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Geva Announces Complete Casting for 40 Season Media Contact: Dawn Kellogg Communications Manager (585) 232-1366 ext. 3059 [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GEVA ANNOUNCES COMPLETE CASTING FOR 40TH SEASON OPENER, YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU Academy Award nominee and Emmy winner Robert Vaughn leads cast of Geva favorites in Kaufman and Hart’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Rochester, N.Y., August 20, 2012– Geva Theatre Center’s 40th Anniversary Season gets off to a stellar start with You Can’t Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, directed by Mark Cuddy. Stage and screen star Robert Vaughn leads an ensemble cast of Geva favorites “coming home” to help the theatre to celebrate this landmark occasion. You Can’t Take It With You begins performances on September 11 and runs in the Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage through October 7. A 1930’s screwball comedy that pits the eccentric Sycamore family – prone to spontaneous eruptions of music, dance poetry and fireworks – against the buttoned-up bigwigs of Wall Street and the IRS. When Alice Sycamore agrees to marry the son of ultra-conservative parents, will true love win out? A Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway classic the whole family will enjoy! You Can’t Take It With You premiered on Broadway in 1936 at the Booth Theatre, where it ran for 837 performances. It won a number of awards including the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - the first play to be so honored. A 1938 motion picture based on the play was directed by Frank Capra and starred Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur and Lionel Barrymore. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, the film won the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. The ensemble cast is led by Robert Vaughn, who makes his Geva Theatre Center debut as the family patriarch, Martin Vanderhof. Most notable to television viewers for his portrayal of Napoleon Solo in “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” Mr. Vaughn has appeared in over 100 major motion pictures including The Young Philadelphians, for which he received an Academy Award nomination; Bullitt, for which he received a BAFTA; The Towering Inferno; Superman III; Excuse Me for Living; Happy Hour and the iconic film, The Magnificent Seven. In addition to “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” he has had prominent roles in some of the most acclaimed TV series of all time including “Dragnet;” “Gunsmoke;” “Mike Hammer;” “Bonanza;” “The Virginian;” “The Dick Van Dyke Show;” “The Lieutenant;” “Police Woman;” “Columbo;” “Trapper John, M.D.;” “The A Team;” “Hunter;” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Law & Order” and many, many others. Artistic Director Mark Cuddy chose to begin the 40th Anniversary season with You Can’t Take it With You as a “homecoming” for many of the actors in the ensemble. Melissa Rain Anderson (Essie) was seen last season in A Christmas Carol (2010 and 2011) as well as Convenience (2001-2002 Season), Urinetown (2006-2007 Season) and Inherit the Wind (2005-2006 Season). Nora Cole (Rheba) wowed Rochester audiences in the Nextstage last season in her one-woman show, Voices of the Spirits in My Soul, and appeared in Fences during the 2008-2009 Season. Peggy Cosgrave (Mrs. Kirby) returns to the Mainstage where she appeared in Pride and Prejudice (2007-2008 Season), Our Town (2006-2007 Season) and House and Garden (2001-2002 Season). Skip Greer (Paul Sycamore) appeared on the Mainstage in last season’s Superior Donuts, and 2010’s The Music Man and Brigitt Markusfeld (Penelope Sycamore) was seen in Over the Tavern (2010-2011 Season) and in A Christmas Story (2008 and 2009). Jim Poulos (Ed) appeared in last season’s productions of Company and A Christmas Carol and in previous productions of Amadeus (2010-2011 Season), Convenience and Urinetown. Robert Rutland (Henderson/Mr. Kirby) returns to Geva where he has appeared in Amadeus, Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird (1995- 1996), Women Who Steal (1999-2000 Season), John Bull’s Other Island (2004-2005 Season) and Inherit the Wind. After a 30-year absence, Kim Sullivan (Donald) returns to Geva where he last appeared in The Hostage during the 1978-1979 Season. Broadway veteran Patricia Hodges (Olga) makes her Geva debut as Olga, and Loren Dunn and Nicole Rodenburg also make their Geva debuts as the two young lovers, Tony and Alice, caught in the middle of the fun and fireworks between families. Rochester actors Ray Salah (Mr. De Pinna), who last appeared on the Geva Mainstage in The Smell of the Kill (2003-2004 Season); Dick St George (Boris Kolenkhov) who has appeared in Mainstage productions of 1776 (2002-2003 Season), As You Like It (1994-1995 Season), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1997-1998 Season), Inherit the Wind (1986- 1987 Season) and several productions of A Christmas Carol; and Davida Bloom (Gay Wellington) making her Geva debut, complete the cast. You Can’t Take It With You is directed by Mark Cuddy and the design team includes William Clarke (scenic design), Pamela Scofield (costume design), Ann Wrightson (lighting design) and Dan Roach (sound design). The 2012-2013 Mainstage Season is sponsored by Nocon & Associates, A private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. You Can’t Take It With You is produced with support from Key Bank; Dawn & Jacques Lipson, MD; St. John Fisher College; THE DRIVE; and Rochester Business Journal. You Can’t Take It With You begins performances September 11 and runs in the Mainstage through October 7. For further information, photographs or to arrange interviews, please contact: Dawn Kellogg, Communications Manager, (585) 232 1366 x 3059 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Previews: September 11, 12, 13 @ 7:30pm September 14 @ 8pm September 15 @ 2pm (Open Captioned Performance*) Opening: Saturday, September 15 @ 8pm (40th Anniversary Gala) Performances: Sunday, September 16 @ 2pm and 7pm Tuesday, September 18 @ 6pm Wednesday, September 19 @ 7:30pm Thursday, September 20 @ 7:30pm Friday, September 21 @ 8pm Saturday, September 22 @ 4pm and 8:30pm Sunday, September 23 @ 2pm and 7pm (Sunday Salon) Tuesday, September 25 @ 7:30pm Wednesday, September 26 @ 7:30pm Thursday, September 27 @ 7:30pm Friday, September 28 @ 8pm Saturday, September 29 @ 4pm and 8:30pm Sunday, September 30 @ 2pm (Audio Described Performance) and 7pm Tuesday, October 2 @ 7:30pm Wednesday, October 3 @ 2pm and 7:30pm Thursday, October 4 @ 7:30pm (Sign Interpreted Performance) Friday, October 5 @ 8pm Saturday, October 6 @ 4pm and 8:30pm Sunday, October 7 @ 2pm (Sunday Salon) and 7pm (Closing performance) TICKET PRICES: Tickets start at $25. RESERVATIONS: (585) 232-GEVA (4382), Website: www.gevatheatre.org LOCATION: Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd, Rochester, NY 14607 * Open captioning is being provided, in part, by TDF and TAP Plus which is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature GEVA THEATRE CENTER Founded in 1972, Geva Theatre Center is a not-for-profit, professional theatre company dedicated to creating and producing professional theatre productions, programs and services of a national standard. As Rochester’s leading professional theatre, Geva Theatre Center is the most attended regional theatre in New York State, and one of the 25 most attended in the country, serving up to 170,000 patrons annually, including more than 16,000 students. The 552-seat Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage is home to a wide variety of performances, from musicals to American and world classics. The 180-seat Ron & Donna Fielding Nextstage is home to Geva’s own series of contemporary drama, comedy and musical theatre; Geva Comedy Improv; Geva’s New Play Reading Series and the Hornet’s Nest - an innovative play-reading series facilitating community-wide discussion on controversial topics. In addition, the Nextstage hosts visiting companies of both local and international renown. Geva Theatre Center offers a wide variety of educational, outreach and literary programs, nurturing audiences and artists alike. Since 1995, the organization has been under the artistic direction of Mark Cuddy. *ENDS* .
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