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A10 • Friday, March 22, 2019 | Cannon Beach Gazette | CannonBeachGazette.com Looking for Love By KATHERINE LACAZE For Coast Weekend ‘Living on Love,” the Coaster Theatre Playhouse’s spring production, is not a musical, but music is woven throughout the characters’ histories, onstage antics and poignant relationships. “There is a lot of music in it, but in weird kinds of ways,” director Patrick Lathrop said. The play, written by Joe DiPietro and running through April 13 at the Coaster Theatre, follows two celebrated musical art- ists who are past middle age and nearing the end of their illustrious careers: Raquel De Angelis, the diva, as a famous opera singer and her husband, Vito De Angelis, the maestro, as an acclaimed orchestra conductor. Grasping for new fame amid their declining careers, they each hire a young ghost- writer to assist in drafting their autobiographies. Relation- ships develop in unexpected ways and comedy ensues at the couple’s 1957 Manhattan penthouse under the watchful eyes of the all-knowing ser- vants, Eric and Bruce. The show is like a sitcom — silly and over-the-top, Lathrop said. “It’s ‘The Lucy Show,’” he said. The humor abounds in the unique characters, their relationships and their realization at the end that “everything they’ve been seeing is not as it really is.” An outrageous duo Cathey Ryan’s task has been fi nding her inner diva to portray Raquel in a way that makes her likable, albeit clueless and somewhat shortsighted. “Raquel lives in an opera 24/7/365,” Ryan said. “She says it at one point, that ‘opera revels in the great- Coaster Theatre Iris Peabody, played by Emilee Andrade, is tasked with ghostwriting the autobiography of Maestro Vito De Angeles, played by Frank Jagodnik, amid his persistent sexual advances. Robert Samson, played by Bennett Hunter, shares a kiss with assistant junior editor Iris Peabody, played by Emilee Andrade, in the play ‘Living on Love.’ Young ghostwriter Robert Samson attempts for weeks to write an autobiography of Maestro Vito De Angelis, who is constantly late and embellishing stories of his love life. est of love and sorrow with heart-stopping beauty.’ She’s almost always ‘on.’” Yet, Ryan added, Raquel is not an intentional diva or petty and cruel. She does not create drama, but rather fi nds the drama in any given situation. “She’s not aware of the corner if she’s on the side- walk, but when she gets to the corner, then the corner is the world,” she said. Frank Jagodnik is her equally dramatic counter- part, Vito, whom Jagodnik Samson — Raquel’s ghost- writer, played by Bennett Hunter — she discovers the two are not mutually exclu- sive, that she can have both a relationship and a career. Andrade also has enjoyed the 1950 trends, references and nostalgia artfully inte- grated into the show. “It’s neat to have loved that era and to fi nally actu- ally get to play in that era,” she said. While primarily a roman- tic comedy, the show has a touching and relatable ele- Coaster Theatre described as “probably one of the most outrageous char- acters I’ve ever played here.” The passionate, narcissistic Italian, who often refers to himself in the third-person, has a short temper but also can be tender and well-meaning. The old and the new Rehearsing “Living on Love” has been a growing experience for several of the actors. While Jagodnik per- fected his Italian accent and became comfortable with large hand gestures, Ryan became acquainted with opera and learned to sing a few bars. Her husband, Thomas Ryan, who portrays Eric, even started playing the piano. Meanwhile, Emilee Andrade has discovered much of herself in Iris Pea- body, the other ghostwriter who challenges the societal norms of the 1950s by pur- suing a career over marriage. “She is her own woman, wants to do her own thing, build her own career,” Andrade said. 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