Program: A Fun Evening with Erma Bombeck

Monday, October 21, 2024

Doors Open at 6:30 pm
Enjoy complimentary refreshments and browse our partner tables before the program.

Program  7:00-8:30 pm

Southridge Recreation Center

4800 McArthur Ranch Road, Highlands Ranch

$5 Donation Suggested at Door for non-HRHS members

Three days a week in over 900 papers across the country, Erma Bombeck’s column At Wit’s End captured the ups and downs of a new American phenomenon, the suburban housewife.

Figuring you had to be able to laugh at life to get through it, Ms. Bomback brought to American awareness the struggles of women whose lives otherwise felt invisible and taken for granted. She let women across America know:

“You are not alone. We number in the millions. I, too, am an American housewife, and I will laugh by your side.”

We will find out how Erma got started as a humorist.  You will surely chuckle along as she pokes fun at kids, husbands, household appliances, and especially herself.

This program includes a monologue in-character, a Q&A “with Erma” and a Q&A with the scholar/presenter, Susan Marie Frontczak.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER:  SUSAN MARIE FRONTCZAK

Susan Marie Frontczak has given over 875 Living History presentations as Marie Curie, Mary Shelley, Irene Castle, Clara Barton, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Erma Bombeck across 43 of the United States. She also works with both students and adults to develop their own Living History presentations and is the author of the Young Chautauqua handbooks for Colorado Humanities.

Susan Marie joins millions of Erma Bombeck fans in the U.S. and around the world in celebrating one of the 20th century’s most prolific writers and humorists. As a teen, she competed with her mother to see which of them could snag the monthly Good Housekeeping magazine in order to be the first to read Erma Bombeck’s column.

Susan Marie says the hardest part of presenting as Erma Bombeck is choosing what to include from a seemingly endless supply of priceless material. It is a puzzle she is glad to take on as none of her other characters have given her so much to laugh at along the way.