Saint Michael’s Playhouse Presents BOEING-BOEING, 7/20-7/30

A fast-paced Tony-award-winning comedy BOEING-BOEING will be staged at the Saint Michael's Playhouse July 20-30 in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.

Now in its 64th season of professional summer theater, the Saint Michael's Playhouse has been named "One of the best regional theater companies in America" by The Drama League of New York City, and hailed by Yankee Magazine as "The Best of New England."

"Boeing-Boeing is a fast-paced comedy set in jet-propelled 1965," said Director Kathryn Markey. "An American in Paris, with three fiancées, an unexpected house guest and a grumpy French maid, finds himself in a whirlwind of comedic confusion," said Director Markey, who appeared on Broadway in 3 From Brooklyn. Director Markey has appeared at The Playhouse in Breaking Up is Hard to Do, the Brighton Beach trilogy, Perfect...Change, Pirates of Penzance and Suds, and she directed Around the World in 80 Days.

Written by Marc Camoletti, BOEING-BOEING features Bernard, a successful architect living in Paris, who thinks he can easily juggle his three flight attendant fiancées. The show runs evenings at 8 p.m., July 20 through 23, 26 through 30; matinees at 2 p.m., July 23 and 30.

When an old friend arrives and his three fiancées each change flight schedules, Bernard's life hits some turbulence.

"The success of The Playhouse is due to the extraordinary artistic achievement of our actors and creative team," said Chuck Tobin, producing artistic director of the Saint Michael's Playhouse. "Our highly talented company of regional, Off-Broadway, and Broadway theater artists brings to life four outstanding productions each summer that win rave reviews from theater critics and audiences, across the board," he said.

BOEING-BOEING cast:
THOM MILLER (Bernard) is making his debut at Saint Michael's Playhouse. NY credits include Camp Wanatachi (La Mama Theater), Mental (The Cherry Lane) and Only A Lad (New York Fringe). Re­gionally, he's been seen as Kent in the regional pre­miere of Reasons To Be Pretty (Studio Theatre), Jamie in The Last Five Years (Denver Center), and Berger in Hair (Prince Music Theatre). Other recent credits in­clude I Hate Hamlet, Deathtrap, Dancing at Lughnasa, and Moon Over Buffalo (Northern Stage) and Leading Ladies and Picasso at the Lapin Agile (New London Barn Playhouse). He has guest instructed at Dartmouth and taught at the Denver Center Theatre Academy.

MICHAEL KEYLOUN (Robert) most recently played a Witch in the St. Louis Repertory production of Macbeth. Other credits include the Kevin Kline Award-nominated pro­duction of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (also at St. Louis Rep), Is He Dead? and The Producers at Pioneer Theatre Company, The Ladies' Man at Indiana Reper­tory and GeVa Theatre Center, Noises Off at the Denver Center, The Underpants at Actors Theatre of Louisville, as well as productions for La Jolla Playhouse, Capital Repertory, and Cape Playhouse. Film and TV credits include the independent short The Tryout and a brief stint on As the World Turns.

AMANDA RYAN PAGE (Gloria) Off-B'way: Zanna Don't! (Houseman); Charlie Brown & Henry and Mudge (Lortel). Other NYC Cred­its: Trailer Park (NYMF); Awesome 80's Prom (work­shop/co-writer); Dreams This Way/ Raw Impressions (TADA!); Babes In Toyland (Avery Fisher); Lucky Stiff (APAC). National Tour: Fiddler; Water Coolers. Re­gional: Ring of Fire (Fireside); Spelling Bee (Northern Stage); Pump Boys and Dinettes & Trailer Park (Willows & Mason St.); Stand By Your Man (Mtn. Playhouse); Urinetown (Carousel); Perfect/Change & Brighton Beach (Saint Michael's); Das Barbecu (Arvada); No, No Nanette (Goodspeed); Noises Off! & Brighton Beach (Leatherstocking); Carousel & Over Here! (Conn. Rep)

MICHELE SCULLY (Gretchen) played in How the Other Half Love,s Breaking Up is Hard to Do at The Playhouse. Recently she played Sally DeBaines in Reefer Mad­ness at The Gallery Players which was nominated best musical for NY Off-Off Broadway theatre. She played Sandy and Marty in the European Tour of Grease, as well as Sandy regionally. Other credits in­clude: May in an Off- Broadway production of Fool For Love (ATA), Belle in A Christmas Carol (European Tour), and Lois Warner in Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (Alham­bra Dinner Theatre - N.E. Florida premiere). Michele has appeared on SNL and is set to play Suzanne Her­shey in the upcoming independent feature film Eventu­ally Yours.

Kathryn Merry (Gabriella) St. Mike's Debut! Off-Broadway & US National Tour: Othello (Desdemona) with Aquila Theatre. Favor­ite regional credits include: Much Ado About Noth­ing (Hero) at La Jolla Playhouse; Moon Over Buffalo & Laughter on the 23rd Floor at Northern Stage; The 39 Steps at Arts Center of Coastal Carolina & North­ern Stage; The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Cape Rep; And Then There Were None (Vera) & Man Who Came to Dinner (Maggie) at Arrow Rock Lyceum. TV: Guiding Light, Start UP (Pilot). She stars in indie hor­ror flicks Plasterhead and The Creek and romantic comedy The Cult of Sincerity.

SARAH CARLETON (Bertha) New York, National Tour and Regional acting credits Always Patsy Cline, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Much Ado About Nothing, The Importance of Be­ing Ernest and The Taming of the Shrew directed by Maurice Daniels of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Directing credits: Almost Maine, Cloud 9, Eu­rydice, Female Stage Beauty, She Stoops to Conquer, Greater Tuna, Assassins, The Crucible. Sarah taught and performed in Poland at the University of Poznan at the height of the solidarity movement where she directed Love of Life, a play developed by her Polish students. At Ruotalibera Theatre in Rome, Sarah studied Commedia Dell'Arte and Grotowski approach­es to mask performance with Tiziana Lucattini. She is Associate Professor of Theatre at UVM.

Rest of The Playhouse season:
THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES, The sensational new Off-Broadway musical, August 3 - 13, 2011. The new hit musical comedy and Off-Broadway sensation, by Roger Bean, Directed and choreographed by Keith Andrews, is a cotton-candy colored, non-stop pop musical blast from the past! Featuring favorite songs from the '50s and '60s, THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom where we meet the Wonderettes, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts. The girls perform such classic songs as Lollipop, Stupid Cupid, It's My Party, It's In His Kiss, Rescue Me, R-E-S-P-E-C-T, and many more! The show runs evenings, 8 p.m. August 3 - 6, 9 - 13; Matinees, 2 p.m. August 6, 13

PLAYHOUSE JR., Children's Theater
PUSS ‘N BOOTS, Directed by Tim Maynes, Friday, July 8 at noon; Saturday, July 9 at 10 a.m.; Sunday, July 10 at 10 a.m. & noon. In a faraway kingdom, Oliver the Ogre wants to retire from ogre-ing and stay at home tending his flower garden. His career transition is not as easy as it seems and it takes a swashbuckling cat named Puss to set the kingdom right.

THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA
Directed by Tim Maynes, Friday, August 5 at noon, Saturday, August 6 at 10 a.m.; Sunday, August 7 at 10:00 a.m. & noon. This hilarious and highly entertaining story by Hans Christian Andersen tells the tale of a bashful prince, an unlikely princess, and a peculiarly hard pea. This classic Danish fairy tale will have audiences giggling with delight.

A professional theater company operating as an auxiliary enterprise of Saint Michael's College, The Playhouse is Greater Burlington's only Actors' Equity resident theater company and as such operates under contract with Actors' Equity Association in New York City. At the same time, Saint Michael's College students have the opportunity to learn from the pros through internships in technical theater, costuming, lighting, set construction, and publicity.

For tickets and information: Call (802) 654-2281 or go online to www.saintmichaelsplayhouse.org . Or visit the box office in the McCarthy Arts Center lobby on the campus of Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, weekdays 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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