BCP to Screen SUMMER OF '42 Ahead of Musical Adaptation's Premiere, 7/8

Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) (Jed Bernstein, Producing Director) has announced that it will screen the 1971 film Summer of '42 directed by Robert Mulligan (To Kill A Mockingbird) ahead of its premiere of the musical adaptation. The free screening will take place on Monday, July 8th at 6:00 PM at the Bucks County Playhouse (70 South Main Street, New Hope, PA).

The film won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, and was nominated for three other Academy Awards: Best Cinematography; Best Film Editing; and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material not Previously Published or Produced.

The musical, featuring a book by Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster (Little Shop of Horrors) and music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum (Vanities), is based upon the novel and screenplay by Herman Raucher. Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster (Little Shop of Horrors) makes his directorial debut at The Playhouse.

"We are so happy to give our Playhouse friends a chance to see the iconic movie on which this wonderful musical is based," said Jed Bernstein.

General admission seating will begin at 5:30 pm.

Summer of '42 the Musical, begins July 25th and runs through August 11th.

For a complete schedule and to purchase tickets for the production of Summer of '42 visit bcptheater.org, call 215-862-2121 or visit the box office at 70 South Main Street New Hope, PA (Tues-Sun noon-5)

2013 Summer Season Schedule

June 27- July 21 The World Goes 'Round- The songs of Kander and Ebb

July 5-21 Really Rosie- Family classic with book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King, directed by Tony nominee Marcia Milgrom Dodge.

July 25-August 11 Summer of '42- Coming of age musical based on the 1971 film with a book by Hunter Foster, music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum, and based on the novel and screenplay by Herman Raucher.

August 15- September 1 The Tale of the Allergist's Wife- Tony Award-nominated play by Charles Busch, directed by Tony Award-winner Boyd Gaines, and starring Marsha Mason, Marilu Henner. and David Garrison.

Located 90 minutes from New York City, the Bucks County Playhouse opened in 1939 on the site of a grist mill dating from the late eighteenth century. Ironically, the structure was at that time in danger of demolition; however playwright Moss Hart and the local community rallied to save the building and re-opened it as a theatrical venue, which quickly became one of the country's most famous regional theaters, with a veritable who's who of American theatrical royalty including Kim Hunter, Helen Hayes, Kitty Carlisle, Colleen Dewhurst, Shirley Booth, Lillian Gish, June Lockhart, Grace Kelly, Robert Redford, Bert Lahr, Leslie Nielsen and Walter Matthau and remained in continuous operation until December 2010. Thanks to the Bridge Street Foundation, the non-profit family foundation of Kevin and Sherri Daugherty with Tanya Cooper as President, this beloved theatrical landmark was re-opened and celebrated on July 2, 2012, exactly 73 years and day from when it originally opened in 1939. The Bucks County Playhouse is located at 70 South Main Street in New Hope, PA.