Room Service to Play Final Off-Bway Performance 4/8

The Peccadillo Theater Company's critically-acclaimed production of Room Service will play its final performance on Sunday, April 8th at 3PM at the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street ~ between 6th Avenue and Varick).

Room Service started previews on November 17th 2006 and opened on November 28th. The production played 12 preview performances will have played158 regular performances through its closing performance slated for Sunday, April 8th. The critically acclaimed production started originally off-off Broadway at the Bank Street theater July 6th thru August 5th 2006 when it played 20 performances.

Presented by the Soho Playhouse and the award-winning Peccadillo Theater Company along with Jonathan Reinis Productions, Jeffrey Sine and The StoryLine Project, Room Service returns with the original cast of twelve in what many consider the funniest American play of the 1930's.

"A classic screw-ball comedy, Room Service centers around the efforts of an unscrupulous producer to find a backer for his new show. Holed up in a Times Square hotel with nineteen hungry actors and a ballooning room service bill, he tries to forestall eviction by convincing the show's gullible young playwright to fake his own death. Meanwhile, an emissary from one of the country's wealthiest businessmen turns up with money to invest in the show; that is, until he discovers the hotel doctor bound and gagged in the bathroom. The situation goes from bad to worse as the much-abused hotel manager threatens to have the entire show confiscated by the sheriff on opening night," press notes state.

Cast as the wily producer is David Edwards, fresh from the national tour of The Producers. Fred Berman, Dale Carman, Sterling Coyne, Scott Evans, Blythe Gruda, Robert O'Gorman and Kim Rachelle Harris are also featured in the company. Scenic design is by Chris Jones, costume design by Gail Cooper-Hecht and lighting design by Jeffrey E. Salzberg.

Room Service will play its final week as per the following schedule: Wednesdays through Fridays at 8PM; Saturdays at 3 & 8PM; Sundays at 3 & 7PM; Mondays at 8PM. All tickets are $65 with a limited number of "Cheap Seats" at $39.99.  For tickets and more information, call the SoHo Playhouse at (212) 691-1555 or online at www.sohoplayhouse.com.

Photo by Carol Rosegg - David Edwards and Fred Berman