The Ridgefield Playhouse Presents TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE for One Night Only

From the best-selling memoir by Mitch Albom comes a funny and poignant play that celebrates the 20th Anniversary of The New York Times best-selling book when TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE. The Ridgefield Playhouse and Ridgefield Magazine Broadway and Cabaret Series presents TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE - THE PLAY on Sunday, November 5 at 7pm and is partially underwritten by Books on the Common and Ridgefield Visiting Nurse Association with support from the Ridgefield Library. For tickets ($55), call or visit the box office, 203-438-5795 or go online at ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a non-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.

From the best-selling memoir by Mitch Albom comes a funny and poignant play that celebrates the 20th Anniversary of The New York Times best-selling book when TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE. The Ridgefield Playhouse and Ridgefield Magazine Broadway and Cabaret Series presents TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE - THE PLAY on Sunday, November 5 at 7pm and is partially underwritten by Books on the Common and Ridgefield Visiting Nurse Association with support from the Ridgefield Library. This new production tells the autobiographical story of Mitch Albom, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor. Sixteen years after graduation, Mitch happens to catch Morrie's appearance on a television news program and learns that his old professor is battling Lou Gehrig's Disease. Mitch is reunited with Morrie, and what starts as a simple visit turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a last class in the meaning of life. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz. Tuesdays with Morrie - The Play stars Gabriele Angieri (Morrie) a Minneapolis based stage and screen actor and Brandon Ewald (Mitch) a stage actor and choreographer. Make it a great night out with dinner and a show - visit Bernard's (20 West Lane, Ridgefield) for a great Prix Fixe Menu when you present your tickets to this performance - Reservations suggested.

Mitch Albom is a best-selling author, a nationally acclaimed newspaper columnist (with the "Detroit Free Press"), a radio host (with WJR-AM), and a television commentator (with ESPN and ABC). His well-known book "Tuesdays With Morrie" is now the best-selling memoir of all time, with nearly ten million copies sold worldwide. Albom, along with playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, adapted the book into a hit play, which opened Off-Broadway in late 2002 and has been performed in regional theaters throughout North America. Albom's first novel, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," was published in 2003 and was on the "New York Times" best-sellers list for two years. With a screenplay by Albom, "Five People" was adapted into an ABC movie that aired in December 2004 and starred Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, and Jeff Daniels. Albom has founded three charities in Detroit: "The Dream Fund," "A Time To Help," and "S.A.Y. Detroit," which helps Detroit's homeless. He serves on numerous charitable boards around the country and makes his home in suburban Detroit.

Brandon Ewald (Mitch) recently performed in the world premiere of Park Square Theatre's Might As Well Be Dead; In the Twin Cities he has performed with Jungle Theatre (Hamlet), Mu Performing Arts (Yellow Fever), Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company (Photograph 51), Acadia Repertory (School For Wives, The 39 Steps), Theatre in the Round (The Three Musketeers), Shadowplay Theatre (I Hate Hamlet) and Pioneer Place on Fifth (Romeo and Juliet, The Seagull). Brandon has trained at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, Brave New Institute and Remedios Creative. He holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Augsburg College and is an accomplished fight choreographer.

Gabriele Angieri (Morrie) is a Minneapolis based stage and screen actor who has appeared in numerous starring roles on twin cities stages including Thomas More (A Man for All Seasons), Vinnie (Sam Shepard's Simpatico), Marvin (Midwest Premiere of The Last Seder), Nunzio (Over the River and Through the Woods), Max (Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming") and on the stages of Park Square Theatre, Guthrie Lab, Playwright's Center, Illusion Theatre, Gremlin Theatre, among others. Gabriele can currently be seen starring as the FBI Profiler Saul Aitken in the independent feature, "Profile of a Killer", on Amazon Prime. Gabriele is a native of New York City.

For tickets ($55), call the box office at 203-438-5795, or visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a non-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.