Moon Over Buffalo is an hilarious comedy revolving around two actors who were once stars of the stage - George and Charlotte Hay.  George has been flirting with a young ingénue while he and Charlotte are starring in Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo. About to split up, they hear a rumour that Frank Capra is coming specifically to see them perform and might then cast them in his new film, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Seeing a last chance at stardom, they plan for his visit but Murphy's Law takes hold and everything that can go wrong does so. Of course, it does not help that Howard, their daughter Rosalind's clueless fiancée is visiting and that Ethel, Charlotte's stage manager mother who hates George with a passion, has confused them as to which play they are actually playing!

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“Moon Over Buffalo packs more comic genius onto the stage than anything in recent memory!”
USA Today

“Ken Ludwig is one of those rare contemporary playwrights who thinks in terms of old-fashioned knockabout farce, and that’s something to be cherished.”
The New York Times

"[R]oles that any actor of a certain age would give his or her soul to play."
The Boston Herald

“Comedy Triumphant. A completely side-splitting joy. Just go by 45th Street around 8 o’clock and you’ll hear the theatre rollicking.”
WCBS-TV

"The funniest show in New York … The comedy has audiences rolling in the aisles. The second act has a show-within-a-show spoof of “Private Lives” with everybody in the wrong costumes reading the wrong lines. This has to be one of the most hysterical things ever put onstage. I have seen Moon Over Buffalo three times! I expect you to see it once.”
New York Post (Liz Smith)

“Moon Over Buffalo is hilarious! Ludwig stuffs his play with comic invention, running gags and neat sense of absurdity. An evening of farcical delight. Go and enjoy!”
New York Post (Clive Barnes)

 
  CAST   
Malcolm Ellis   George Hay, a traveling actor.
Sue Howe   Charlotte, George's wife and actress in his company.
Kristina Horack   Rosalind, Roz, George & Charlotte's daughter, who left the stage to lead a "normal" life.
Gary Cordes   Howard, a TV weatherman and Rosalind's fiancé.
Michael McLaughlin   Paul, stage manager for George's company, and Rosalind's ex-fiancé.
MaryAnne Kosa Ethel, Charlotte's nearly-deaf mother.
Adam Roberts   Richard, a love sick lawyer who is courting Charlotte.
Ashley O'Neil   Eileen, an actress in George's company who was George's "one-night-stand." 
 
Performances: 26th November - 12th December 2009

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00pm

Preview and Members' Discount Night - Thursday 26th November 2009 only

Advanced booking strongly recommended. Booked seats not paid up by 15 minutes before curtain will be resold. You may prepay for your seats using Visa or Mastercard. For limited refund options, see our bookings policy.
 

 

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.
 

BERTOLT BRECHT, A Short Organum for the Theatre)
 

 

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