Production Archive

February 27, 1982

Stage Play

Better Late Than Never

by Paul Gadzikowski

Capricon 2
Radisson Hotel – Magnificent Mile
Chicago, Illinois
Directed by Amy Schaefer

The story takes place in the year 2060 aboard the SS Fort Wayne in deep space, at United Nations headquarters on Earth, in Dr. Thornton’s la-bor-a-tory, and high atop a mountain in Tibet.

Director

Amy Schaefer

Producer

Eve Schwingel

Costumes

Gretchen Roper

Costume Assistant

Bill Leininger

Technical Assistants

J. Haldeman, Mike Beirne, Linda Carlson

in order of appearance

Bill Roper

Captain Burt Fox

Dave Ihnat

Pilot Peter Benjamin

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SIS appears courtesy of the Smartmouth Div./IBM*

Gretchen Roper

Mou

Martha Soukup

Pad

Tim Allen

Henrey Braymore

John Buckley

Chin-So-Long

Thalia St. Lewis

Alicia Klause

Phil FOglio

Akili Tembo

Marty Coady Fabish

Romana Leverkov

Paul Gadzikowski

Arthur Nathan

Michael R. Walsh

Mr. Jones

Lisa Golladay

Dr. Flora Thornton

E. Michael Blake

Hector

Eve Schwingel

First Terrorist

John Hood

Second Terrorist

Mike Stein

The Guru

* After decades of secrecy we can finally reveal the Spaceship Internal Systems computer was voiced live into a microphone behind the center-stage flat** by Lisa Golladay and Michael R. Walsh, speaking in unison which turns out to be nowhere near as easy as you might expect.

**The rest of the cast would like to thank the ship’s computer for swiftly leaping to its feet and holding up the flat when an actor stumbled backwards and nearly brought the entire set tumbling down upon the heads of… the ship’s computer. There is nothing like live theatre.