The Lady With All The Answers by David Rambo

Ann Landers elegantly furnished study in a fourteen room high-rise apartment on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, late June, 1975. Set designer, Chris Waller - Lighting Designer, Glen Dunn
Dear readers, in my twenty years as Ann Landers, this is the most difficult column I have ever tried to put together.
Hey, get a load of this...Jules gave it to me. He had a label sewn in the lining: "E. L." Eppie Lederer. I had it taken out, and a new one put in that said: "Jule's Wife." All my fur coats, they all say: "Jule's Wife".
If you had to do it all over again, would you - Eppie-- marry the same guy?
Margo, I'm on deadline...But, I keep goofing off doing busywork...This book I want to put together of my favorite letters.
But I've got no BS, no M.A., no PH.D., and I want that J-O-B. So, I use what I do have; chutzpah and one hell of a rolodex.
A Louis XVI desk, built by set designer Chris Waller, holds an IBM Selectric typewriter with a sheet of yellow newspaper copy in the roller waiting to be typed upon.

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Reviews

By Andrea Torrence – St. Louis Theatre Snob, May 14, 2011
“Stellie Siteman really nails Ann Landers, down to that Chicago dialect”

By Connie Bollinger – KDHX, May 14, 2011
“Either Stellie Siteman channeled Anne Landers or she’s one of the best actresses I’ve ever come across.”

By Dennis Brown – Riverfront Times, May 19 2011
“Siteman eases her way through the evening with the aplomb of a veteran fly fisherman who can reel in her catch while barely moving her wrist.”

By Judith Newmark – St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 15, 2011
“a charming one-woman showthat stars Stellie Siteman”

By Mark Bretz – Ladue News, May 18, 2011
“makes its local debut in a stylish presentation offered by Max & Louie Productions”

By Richard Green – TalkingBroadway.com, May 17, 2011
“Ill confess here and now that I truly hate to review one-person shows. But, for once, there’s no fear in my mind that I may run out of amazing details to relate.”

Video Clips

Becoming Ann Landers – Hair and Makeup