BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
Presented by Footlighters Inc.
June 6-16
Newport
Directed by Jerry Wiesenhahn
Cast: Noah Lentini as Eugene Jerome, Joel Lind as Jack Jerome, Cathy Ross as Kate Jerome, Blake Gehring as Stanley Jerome, Mary Ann Smith as Blanche Morton, Morgan Carter Woodring as Nora Morton & Melody Lindsey as Laurie Morton
Neil Simon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is widely regarded as one of America’s funniest stage authors. Brighton Beach Memoirs, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story, has been called “his funniest, richest and consequently the most affecting of his plays” by the New York Daily News. It’s 1937 and 15-year old Eugene Morris Jerome lives with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche and her two young (but rapidly developing) daughters and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style.
- Thu-Fri, June 6-7 at 8pm
- Sat, June 8 at 2pm & 8pm
- Sun, June 9 at 2pm
- Wed-Fri, June 12-14 at 8pm
- Sat, June 15 at 2pm & 8pm
- Sun, June 16 at 2pm
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