Pat Cashman stars in one-night-only benefit performance

Seattle actor/writer/comic Pat Cashman and his beautiful, talented wife Patti will star in a single performance of A.R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play Love Letters, Saturday, January 23, 2010, 7:30 p.m. at Seattle Musical Theatre, 7400 Sand Point Way, NE.

The two-person play traces the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner. The story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is written – and what is left unsaid – in their letters. Since its first performance in 1988 starring Joanna Gleason and John Rubinstein, many celebrities have performed this poignant and moving play, including Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards, Lynn Redgrave and John Clark, Carol Burnett and Brian Dennehy, Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek, Timothy Hutton and Elizabeth McGovern, Elizabeth Taylor and James Earl Jones.

“I had never read the play nor seen Love Letters on stage before SMT suggested I might like to perform it with my lovely wife,” says Pat. “They gave us the script and we immediately fell in love with the characters of Melissa and Andrew and are thrilled we have the opportunity to play opposite each other in a play for the very first time.”

There are three ticket price levels for this benefit performance: $35 per person includes Orchestra Level tickets for the show only; $75 per person includes Silver Stage Level tickets for the performance and after-show dessert reception with Pat and Patti; $125 per person includes Gold Stage Level tickets for the performance, after-show dessert reception with Pat and Patti, and the donor’s name engraved on a Love Letters plaque that will permanently hang in the SMT lobby.

For reservations or information, call 206-363-2809.