Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University Taylor Theatre Playbills Campus Events 2-17-1995 Lost in Yonkers Follow this and additional works at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/playbills Part of the Acting Commons, Dance Commons, Higher Education Commons, Playwriting Commons, and the Theatre History Commons Recommended Citation "Lost in Yonkers" (1995). Taylor Theatre Playbills. 142. https://pillars.taylor.edu/playbills/142 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Campus Events at Pillars at Taylor University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Taylor Theatre Playbills by an authorized administrator of Pillars at Taylor University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Taylor Theatre Presents Neil Simonfs ,Lost in Yonkers February 17, 78, 23, 24, 25, 1995 Mitchell Theatre Taylor University About the Playwright Neil Simon has been successfully writing plays Lost in onkers for some thirty-odd years, beginning in 1951 l/ with his first Broadway hit Come Blow Your Directed and Designed by Dr.Oliver Hubbard Horn. Lost in Yonkers became his 27th Broadway success, a record unparalleled in the American theater in the second half of this THE CAST century. Directed by Gene Saks, who has directed seven Simon plays and four movies, .....IoshStone Yonkers was originally produced at the Stevens Iay.. Center of the North Carolina School of the Arts Arty. ..i.. ..DanielHayat and later played at the National Theatre in Eddie. .feremy Byrd Washington D.C. before moving to Broadway in Bella. ...]ulieGonnering February 1991. It was awarded the 1991 Grandma Kurnitz. .Angela Alvarez Pulitzer Prize and won Simon the Tony Award Louie. .Robert Olson for Best Play in 199'1.. Yonkers is considered by Gert. Rachel Kellogg many to be the best play Simon has written. He was born in New York in 1927, and began writing comic material as a 15-year-old-high The play takes place in Grandma school student. Simon began his writing @reer Kurnitz's apartment, located aboae the in television, writing for The PhiI Siloers Shout Kurnitz's Kandy Store and Sid Caesar's Your Shoas of Shows, but Yonkers, Neut York, 1942 following his first Broadway hit,lie continued a chain of stage successes that turned Broadway for at least the next dozen years into a continuing Simon Festival. Besides writing the There will be a fifteen-minute adaptations of his own work for the screen, his intennission between acts other screenplays include such successes as Murder by Death, The Detective, Qheap Only During intermissioti lt)e inaite you to When I Laugh and The Heartbreak Kld, among others. aisit our concession stand located on the East end of the upper lobby. Please do not For many years Simon was described as a bring refreshments into the theatre. talented but essentially comic craftsman. This changed in the mid-eighties when he produced his triology Bighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and Broadway Bounil. A more serious Neil Simon emerged in his portrayal of ]ewish- American family life, catching the pathos of Our special thanks to Gun Alley, fimmy's ordinary life and bringing him the credibility Used Furniture, The Old Trading Post, that eluded him during his long streak of Wright's Furniture, lerry Stair, and the comedy hits. More overtly autobiographical Taylor Athletic and Maintenance than his previous plays they retained his gift for Departments for their help in preparing comedy while touching the darker side of human relationships. Simon continues this for this show. mixture of laughter and tears in Lost in Yonlcers. A Communication Arts Department Production Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. ********************* OUR NEXT PRODUCTON As a courtesy to the Actors, please do not use lVltacbeth cameras during the performance. April 28, 29, May 4-6, 1995 **** *** **** **** ****** PRODUCTION STAFF TechnicalDirector. .....Dr. OliverHubbard Assistant Directors. .*April Fausnight Mary Ruth VanVeldhuizen Set Crew. TASON FRANCIS DougChrk James Hackman Tony Marshall RobOlson Bryan Parris MattStalcup LighUSound Crew. ... TIM DD(ON JEREMY HUNT Colette Camp DougClark Aaron Kaminski Andy Peterson Jared Smith Nathan Smith Makeup Crew. ... LUKE BRENEMAN CHRISTINA LEAH Amy Brailey fana Crooks Jerry Flewelling jenna Iatham *='H;:itti,?T; Properties. .IENMFER HAWN James Flackman |ason Overdorf AngelaHoke Bradley Poteat |enna Latham Tami Spaan *Peter Marshall MiriamMiller Costumes. .. APRIL HUNTER Alice Rouse LisaRozerna House. ...KATHRYNRESLER Colleen Miller *Rachael Bell ]enny Miller Dan Btick Marla Miller Michael Chiam Michael Mohrland UndsayCrcw Chris Momeyer Michael Folkerts Erin Schaffner Greg Frost Erika Shaw WenCy Gaffner Kim Tannehill fennifer Giese Yolanda Taylor Rebecca Kraft Carrie Wheeler AmyMacMullen Elizabeth Wise Program Cover Design. .Holly Hines *Alpha Psi Omega Members.