The
West Side Waltz opens this Saturday July 13th at Makeshift Theatre in Akron!
July
13th, 14th, 20th and 21st
All
shows are at 2:00 p.m.
All
tickets are $5
And
are available online or at the door.
THE
STORY: Holding out indomitably against advancing age, dwindling finances and
failing health, Margaret Mary Elderdice, a widow and former concert pianist,
resists the attempts of her violin-playing spinster neighbor, Cara Varnum, to
move in with her. While she enjoys playing duets with Cara and gossiping about
the other tenants in their upper West Side apartment building, Margaret Mary
values her independence above the dubious comforts that the constant presence
of the priggish Cara might provide. So Cara is shocked when Margaret Mary
engages Robin Bird, a rather kooky young would-be actress, as her paid, live-in
companion. Relations between the three are strewn with hilarious pitfalls from
the start, with additional comic complications being provided by a
malaprop-prone Rumanian building superintendent and an eager young
lawyer-suitor whom Robin Bird brings home for dinner. Ultimately things do fall
into place, and largely so because of the spirited will of Margaret Mary, who
goads the others to rise above their problems, to stake a personal claim on
life, and to resist, with all their strength, the infirmities and misfortunes
that flesh is heir to.