The House of Blue Leaves
by John Guare
Directed by Matt J. Bannister
July 13 – August 4, 2018
Matinees: July 22 and 29 at 2pm
A brilliant play, beautifully fashioned, sometimes wacky and sometimes sad, combines hilarity, poignancy, outrageousness, and tragedy. A songwriter with visions of glory toils by day as a zookeeper and by night sings at piano bars in Queens, New York, where he lives with his wife. Meanwhile, downstairs lives his mistress. Chaos ensues on one day when the Pope makes his first visit to the city; the songwriter’s soldier son Ronny goes AWOL; an old school chum, now a successful Hollywood producer, shows up with his starlet girlfriend in tow; and a group of nuns all descend on the apartment in this enchanting, zany farce.
Producers – Alika Codispoti and Jim Robertson
Cast:
Artie Shaughnessy – Gary Sullivan
Ronnie Shaughnessy – Anson Berns
Bunny Flingus – Annette Kalicki
Bananas Shaughnessy – Maura Suilebhan
Corrinna Stroller – Brynn Krasney
Billy Einhorn – Ron Ward
Head Nun – Christine Grable
Second Nun – Pamela Northrup
Little Nun – Jenny Oberholtzer
Policeman – Michael King
The White Man – Kyle Tirak