Ahoy Maties! Welcome to the May edition of the Gilligan's Island Fan Club newsletter. Survivor Outback is over and now we have a new $1,000,000 winner. The Howell's say that it's really no big deal as they consider it petty cash, but to the most of us, a million dollars would buy us a big house, unless you live in California. What kills me is that we've been surviving on this island for 37 years now and we've haven't got paid a single pinky, I mean penny. What you've been waiting for is finally here! An Official musical production of "Gilligan's Island - The Musical!" Most, if not all, or the Gilligan's Island plays and musicals aren't official, just good 'ol fun. This one is, and will be performed at The Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks, California in August, featuring the talents of award-winning Director, Sha Newman. We'll have more details as soon as we receive the updates. We've been looking for somebody to make a shareware Gilligan's Island computer game for all of us. We currently have one on our site. It's out of date and really not too entertaining. Are there any computer programmer out here that would be willing to make us a Gilligan game? Please e-mail me if you could make one, and it's doesn't have to be top of the line either. Oh, by the way, if you want to check out the only game we've got, you can get it here: http://www.gilligansisle.com/games.html Speaking of games, there is one called "The Sims." You get to create and control simulated people. You control their personalities, what they look like, and build them a home. Fan club member Ann has created the castaways and their luxury house. If you own this game, and would love to get the saved file from here for this Gilligan add-on, just e-mail here at: EarCat@telocity.com Our chat room hasn't been very good, in fact, it actually stinks! We are going to incorporate another chat room hosted by Elise for Chat.net. This is a far superior chat site and I know you'll love it! You can make your own character, have virtual conversations and much more. I just dabbled with it, and it's pretty groovy! There seems to be somebody on 24 hours a day. If not, somebody is paged and monitors the site. Amazing. Please give it a try as our old one won't work anymore! Please send me feedback and tell me how you liked it. http://gilligans.chatn.net/ Also catch Truth Behind the Sitcoms 2 about Gilligan's Island on May 10 at 10pm on FX East. That's all the news for this month, kinda short and sweet. The big news was the official production in August, and we'll definitely keep you posted on this one. I need to find another rock for our bowling lane. The Skipper got mad because he missed a strike and Thurston beat him by one pin! Needless to say the bowling ball was thrown against the cave and exploded into 12 pieces. Atleast it was the ball instead of me! Willy Gilligan President/Webmaster Gilligan's Island Fan Club http://www.gilligansisle.com