Love Letters is a funny and emotional portrait about the powerful connection of love. Two friends, rebellious Melissa Gardner and straight-arrow Andrew Makepeace Ladd III have exchanged notes, cards and letters with each other for over 50 years. From second grade, through summer vacations, to college, and well into adulthood, they have spent a lifetime discussing their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, and victories and defeats.
Andrew Makepeace Ladd III will be played by Mike Pearce, a North Idaho native who grew up in the Silver Valley. Mike fondly remembers his very first play was performing Love Letters with his wife, Anna (Patty Duke), and is thrilled to be enacting the show again for this worthwhile event and the chance to work with Anne and Rebecca.
Melissa Gardner will be played by Anne Lunceford Capellen. Anne has been active in theatre and voice, as an actor and a director since her childhood. A native of Coeur d’Alene and graduate in Communication Arts from Pacific Lutheran University, she is a voice actor and a script writer and has nearly twenty years as on-camera talent as a nationally televised teacher for a project funded by the US Department of Education. Anne loves that she has the opportunity to reprise the role of Melissa.
The Director, Rebecca Priano Vellucci, grew up in Coeur d’Alene. She was the Director for the Children’s Theater at Lake City Playhouse and had her own Theater Company, Performance Plus for several years. Rebecca is excited to be part of this endeavor.