[NEohioPAL]Playmakers Youth Theatre presents The Nerd at the Halle Theatre!

[Barnes, Kris]

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Director............................................Michael J. Simons
Production Stage Manger.................Jennifer Steinbock
Set and Lighting Design .....................Michael J. Simons 
Costume and Prop Design ...........................Linda Joynt

The Cast

Willum Cubbert............................................Ben Fankhauser 
Tansy McGinnis...................................................Emily Joynt

Axel Hammond..............................................Eitan Anouchi
Warnock Waldgrave......................................Daniel Saunders
Clelia Waldgrave.................................................Lindsey Ryb
Thor Waldgrave......................................................Alex Ryb

Rick Steadman.................................................Eytan Hoenig 

About the Playwright
Larry Shue, a promising young middle-aged actor and playwright, had his
career cut short at the age of 39 by the crash of a commuter plane on
September 23,  1985. He left behind a small published body of work,
including two full-length crowd-pleasing comedies. Larry Shue joined the
Milwaukee Repertory Theater in 1977. While at the Rep, Shue performed in a
wide variety of roles, from the classics to roles in new works, including
his own. Two years after he joined the Rep, Shue was made playwright in
residence. 
     In his second season, the Milwaukee Rep produced Shue's one act comedy
Grandma Duck is Dead. Shue's fourth season featured the premier of The Nerd,
which became his best known work. The season thereafter Shue wrote 
The Foreigner. Wenceslas Square was the last play he wrote for the Rep.
1984 was a particularly successful year for Larry Shue's plays. That year,
in addition to the premier of Wenceslas Square at the Milwaukee Rep, The
Foreigner
appeared Off Broadway at the Astor Place Theatre, and The Nerd was produced
on London's West End. Much of Larry Shue's gentle, thoughtful humor derives
from mistaken identity and role-playing, especially when the role-playing
gets out of hand.  For instance, in The Nerd, Willum Cubbert has often told
friends about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI whom he has
never met but who saved his life in Vietnam---so Willum is delighted when
Rick shows up unexpectedly on the night of his birthday party.  But his
delight soon fades, as it becomes apparent that Rick is a hopeless "nerd"
with no social sense or tact.  Rick stays on and on, his continued presence
leading to one uproarious incident after another driving the normally placid
Willum to the point of contemplating violence.  Disaster is diverted by the
surprising "twist" ending of the play!

tickets are $8.00 for Adults
$5.00 for students, seniors, and JCC members

Kris Barnes
Event Ticket Office Manager
The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland
kbarnes at clevejcc.org 
216-382-4000 ext. 274