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| Neil Simon’s Best Barefoot in the Park |
provider writes, "South Florida’s J. Barry Lewis directs Maltz production
March 21 through April 2
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre concludes their successful 2005/2006 season with the funny romantic comedy, “Barefoot in the Park.” Neil Simon’s Tony Award winning play originally opened on Broadway in 1963. In 1967 it was made into a feature film starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. The Maltz production, under the direction of South Florida’s own, J. Barry Lewis, opens on March 21 and runs through April 2. Performances are at 7:30 pm Tuesday through Friday; 8 pm on Saturday and 2 pm matinees on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday."
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“Barefoot in the Park” follows Paul Bratter, a conservative young lawyer and his irrepressible bride, Corie, as they struggle with marital discord after the ecstasy of the honeymoon gives way to the reality of setting up housekeeping in a cramped New York City five-flight walk-up.
This classic play really gets started when Corie’s mother, Mrs. Banks, played by another South Floridian and four-time Carbonell award-winning actress Barbara Bradshaw, arrives on the scene and with the nosey neighbor upstairs always interrupting; things get quite hectic and hilarious! The great lines in this play are Neil Simon as his best and will have audiences laughing the entire evening.
J. Barry Lewis received a Carbonell Award for Best Director of a Play in 2005 for “That Championship Season,” Palm Beach Dramaworks and for Best Director of a Musical, “Berlin to Broadway,” Palm Beach Dramaworks. In 2004 he won another Carbonell award for his direction of “Jacques Brel is Alive” and “Well and Living in Paris.” Lewis is a member of the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers.
Prices for Barefoot start at only $25 for the Tuesday preview show and matinees; Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening orchestra seating is $40 and mezzanine is $32.50; Friday and Saturday evening orchestra seating is $45 and mezzanine is $37.50.
Tickets can be purchased at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre Box Office, online at www.jupitertheatre.org or by phone 561-575-2223 or 800-445-1666. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre is located at 1001 Indiantown Road and A1A in Jupiter and is a member of the prestigious League of Resident Theatres and recently received a Carbonell Award nomination.
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CAST BIOS-
J. Barry Lewis (Director)
J. Barry Lewis is well known throughout the south Florida theater community. For the past 15 years he has had the pleasure of directing at numerous theaters in the area. He is a three time recipient of the Carbonell Award for directing as well as the Curtain-Up Award for his recent direction of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Most recently he staged the critically acclaimed production of That Championship Season, produced by the Palm Beach Dramaworks. Other recent work for Dramaworks include the production of No Exit, The Boy Next Door, and the musical revue Berlin To B-way The Music of Kurt Weil, nominated for this year’s Carbonell Award for Best Musical. While serving as the Associate Artistic Director of Florida Stage he staged over 25 productions, including numerous regional and world premieres. Besides his theater work, Barry presently serves as a lecturer for the Center for Continuing Education at Florida Atlantic University. He is also a Cultural Officer for the United States Department of State in the Bureau of Education & Culture, where he has the opportunity to work with distinguished artists from around the world, exploring the performing arts in American society and serves as The Artistic Coordinator of the annual Summer shorts Festival of 10 minute plays produced by City Theatre in Coral Gables. He presently sits on the Board of Directors for Palm Beach Dramaworks & the Advisory Board of the Center for Creative Education in West Palm Beach. Barry is proud to have recently been honored with the Theatre League of South Florida 2005 REMI Award for Leadership and Services to the Arts in South Florida.
Richard Roland (Paul Bratter) appeared on Broadway in Thoroughly Modern Millie as Jimmy (also the National Tour), Follies as Young Ben, and The Scarlet Pimpernel as Elton. He played Jim Farrell, then Barrett (the stoker) in the National Tour of Titanic. His off-Broadway credits include Jonny in Zombie Prom, The Boy in The Fantasticks, Bob in The Cocoanuts, and Frankie in Forever Plaid. Regionally, he was Trevor Graydon in Millie, Cliff in Cabaret, Capt. Walker in Tommy (all at North Shore), Sam in Shenandoah, Gilbert in O. Henry’s Lovers (both at Goodspeed), Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees, Tony in West Side Story, and Gus Esmond, Jr. in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to name a few. On TV, he was seen as Bob on “As The World Turns” and the murderous Jason Sheffield on “All My Children.” He is a founding member of the jazz vocal group Monday Off, and in 2007 will direct Thoroughly Modern Millie at Westchester Broadway Theatre.
Brandy Zarle (Corrie Bratter) Off Broadway-Once Around the City (Second Stage, D. Mark Linn-Baker)) NY Theatre- Viola in What You Will (Connelly), Undeads(Ohio Theatre)Regional-Title Role in Mary Stuart ( Baltimore Center Stage/ awarded Best Actress, Best of Baltimore Magazine), Maggie in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (Portland Center Stage),World Premiere of Jonah's Dream (by William Gibson) CT Rep, The Importance of Being Earnest (St. Louis Rep), James Joyce's The Dead (American Conservatory Theatre/ Huntington Theatre), Tartuffe, David Copperfield and R and G are Dead (Weston Playhouse), Company (Barrington Stage), Das Barbecue (Triad Stage), Awake and Sing (Merrimack Rep). Other Theatres include Yale Rep (American premiere of David Edgar's Pentecost), Geva theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Hangar Theatre, New Harmony, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Goodspeed Opera House, and Berkshire Theatre Festival. Television: Guiding Light. Film: Master Teachers: scenes by Chekov Dir. by Earle Gister. Education MFA Yale School of Drama, BFA Southern Methodist U. Member of Actors Center Workshop Company.
Barbara Bradshaw (Mrs. Banks) comes to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre directly from the Shear Madness production at the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester,N.Y. She began 2005 with Shear Madness at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach , traveled to the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta for four months with the show and then, played Annie Nations in FOXFIRE at the Flat Rock Playhouse in N.C. Barbara has appeared in regional theaters across the country. Most recent credits include Night, mother (Dramaworks) , On Golden Pond, Grace and Glory, Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins, Arsenic and Old Lace , The Glass Menagerie, The Immigrant and The Little Foxes. She has over 200 theatrical credits with regional theatres including Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, Fla.(47 productions)., Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami (where she appeared with Linda Lavin and Howard Hessman in Broken Glass and worked with director Arthur Storch in After-Play), Westside Playhouse in Los Angeles, Calif., the Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, Fla., Florida Stage in Manalapan, Fla., The Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach, Fla., Palm Beach Dramaworks , and a 27 year association with the Flat Rock Playhouse, in Flat Rock, N.C.. She has been honored with 17 Carbonell Nominations, the prestigious Los Angeles Drama-logue Award for Best Actress, The Curtain Up Award, and The Supporting Players Award. Barbara’s voice can be heard on TV and radio commercials across the country.
John LaGioia (Victor Velasco) Regional Theatre: Enemy of the People (Williamstown Festival 2003); Hedda Gabler (Alley Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pittsburgh Public); Antony & Cleopatra and The Dybbuk (Great Lakes Festival); You Touched Me and Only Kiddng (Cleveland Playhouse); Orphans (Cinncinati Playhouse); Afterplay; To Clothe the Naked; The Country Girl; Love’s Labors Lost; Richard III; View from the Bridge; Inner Voices; Play It Again, Sam; Impossible Years ; West Side Story; Fantasticks. Broadway: School for Scandal, On Borrowed Time, Doubles, Gemini. Off Broadway: Over the River and Through the Woods (Houseman); Right You Are (Roundabout); War of the Roses, Titus Andronicus and Paulo Hummel (NYSF). National Tour: Breaking Legs. TV: All New York soaps, Law & Order, Parole.
PRODUCTION:
Donald Edmund Thomas (Lighting Designer) Earlier this year he designed a production of the play Marisol in Washington, D.C., and the opera The Daughter of the Regiment for the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. His design credits include Alcazar de Paris on Broadway, and numerous off-Broadway and touring plays and musicals. Mr. Thomas works extensively in regional opera, and recently designed Aida for the Palm Beach Opera, and Lucia di Lammermoor for Florida Grand Opera in Miami. He also designed La Fanciulla del West for Seattle Opera, and Cosi Fan Tutti for Opera Pacific. His upcoming projects include the plays No End of Blame and Experiment With An Air Pump for the the Potomac Theatre Project, and a new play, In The Mood, for the Olney Theatre Center. Other upcoming design projects include Salome for Michigan Opera Theatre and The Magic Flute and Il Trovatore for the Summer Opera Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.
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Posted on Mar 13, 2006 11:00am.
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