Heathcliff’s
Back!
July 25,26,27,29 at 8pm Grange Hall Theatre, West Tisbury. All tix $10.
No
balloons. No face paint. Unplanned bathroom breaks. Jonathan Monk is Heathcliff
the Clown, a 68-year-old song and dance man from the golden age of
entertainers. He and his tiny emerald-green accompanist Wanda have played the
great casinoes of Las Vegas, the Moulin Rouge in Paris, and more recently St.
Anthony's Parish for Wayward Retirees in Des Moines and The Andy Warhol Museum
in Pittsburgh, where they played their final performance in 2003. Ten years
after leaving show business for good, Heathcliff and Wanda are forced out of
retirement and back on stage when a disturbing secret from Heathcliff's past
threatens to derail his legacy of quality entertainment. Throughout their long
and illustrious career, this dynamic duo has rubbed noses with legends:
Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, and Dizzy Gillespie, to name a few. This will be
an evening of song and dance, failed magic tricks, surprising anecdotes,
hyperventilating, vintage hair styles, and more!
What people are saying about Heathcliff's Back!:
"I once saw a production of Death of a Salesman, and this was
nothing like that!" - Anonymous Audience Member
"A cross between a drunk Dudley Moore and a sober Liza Minnelli..." -
The Minnetonka Courier
"Heathcliff stole my heart, but then he gave it back." - Suzanne
Somers, or a woman who looked a lot like her
A Carnegie Mellon graduate, Jonathan is a former student of Kaf Warman, and it
was under her watchful eye that Heathcliff and Wanda first came to life. Kaf
and Jonathan worked together on the first incarnation of a Heathcliff show ten
years ago in Pittsburgh, and it went on to play at the Andy Warhol Museum in
2003. Recently, Heathcliff's Back! has been performed in NYC at
the TADA Theater and Don't Tell Mama. As an actor in the city, Jonathan has
been in numerous productions off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel, Theatre Row,
Soho Rep, and the now-demolished John Houseman Studio Theater Too (he swears he
had nothing to do with its destruction). He appeared as Posner in the American
regional premiere of The History Boys at St. Louis Rep, sang onstage
with Liza Minnelli, and starred in commercials for Kellogg's cereal, Crest
toothpaste, and Pepsi Max. Jonathan studies improvisation with the Upright
Citizens Brigade and acting with Cotter Smith. His greatest happiness is
writing and producing his own material, and using it to make people laugh.