Tribute to Lou Stancari at Signature Theatre
Monday, May 16. 2011- at 7:30 p.m.
Signature Theatre
4200 Campbell Ave.
Arlington Va. 22206
(The location is in the Shirlington section in Arlington. Plenty of free garage parking.)
Below is a message from Lou Timmons, please spread the word:
Dear Friends --
As you all know, our colleague and friend, Lou Stancari, died in January. We all miss his unique brand of humor and his great spirit. The National Museum of the American Indian, where Lou worked as a photo archivist, held a beautiful tribute to Lou which was exceedingly well attended (to use a theater term, it was SRO). Lou’s Mom and sister were in attendance.
Now, as a further tribute to Lou and his gifts as a set designer and theater wonder, Signature Theatre will hold a theater-oriented tribute on Monday, May 16 at 7:30 p.m. Lou’s Mom and sister and some more of his family will be able to attend this one, as well. We are looking forward to "both families" getting togetherLou's birth family and his theater family.
Lou was a preeminent set designer for over 25 years in the Washington, DC area. He started out in community theatre -- with three-in-a-row shows for The Arlington Players as the set designer for Blithe Spirit in the spring of 1986. He continued that Summer, designing the set for John Moran's production ofThe Unsinkable Molly Brown at Lubber Run and followed that with Jack Marshall's production ofAmadeus. After that, Lou continued working in community theatre as well as in local opera.
In 1990, when Eric Schaeffer and Donna (Lillard) Migliaccio started Signature Theatre, Lou was there from the beginning. He designed the show that put Signature "on the map" -- Sweeney Todd. And he won the Helen Hayes Award as best set designer for it, to boot!
Eric is putting the tribute together and to that end, if any of you have any photos you can email to me. Photos of Lou or of any of his sets (you know from production photos of shows), please send them to me.
And please, please... forward this email around throughout our community. I don't have everyone's email address; am counting on you all to help spread the word so we all have an opportunity to pay tribute to the great Lou Stancari.
Here's the event information -- I hope you're all able to be there to pay tribute to the "one-and-only" LouStancari.
Monday, May 16. 2011- at 7:30 p.m.
Signature Theatre
4200 Campbell Ave.
Arlington Va. 22206
The location is in the Shirlington section in Arlington. Plenty of free garage parking.
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