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All Florida Rep regulars, Powers has appeared in Doubt, The Glass Menagerie and the Rep's nationally acclaimed, Dancing at Lughnasa, while Gibson appeared in Almost Maine and, most recently, opposite Powers in Born Yesterday. Both Lomax and Phillips are back onstage at the Rep after having previously appeared together as featured dancers in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Already the guest list includes over a hundred of the area's most high profile event planners, social & civic club organizers, members of the SWFL Concierge Association and representatives from hotels and resorts from as far away as Naples and Marco Island.

Alone Together tells the story of George and Helene Butler, and it unfolds hilariously as they send their third and final son off to college. Now that they're alone, they'll finally be able to live their dreams? Take up painting, exotic vacations or maybe even make love by the fire. But those plans are quickly interrupted as not one, but all three of their sons come home unannounced.

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, Dancing at Lughnasa is a memory play told through the eyes of Michael Evans, now a man, who recalls the summer he spent with his mother and her four maiden sisters in a tiny and impoverished Irish home in 1936. Set against the backdrop of the pagan festival of Lughnasa, the story of changing times and the strength of one family's bond unfolds as the music of their first wireless set casts its spell under the hot August sun.

'Indian Blood is a Norman Rockwell painting onstage,' said Producing Artistic Director, Robert Cacioppo, 'and it is really very funny. It's a uniquely nostalgic play that has a perfect message for the holidays.'

Born Yesterday is the play that made Judy Holiday famous, and the film adaptation launched her into stardom. Her performance as Billie won her both the Tony Award and the Oscar. It is the story of what happens when Harry Brock, a corrupt tycoon, comes to Washington with his showgirl mistress, Billie, in tow.