Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is at NC's Kennedy Theatre, July 20-31

By: Jul. 12, 2005
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Tennessee Williams' steamy drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the next show in the Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy's series of summer productions in North Carolina. The play will run at the Kennedy Theatre in downtown Raleigh's BTI Center for the Performing Arts from July 20th to July 31st at 8 PM (2 PM on Sundays).

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is, according to production notes, "a powerful, highly-charged, moving story of a neurotic, dysfunctional Southern family with its rivalries, tensions, and greed." Michael Hunsaker (Fiddler on the Roof, Ragtime at NCT) will take on the role of Brick, the brooding alcoholic married to the sultry Maggie the Cat (LA actress Melissa Kite), whose sexual frustration finds an outlet in berating Brick for his still having feelings for a dead college friend. Lamont Wade and Pauline Cobrda will play Brick's parents, plantation patriarch Big Daddy and Big Mama.

The cast of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof also includes Chris Chappell (Gooper), Hope Hynes (Mae), Bob Barr (Doc Baugh), Todd Igoe (Rev. Tooker), Thaddaeus Edwards (Lacey) and Tiffany Ivy (Sookey).  Directed by Dr. Kenny Gannon, the show features a creative team that includes technical director Curtis Jones, stage manager Michael Kennedy and set designer Sonya Drum.

Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy runs though August 28, 2005 with each production in the six-show series completing a 10-day run.  Other shows in the season include Starting Here, Starting Now and a special season ender featuring Lauren Kennedy (Side Show, Sunset Boulevard) and her husband Alan Campbell (Sunset Boulevard) In Concert.  

Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy is a professional theatre company whose mission is to serve the citizens of Raleigh, Wake County and Eastern Carolina by "keeping the lights on" and producing professional theatrical performances in the Kennedy Theater at the BTI Center for the Performing during the months of June, July and August. Hot Summer Nights goal is to produce great shows that are varied in type, attitude and scope and employ actor, stage crew and staff of all ages, races and creed from North Carolina and Broadway. Hot Summer Nights will use its resources to nourish, celebrate and employ many theatrical groups, colleges, charities and citizens and support and assist the City of Raleigh with entertainment needs.

Individual tickets for Proof are $35 but with the purchase of two seats, the second ticket is only $15 (when purchased together and excluding opening night). As an additional bonus, anyone who brings a picture of their "cat on a roof" to the Box Office, will get the third and fourth ticket (only) at $20 each. Group and Student discounts are also available. To order call 919-834-4000, go to www.ticketmaster.com, the BTI Center Box Office. For additional info: visit the Hot Summer Nights website at www.hotsummernightsatthekennedy.org.

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