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LOST IN YONKERS
Middletown Lyric Theatre
Sept. 15-23
Middletown

Directed by Charley Shafor

Cast: Betty Coulter as Grandma Kurnitz, Tad Ehlers as Jay, Clair LaNicca as Bella, Angie Markham as Gert, Greg Nelson as Louie, Jeff Smith as Eddie & Jack Sweeten as Arty

By America’s great comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged, and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne’er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady’s doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.

• Fri-Sat, Sept. 15-16 at 8pm
• Fri, Sept. 22 at 8pm
• Sat, Sept. 23 at 3pm & 8pm

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IT’S ONLY A PLAY
Middletown Lyric Theatre
June 2-10
Middletown

Directed by Nathan Greer

Cast: Chris Griesinger as Frank, Karen Griesinger as Julia, Ken Jaffe as Ira, Diane Minnich as Virgina, Michael Schlotterbeck as James & Jacob O’Connor as Gus

It’s the opening night of “The Golden Egg” on Broadway, and the wealthy producer Julia Budder is throwing a lavish party. However, cloistered in a bedroom upstairs is a group of insiders have staked themselves out to await the reviews. The group includes the excitable playwright; the possibly unstable wunderkind director and the pill-popping leading lady. Add to this a drama critic who’s panned the playwright in the past and a new-in-town aspiring singer, and you have a prime recipe for the narcissism, ambition, childishness, and just plain irrationality that infuse the theatre—and for comedy. But don’t worry: This play is sure to be the hit they have all been hoping for.

• Fri-Sat, June 2-3 at 8pm
• Fri, June 9 at 8pm
• Sat, June 10 at 3pm & 8pm

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