The Cover of Life at Gene Frankel Theatre

**Ticket discount! EXTENDED! Enter COVER into the discount code location on Brown paper tickets and you will automatically receive a $10.00 discount off of the ticket price!

Miller-Coffman Productions Proudly Presents "The Cover of Life" by R. T. Robinson!

Directed by Stephen S Miller

Tood, Weetsie, and Sybill are brides in rural Louisiana in 1943. Each married a Cliffert brother. The men are off to war and a local news story about these young wives keeping the home fires burning intrigues Henry Luce. He decides that they belong on the cover of Life Magazine and assigns Kate Miller to the story. She has been covering the war in Europe and, though she views doing a "women's piece" as a career set-back, she accepts because it will be her first cover story. Kate spends a week with the Cliffert women and her haughty urban attitude gives way to sympathy as she begins to understand them while coming face-to-face with her own powerlessness in a man's world. Filled with charm and fun, The Cover of Life is a deeply affecting story about the struggle for self worth.

Jill Cook as Kate Miller

Jessica Carillo as Tood Cliffert

Molly Callahan as Sybil Cliffert

Abigail Milnor-Sweetser as Weetsie Cliffert

Amy Losi as Aunt Ola

Maia Nero as Addie Mae

Thomas Kalnas as Tommy Cliffert

THE COVER OF LIFE had its world premiere at the American Stage Company, James N. Vagias, Executive Producer; further developed at The Hartford Stage Company, Mark Lamos, Artistic Director; David Harkanson, Managing Director.

The Cover of Life will be making its way to the Gene Frankel Theater with an opening on 7 March 2018, where it will run for a month in celebration of Woman’s History Month. Tood, Weetsie and Sybil the brides of rural Louisiana during 1943. Each young lady married one of the Cliffert brothers. The brothers currently off at war in which a local news story written about the wives left at home in Louisiana keeping the home fires burning intrigued the attention of Henry Luce. In which he decides that this story would make a perfect cover for Life Magazine. Kate Miller is assigned to the story. Kate has been focused on the way in Europe, though she is surprised to be asked to cover this story. “A woman’s piece”, something that Kate Miller had no interest in doing. Feeling that this would be a set-back in her career at Life Magazine, but she decides to accept the story as this will be her first cover story. Kate Miller is sent down to Sterlington, Louisiana to spend a week with the Cliffert women in her sophisticated New York attitude allows way for the sympathetic feelings as she begins to learn the background that this family holds near and dear to their heart. Kate comes face-to-face with her own powerlessness within a man’s world. The Cover of Life is filled with 1943 charm in today’s world. This show is deeply filled with an affecting story that will bring such struggle and self-worth to life and the realization that life can bring such bumps along the dirt road.

Reviews:

"A Picture-Perfect Story" - New York Times

"The kind of roles actresses dream of. Robinson's writing has a warm, rural flavor, and [the] conflicts are laced with a poignant urgency." – Variety

"Vivid." - Newark Star Ledger