YCP joins with Hand
to Mouth Players to
stage
MOVE OVER,
MRS. MARKHAM
Opening
YCP TheaterWorks’
51st Season
The Hand to Mouth Players in conjunction with YCP TheaterWorks will present the zany farce, MOVE OVER, MRS. MARKHAM by Ray Cooney and John Chapman. The play will be presented at the Van Cortlandtville School Theatre on Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 29, 30, Nov 5, 6, 12 and 13 at 8 pm and on Sundays, Oct. 31 and Nov. 7 at 2 pm. Admission is $15, adults; $12, students and seniors. Group rates are available. The Van Cortlandtville School is located on Route 6, Mohegan Lake, directly across from the Cortlandt Town Center Shopping Mall. For reservations call 914-528-4145.
This comic British romp, directed by Kathy Colonna, is chock full of all the key elements of farce: misunderstandings, jumping to conclusions, secrets, mistaken identities and confusion. The play is set in a very elegant London flat whose owners, Mr. and Mrs. Markham are played by Dick Smith and Jacqueline Smith. He is a straight-laced publisher of children’s books, whose office partner (Gary Simon) would like to borrow his apartment for the evening to “entertain” his latest girlfriend.
At the same time Mrs. Markham has been persuaded by her friend (Evelyn Voura) to let her borrow the apartment so she can entertain her lover (Martin Posner). What nobody knows is that the Markham’s interior designer (Jerry Quinn) who has been decorating the apartment for the past three months has decided that this was the night he and the au pair (Stacy Salmeri) will try out the new designer bed! How’s this for the start of chaos and bedlam? Let us not fail to mention some side-splitting laughs.
Rounding out the cast are Phyllis Kirigin who plays a writer of children’s books seeking a new publisher who doesn’t go in for sex and Michele Smail as the telephone operator with a particularly “sexified” soothing voice.
Director Kathy Colonna, an HTM member since 1987, has directed Radio Plays, Steel Magnolias, Missing Molly, Run for Your Wife, Come Blow Your Horn, Mame, Peter Pan and several one-acts for HTM’s award-winning Playwright-Director Workshop. She has performed in many HTM plays over the years as well.
Recent YCPTW Productions:
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THE FOREIGNER, a comedy by Larry Shue, directed by Elaine Hartel Poritzky,October 2005
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH, a comedy by George Axelrod, directed by Chris Arena, March 2006
THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON, a drama by Jason Miller, directed by Brian DeToma, May 2006
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL drama by Horton Foote, directed by Marshall Moseley, October 2006
THE LITTLE FOXES drama by Lillian ellman, directed by Dawn Perrito, January 2007
BLITHE SPIRIT comedy by Noel Coward, directed by Karina Ramsey, May 2007
ALL IN THE TIMING comedy by David Ives, directed by Elaine Hartel, November 2007
THE CHERRY ORCHARD comedy by Anton Chekhov, directed by Melinda Brien, Janury/February 2008
BROADWAY BOUND comedy by Neil Simon, directed by Karen Quinn-Panzer, May 2008
NIGHT WATCH thriller by Lucille Fletcher, directed by John Coppola, November 2008
TRIPLE PLAY: 3 ONE-ACT PLAYS ABOUT THEATER by Christopher Durang, Israel Horovitz, and Michael Frayn and directed by Anne Rodgers Pearl, Sally R. Simon and Karen Quinn-Panzer, January/February 2009
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY a romantic comedy by Philip Barry, directed by Debbie Levin, May 2009
THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST'S WIFE a quirky comedy-drama by Charles Busch, directed by Marshall Moseley, November 2009
THE CRUCIBLE the classic drama by Arthur Miller, directed by Marilyn Heberling January 2010
SOCIAL SECURITY the comedy by Andrew Bergman, directed by Joel Karpoff, April 2010
MOVE OVER, MRS. MARKHAM a a farce by Ray Cooney and John Chapman, directed by Kathy Colonna, October, November 2010
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK a Neil Simon comedy, directed by Joel Karpoff, January 2011
AGNES OF GOD by John Pelmeier, directed by Maureen Howard, April 2011
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