No Way To Treat a Lady, the award-winning musical comedy thriller by Douglas J. Cohen, returns to the stage this summer for a two week run at Cape Cod's legendary summer theatre, The Cape Playhouse in Dennis, MA. Portraying a total of 17 different roles, the starry ensemble features four Broadway veterans: Josh Grisetti (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Enter Laughing), Judy Blazer (45 Seconds From Broadway, LoveMuzik), Bradley Dean (A Little Night Music, Spamalot), and Stacie Morgan Lewis (Wicked). Featuring new revisions not-yet-seen on the East Coast, the production is directed by Mark Shanahan with musical direction by Michael Rice and choreography by Jennifer Waldman.
"Over the years I have seen countless productions of Lady around the country and around the world, and I am thrilled that No Way To Treat a Lady will finally be a part of the season at this historic theatre," says the musical's creator Douglas J. Cohen. "The Playhouse has assembled a terrific cast. Josh, Judy, Bradley and Stacie are dynamic performers, and I have no doubt that this will be a memorable production."
ABOUT NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY
Based on the best-selling novel by
William Goldman (Marathon Man, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride) and the 1968
Paramount Pictures film adaptation starring
Rod Steiger,
Lee Remick, George Siegal and
Eileen Heckart, No Way To Treat a Lady is the story of two men: an unemployed actor who would (and literally does) kill to be on the front page of The New York Times, and a lonely mensch of a detective who must find balance between a career-making case, his overbearing Jewish mother, and his shiksa goddess girlfriend.
Winner of the prestigious
Richard Rodgers Award,
Douglas J. Cohen's No Way To Treat a Lady received its world-premiere in 1987 Off-Broadway at the
Hudson Guild Theatre before returning to New York in an acclaimed revival at The York Company a decade later. Since then, the world has seen over 100 productions of Cohen's musical in six languages and eight different countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Italy. A tour de force for triple-threat musical theatre performers, notable cast members have included
Donna McKechnie,
Stephen Bogardus,
Liz Callaway,
Joanna Riding,
Peter Marx,
Lenny Wolpe,
Alix Korey,
Ruth Williamson,
Marguerite MacIntyre,
June Gable,
Adam Grupper,
Adam Heller,
Karen Murphy, Paul Schoffler and
Sandy Binion.
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A favorite with audiences and critics alike, the late Clive Barnes of The New York Post called the musical "a fine way to treat lady ...a real winner," and The New York Times described it as "a beguiling musical." The Times went on to describe Cohen's adaptation as "a reassuring fusion: a mastery of traditional musical comedy style adorning an offbeat story" while Variety praised Cohen's "clever book and lyrics. The musical ranges widely through jazz, love ballads, waltzes, patter songs and homages to Sondheim without losing its own individuality."
In 2010,
Douglas J. Cohen was awarded the annual
Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting. Bestowed by the
Fred Ebb Foundation, in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company, Cohen received the award for his body of work including No Way To Treat A Lady as well as The Opposite of Sex, The Big Time, The Gig, Children's Letters to God, Boozy, Barnstormer and his newest work, Nine Wives, written with
Dan Elish.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Judy Blazer (Flora) Broadway/Off-Broadway: Love Musik, 45 Seconds From Broadway, Titanic, Me and My Girl, A Change in the Heir, Bernarda Alba (LCT), Sweeney Todd (NYCO), Thomashefsky (with
Michael Tilson Thomas,
Carnegie Hall), The Torch Bearers, Hurrah at Last (Roundabout), Hello Again (LCT), Connecticut Yankee (NYC Center Encores!), Whida Peru:Resurrection Tangle (solo piece) TV: "Law & Order," "As the World Turns," "Guiding Light," "Bernstein's New York," "Thomashefsky" with
Michael Tilson Thomas, for PBS this fall, "In Performance at the White House" (PBS).
Bradley Dean (Kit Gill) Broadway: A Little Night Music, Spamalot, Company, The Story of my Life, Man of La Mancha, Jane Eyre. Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks, Walmartopia. NYC: The Big Time, Harmony. Tours: Nationally as Che in Evita, internationally as Frank in The Rocky Horror Show. Regional credits include Arthur in Camelot (Goodspeed), Falsettos (Barrington Stage), The Tempest (Dallas Shakespeare), The Caretaker (City Theater), Children of Eden (Ford's Theater). TV: "Guiding Light," "One Life to Live," "All My Children." Father to Ana, Emma and Oliver.
Josh Grisetti (Morris Brummel) made his Broadway debut in
Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. Favorite Off-Broadway/regional credits include Enter Laughing (
Theatre World Award winner and Drama Desk,
Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations; York Theatre), Monty Python's Spamalot (Las Vegas), After the Ball (Irish Rep), Lucky Guy (Goodspeed's
Norma Terris), Camelot (North Shore), Grease (Sacramento Music Circus), Where's Charley? (Goodspeed) and others. TV: "The Knights of Prosperity" (ABC). Film: The Namesake. www.joshgrisetti.com.
Stacie Morgan Lewis (Sarah Stone) starred as Glinda in the Chicago production of Wicked. B'way: Wicked (Glinda standby), Urinetown, Titanic. Off-B'way: Don't Quit Your Night Job. National tours: Titanic, South Pacific. Regional: My Fair Lady; Sarah, Plain and Tall; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; A Chorus Line. Film: Elephant Shoes. BFA, Ithaca College.
Douglas J. Cohen (Book/Music/Lyrics) was awarded the
Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting. He wrote the score to the musical The Big Time, which features a book by Tony Award nominee
Douglas Carter Beane (Xanadu, The Little Dog Laughed). He won two
Richard Rodgers Awards and the Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation Award for writing book, music, and lyrics to No Way To Treat A Lady and The Gig, the latter earning Doug the
York Theatre Company's inaugural Noël Coward Prize for his 'triple threat' contributions.Cohen is the recipient of the Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Lyrics to Children's Letters to God and penned original songs for the
Les Freres Corbusier production of Boozy, directed by
Alex Timbers. His musicals also include Nine Wives (penned with 13 librettist
Dan Elish) and Barnstormer (with collaborator Cheryl
L. Davis, to be produced next summer by off-Broadway's New Professional Theatre). He is the composer/lyricist and co-librettist of The Opposite of Sex. He recently completed his first play Lovely Send Anywhere, which was a finalist for the inaugural Laurents-Hatcher Foundation Award and will received a reading this September directed by
Sheryl Kaller.
TICKET INFORMATION
No Way To Treat a Lady plays June 27th - July 9th at The
Cape Playhouse (820 Route 6A, Dennis Village, MA 02638). Evenings performances are Monday -Saturday at 8pm with matinees Wednesday, 2nd Thursday at 2pm, and 1st Saturday at 4pm. Tickets are $39.25 - $79.25. For tickets and information visit
www.capeplayhouse.com or call 877-385-3911.
