An alumni newsletter from E-52 Student Theatre at UD prompted alumnus William K. Brown to bring his production of Goodbye My Lady Love to the Newark campus for three performances in March.

Actress Sally Sherwood starred in the tale of Broadway at the turn of the century, as she portrayed Lillian Russell, Blanche Ring, Eva Tanguay and Anna Held--all divas in their day.

Between Anna Held's milk baths and Lillian Russell's diamond-studded corsets, the Broadway musical scene at the turn of the century was a combination of talent, excess and genuine good fun. Adored on one hand and disparaged on the other, these women bravely shed the conventions of their era and left a legacy of musical theatre history that remains with audiences to this day.

Goodbye My Lady Love recreates the bustling, extravagant era when the Waldorf-Astoria and Delmonico's transformed eating into an art form, when the brand-new subway charged mercilessly under city streets at the rocketing speed of 40 mph and the theatre district stretched from 14th to 42nd streets.

Written by Sherwood, Goodbye My Lady Love premiered in the fall at the Shooting Star Theatre in the South Street Seaport in New York City.

Brown, who produced the show through his Montauk Theatre Productions, graduated in 1956. A former president of E-52 Student Theatre, he invited current E-52 president Jon Bell and four other students to New York to see the show in December. Arrangements to have the show performed at UD soon followed.