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Cleveland resident Gary Webster’s plays, You’ll be Back, Prime Beef and Strictly Platonic? was performed at Gallery 324 in the Galleria at Erieview, Saturday, April 28 & Sunday, April 29. Sue Johnson directed the plays. Clevelanders got a chance to experience three romantic comedies that take different looks at marriage, wedding rings, and what happens when romance goes awry, during “PlayActs” Performances, a two-day celebration.

First, two short plays, You’ll be Back, a tale told by two wedding rings, and Prime Beef, in which Diane has the great idea to auction off her boyfriend Jeff and his friend Eddie at the upcoming benefit for the local animal shelter. Then Strictly Platonic? a special staged reading of this full-length play in which Paul and Emily end up sharing an apartment in Florida as roommates on something like a dare. Paul’s chances for his dream job are affected by this arrangement, which leads to a series of schemes and results in an unanticipated outcome for Paul and Emily.

WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio presents area playwrights’ works. Sue Johnson, the director, says, “Webster is a prolific playwright, who has written over three hundred scenes, sketches, one- and two-act plays. We wanted to select some of Webster’s representative plays which have substantive roles for women and reflect diversity of age, race, and also, because Cleveland needs to know about our own in-house version of Neil Simon.”

The actors were: Sapphire DeFranco, Mary Lu Franks, Charlie Loy Hawkins, Stuart Hoffman, Jim Lenaha, Jermal Ware, and John Franks, Musical Director.

Viewers can see Webster share insights about his work and his craft on video streaming excerpts of “Wake Up and Live with the Arts,” on the WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio web site, go to www.wakeupandlives.org, the spinning film reel. The cable show, now in its third year has featured more than one hundred arts-related guests from Northeast Ohio, Florida, Los Angeles, Canada and New York, and can be seen on Saturdays, 5:30 – 6:30 P on Time Warner, Cable channel 21 in the eastern suburbs, and on Time Warner, channel 23 in the western suburbs; Cox Cable, Fridays, 9:30 - 10:30 P, ch. 45; and Cleveland Cable Access, Mondays, 7:00 - 8:00 P, ch. 46.

Go to www.wakeupandlives.org for more information on upcoming events.

James McGilbray, Gary Webster, Phil Yeh, cartoonist, literacy advocate and Sue Johnson share a moment after Phil’s interview on WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS.

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Local Art. Local Magazine. Local Talent. Subscribe NOW! Local Artists! Where are you? Submit your work TODAY	Cleveland resident Gary Webster’s plays, You’ll be Back, Prime Beef and Strictly Platonic? was performed at Gallery 324 in the Galleria at Erieview, Saturday, April 28 & Sunday, April 29. Sue Johnson directed the plays. Clevelanders got a chance to experience three romantic comedies that take different looks at marriage, wedding rings, and what happens when romance goes awry, during “PlayActs” Performances, a two-day celebration. First, two short plays, You’ll be Back, a tale told by two wedding rings, and Prime Beef, in which Diane has the great idea to auction off her boyfriend Jeff and his friend Eddie at the upcoming benefit for the local animal shelter. Then Strictly Platonic? a special staged reading of this full-length play in which Paul and Emily end up sharing an apartment in Florida as roommates on something like a dare. Paul’s chances for his dream job are affected by this arrangement, which leads to a series of schemes and results in an unanticipated outcome for Paul and Emily. WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio presents area playwrights’ works. Sue Johnson, the director, says, “Webster is a prolific playwright, who has written over three hundred scenes, sketches, one- and two-act plays. We wanted to select some of Webster’s representative plays which have substantive roles for women and reflect diversity of age, race, and also, because Cleveland needs to know about our own in-house version of Neil Simon.” The actors were: Sapphire DeFranco, Mary Lu Franks, Charlie Loy Hawkins, Stuart Hoffman, Jim Lenaha, Jermal Ware, and John Franks, Musical Director. Viewers can see Webster share insights about his work and his craft on video streaming excerpts of “Wake Up and Live with the Arts,” on the WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio web site, go to www.wakeupandlives.org, the spinning film reel. The cable show, now in its third year has featured more than one hundred arts-related guests from Northeast Ohio, Florida, Los Angeles, Canada and New York, and can be seen on Saturdays, 5:30 – 6:30 P on Time Warner, Cable channel 21 in the eastern suburbs, and on Time Warner, channel 23 in the western suburbs; Cox Cable, Fridays, 9:30 - 10:30 P, ch. 45; and Cleveland Cable Access, Mondays, 7:00 - 8:00 P, ch. 46. Go to www.wakeupandlives.org for more information on upcoming events. James McGilbray, Gary Webster, Phil Yeh, cartoonist, literacy advocate and Sue Johnson share a moment after Phil’s interview on WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS.