[NEohioPAL] "Tuesdays with Morrie" Feb. 6-7 at Wooster High School Performing Arts Center

[Ansley Valentine]

Dan Dean and Richard Figge take Tuesdays with Morrie on the road

Dynamic duo will open at  Wooster High School Performing Arts Center
Feb. 6-7 and then travel to alumni gatherings

WOOSTER, Ohio — Dan Dean and Richard Figge will hit the road for a
series of performances of "Tuesdays with Morrie." The dynamic duo will
open with two shows at  the Wooster High School Performing Arts Center,
515 Oldman Rd., Wooster, OH, 44691  (Feb. 6-7)  at 7:30 p.m. and then
perform at a College of Wooster alumni event in Columbus (April 15). 
Tickets for the show in Wooster are available at the door for $7.

"Tuesdays with Morrie" is a bestselling book by journalist Mitch Albom,
which sold more than five million copies and later became an
Emmy-winning made-for-television movie. Sixteen years after graduation,
Albom happened to catch an appearance by Morrie Schwartz on a television
news program and learned that his old professor was battling Lou
Gehrig's Disease. He reunited with Morrie and what started as a simple
visit turned into a weekly pilgrimage and a last class in the meaning of
life.

Dean, who serves as health promotion coordinator in Wooster’s Longbrake
Student Wellness Center, has collaborated with Figge on a number of
occasions, including “Mass Appeal,” which was performed at The College
of Wooster; “Good Evening,” which was staged at Hilarities 4th Street
Theatre in Cleveland; and “The Visitor,” which was produced at St. James
Episcopal Church in Wooster. Dean has also appeared in Baldwin-Wallace’s
production of “MacBeth” and Wooster’s recent production of “A Flea in
Her Ear.” A 2002 College of Wooster graduate, Dean has a degree in
English.

Figge is the Gertrude Gingrich Professor of German emeritus at The
College of Wooster. He is also a character actor whose credits range
from Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and Friar Lawrence in Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet to modern comedy and drama. He is best known for his
performance of David Rintels' one-man play Clarence Darrow, which he has
presented across the country, in Europe, and in 1985 in Washington,
D.C., under the patronage of President Reagan. In 2002 he toured in
Jason Miller’s one-man play Barrymore’s Ghost, in which he portrayed the
legendary actor John Barrymore. In 1986 he performed at Wooster with
Vincent Dowling in the American premiere of Sam Dowling's Riverman, and
in 1987, under the direction of Dowling, played the title role in the
first public performance of Donald Freed's The Last Hero, based on the
lives of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.

Additional information about the performances is available by phone
(330) 263-2299 or e-mail (ddean at wooster.edu).