Robert Turoff's letters share a history of Golden Apple theater
One letter led to another and it wasn’t long before he realized he had found the hook for a memoir that people had been encouraging him to write about his 42-year career as owner and director of the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre in Sarasota and his even-longer marriage to MacDonald. A Broadway veteran as a teenager, MacDonald became Sarasota’s leading lady starring in dozens of shows during the theater’s long history. “Now it may seem that writing a letter to someone who is no longer alive would raise many an eyebrow, but to me it was the most natural thing to do,” he writes in the in...