Tucked in a northern harbor town is the Bayview Playhouse a Community Theatre where talent is tall, and finances small, Trish Mead, Executive Director and Maurice Binkman, Artistic Director and their many volunteers scurry to produce a hit, on the heels of their biggest financial and artistic flop Hamlet in the Raw.

Substitution Solution was written by Annie Goodman and Phil Murphy and was performed by:

• Tom Czarny as Rod Johnson
• Rachel Levine as Yvonne Gorman
• Patrick Cotner as Roberto Montava
• Gianna Imbronone as Daphne Gorman
• Jill Beauchamp as Trish Mead
• Dan Mello as Dirk Drayton
• Jan Dalton as Maurice ‘Binkie’ Binkman
• Jill Bert as Sally Blakemore
• Caroline Haugen as Ashley Feldman
• Joelle Lynn as Carol ‘Studie’ Studevant
• Allison Heeren as Gretchen ‘Li’l One’ Littleton
• Jay Simon as Jimmy ‘Termite’ Harnett
• Harold Kranick as George Spelvin
• Scott Lankford as Rick
• Margaret Ann Slawson as Virginia
• Nancy O’Hara as Wanda
• Colin Bohash as Wendell
• Karen McCoskey as Esme

Stage of Fools was recorded at Old Town Playhouse in Traverse City, Michigan by Recording Engineer Gary Bolton and was directed and produced by Annie Goodman and Phil Murphy.

Theme Music: Music Bakery www.musicbakery.com
Effects: Fesliyan Studios www.fesliyanstudios.com