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guage, or ESL, curriculum at Long Beach Unified School District, while Bill, a teacher who passed away this year, helped Vietnam veterans enroll in community college. Local community-theatre actors Mitchell and Jane Nunn, who participated two years ago, are representing the couple. During dress rehearsals last Sunday at HSLB’s building on Atlantic Avenue, Mitchell said he is grateful to pay respects to such noble people. “It’s really interesting when you find out about these people,” said Mitchell, who also performs in The Foreigner at Long Beach Playhouse. “It’s just very fulfilling inside to keep this message alive as to what these people did and to pay the honor to them to let people know this isn’t just a person in the ground.” Jane, who held back tears while practicing her lines, said the performances will be “especially interesting” since they feature people who recently passed away, unlike previous reenactments of people who died decades ago. “There’s a chance there will be people who come to the event who actually knew these people, and we’ve never had that before,” she said. In his fifth year directing the performances, Denis McCourt, who is the founder of the Public Theatre of Southern California and has worked with the Long Beach Shakespeare Company and Long Beach Playhouse, said each performance is like a “living obituary” for different residents of various time periods and they show how people never change. “This is a way to bring it to life by finding that human connection and the power of personal story,” he said. “When you see real people standing there, you realize we haven’t changed much. The humanity is still the same.” Local historians Roxanne Patmore and Kaye Briegel worked together on writing the scripts after months of researching each person’s life through newspaper archives, the Internet and relatives of the deceased. Some of the residents featured in the plays were chosen by circumstance, however Briegel –Jane Nunn, said the goal is to showcase a wide cross section of people’s lives, whether influential or not, instead of the traditional “movers and shakers” of Long Beach history. “The challenge is to do something that says something worthwhile about the history of Long Beach and still make it interesting and engaging for the public,” she said. “These aren’t the same old stories. It’s not the booster history of Long Beach. It’s an attempt to look at a broader idea of what Long Beach has been in the past.” This year, some city officials have joined the reenactments. For instance, Councilmember Al Austin is playing Charles Haynes, who in 1961 became
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Director Denis McCourt, far left, gives actors Jane and Mitchell Nunn some advice for their performance as Betty and Bill Seal during dress rehearsals of the 18th Annual Historical Cemetery Tour scheduled for this Saturday, Oct. 26.
the first African-American member of the Long Beach Board of Realtors. The performance will also feature Haynes’s wife, Ethel, an elementaryschool teacher. Some mayoral candidates are also participating, including Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal, Councilmember Gerrie Schipske, Long Beach Community College Trustee Doug Otto and Jana Shields, who runs a nonprofit educational service. Councilmember Suja Lowenthal, who announced she has dropped out of the mayoral race and is running for the 70th District Assembly seat, is expected to perform as well. Other Long Beach residents featured in the short plays besides the Seals and the Hayneses include: Elizabeth “Liz” and Donald Wallace; Thomas and Kathleen Harnett (brother and sister); Yaye Kurayama Takeshita; Valentine and Maybell Leal; the Coseboom Family; and Dora Czerny. Jonathan Varillas, who plays Valentine Leal, a Mexican from Texas who married Maybell Leal in 1905 to have three sons, one of whom attended UCLA and became a language scholar, said the reenactment is unlike any performance he has ever done. “It’s almost like you can literally touch the history of it,” said Varillas, who has been studying dramatic arts for about five years. “It’s kind of like
“There’s a chance there will be people who come to the event who actually knew these people, and we’ve never had that before.”
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