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Golden Apple Dinner Theatre owner Robert Turoff, front.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Fans of Chaffin’s Barn Dinner Theatre<\/a><\/strong> here in Nashville — and dinner theatre anywhere — will thoroughly enjoy The Golden Apple: Dinner Theatre Family Style<\/strong>, a new documentary by local filmmaker Charles Fallon<\/strong>, airing tonight, Wednesday, January 21, on NPT-Channel 8 at 9:00 p.m. (rebroadcasting on NPT2 on Friday, January 23 at 9:00 a.m. and Monday, January 26 at. 2:00 p.m.). Fallon’s film goes behind the scenes of The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre<\/a><\/strong> in Sarasota, Florida and its 2003 production of “Damn Yankees,” following theatre owner Robert Turoff<\/strong> and actors Gary Marachek<\/strong> and Chris O’Brocto<\/strong>, as well as other performers, stagehands and everyone else involved. What’s most fascinating and entertaining — and magical — is that the entire production is put together in a mere 10 days.<\/p>\n

Fallon, who once worked at the Golden Apple and teaches at Watkins College of Art and Design, told the Sarasota Herald Tribune<\/em>‘s Jay Handelman<\/a><\/strong> that he “thought (Turoff) was amazing and the entire family was very unusual.”<\/p>\n

“The fact they have owned and run this theater for as long as they have is amazing.”<\/p>\n

The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, at the time the film was completed, was one of only 13 remaining Equity dinner theatres in the country. It remains the longest running.<\/p>\n

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