[NEohioPAL] "Ken Ludwig's The Fox on the Fairway" opening at Coach House

Nancy Cates nancycates at ohioshakespeare.com
Tue May 7 08:44:29 PDT 2013


COACH HOUSE THEATRE

Box Office: 330-434-7741

732 W. Exchange Street

Akron, OH 44302

 <http://coachhousetheatre.com> coachhousetheatre.com

 

Coach House Theatre presents

"The Fox on the Fairway"

a riotous new farce from the author of "Lend Me a Tenor" and "Leading
Ladies" 

May 9 - June 2, 2013

($12 Preview Performance, Thursday, May 9 only!)

 

Join Coach House Theatre this spring for The Fox on the Fairway, a
laugh-filled farce by Ken Ludwig, the award-winning author of Lend Me a
Tenor and Leading Ladies!

Described as a tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s,
this show features a top-notch cast of Coach House favorites. The show,
described by the New Jersey Star-Ledger as "phenomenally funny," is an
hilarious mix of door-slamming shenanigans and romantic entanglements at a
private country club.

The Fox on the Fairway will be presented May 9 to June 2. 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. Reservations are
required by calling the Club at 330-762-6261.

There will be a special $12 preview performance Thursday, May 9 only, at 8
p.m. 

The official opening night is Friday, May 10. Our four-week run will likely
sell out quickly, so reserve your seats now!

Tickets are $18. The box office opens one hour before the show. 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 are recommended by calling our box office at 330-434-7741.

And join us at the Akron Woman's City Club for our themed Opening Night
Dinner Party, Friday, May 10. Cocktails will begin at 6 p.m., dinner at
6:15, then Opening Night at 8! 

 

The Cast

Justin Hicks --- Kevin Glass

Louise Heindbedder --- Holly Humes

Henry Bingham --- Terry Burgler, Mark Stoffer

Pamela Peabody --- Dede Klein

Dickie Bell --- Henry C. Bishop

Muriel Bingham --- Karen Wood

 

 The Director

Terry Burgler, one of Coach House Theatre's two Artistic Directors, has
worked as an actor, director and producer nationally and internationally,
performing at the Globe Theatre in London, and winning accolades for his
work as Artistic Director at Ohio Shakespeare Festival, which performs each
summer at landmark Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron.  Terry was named
Outstanding Theatre Artist in 2007 by Arts Alive! for his theatrical
achievements, and he has won many awards as both actor and director. Here at
Coach House he has directed hit productions of A Moon for the Misbegotten,
You Can't Take It With You, Witness for the Prosecution, Light up the Sky
and Royal Coach Award winners Not Now, Darling! (2008-09), Lettice and
Lovage (2010-11) and Move Over, Mrs. Markham (2011-12). He also has appeared
on stage in Deathtrap and Sleuth, and both directed and performed in
acclaimed Coach House productions of Shipwrecked! and this season's Sea
Marks. 

 

The Playwright

Ken Ludwig's 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. The popular playwright's other credits include Leading Ladies (a
Royal Coach Award winner at Coach House in 2010), Moon Over Buffalo, The
Game's Afoot, 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.  

 

Season Tickets are available on May 1st for Coach House's 2013-14 season: 

 

Grace and Glorie by Tom Ziegler, Sept. 26 to Oct. 13

On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson, Nov. 21 to Dec. 15

Spider's Web by Agatha Christie, Jan. 23 to Feb. 16

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, March 20-April 6

The School for Wives by Moliere, translated by Richard Wilbur, May 8-June 1

 

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

 

 

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