Love Letters by A. R. Gurney Starring Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross Saturday, October 9, 2010, 7:30 pm Lakireddy Auditorium  UC Merced Campus, 5200 North Lake Rd., Merced, CA

ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross are best known for their roles as the former-hippie parents of Michael J. Fox’s character Alex Keaton in the 1980s sitcom Family Ties.  The Pulitzer Prize nominated play, Love Letters by A. R. Gurney, is a funny charming, touching, and bittersweet love story told through fifty years of correspondence between its two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepiece Ladd III.  The characters sit side by side and read their notes and letters discussing their hopes, ambitions, dreams and disappointments that has passed between them throughout their separate lives.

$25 General admission (assigned seating)

$75 Gold Circle tickets include prime assigned seating and admission to the “After Glow Reception” with the actors immediately following the performance.

Seating Policy:  Doors close at 7:30 pm.  As a courtesy to the performers and the audience, latecomers will not be seated until intermission.  Patrons leaving the auditorium during a performance will not be readmitted until intermission.