[NEohioPAL] "Leading Ladies" Opening at Coach House Theatre

[Nancy Cates]

COACH HOUSE THEATRE

Box Office: 330-434-7741

732 W. Exchange Street

Akron, OH 44302

coachhousetheatre.com

 

Love to laugh? 

See "Leading Ladies" at Coach House Theatre May 13-June 6

($10 Preview Performance, Thursday, May 13 only)

 

Akron's Coach House Theatre will cap its successful 82nd season with the
comedy Leading Ladies May 13-June 6.

In this hilarious show from the award-winning author of Lend Me A Tenor and
Moon Over Buffalo, a pair of down-on-their-luck Shakespearean actors learn
of a dying old lady who plans to leave her fortune to two long-lost English
nephews. They decide to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives, but
when they learn the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces, their plans change
as drastically as their clothing!

In the crazy cross-dressing tradition of Some Like it Hot and Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night, Leading Ladies will have Coach House audiences rolling in the
aisles!

There will be a special $10 preview performance Thursday, May 13 only, at 8
p.m.  

 

LEADING LADIES
will be onstage at Coach House Theatre 

MAY 13 to JUNE 6, 2010.

 

The Cast

 

Meg - Margaret Morris

Leo - Scott Shriner

Jack - Jonathan Fletcher

Audrey - Holly Humes

Florence - Maureen E. Guerin Johnson

Butch - Alex Nine

Duncan - Mark Stoffer

Doc Myers - Tom Stephan

 

 The Director

One of our two Artistic Directors, Nancy Cates directed Coach House's season
opener this past fall, Deathtrap, and the theater's critically acclaimed
production of Doubt: a Parable earlier this spring. In past seasons she has
directed Steel Magnolias, Barrymore's Ghost, Tonight at 8:30, Driving Miss
Daisy, Oh, Coward!, and Hay Fever. She is also one of the two Artistic
Directors of the Ohio Shakespeare Festival, which performs each summer at
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, as well as periodically at Coach House and the
Players Guild of Canton.

Nancy has directed two previous Ken Ludwig shows, which were both hits at
Weathervane Playhouse in recent years: Lend Me A Tenor (2006) and Moon Over
Buffalo (2008). She is a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers
Society (SSDC).

 

The Playwright

Ken Ludwig was born in York, Pennsylvania, where the majority of Leading
Ladies takes place. His first Broadway play, Lend Me A Tenor (1989), was
nominated for a Tony award, and Crazy For You (1992) won him a Tony for Best
Book of a Musical. Other credits include Moon Over Buffalo, Twentieth
Century, Be My Baby, Shakespeare in Hollywood and adaptations of The Three
Musketeers and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Ludwig has also earned an
Olivier award, two Helen Hayes awards, the Edwin Forest Award, and an
honorary doctorate from York University.  

Leading Ladies premiered at the Cleveland Playhouse in 2004, directed by
Ludwig himself.

 

Show Information

Leading Ladies will be presented May 13-June 6. Curtain times are Thursday,
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. Dinner or
Brunch is available to all theatre patrons prior to every performance at the
Akron Woman's City Club next door.

Tickets are $16. Coach House Theatre is located at 732 W. Exchange Street,
in Akron, next to the Akron Woman's City Club, and at the corner of W.
Exchange and N. Portage Path. Reservations may be made by calling our box
office at 330-434-7741, or at coachhousetheatre.com.

 

And join Coach House for our just-announced 2010-11 season: 

The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn, Sept. 30 - Oct. 17

Present Laughter by Noel Coward, Nov. 26 - Dec. 19

The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie, Jan. 27 - Feb. 20, 2011

Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer, March 24 - April 17, 2011

Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer, May 12 - June 5, 2011

 

Visit us at  <http://www.coachhousetheatre.com/> www.coachhousetheatre.com!

 

 

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