Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python, and you have the Roxy Regional Theatre's hilarious new offering, THE 39 STEPS, opening tonight, June 19, at 8pm.
Packed with nonstop laughs, this two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is adapted by Patrick Barlow from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock. Eli Jolley (whom Roxy audiences may remember as Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby) stars as Richard Hannay, a man whose boring life is turned upside down when he meets a mysterious woman with a thick accent. Shortly after taking her home, however, the woman is murdered. Soon, an enigmatic spy organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on Hannay's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! In this fast-paced whodunit, a ridiculously talented cast of four -- rounded out by Alicia Jayne Kelly* (whose credits include Marty in the Broadway National Tour of Grease and Velma in the Broadway production of Chicago for Royal Caribbean cruise lines, as well as Nellie in South Pacific and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Roxy Regional Theatre), Josh Bernaski (Robbie in The Wedding Singer and The Wolf in Into the Woods at the Roxy Regional Theatre) and Daryl W. Phillipy -- takes on over 150 zany characters in a riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, including an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance!Videos