Berkshire Theatre Group's BELLS ARE RINGING with Kate Baldwin Begins Tonight

Berkshire Theatre Group presents the Tony Award-winning sweetheart musical Bells Are Ringing, featuring Tony and Drama Desk-Award nominated Kate Baldwin and Broadway and Television actor Graham Rowat, directed by BTG Alum, Ethan Heard. Opening Night is Saturday, July 11 at 8pm. Preview performances begin tonight, July 9 at 7pm and the production closes Sunday, July 26 at 2pm.

Tickets to Bells Are Ringing are $25, $50 and $65, all preview tickets are $50. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street, Pittsfield; at the Fitzpatrick Main Stage Ticket Office at 83 East Main Street, Stockbridge; by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.BerkshireTheatreGroup.org. All plays, schedules, casting and prices are subject to change.

Tony and Drama Desk Award-nominated Kate Baldwin (Broadway: Finian's Rainbow; BTG: A Little Night Music) and Broadway and television actor, Graham Rowat (Broadway: Mamma Mia, LoveMusik; BTG: A Little Night Music) star in this Tony Award-nominated musical that made Judy Holliday a star. Written by seven-time Tony Award-winners Betty Comden and Adolph Green (On The Town, Wonderful Town), a fetching and farcical love story centers around a telephone service operator, Ella Peterson. Ella's busybody ways trigger trouble when she falls for one of her customers, Jeff Moss. This darling musical includes notable show tunes, "Long Before I Knew You," "Just in Time," and "The Party's Over." Directed by BTG Alum, Ethan Heard (BTG: A Little Night Music, Cat and The Canary), Bells Are Ringing is an irresistibly charming musical, bursting with breathtaking dance numbers.

Heard says, "Bells are Ringing is a love letter to NYC-a wacky world of colorful characters, crazy coincidences, and dreams come true. It's also a love story about a muse, her man, and all the other people she inspires. She can't help but help people. With some of the greatest songs from America's Golden Age, this is American musical comedy in its purest form: earnest, joyful, simple. When Bells was on Broadway in 1956-57, so were Damn Yankees, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, The Music Man, Candide, Brigadoon, and Carousel; and it ran for three years. Answering services, once the height of fashion, have now been replaced with voicemail boxes and texting, but our longing for connection is timeless as ever. So is our propensity to pretend to be people we're not.

In designing the show we tried to find fun and fresh ways to distill the show to its essence. A plethora of windows and doors to represent New York. Our production will be a vibrant, brassy, saturated, sexy, hilarious, wacky, wholesome Bells are Ringing."