MARSHALL, TX – Celebrating 77 years, therenowned BearCreek Smokehouse continues to make its mark as a fun and populartourist day-trip destination – complete with shopping, lunch, animals, and relaxingviews from the porch. Belovednationwide, families across America make Bear Creek’s products part of theirannual holiday celebrations. Third-generation owner, Robbie Shoults, hasdazzled television audiences with appearances on The TODAY Show, TheRachael Ray Show and as a four-time guest judge on Beat Bobby Flay.

He and his Bear Creek teamrecently hosted the 2nd Annual Hannah HouseMaternity benefit, which was headlined by country music legends, The BellamyBrothers. (Pictured right: Third-generation owners Tracy and Robbie Shoultswith The Bellamy Brothers at the Hannah House event which hosted around 1,000people and raised $23,395.)

EVENT CENTER & WEEKLY BBQCOOKOUTS
Bear Creek has been busy working on their brand-new 6,600 square foot addition,which is now open! This will host 350 guests for weddings, events, or corporateparties. In addition, they have attached a pit room at the back that is full ofcharacter everywhere you look! A collection of aged bricks – collected from asfar as Prague all the way to NYC – line the pit room floors, antique signsdrape every wall, and nostalgic furniture from notorious past East Texasrestaurants give you the perfect spot to belly up to some delicious BBQ. Andtheir 9th wonder of the world, the new 20′ smoker (behind their 8th wonder ofthe world, Robbie’s smoker trailer) that’s fueled by pecan, oak and hickory andpassion is not to be missed! It’s the ideal place to enjoy football games andsporting events. Starting October 10, they will host BBQ cookouts everySaturday – it’s first come, first serve.

A DELICIOUS HOLIDAY SEASON
With the approaching holidays,Bear Creek is the perfect place to purchase your Thanksgiving turkey, Holidayhams or corporate gifts. Speaking of food, their catering team is ready tocater all of your holiday happenings. Whether it be a small dinner party atyour home or a large corporate Christmas celebration hosted at their new eventcenter, they are primed for cooking! They are so excited about the upcomingholiday shopping season and anxious for their customers to see some of the newlines that they are thrilled to offer. New inventory is arriving daily and thestore displays have evolved into merchandise that tells a story. While you’rehere, take time to feed the longhorns, the goats, and meet our famous pig,Wilburt!  Coming soon! They will have asluice for kids to find hidden gems in mining rough. Some lucky recipients willhave authentic arrowheads hidden in their bag of rough!

About Bear Creek Smokehouse
From humble backyard beginnings dating back to 1943, Bear Creek Smokehouse hasnow become a 60,000-square foot production, shipping, and marketing facilitythat provides a wide variety of award-winning smoked meats, gourmet dry goods,specialty gifts, and catering services. Five generations of Shoults’ familyfarm traditions and love of quality foods are the primary ingredients in therecipe for success at Bear Creek. The Shoults’ family has devoted their livesto a motto of ‘Food, Family, and Faith’. The work at Bear Creek is a labor oflove and a family affair for the Shoults’ and their loyal employees – theirextended Bear Creek Family. The team has spent years perfecting theirhickory-smoked meat recipes.

The Smokehouse is also a retailer and ships their products nationwide throughinternet and catalog sales year-round. Gift-giving of Bear Creek’s smoked meatshas become a holiday tradition for many families and businesses. Bear Creek isalso a wholesaler of certain smoked meats to major grocery chains all over thesouthern states, as well as their dry goods and jarred products to many uniquefood outlets and gift shops nationally. Additionally, they offer localcustomers their catering services and the Bear Creek General Store & EventVenue and enjoy the face-to-face interaction with their local supporters. BearCreek’s products, including their BearBottom Cookbook – and a wideselection of apparel, beef, gifts, jarred goods, pork, poultry, soups, sweets,gift cards and more – continue to fly off shelves.

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Willard Manus (born September 28, 1930) is a Los Angeles-based novelist, playwright, and journalist. His original play “Dietrich” just enjoyed a limited Off Broadway engagement at the famed Triad Theatre to packed houses and excellent reviews.

Accompanied by pianist Russell Daisey and starring Cindy Marinangel, “Dietrich” is a based on a true story. Set in May 1960, the play takes place when Marlene Dietrich returned to the Berlin stage for the first time since fleeing the Hitler regime in the 1930’s.

Inside her dressing room at the Tatiana Palast Theater, Dietrich weighs whether to go through with the live performance despite threats on her life by Nazi sympathizers who resent her for having spent much of World War II entertaining American soldiers on the front lines. To them, Dietrich is a turncoat; a traitor who deserves to be shot and killed on stage.

Willard Manus is a playwright, journalist and novelist. He is a member of the playwrights/director’s unit of The Actors Studio. His most recent plays are “Joe and Marilyn: A Love Story,” “Frank and Ava” (now a motion picture) and “Who Killed Comrade Rabbit?” His best known book is Mott the Hoople (1966), the novel from which the British 1970s hard rock band derived their name. Manus was born in New York. He is the author of This Way to Paradise: Dancing on the Tables, a memoir of life in Lindos, Rhodes, Greece, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Additionally he has had a dozen other books published, most recently a young adult novel, A Dog Called Leka, which deals with a young lad sailing the Aegean islands in the company of an exceptional dog. More than two dozen of his plays have been produced in Los Angeles, regionally and in Europe. He has been a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association since 1981.

Cindy Marinangel (Marlene Dietrich) is a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio and a graduate of the Chicago Second City Conservatory. Marinangel was recently seen in “Beverly Hills Christmas,” a holiday film starring actor Dean Cain that airs seasonally on UPtv. She is a voice over talent, an avid ballroom dancer, animal advocate and producer of film, theatre and dance shows.

Russell Daisey is an internationally acclaimed pianist, singer and songwriter. He performed at The First Hiroshima International Peace Summit (on stage with the Dalai Lama); the Palais des Congres in Paris; before President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; as well as Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Ellie Wiesel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Betty Williams.

For bookings reviews and inquiries:
https://www.dietrichplay.com/

Works Written by Willard Manus:

Journalism
· Columns

Southern California Correspondent for Playbill On-Line (1995-2000).

Monthly columnist (theatre, opera, books, movies, jazz & blues) What’s Up Magazine &, Lively-Arts.com , Total Theater, The Outlook, Daily News, North-East Newspapers, Pasadena Star News, and many others

Books
· Novels

Love Under Aegean Skies – Amazon E-Book

Mott the Hoople, McGraw-Hill Co & Pinnacle Books – Amazon E-Book

· Fiction

The Fighting Men, Panjandrum Books – Amazon E-Book

The Fixers, Ace Books – E-Book

Connubial Bliss, Panjandrum Books – Amazon E-Book

The Pigskin Rabbi, Breakaway Books – Amazon E-Book

· Children’s

The Island Kids, Anglo-Hellenic Publishing Co (Picture Book)

· Young adult

The Proud Rebel, Ridge Press/Teenage Book Club

Sea Treasure, Doubleday

Mystery of the Flooded Mine, Doubleday

A Dog Called Leka, Viveca Smith Publishing Co – Amazon E-Book

· Non-fiction

This Way to Paradise–Dancing on the Tables, Lycabettus Press

Plays (premiered)
Actual Productions: Bon Appetit (Los Angeles, 1984, director Bert Rosario)

Diamonds (Los Angeles, 1985, director Richmond Shepard)

Hemingway–On the Edge (Los Angeles, 1993, director Lonny Chapman)

In My Father’s House (Los Angeles, 2000, director Jerome Guardino)

Junk Food (Los Angeles, 1981, director Rick Edelstein)

MM at 58 (Los Angeles, 1989, director Gary Guidinger)

The Bleachers

The Deepest Hunger (Los Angeles, 1984, director Lonny Chapman)

The Electronic Lincoln (Los Angeles, 1992, director Susan Deitz)

Their Finest Hour–Churchill and Murrow (Woodstock, director Nicola Sheara)

The Kendo Master (Los Angeles, 1981, director Sab Shimono)

The Last Laugh (Los Angeles, 1999, director John Lant)

The Love Boutique (Los Angeles, 1989, director Walter Olkiewicz)

The Penis Monologues (Los Angeles, 2002, director Louis Fantasia)

The Yard

Man in the Sun

Porkchops

The Call (Los Angeles, 2006, director Gregory Crafts)

Reap the Whirlwind (Los Angeles, 2000, director Doug Lowry)

Walt-Sweet Bird of Freedom (Los Angeles, 1984, director Lonny Chapman)

Central Avenue–The Musical (Los Angeles, 2007, director Louis Fantasia).

“In My Father’s House”

“Berlin Cowboys”

“Bird Lives”

“Prez, the Lester Young Story”

Frank & Ava”

Joe & Marilyn, a Love Story”

“The Life and Loves of Marlene Dietrich:

The Wicked, Wicked, Mae West”

and other plays…..

Television
Boys Will Be Boys, Fox TV.

Secrets of Midland Heights, CBS-TV.

Shannon, CBS-TV.

Too Close For Comfort, ABC-TV.

Translations
Leka de hond (A dog called Leka), translated by Gerrit Brand, Uitgeverij Nobelman, 2012.

With Artistic Regards,

Cindy Marinangel

DietrichPlay.com
CindyMarinangel.com
EternalWaltzFilm.net

“Marinangel’s excellent performance made me catch myself many times thinking that I was watching the ‘real’ Marlene.”
— Petra Schuermann (Germanworldonline.com)

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014 · The Pierre Hotel, New York City

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Thank you for your generous support.

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