New Theatre-Set Play Good Opinions Opens July 23rd

By: Jun. 29, 2005
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Good Opinions, a new play set inside the world of the theatre, will have its premiere as part of the Sixth Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival on Saturday, July 23rd at the WorkShop Theatre's Jewel Box space, 4th floor (312 West 36th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).  Written by Anne Fizzard and directed by Katrin Hilbe, the show will run through Saturday, August 6th.

In Good Opinions, Evan, a Broadway director, meets a coat-check girl named Adele in a Broadway watering hole and finds out she can predict the reviews of a New York Times theatre critic before they're even written. Seeking to make his new show a hit, Evan begins courting her for inside information, forgetting to mention he has a long-term girlfriend in a comedic send-up of the theatrical industry.  The cast of the show includes Kevin Stapleton*, Nicole Taylor*, Marc Geller*, Joan Pelzer*, Stephen Morfesis, Andrew Dawson*, Wende O'Reilly, and Oliver Conant. The production is an Equity showcase.

The Canadian Fizzard had her first play, Subway to Tickle Gut, produced in her native Newfoundland in 1990 and was subsequently commissioned to co-write the screenplay in 1991. The film won an Honorable Mention at the International Short Film Festival in Montreal the following year. A character actress, Anne began her career by playing a ferret and has since played a wide range of roles, from Karen in Speed-the-Plow to an Elizabethan apothecary to a kidney specialist. (Along the way, she did indeed work as a waitress/hostess/coat-check girl in a New York theatre-district restaurant). In 1999 she wrote for, and performed in, Baggage Claim at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York. The following year, she produced an hour-long show of her own comedy sketches Off-Off-Broadway. Good Opinions is her first full-length script.

Hilbe has worked in many countries throughout Europe, as well as in the United States. From 1997 to 2002 she was Assistant Director, House Director and Director in Germany at the Frankfurt Opera, where she directed Verdi's Falstaff  and Salieri's Prima la musica, poi le parole. At the State Theater in Darmstadt she directed Manfred Trojahn's Enrico, and at the City Theatre of Wurzburg, Claude Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, while working there as director from 1994-1997. In the U.S. she directed Richard Strauss' Salome for Kentucky Opera.


Show times for Good Opinions are: Saturday, July 23rd at 11:30 AM, Sunday, July 24th at 3:30 PM, Thursday, July 28th at 7:30 PM, Sunday, July 31st at 5:30 PM, Monday, August 1st at 9:30 PM and Saturday, August 6th at 9:30 PM.  Tickets, which are $15.00 and $12.00 for students and seniors, are available by visiting www.smarttix.com or calling: 212-858-4444.

  

 



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