers, offering a daily snapshot of a society in transition to an audience of some 90 million readers. This exhibit will be shown in conjunction with the Playhouse’s upcoming production of The Lady With All The Answers, David Rambo’s highly entertaining, warm-hearted and moving one-woman play all about you! What do you think?
ONE OF YOUR BIGGEST FANS
DEAR BIGGEST:
What do I think? That’s fantastic!
The Omaha Community Playhouse has the opportunity to create an exhibit about your life and work. Ann, for more than 40 years, you were the world’s best read and most widely syndicated newspaper column, a fixture in 1,200 newspapers, offering a daily snapshot of a society in transition to an audience of some 90 million readers. This exhibit will be shown in conjunction with the Playhouse’s upcoming production of The Lady With All The Answers, David Rambo’s highly entertaining, warm-hearted and moving one-woman play all about you! What do you think?
ONE OF YOUR BIGGEST FANS
DEAR BIGGEST:
What do I think? That’s fantastic!
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Actress Kathy Wheeldon as Ann Landers
Actress Kathy Wheeldon as Ann Landers
DEAR ANN LANDERS:
The Owen Lobby Exhibit is entitled: Ann Landers: A Lady Who Will Live in Intimacy. It will include a variety of Ann Landers facts, photos, quotes, quips and even a video segment, shot during your special stage performance at the Omaha Press Club Show. This lobby display would not be possible without the generous support of the Omaha World-Herald, who featured your daily column for many years and who soon will be celebrating their newspaper’s own 150th Anniversary!
NEWSWORTHY ITEM
DEAR ITEM,
I can’t wait to see it! Now, tell me about the play!
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Actress Kathy Wheeldon as Ann Landers
Actress Kathy Wheeldon as Ann Landers
DEAR ANN LANDERS:
For more 40 years, Ann, you answered countless letters from lovelorn teens, confused couples and from a number of individuals with “nowhere else to turn.” You gave witty, frank, straight-forward and informed advice, all while creating an intimate dialogue with your readers. The first to address a myriad of “taboo topics,” you helped shape the social and sexual landscape of the latter half of the 20th century.
No topic was off limits for you, Ann ― known in real life as Eppie Lederer, one of two identical twin sisters who grew up in Sioux City, Iowa. Both of you became widely-read advice columnists, your sister, a mere 17 minutes younger, was Dear Abby.
The Lady With All The Answers takes place in Chicago, 1975, in your home, a penthouse on Lake Shore Drive. It is late at night and you are struggling over a column you’re writing; as you put it, it is “the most important column of my career.”
Ann, you welcome us into your world, as we become an audience of your “dear readers,” sharing your history, triumphs, gossip and heartbreak.
BIG HIT IN OMAHA
DEAR BIG HIT,
I couldn’t have said it better myself! Don’t miss The Lady With All The Answers ― or the exhibit, Ann Landers: A Lady Who Will Live in Intimacy ― Aug. 20–Sept. 19 in the Howard Drew Theatre. Get those tickets, Bub, or else . . . it’s fifty lashes with a wet noodle!
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Actress Kathy Wheeldon as Ann Landers
Actress Kathy Wheeldon as Ann Landers
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