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Hovey Players Present "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" by Neil Simon

From one of America’s favorite playwrights, Neil Simon, comes the Broadway hit about a staff of insane but genius 1950’s comedy writers as they produce television’s #1 weekly variety program, The Max Prince Show.  Based upon his own time as a staff writer for Sid Caesar’s Your Show Of Shows, Neil Simon recreates the mayhem, neuroses, nonstop gags, and constant one-upmanship of a team of brilliantly funny social misfits trying to create comedy in the era of the Red Scare and network interference.  It’s 30 Rock meets the Golden Age of Television!  Directed by David Fisher and produced by Kristin Hughes.

Performance Dates:
Friday, May 11, 8pm

Saturday, May 12, 8pm

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Friday, May 18, 8pm

Saturday, May 19, 8pm

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Sunday, May 20, 2pm (Matinee)

Thursday, May 24, 8pm

Friday, May 25, 8pm

Saturday, May 26, 8pm

Tickets:$18 General Admission / $15 Seniors & Students

Call 781-893-9171 or Email Reservations@hoveyplayers.com

 

The Cast:

Lucas Brickman:  Patrick Mularski
Milt Fields:  Glenn Wakeley
Val Skolsky:  Andrew Boncoddo
Brian Doyle:  Gordon Ellis
Kenny Franks:  Mark Mason
Carol Wyman:  Allison McCann
Max Prince:  Bill Stambaugh
Ira Stone:  Jason Rutledge
Helen:  Rebecca Mae Davis

Performances will be at the Abbott Memorial Theater, Joel's Way, 9 Spring Way, Waltham, across Spring Street from the Waltham Public Library.   Join us on Opening Night when we will be serving food donated by Waltham’s Baan Thai Restaurant immediately following the performance.  Wine and snacks will also be served. 

Hovey Players is proud to continue its successful Hovey Gives Back program, whereby our audience is encouraged to donate its spare change to support a worthy charitable organization. Hovey Players will then provide a matching contribution. For the 2011-2012 Season, Hovey will be supporting The Waltham Boys & Girls Club (www.walthambgc.org/).

About Hovey Players

Hovey Players has been Waltham’s community theater since 1936, featuring regional talent both onstage and behind the scenes. Hovey offers an inexpensive alternative with five full productions each year.  The 2011-2012 Season includes The Tempest, November, Closer, Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor.   For more information visit www.hoveyplayers.com.

Contact:

M. Aguillon, Publicity

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