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| SHOW LISTING: HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES |
Category: Comedy
By: John Guare
Directed by Dev Bondarin
Produced by The Gallery Players
Running Time: unknown
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SYNOPSIS: Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zookeeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York where he lives with his wife, Bananas (who is). This is much to the chagrin of Artie’s downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus, who’ll sleep with him anytime but refuses to cook until they are married. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie’s son Ronny goes AWOL from Fort Dix stowing a home made-bomb intended to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium. Also arriving are Artie’s old school chum and now a successful Hollywood producer, Billy Einhorn, with his starlet girlfriend in tow. Billy holds the key to Artie’s dreams of getting out of Queens and away from the life he so despises. But like many dreams, this promise of glory evaporates amid the chaos of ordinary lives. The House of Blue Leaves was the 1971 Obie Award winner for Best American Play and called, “A brilliant play...beautifully fashioned...Wacky and sometimes sad [with]...combined hilarity, poignancy, outrageous stage aside and tragedy,\" by the N.Y. Daily News and an, “Enchantingly zany and original farce,” by the N.Y. Times.
CAST and CREW: The House of Blue Leaves features a stellar cast of veteran Off-Off Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional actors. The cast is led by Burke Adams* as Artie Shaugnessy (Dedication, or The Stuff of Dreams, The Gallery Players; The Miser, Theatre at Monmouth), and Victoria Bundonis* as Bananas Shaughnessy (Grease! National Tour; The Flood, Prospect Theater Company), and features Tom Cleary*(Church, Under The Radar Festival/Public Theater; Urinetown! the musical, The Gallery Players), Alex Herrald (The Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots, The Gallery Players), Sharon Hunter*, David Ojala, Stacey Scotte* (Eat The Runt, American Place Theatre), Emilie Soffe, Nora Vetter and Elizabeth Wood.* *appearing courtesy of AEA
The House of Blue Leaves is directed by Dev Bondarin and produced by Neal J. Freeman and Brian Michael Flanagan for The Gallery Players. The set designer is Ann Bartek (2009 Princess Grace Award recipient), costume designer: Brad Scoggins, lighting designer: Ryan Bauer, sound designer: Chris Rummel (2009 NYITAward nomination, Twelfth Night) and Props Master: Virginia C. Monte.
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Theater: Gallery Players
Previews start September 12
Opens September 12, 2009
Closes September 27, 2009
Schedule: The House of Blue Leaves opens Saturday, September 12, 2009 and runs Thursdays, Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm & 8pm and Sundays at 3pm through September 27, 2009.
Tickets: $18.00
Discounts: $14 for Seniors & Children 12 and under
No Box Office NumberOnline Ticketing: Theatermania
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