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Moon Over Buffalo
Written by Ken Ludwig Directed by Larry Spinnenweber Beaver County Times feature |Virtual Playbill Avenue Theater 158 Brighton Ave, Rochester, Pennsylvania 15074 June 2,3, 9,10, 2017 CAST George Hay: Bruce Travers Charlotte Hay: Mary Romeo Paul: Devin Phillis Rosalind “Roz”: Jenn Rian Ethel: Cheryl Crabb Howard: Scott Hamilton Eileen: Catherine Hayashi Richard: Alan Hayashi PRODUCTION Director: Larry Spinnenweber Assistant Director: Vicki Mann Producer: Tammy Van Evera Costumes: Shantih Bianco Set Production: Mike Nelson Stage Manager / Marketing / Website / Playbill: Carey Hill Carothers Set Artist / Resident Graphic Artist: Kris Hurley Tech (Lights and Sound): Donna Glaab and Mike Nelson |
Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. At the moment, they’re playing Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo, New York with five actors. On the brink of a disastrous split-up caused by George’s dalliance with a young ingénue, they receive word that they might just have one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee, and if he likes what he sees, he might cast them in his movie remake of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Unfortunately for George and Charlotte, everything that could go wrong does go wrong, abetted by a visit from their daughter’s clueless fiancé and hilarious uncertainty about which play they’re actually performing, caused by Charlotte’s deaf, old stage-manager mother who hates every bone in George’s body.