LFTC's first NM production, STAGECOACH TO DECAMERON (Old Timers, July, '96), was adapted from the 14th-C. Italian classic Decameron Tales to the 1870's West; the stories, romantic to madly farcical, played to enthusiastic response. LONG ROAD, FREE WIND (Nov., '96) dramatized lives of frontier women, while the Feb., '97 show left the West for Dorothy Parker's urbane, witty 1920's New York in YOU MIGHT AS WELL LIVE! TREASURE OF MAGDALENA MTN (July, '97) wove legends of treasure seekers with Magdalena's Lady on the Mtn. THAT DAMNED POE (Halloween) was an eerie blend of Poe's life & writings; & '97 ended with THE LONG RIDE OF ST. NICK, "a darkly different comedy with hauntingly sincere performances." ONE WAGON WEST OF NOWHERE -the adventures, romances, & hilarious misconceptions of t