![]() ![]() During this time, he worked various odd jobs, including waiting tables in exchange for meals. He attended the University of Missouri as an ROTC cadet. Hickman High School in Columbia, he was voted "Most Versatile Boy".Īfter high school, Walton decided to attend college, hoping to find a better way to help support his family. In addition, he sold magazine subscriptions. Afterwards, he would deliver Columbia Daily Tribune newspapers on a paper route. He milked the family cow, bottled the surplus, and drove it to customers. Growing up during the Great Depression, he did chores to help make financial ends meet for his family as was common at the time. Įventually the family moved to Columbia, Missouri. In adult life, Walton became a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. While attending eighth grade in Shelbina, Missouri, Sam became the youngest Eagle Scout in the state's history. They moved from one small town to another for several years, mostly in Missouri. He and his family (now with another son, James, born in 1921) moved from Oklahoma. He worked for his brother's Walton Mortgage Company, which was an agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance, where he foreclosed on farms during the Great Depression. However, farming did not provide enough money to raise a family, and Thomas Walton went into farm mortgaging. He lived there with his parents on their farm until 1923. Listen also for Jacqueline Williams, who is memorable as an assistant manager who often seems like the only adult in the room.Samuel Moore Walton was born to Thomas Gibson Walton and Nancy Lee, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. The two are powerful together, whether dealing with the vomitous results of eggnog abuse or tentatively making plans to visit a memorial to those slain in the shooting. She nails the comedy and the tragedy of the role, the former notably when she attempts to do a “lost child” announcement after hitting the tequila, and the latter in her scenes with assistant manager Miguel (Marvin Quijada). She’s an undergrad at DePaul with talent that indicates a major career is in the offing. And keep an ear on Leslie Sophia Perez as the pregnant Karla. You can’t see Andy when Mark tells her she’s “sexy when you’re working” or when he gives a box of condoms to a pregnant co-worker in the gift exchange. Some of the best scenes are between Andy and co-manager Mark (Cliff Chamberlain, serving smarminess as thick as oil). Marquez’s Andy is at the center of everything, from the Crockpot buffet in the break room to the endless “zoning” (cleaning up after customers) required throughout the massive store. The myriad stories are stretched thin as the drama veers from comedy toward tragedy and back again. ![]() #WALLY WORLD WALMART SERIAL#Among the employees, there are aspiring attorneys, disappointed managerial candidates, cancer survivors, tentative romances, a serial sexual harasser and a would-be union organizer. #WALLY WORLD WALMART SERIES#The play isn’t propelled by an overarching plot it’s more a series of loosely linked vignettes. In all, “Wally World” sacrifices depth for quantity. ![]() Others - there’s a whole lot of crackling walkie-talkie chatter - are little more than filler. (It helps to have a cheat sheet of characters for the first act, which Steppenwolf provides.) Some topics - such as a mass shooting at another Wally World location nearby - are broached too briefly. That’s a lot of characters to keep track of by voice alone, particularly for the first 20 minutes. That’s a lot of ground to cover, even with a run time of two-and-a-half hours. There are 10 characters, each with his or her own arc. The primary issue is the wide scope Gómez attempts in his script. As assistant manager Janie (Karen Rodriguez) puts it while surveying the grocery department:“If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t have food right now, would you?”īut while the cast is excellent and the dialogue sharply recognizable to anyone who has worked in a big box store and/or suffered through a mandatory company holiday party before their shift starts, “Wally World’s” impact is diluted by too many plot lines. Merely getting through the break room gift exchange without triggering a sexual harassment lawsuit is a struggle.Ĭo-directed by GómezandLili-Anne Brown, “Wally World” is a valentine to the essential workers responsible in large part for making the Christmas presents possible and keeping people fed year-round. Her employees are dealing with a wealth of non-retail issues including dying in-laws, needy children, exhaustion and pregnancy among them. It falls to store manager Andy (Sandra Marquez), to keep the chaos under control. Tickets: $50- $75, a virtual membership that grants access to six Steppenwolf NOW productions through Aug. Where: Streaming from Steppenwolf Theatre ![]()
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