ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Theatre Continues Season with "Brighton Beach Memoirs"
ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Theatre will continue its 2019-20 season with the comedy Brighton Beach Memoirs, written by Neil Simon and directed by Elliot Wasserman. The production runs from February 13-16 in the ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Performance Center located in UC east on ºÚÁϳԹÏ's campus.
Brighton Beach Memoirs is ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Theatre's annual Repertory Project, which operates under a contract with the Actors' Equity Association, the professional union of actors and stage managers. The production will feature two professional actors in the cast-Laurie Dawn and Buzz Roddy-and union stage manager Margaret Kayes.
Brighton Beach Memoirs is the first of a semi-autobiographical trilogy by Neil Simon. Simon portrays himself as Eugene Jerome and opens the series as a young teen in 1937. Though he dreams of girls and baseball fame, Eugene's reality instead deals with the comical jumble of his large family crammed into a Brooklyn walk-up.  Simon's bittersweet memoir vividly captures the spirit of a determined but struggling Jewish household as World War II begins to loom.
Wasserman will be joined by a design team including ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï faculty member Paul Weimer as scenic designer; ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï staff member Joshua Stallings as sound designer; ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï staff member Shan Jensen as costume designer; ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï staff member Andy Hammond as technical designer; and ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï students Rafael Gonzalez III as lighting designer and Carlysle Garland and Evan MacLaughlin as assistant stage managers.
The cast of Brighton Beach Memoirs includes ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï students Zoie Hunter, Jovanni Olavarria, Kierstin Prewitt, Isabelle Rogers, and Elijah Young.
Tickets are $2 for ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï students, $10 for ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï employees, $4 for non-ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï students (student ID required), $10 seniors (60+), and $12 for adults. Tickets are FREE to ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï students with ID one hour before the show begins based on availability. Shows start at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. for the Sunday matinee. To purchase tickets or for more information visit ºÚÁϳԹÏ.edu/liberal-arts/usi-theatre or call the box office at 812-465-1635. Follow us on Facebook at , Twitter , and Instagram .
The second spring show will be Eclipsed, our second student production of the season. It will be directed by ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï student Jesmelia Williams and run March 26-28, 2020, in the Mallette Studio Theatre. The final production of the season will be Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Eric Altheide from April 16-19, 2020.