ANN ARBOR, MI — Forty-two years ago, Tom Steppe met his wife Cassie Mann during the only musical he ever performed with the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre.
No, it wasn’t 42nd Street. It was the musical “Working,” based on the book by Studs Terkel. The experience set off the next 42 years of Steppe and Mann’s lives.
It’s a phenomenon that isn’t unique to the Ann Arbor-based couple, Steppe, 68, treasurer for the theater board, said. He said they have met several couples who met through the theater…