The Shows
 Spoon Millionaires was originally conceived as Congruent Love Triangles, a novel by John Kriens and Kirk Hiner. It was abandoned about three or four chapters in, leaving only a good idea and a few funny jokes. Five years later, Kirk took that idea and those funny jokes and stretched them into a two act play to be peformed by the comedy troupe "...just because," which was co-founded by him and Jim Jividen two years earlier. The play was met with good reviews, but was abandoned soon after its debut when the troupe returned to its standard sketch comedy format.
Fifteen years later, former troupe member and current grocery store pastry chef Jon Hodges (who originated the role of the Archduke) suggested to Kirk that he shop the play around. Always happy to make money off something that doesn't require writing 300 pages of new material, Kirk agreed, but not without help. He somehow convinced Jim Jividen, now living six states to the south, to assist with the rewrite. A few months, a ton of e-mails, many new jokes and a title change later, Spoon Millionaires was accepted for production at Playfair 2006 in Lima, Ohio...a mere twenty miles away from where it was originally performed fifteen years earlier.
People say you can never go home again. To this, Kirk and Jim say, "Would that that were true."
Top Row: FM Jason Upthegrove, Mike Mullen, Joel Frazee, Tom Martin, George Frazee III
Bottom Row: Charlie Diefenbacher, Mike Bumbaugh, Jon Hodges, Peg Gordon, Ali Ferda, Mary Blanche Hengstler
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