The Chatham Community Players is excited to present Neil Simon’s, “Lost In Yonkers” as a part of their successful play reading series, “Sundays at 7”. One Night ONLY – Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 7:00 at the Chatham Playhouse, 23 North Passaic Avenue, in Chatham. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door. Salvador Navarro directs.
Written by America's great comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged, and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.
The Cast:
- Karen Thornton as Bella
- Glen Post as Louie
- Lauri MacMillan as Granda Kurnitz
- Dan Vissers as Eddie
- Maryann Post as Gert
- Lucas Schultz as Jay
- Simon Thornton as Arty
Light snacks provided, patrons are encouraged to BYOB
Funding has been made possible in part by the Arts Council of the Morris Area through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.