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Final 'Escanaba' planned for 2009
PUBLISHED: June 26, 2008
Chelsea's Jeff Daniels will premiere his third and final installment of the popular "Escanaba In Da Moonlight," series in 2009.
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"I am going to write the third and final 'Escanaba' for 2009, and I've already told Guy (Sanville) the basic story for it so we're on the same page," Daniels said. "So over the next year I will probably have that done.
"Right now we are thinking the fall, but it might be the winter. It will be in the 2009 season."
The final installment will be the third play of the trilogy and will be set in 1922, the year they built the camp. When Daniels first introduced "Escanaba In Da Moonlight" in 1995 (with a second revival at the Purple Rose in 1997) he had no intention of making it into a series. He eventually followed it up with "Escanaba in Love" in the 2006-07 season.
"I never intended to write a companion piece to 'Escanaba In Da Moonlight,'" he said. "It was written with the intention it would stand alone. It wasn't until about five years ago that I got the idea to write a prequel. It's been 13 years since I wrote the original. Over the years, I'd jotted down some ideas, but had other things I wanted to write and never really thought seriously about it."
Daniels says the third play will be the final one.
"This will be it; there will be no more after this," he says.
The great Lanford Wilson wrote "Fifth of July," "Talley's Folly" and "Talley and Son" as part of the "Talley" trilogy, revolving around the Talley family of Lebanon, Mo.
"It's a complete steal from what Lanford did," Daniels says.
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