[NEohioPAL] Actors' Summit opens BIG BOYS - "Non-stop fury of funny!

[Neil Thackaberry]

"The fast-paced dialogue is funny and humorously inappropriate, with
“Dilbert” and *The Office* moments that are instantly recognizable to anyone
who has had to survive under a certifiable boss." Sacramento Bee


*Actors’ Summit *

*Announces*

*Regional Premiere of *

*Big Boys *

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Actors’ Summit, Hudson’s Equity Professional Theater, will present the
regional premiere of *Big Boys* by Rich Orloff. *Big Boys* replaces *Laughter
in Three Languages* which has been cancelled. *Big Boys* will have a preview
performance on Thursday, May 14 with the official opening night on Friday,
May 15, 2009. The play will have twelve performances through May 31, 2009. The
play is performed Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2
PM at the Actors’ Summit Theater in downtown Hudson. The production
featuresNeil Thackaberry and Keith E. Stevens.
*Big Boys* is directed by Constance Thackaberry, who directed *Nixon’s Nixon
* earlier this season.



*The Play*

*Big Boys* by Rich Orloff is a satirical look at climbing up the corporate
ladder in the time of Enron, AIG, and Bernie Madoff.  Victor, the all
powerful evil corporate CEO, hires and mentors Norm, grooming him to move up
in the company to the executive office. The challenge for Victor is that
Norm has a fatal flaw – he’s a decent human being. Victor breaks down Norm’s
resistance to being “dishonest, disreputable and deceitful” by changing his
name, intruding into his private life and, in general abusing him. In the
end, Norm’s decency actually triumphs over Victor’s corruption.



The critics have been enthusiastic about the play: “Rip-roaringly funny.  An
on-target skewering of the ethically murky cesspool among corporate
America’s elite.  With its snappy dialogue and non-stop mayhem, *Big
Boys*proves a winner.” New York Times
  *Big Boys *“boasts the kind of rapid-fire repartee with which Matthau and
Lemmon would have had a field day.” *Variety  *



*The Playwright*
*Rich Orloff, an Oberlin College graduate, is an award winning playwright
based in New York City. *Rich’s plays have been presented across the country
at such theaters as American Stage Company, Arizona Theatre Company,
Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Dayton Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, New
Jersey Rep, Phoenix Theatre Company, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey,
Shadowland Theatre, West Coast Ensemble, the WorkShop Theater Company, twice
at Theatre Conspiracy, and three times at the Key West Theatre Festival.

Author of over a dozen one-acts and over 60 short plays, Rich’s short
comedies have been published four times in the annual *Best American Short
Plays* series, in *The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2007*, in *The Bedford Guide to
Literature, *in the bilingual collection *An Anthology of Contemporary
American Plays *(published in China), and in anthologies published by Random
House and Western Michigan University Press. Playscripts has published eight
volumes of his plays. Rich’s one-acts have had over 500 productions on six
of the seven continents (and a staged reading in Antarctica). Rich is a
member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild of America, the WorkShop
Theater Company, and is the Relatively Artistic Director of the Foolish
Theatre Company.

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*The Cast*

*Neil Thackaberry is the founder & co-artistic director of Actors’ Summit.
In addition to his work at Actors’ Summit, he has appeared on stage at the
Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Ensemble Theatre, and
the Beck Center for the Arts. *

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*Keith Stevens is an Equity actor and a lifetime member of the Actors’
Studio in New York. A graduate of Cleveland State University, Keith holds an
**MFA** from New School/The Actors’ Studio. Recently, at Actors’ Summit,
Keith has appeared in Sanders Family Christmas, Russians in Love, Macbeth,and A
Child’s Christmas in Wales.*

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*Performance Schedule*
*Big Boys *will have its preview performance on May 14.  The opening night
performance is Friday, May 15, and it will be followed by a dessert
reception with the cast.  Regular performances continue through Sunday, May
31.



*Performance times:*

Performances are given Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays at 8:00 PM and
Sundays at 2:00 PM at the theater, located at 86 Owen Brown Street, Hudson,
Ohio.

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*Tickets**
*Preview tickets are $15. Regular performance tickets are $28 on Fridays &
Saturdays, $25 on Thursdays & Sundays, with seniors receiving a $3 discount
at regular Thursday and Sunday performances.  Additional discounts are
available to groups of ten or more.



New this year: ALL full time student tickets (with ID) are $7 at all
performances.



Tickets can be purchased by phone at (330) 342-0800 or from the website at *
www.actorssummit.org*.



*Web site**
*Actors’ Summit Theater can be found on the web at www.actorssummit.org.
Actors’ Summit is a professional, not for profit, 501-c-3 professional arts
organization.  We are seeking volunteers and board members.  For more
details please call MaryJo or Neil at (330) 342-0800.


Actors’ Summit is working under a developmental agreement with Actors’
Equity Association (the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.)

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*Actors’ Summit:  Professional Theater -- Ohio Artists.*
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