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The Cover PhotographThis is a picture of Wayne Martensplaying PROSPERO in Shakespe<strong>are</strong>'s THETEMPEST. This production, in 1957, was theAmerican premier of the score <strong>com</strong>posed byJohan “Jean” Sibelius. The Detroit SymphonyOrchestra (conducted by Valter Poole)performed on stage throughout the performanceat the Bonstelle Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.Wayne was only twenty-one years old at thetime. Sibelius died shortly after the play closed.
SELF-PUBLISHING?I have never written a book before. I havepoor vision and have never even read an entirebook. I will certainly never write another book.So you can see why I thought it unlikely that Iwould ever find a publisher for this book. I didpurchase a copy of Writer's Market. “4,000 listingsfor book publishers, trade journals, literary agentsand more.” I sent out a few letters to see if anyonewould at least read the first few pages. No suchluck. It may be vanity, but I do believe that thebook is filled with many interesting stories aboutthe theatre, my autistic daughter, my relationshipwith God, and yes, I admit it, a lot about my lovelife. I do hope that if you have read this far, youwill at least read the first few pages of the book.Then maybe, just maybe, I'll get you hooked.Wayne Martens
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single beds, but I apparently slept
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I disagreed with much of what he wa
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Fred Barnett worked for his father,
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to stay and for the next five weeks
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very nervous. I only had a few doll
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of the producers of Lorraine Hansbe
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surprise, when I offered him a job,
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open The Vanguard Playhouse and the
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A new, unknown Detroit actor hadaud
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I would have to wait until I got to
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Chapter 4So here it is, the fall of
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an into Chuck. He asked if we could
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Canyon. As a former ministerial stu
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into San Francisco several times so
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I then returned to the papers and t
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quiet. Her roommate, apparently ana
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I then moved into the space we were
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extensive search, I settled on a yo
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collected deposit bottles and bough
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open the top half of the door. One
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and spray-paint them. A very inexpe
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day and night for several months re
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After a few days in Detroit, I was
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able to find out if I was going to
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kasha?" I inquired. "The germ of ba
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meet me. After arriving in the moun
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ight. I apologize. Thank you." I ha
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When the season was over, Joan and
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lab. I don't remember what Joan's j
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that I could comprehend the extent
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When I told Modernage that I wasqui
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an agent. I didn't. I'd never been
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After that night in the dressing ro
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of punching the guy out. This was n
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actors are signed to contracts. Nor
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The Festival finished the season bu
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something drastic to get his attent
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Not wanting the audience to miss an
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young couple spend the night in the
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When Joan returned, she and I went
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I got a call from a director with w
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would not do my bit. Sure enough, w
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from Ulysses. The implication was t
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shoes. When asked why he became an
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The next morning she left me in the
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ealized that we were the most theat
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ules specified that producers had t
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asked if she could speak with me pr
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through a farmers’ market with a
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office would be open at 10pm. This
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University. I didn't know what to d
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"Hey, what about me?" I shouted. I
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"rape" was meant in a classic sense
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NO, NO, NO, OH GOD, NO! PLEASE!THIS
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leave the show. I did not want Mich
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lists at all of the state homes thr
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164
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Michele's pleated skirts, and I pra
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een so moved by the time she spent
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question him. That policeman then c
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One of them returned and handed me
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phone, she was frightened and didn'
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couldn’t help but to wonder and h
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I took Michele to another psychiatr
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kind of private school for children
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Solomon and Ashemedai. I played Ash
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and watch me perform. Lyn would smi
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the first floor, and the blinds wer
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Twenty-eight years later, her mothe
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summer. The new sitter was from a g
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Zero Mostel, who was a very large m
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Lyn moved in with me. Life was good
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He said, "Please don't be angry wit
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estaurants. I made safe lights out
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We arrived at the falls and got a m
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agreed to meet at a bar in Manhatta
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Matthew seemed to know from the sta
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a little auto focus Olympus camera.
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her uncle. He had a very large plac
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My watermelon heart broke. I ran an
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I answered a used car ad in the pap
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passed away shortly after surgery.
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emained close friends, but Jim beca
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difficult to keep people when you c
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together. We then voted on the vari
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dictator, Sukarno, was about to be
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inhaled. I was hooked within a week
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little extra income. He would care
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carrying Christopher in her arms. L
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me what happened." Before we finish
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the night on the eastern end of Pen
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twenties, Matthew ran the Long Isla
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One of my new employees was fromCal
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made themselves at home. They were
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I had saved a supply cabinet that h
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This is not just a credit union; th
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kids happy in the process. Within a
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any money, only about three hundred
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was done on time and delivered to a
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was a bit stunned, but from that ti
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Baldev Duggal, the founder and owne
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lawyers and accountants advise new
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was to be C.O.D. The first order wa
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Lyn's father's health was beginning
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Michele had been at the new school
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We all knew that the Walshs would n
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My business was doing well, but our
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the nursing home and have no rent t
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friend had divorced his wife, quit
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that I needed. The computers did no
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There was an article in The New Yor
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one so many times. He asked for my
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Lynne was not overjoyed at the pros
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After each fight, we would then arg
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Business was good. Lynne and I deci
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dropped dead that night. I would ha
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Alex Vadell was also a master. Soon
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ignored each other, but the dogs ne
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end. I always had Michele as an exc
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ecome more aware of the extent of d
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had no difficulty in figuring out t
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From what I could gather, at thebeg
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garbage dumps that still had used c
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Theatre Row tenants. As of July 198
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Lynne and I had a wonderful time in
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By the end of the first week of Jud
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eturn, they got the use of the thea
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disorder was out of remission. She
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During the rehearsal, most of theau
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esponse, and we walked up Eighth Av
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space. Do they understand the fact
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six months. How could I turn down a
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went to get something to eat. When
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Lynne and I didn’t fully apprecia
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"My department at Lehman Brotherssp
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Make sure our film recorder can dow
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other times when I thought that I w
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there was no slide work, he could d
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the marriage was over? Kaput? I hop
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As large as this new apartment was,
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We, of course, would then go to the
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seem to me to show a lack of faith.
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later in hope that I would be aslee
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I couldn’t help but think how sad
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from the rental of the co-op, and I
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my arm down so fast that I had no t
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Shannon and Jeff told me about a sh
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mentioned that I did not have room
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floors, cleaned the bathrooms and t
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interested because there was not mu
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from old Theatre Magazines from the
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362
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laid off twenty-five percent of the
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But as much as I love Lyn, my child
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More MemoriesWhen I told Barry LaVi
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Alice Davies. Cliff Ammon telling m
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High School RomanceI hope I didn't
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to evaluate the speed and angle of
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I told my friend that it was a part
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Paris with The Paper Bag Players. H
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happy about their streets being fil
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HeresyForty-five years after my cal
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