"By day, the Buffalo State Theater alumna is the Director of Communications and Community Engagement for the Buffalo History Museum, and never wastes an opportunity to spread good will for that venerable institution. She is also known for her enduring beauty, her spectacular vegetable garden, and her blissful marriage to jazz musician George Caldwell. As Mrs. Robinson, Connie gives a deliciously restrained performance, grounded in a perfect foundation of dry and cynical humor. Alleyway’s production of The Graduate, directed by Todd Warfield, has imbued the story with an element of giddy effervescence—the secondary characters are played as delightfully silly cartoons who whirl around the dilemma of Benjamin, a young man whose interaction with a predatory older woman will alter the course of his life." more