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He Loves Lucy:
Under Southern Skies, GL's Alan-Michael Whips Up A Surprise Wedding

There used to be only two things in life you could count on: death and taxes. Now, there's a third: Lucy and Alan-Michael's marriage, which will take place on GUIDING LIGHT in early May - without a single cross-dressing nutcase in attendance.

"This wedding is definitely coming off," vows Rick Hearst, who plays the groom. "Nothing's going to get in their way. After everything Lucy and Alan-Michael have been through, keeping them apart any longer would be more of a storyline gimmick than anything else. They really deserve a little happiness."

Make that a lot of happiness, says bride-to-be Sonia Satra (Lucy). "They've been through a lifetime of torture," she sighs. "I just don't see how they could bring in another problem for us at this point."

In truth, there aren't many problems left for the couple to face. Never mind the early days, when Lucy was new in town and Alan-Michael still had Eleni-vision. Forget Roger's psycho flunky, George, who held them in an abandoned spa at gunpoint. Let's fast-forward to last spring, when Brent came to town.

Ah, yes. Brent.

In less than a year, the disgruntled Spaulding employee raped Lucy, faked his own death, disguised himself as a woman named Marian, changed Lucy's HIV test results from negative to positive, murdered her stepmother, kidnapped her and Alan-Michael, then shot Alan-Michael - all without breaking a single press-on nail.

"It's amazing Lucy's still alive and well," Satra marvels. "By this point, she should be as unstable as Brent was."

But even if the Marian man won't be on hand to poison the champagne or blow up the cake, Lucy and Alan-Michael's nuptuals promise to be unforgettable. For one thing, the event was taped not in GL's Manhattan studio, but 1,500 miles away, in sunny Florida.

"Getting married down there is all Alan-Michael's idea," explains Megan McTavish, GL's head writer. "Lucy knows she wants the wedding of her dreams; she just doesn't know what that is. Then, Alan-Michael decides he's going to take matters into his own hands and give Lucy this big, surprise blowout. It's going to be different."

Really different, from the sound of things. Without telling Lucy where they're headed, Alan-Michael puts her - and all their friends and family - on the Spaulding jet. Destination: Universal Studios in Orlando, home of wild rides based on blockbuster films like E.T., Jaws and Back to the Future.

"We wanted to go to a very special kind of place," explains Executive Producer Michael Laibson. "There are so many splendiferous things to do at Universal Studios - and we're going to do all of them." One particular atraction will serve as the wedding site. "Wait till you see it. It's going to be really touching and beautiful."

It won't be all fun and games, though. When the plane lands, the young lovers will find themselves in a true McTavish maelstrom. "There's lots of intrigue brewing," the writer notes. First up? The fathers (and one stepmother) of the bride and groom. "Buzz and Reva will be trying to prove that Alan's involved in the takeover of Fifth Street," she hints. "They'll be looking into his [dummy] corporation, which just happens to be based in Orlando."

Then, there's the arrival of Alan's prodigal son, Phillip. "He's ostensibly coming back for the wedding," McTavish teases, "but there's a deeper reason for his return that gets revealed beforehand. There's a big secret that's been buried for a long time, and Phillip comes back with it in his hand."

While Satra took the news of the upcoming location shoot pretty calmly ("I'm just glad we aren't getting married in Amish country"), Hearst was blown away. "I never in a million years thought it was going to happen this way," he grins. "I think it's going to be very inventive, a huge challenge and wicked fun."

That fun will last long after the honeymoon's over. "We already have our next big story of Lucy and Alan-Michael ready to go," McTavish reveals, quashing the old married-couples-are-dull-couples adage. "They're going to experience some incredible highs - and scary lows. And there's a big surprise coming, one you'll never guess."

Hearst has his own theory about the newlyweds' futrure. "They'll really be tested by the rest of the Spauldings," he predicts. "Once Alan-Michael gets caught up in all the problems with his family, we'll see how strong his and Lucy's relationship is. Instead of dodging psychotics, they'll be dodging their own psychoses."

Or maybe finding new ones. Satra's guess is that Lucy might begin a search for her long-lost mother. "They've certainly alluded to that," she says," and I think that would be a pretty big thing for borh of them to deal with."

Hmmm. Could Lucy's mom be the big surprise?

"I'm not telling," McTavish laughs. "I can only say it won't be boring."

* First appeared in the May 7, 1996 issue of Soap Opera Digest

 
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