Lonely Planet benefit features AA actors

We invite you to join us for a production of Steven Dietz's play "Lonely
Planet" (description below) to benefit Camp Amerikids, which provides free
summer camp experience for underprivileged children dealing with AIDS and
other life-threatening illnesses.

The show will be presented at the Pelican Studo Theater on the 6th floor at
750 8th Ave. (between 46th and 47th Streets). Curtain is at 8pm
Thursday-Saturday December 17-19, and Monday-Wednesday 21-23, 28-30.

This show, in association with the New Perspectives Theatre Company, is a
Baulinhandabeu production featuring Ron Domingo (WPA's "On Home" and Ken
Leung( Jackie Chan's "Rush Hour" and the recent "Corpus Christi", who make
up the first Asian cast to perform Mr. Dietz's script. The production was
designed by Joey Mendoza, with lighting by Jeff Dodson and sound by Jill
DuBoff. Redrick deLeon is the Production Stage Magager of this show, which
was directed by Marnie Ann Joyce.

We suggest a donation of $15, but more than anything else, we hope you will
join us. Please feel free to give whatever you can afford.


Description of the play:

This compassionate play reveals friendship and fear in the age of AIDS.
Jody runs a map store. Not one for the outside world, he stays in the store
all the time. His friend, Carl, has been bringing charis of dead friends
into Jody's store and leaving them there. When Jody needs to take an AIDS
test, Carl tries to convince him that it is not only okay to leave the
store but also that he must take responsibility for his own life. If he
doesn't, he will join the set of chairs that Carl has taken great pains to
place in the right spots around his store. Through their interaction, the
two realize how grateful they are to have such a strong lasting friendship.
Jody finally leavs the map store to take his HIV test and returns to find
that he must take Carl's place as the caretaker.

please visit the Lonely Planet web site at http://multitalk.org/lonelyplanet/