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Thursday, April 27, 2000 Press Sun-Bulletin 7 Mill's 'Planet' BY GENE GREY Staff Writer A play about friendship in a time of crisis, Lonely Planet by Steven Deitz opens today for a two-weekend run at Endicott's Cider Mill Playhouse. The twocharacter directed by Brendan Curtin and featuring David Mitnowsky and Doug Hall, is the third and final production in the Mill's first alternative season. The alternative season features shows that are a little riskier and edgier than the Mill's regular plays and, like Lonely Planet, have both adult content and language. Curtin, Mitnowsky and Hall were all drawn to the play about a year ago when they were looking for plays for the alternative season. Having had successful runs in Seattle, where it originated, and at New York's Circlein-the-Square off-Broadway theater, Lonely Planet is a contemporary play, which the trio believes treats a serious subject with humor and without polemics.

"It is a play about something BU students host Spring Fling The Student Association of Binghamton University presents Spring Fling 2000, an allday event beginning at noon Saturday on the University Main Drive between the Union and College-in-the- brings alternative ON STAGE LONELY PLANET WHAT: Alternative season play WHEN: 8:15 p.m. today through Saturday and May 4-6; 7 p.m. Sunday; 3 p.m. May 7 WHERE: Cider Mill Playhouse, 2 S. Nanticoke Endicott TICKETS: $12, box office: 748- 7363, noon to 5:30 p.m.

weekdays serious, but it isn't maudlin or 'woe is me' like a bad production of The Three Sisters," said Hall, an actor better known at both the Mill and Binghamton University as a skilled director. The play marks his first Mill appearance as a performer. "It doesn't hit anyone over the head with a political message," said Curtin, a regular Mill actor who has been branching out as a director. "It's about how two friends deal, in very different ways, with a crisis that affects them and their community." said Mitnowsky, last seen in the Mill's production of Fiddler on the Roof. Woods.

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"The way it is written, Deitz leaves so much to the imagination, both for the actors and the "Everything isn't spelled out, so we have to tell the story, make it clear, but let the imagination work as well," Curtin said. Weekend honors Vietnam vets The 25th anniversary of the last combat death in Vietnam will be commemorated this weekend with "Remembrance and Reunion," a program hosted by the Organization of Vietnam Veterans. At 5 p.m. Friday, there will be an open house at VFW Post 1449 on Nanticoke Avenue, Endicott, followed by a 7 p.m. memorial service at the war memorial on Main Street, Endicott.

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