ARENA PLAYERSSUMMER SEASON 2008296 Route 109, East Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735516-293-0674
BOEING BOEING
by Marc Camoletti
May 16 - June 8
In this hilarious comedy, a Parisian Lothario has a French, German, and an American Fiance, each a beautiful airline hostess with a two day layover in Paris . He keeps "one up, one down and one pending" and has the seveth day to rest until schedule changes bring all three of them to Paris and to his apartment at the same time.
WAIT UNTIL DARK
by Frederick Knott
June 13 - July 6
In this mystery /thriller, Susy Hendrix, a blind Greenwich Village housewife has become a target of three thugs searching for heroin hidden in a doll her husband transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who has been murdered. The tri uses threats, menace and murder to convince her to give up the doll.
THE LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC
by Donald Margulies
July 11 - August 3
Set in Coney Island , this comedy/ drama tells the story of a Jewish family preparing for their oldest son’s Bar mitzvah. They struggle to put up a good show even though they are always short on money. Stewie, the older son awaits his barmitzvah with an eye on the loot to be gained, while Mitchell, the youngest son is absorbed in writing a musical version of Death of a Salesman for school.
LADIES IN RETIREMENT
by Edward Percy & Reginald Denham
August 8 - August 31
In this mystery, a housemaid works as the companion of an aging, retired British actress. One day, the maid is visited by her two loony half sisters. The actress finds the slightly mad sisters intolerable and demands that they leave, but if the sisters are sent away they will end up involuntarily committed to an insane asylum, so the maid decides to take care of the problem herself, with disastrous consequences.
A BAD YEAR FOR TOMATOES
by John Patrick
September 5 - September 28
Fed up with the pressures and demands of her acting career, the famous Myra Marlowe leases a house in the tiny New England hamlet of Beaver Haven and settles down to write her autobiography. She is constantly bothered by townspeople. In an attempt to shoo them away, and gain some privacy, Myra invents a mad sister-who is kept locked in an upstairs room, but who occasionally escapes long enough to scare off uninvited visitors. It works for a while, but when the sister disappears, Myra is accused of Murder with hilarious results.
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