Rumors

The cost of tickets for a single show is $17.00 for youth, students (any age) and seniors (55 years and older) and $19.00 for adults (19 to 54 years of age). 

Note: This play comes with a strong language warning

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Genre: Comedy

Cast: 4 males, 5 females and one male or female

Sypnosis:

Watch as the four couples desperately try to conceal an attempted suicide (or was it?), to solve the problem of the vanished Chinese cook (Mai Li or Moo Loo?), to find something to eat, to fool the police and to have a good time at their friend’s Tenth Wedding Anniversary Party.

Charlie and Myra have been married happily ever after for ten years now – what a reason to celebrate! So they invite their eight best friends (four couples of New York’s high society) to their fancy villa, engage their cook Mai Li to prepare the canapés and a delicious dinner and order tons of expensive champagne. At least that is what their friends think.

But when Chris and Ken Gorman arrive at the party, they only find Charlie’s body covered with blood, a gun and a suicide note. No Myra, no Mai Li and – worst of all – no food! Thank God Charlie is still alive but barely conscious and therefore unable to explain the situation. While lawyer Ken remains calm (relatively), his wife Chris is coming apart at the seams, especially as the other guests are arriving fast. They agree not to tell the others what happened since Charlie is the Deputy Mayor of New York and has to be protected from the police, nosy journalists and nasty rumors at all costs.

As the other couples begin to arrive, mayhem ensues.  Doors slam and hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more crazed.

So relax in your seats and enjoy other people’s stress with our new production of Neil Simon’s farce Rumors.

You’re in for an evening full of fun and excitement!

Written by:
Neil Simon

Directed by:
Jean Taylor

Auditions:
November 14 & 15, 2011 at 7:30 at RPAC (1077 Angus Street)

Performances:
February 8 & 9, 2012 at 7:30 pm
February 10 & 11, 2012 at 8:00 pm