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Past performances: Barefoot in the Park

Directed by Nils Clausson
Show dates: February 2-5, 2005

Cast & Production Team
Synopsis
About the playwright
Production photos

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Cast			Production Team
Actor	Role		Team Member	Role
Nevin Danielson	Paul Bratter		Nils Clausson	Director
Glendyne Collins	Corie Bratter		Chuck Jordan	Stage Manager
David Storey	Victor Velasco		Margaret Tororey	ASM *
Glen Butz	Harry Pepper		John Egarhos	Prompter/ASM
Lyn Goldman	Mrs. Banks		Rick Harvey	Set Design
			Harvey Friess	Set Construction
			Fred Gallagher	Set Construction
			Rod McLeod	Set Construction
			Barry Uncles	Set Construction
			Harold Woodward	Set Construction
			Guy Michaud	Music Design
			Oscar Olivas	Properties
			Jean Taylor	Costumes

* ASM - Assistant Stage Manager

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Synopsis of play
After a six-day honeymoon a new lawyer who has just won his first case (6 cents in damages), and his young bride, who is as pretty and addled as they come, move into the new, high-rent apartment that she has chosen for them. The difficulty is that in order to enjoy the charming character of this apartment, one has to climb six wheezing flights. The apartment is absolutely bare of furniture, the paint job came out all wrong, the skylight leaks snow, there isn't room for a double bed, and an outlandish gourmet who lives in a loft on the roof uses it and the window ledge as the only access to his padlocked premises.

The situation is enough to break the heart and burst the lungs of any stylish young lawyer; and indeed it does, on the night he flatly refuses to join his wife in a barefoot walk through the snow in the park. She kicks him out, but he comes back - not for reconciliation, but because he figures that since he's paying the rent she should be the one to go.

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About the playwright
Neil Simon is a middlebrow playwright whose plays have been popular successes both on stage and in their screen adaptations. Born July 4, 1927, he grew up in the Bronx in New York City, the second son of a Jewish family. Simon cut his comedy teeth in one of the most famous laugh factories of all time, writing for Sid Caesar (along with such colleagues as Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and Carl Reiner, among others) on the TV series "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour" in the 1950s. (In 1993 he drew on those experiences for a hit Broadway play, "Laughter on the 23rd Floor.")

Adept at creating colorful characters and fashioning clever dialogue, Simon harbored ambitions of Broadway fame and fortune. He achieved that goal with his first play, 1961's Come Blow Your Horn. In 1963 he followed it with another hit, Barefoot in the Park", and in 1966 he wrote the book for the Broadway musical success "Sweet Charity," which was adapted as a movie in 1969.

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Production photos

Nevin Danielson, David Storey, Lyn Goldman and Glendyne Collins.

Nevin Danielson and Glendyne Collins

Glendyne Collins, Lyn Goldman and Nevin Danielson.

Nevin Danielson and Glendyne Collins.

Glen Butz

Glendyne Collins and David Storey.

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