Video Promo: Rumors by Neil Simon (done silent-movie style to Rimsky-Korsakov), Circle Arts Theatre, New Braunfels, September 14 - October 6, 2013

Video promo for the

(via Circle Arts Theatre)

production of
Rumors
by Neil Simon


Sept 14, 20-21, 27-28, Oct. 4-5 | Performances at 8 pm Sept 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6 | Performances at 2 pm; There is also an 8 pm performance with a champagne reception on September 13
Tickets: $20; $17 Senior / Student / Military

In Landa Park at 124 Elizabeth Avenue, New Braunfels

At a large, tastefully appointed townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken and wife Chris must get "the story" straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and mis-communications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity.

[ALT note: Done to an uncredited performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Flight of the Bumblebee'; actors in video appear to be approximating the play's blocking]

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RUMORS by Neil Simon, Circle Arts Theatre, New Braunfels, September 13 - October 6, 2013

[Circle Arts Theatre, Landa Park at 124 Elizabeth St., New Braunfels - click for map]
 presents

Rumors
 by Neil Simon
Sept 14, 20-21, 27-28, Oct. 4-5 | Performances at 8 pm Sept 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6 | Performances at 2 pm; There is also an 8 pm performance with a champagne reception on September 13
Tickets: $20; $17 Senior / Student / Military
 In Landa Park at 124 Elizabeth Avenue, New Braunfels

At a large, tastefully appointed townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken and wife Chris must get "the story" straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and mis-communications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity.


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RUMORS by Neil Simon, Lakeway Players, April 4 - 6, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lakeway Players
present

Rumors

by Neil Simon

at the Lakeway Activity Center, 105 Cross Creek -- click for map

April 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th, 2013

Simon’s 1988 hilarious farce will be presented by the Lakeway Players and directed by Barbara Calderaro with a cast consisting of Linda Bradshaw, Howard Gentry, Boyd Lawrence, Austin Nichols, Jenny Sabroff, Erin Tilley, Bill Walker, Kelly Whitenack, Kim Wood and Tom Wood.


In an upscale suburban New York home, The Deputy Mayor of New York City, Charley Brock, has shot himself, though it’s only a flesh wound. Four couples are arriving at the 10^th Anniversary Celebration for Charley and his wife Myra and the farce begins as they desperately try to remember who “told what to whom” concerning Charley’s unsuccessful attempted suicide and Myra and the servants’ disappearance. Although the audience never meets Charley or Myra they are exposed to mistaken identities, cover-ups, deceptions, and an evening of laughs.


Tickets will be available at the Lakeway Activity Center (105 Cross Creek, Lakeway, TX 78734) 512- 261-1010, starting March 1^st for $15 each. This is BYOB and any other goodies to enjoy during the show; setups will be provided. Doors open at 6:30 and the show starts at 7:30.

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Auditions in Lakeway for Neil Simon's 'Rumors,' Lakeway Players, January 22, 23 and 28, 2013

The Lakeway Players announce auditions for the Neil Siimon Comedy Rumors at the Lakeway Activity Center, 105 Cross Creek (click for map) on Tuesday, January 22nd, 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M., Room A; Wednesday, January 23rd, 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M., Room B; and Monday, January 28th, 7:00 to 9:00 P.M., Room B.


Call or email Barbara Calderaro to set up a specific audition time – barbcal@austin.rr.com or 512 261-3671

Show dates are April 4 - 6, 2013 (Thursday, Friday and Saturday)

CAST: 5 men and 5 women. Auditions are open to everyone. If you cannot make any of the audition dates and would like to audition, please contact the director.


Four couples are at the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor and his wife to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. The party never begins because the host has shot himself in the head (it’s only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing. His lawyer’s cover-up gets progressively more difficult to sustain as the other guests arrive and nobody can remember who has been told what about whom. Doors slam and hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more crazed.

Rumors by Neil Simon, City Theatre, September 29 - October 23

The greater Austin area hasn't lacked for productions of this 1988 farce by Neil Simon. A search of AustinLiveTheatre brings back announcements of stagings by the Wimberley Players in September, 2009, by the Renaissance Guild in San Antonio in July, 2010, by Leander's Way Off Broadway Community Players in January of this year and even by UT's student-run Broccoli Project last March. That sequence resembles the systematic trial-and-error of artillery ranging, back and forth, close and far, until once all the coordinates are set, BAM! the shot goes home. Home, in this case, being the City Theatre, one of Austin's liveliest and most entertaining theatre venues.

Simon was one of the twentieth century's most prolific writers for stage, big screen and small screen. The Internet Movie Data Base lists 83 titles associated with him and its short title for his entry tabs him as the writer of The Odd Couple (1968). Rumors is nowhere in that list, probably because its premise, timing and humor are pure stagecraft. The audience witnesses the arrival of various couples in evening dress, one after another, all invited to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their friend and associate, Charlie Brock, Deputy Mayor of New York, and his wife Myra. Problem: the kitchen staff is missing, the food hasn't been prepared, Myra has disappeared, and their friend Charlie is in a daze, having fired a pistol shot that took off his own earlobe.

They're trapped in a situation that surpasses their understanding. Equally baffled by these circumstances and equally confined in this box set, we watch each couple squirm, panic, bicker and try to cover up as others arrive. Simon paces the arrivals and discoveries, and all we learn of Charlie is third hand -- he's confused, he's crying, he's taking Valium, he's sleeping, he's unavailable to answer when the police come calling to inquire about a car accident, a car theft, and the reports of two shots in the night.

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Upcoming: Rumors by Neil Simon, City Theatre, September 29 - October 23

Found on-line:

City Theatre, Austin

presents

Rumors

by Neil Simon

September 29 - October 23

Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 5:30 p.m.

3823 Airport Rd (behind the Shell station) (click for map)

Cast:

Ken – Jonathan Urso
Chris – Michelle Cheney
Lenny – Scot Friedman
Claire – Wendy Zavaleta
Ernie – Tony Salinas
Cookie – Melinda Peinado
Glen – Daniel Sawtelle
Cassie – Rachel McGinnis
Officer Pudney – Bobby DiPasquale
Officer Welch – Lindsay McKenna

Upcoming: Rumors, The Broccoli Project, UT

Found at the Daily Texan on-line:

Student troupe brings dark farce to SAC

By Clayton Wickham, Daily Texan Staff

“Play the hostess,” Ken Gorman tells his wife Chris as the other guests begin to arrive at a dinner party gone awry after the original host’s failed suicide attempt.

“Play the hostess?” Chris Gorman responds, giving her husband a horrified look. “There’s no food out; there’s no ice in the bucket. Where’s the help? Where’s the cheese dip? What am I supposed to do, play charades?”

In the Broccoli Project production of the play Rumors, the Gormans arrive at the wedding anniversary dinner for Deputy Mayor of New York Charley Brock to discover that his wife Myra is missing, and Charley has shot himself in the earlobe in a suicide attempt. Ken, Charley’s lawyer and friend, enlists Chris in a cover-up attempt that eventually draws in all eight guests in a tumult of lies, confusion and miscommunication. It doesn’t take long for all the characters to completely lose control in this bourgeoisie farce.

Rumors by Neil Simon, will show at the Black Box Theatre, a new theater space in the Student Activity Center. The play is produced by Alex Reynolds, a Plan II and business honors senior, and Laura Wright, a Plan II and biology sophomore, and is directed by Jenny Kutner, Plan II junior, and Katherine Kloc, a Plan II and advertising junior. The play coincides with the Plan II Honors program’s 75th anniversary weekend.

Read more at the Daily Texan on-line. . . .

The Broccoli Project presents Rumors at the new Student Activities Center (click for map), second floor

March 25 & 26 at 7 p.m.

Upcoming: Rumors by Neil Simon, Way Off Broadway Community Players, January 7 - 29

Found on-line:

presents

Rumors

by Neil Simon

Directed by Christien Bumpus

January 7 - 29, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sunday, January 16 at 3 p.m.

at the WOBCP Theatre, 11880 W. FM 2243 in Leander, TX, between US 183 and Bagdad Road (click for map)

Click Here to make Reservations

At a large, tastefully appointed Sneden's Landing town-house, where friends are beginning to gather to celebrate the 10th wedding anniversary for Charley (the Deputy Mayor of New York) and his wife, Charley has just shot himself. Although he’s only suffered a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce.

As the time for the rest of his guests to appear ap-proaches, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken and Ken’s wife must get "the story" straight before the other guests arrive. Due to the rapidly mounting confusion and mis-communications, the evening spins off into classic farci-cal hilarity.

"Light, frothy and fun."-New York Post

"Has nothing on its mind except making the audience laugh."-The New York Times

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Upcoming: Rumors by Neil Simon, Wimberley Players, September 25 - October 18

Received directly:

The Wimberley Players
opens the 2009-2010 season with

Rumors
by Neil Simon

September 25 - October 18, weekends

Rumors begins when an evening gala is planned to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Myra and Charley Brock. Guests are arriving two by two, but the host and hostess are nowhere to be found and, although the food is laid out in the kitchen, the cook is missing. Charley Brock, the deputy mayor of New York City, has shot himself through the earlobe. Is it an attempted suicide?

Comic complications arise when the upper-crust guests do everything in their power to keep the evening’s events from the police and the press.

This production is recommended for adults only and contains strong language. It is inappropriate for young children.

Rumors is directed by Lee Stubbs, who most recently directed Mousetrap at the Wimberley Playhouse and performed in Rose’s Dilemma and Man of La Mancha. Linda Addeo is producer and her most recent credit was producer of last season’s Christmas Belles.

The cast of Rumors includes a number of familiar faces and several new ones. Whitney Marlett Mollahan last appeared on the Playhouse stage in Christmas Belles. Perry Redden also appeared in Christmas Belles and wowed the audience as Elvis. Deanna Lalich most recently performed in the chorus of Stop the World, I Want To Get Off. Ted Kozlowski last appeared several seasons ago in Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks.

Although newcomers to the Wimberley Playhouse, Carol and David Cain both have extensive backgrounds in all phases of live and recorded performances. Other newcomers to the Playhouse are David Schneider (president of the Gaslight Baker Theatre in Lockhart), Cindy Forsyth and Rick Fitzgerald.

Rumors runs Friday, September 25 to Sunday, October 18. Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8:00 p.m. Sunday matinees begin at 2:30pm. Tickets ($18, opening night champagne reception $25) can be purchased online at www.wimberleyplayers.org or through the box office at 512-847-0575.

The Wimberley Playhouse is located at 450 Old Kyle Road, Wimberley, Texas 78676.