Broadway Bound
YCP TheaterWorks was proud to present Neil Simon’s hilarious comedy, Broadway Bound, directed by Karen Quinn-Panzer in May 2008 at the Van Cortlandtville School Theater on Route 6 in Mohegan Lake.
Broadway Bound follows Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues in the playwright’s award –winning semi-autobiographical trilogy. Set in 1940s Brooklyn, Eugene and older brother Stanley struggle to become professional comedy writers. The Jerome brothers are forced to acknowledge the many chaotic goings-on among family members, Jack, Jerome and wife, Kate, Aunt Blanche, and Grandpa Ben. The play shows us family dynamics in action as the family searches for security. The Jerome family has their own special dysfunctions, but the author finds humor in all of it. This is a play about a real family in transition. While it makes you laugh a lot, it is also very moving.
Featured in the role of Kate is Susan Bond from Mohegan Lake. Michael Timmons, also from Mohegan Lake, plays the role of Ben. Matte Rowe from Lake Peekskill is Eugene, and playing Stan is Kevin Vislocky from Jefferson Township, New Jersey. Elise Godfrey from Ossining plays Blanche, and Joel Kartoff from Yorktown Heights is playing the role of Jack. The radio voices are performed by Gary Simon, Anne Rodgers Pearl and Frank Panzer all from Cortlandt Manor.
Karen Quinn-Panzer, the director, is a long-time veteran of the Westchester Theater scene. She has both directed and performed for YCP Theaterworks, Hand-to-Mouth Players, and M&M Productions. She most recently directed Breaking Legs for the HTM Players’ first production in the new Ossining Library in June 2007, and The Boy who Fell into a Book by Alan Ayckbourn for YCP Theaterworks in 2004. Some of her recent roles on stage were in YCP Theaterworks’ production of The Cherry Orchard this past winter and she appeared in the award winning one act play, The Board Room, which she wrote and directed for Hand-to-Mouth Players.
Karen has judge for the Samuel French Playwright Festival and serves on the board of both YCP TheaterWorks as well as the Abington Theatre Company in Manhattan. She is Advertising Director of the New Yorker and lives in Cortlandt Manor with her husband, Frank, and 14 year-old twin sons, Christopher and Nicholas.
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