THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES
Presented by Middletown Lyric Theatre
Sept. 13-21
Middletown
Directed by Charley Shafor
Cast: Ken Jaffe as Artie Shaughnessy, Karen Griesinger as Bananas Shaughnessy, Cate White as Bunny Flingus, Nathan Greer as Ronnie Shaughnessy, Sara Carbaugh as Corrinna Stroller, Joe Cunningham as Billy Einhorn, Pam Rogers Fugett as The Head Nun & Betty Coulter as The Middle Nun
Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zoo-keeper, 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 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 homemade-bomb intended to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium. Also arriving is Artie’s old school chum, now a successful Hollywood producer, Billy Einhorn with starlet girlfriend in tow, who 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.
- Fri-Sat, Sept. 13-14 at 8pm
- Fri-Sat, Sept. 20-21 at 8pm
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