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Moon Over Buffalo (Ludwig)
Moon Over Buffalo (Ludwig)
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Author: Ken Ludwig Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 136 Pub. Date: 2010 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0573626510 ISBN-13: 9780573626517 Cast Size: 4 female, 4 male
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About the Play:
Moon Over Buffalo (sometimes titled Over the Moon)
is a full-length comedy by Ken Ludwig. A husband-and-wife
team of actors, struggle to perform Cyrano de Bergerac and Private
Lives in repertory while dealing with family crises and the
possibility of a Hollywood director's visit. Especially recommended for
school and contest use.
Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay,
fading stars of the 1950's. At the moment, they're playing Private
Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo, New York with 5
actors. On the brink of a disastrous split-up caused by George's
affair with a young ingénue, they receive word that they might just
have one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see
their matinee, and if likes what he sees, he might cast them in his
movie remake of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Can George and Charlotte pull
it all together to impress Mr. Capra? Unfortunately, everything that
could go wrong does go wrong, abetted by a visit from their
daughter's clueless fiancé and hilarious uncertainty about which
play they're actually performing, caused by Charlotte's deaf old
stage-manager mother who hates every bone in George's body.
Moon Over Buffalo premiered at the Martin Beck Theatre in
1995 and marked the return, after a 30-year absence, of Carol Burnett
to the Broadway stage (for which she received a Tony Award
nomination). The play was subsequently presented at The Old Vic in
London in 2001 under the title Over the Moon. It's
been a popular and a favourite play
for regional, high school, and community theatre productions
ever since.
Cast: 4 female, 4 male
What people say:
"Somewhere up above, George S.
Kaufman, Abe Burrows, Moss Hart and all those clever fellows who
wrote the comedies of yesteryear are rolling with laughter, echoing
the audience last night at Moon Over Buffalo.
The play is nothing less than a love letter to live theater."
— Boston Herald
"Ken Ludwig is
one of those rare contemporary playwrights who thinks in terms of
old-fashioned knockabout farce, and that's something to be
cherished." — The New York Times
"The funniest show in New York
… The comedy has audiences rolling in the aisles. The second act
has a show-within-a-show spoof of Private Lives with everybody in the
wrong costumes reading the wrong lines. This has to be one of the
most hysterical things ever put onstage. I have seen Moon
Over Buffalo three times! I expect you to see it once."
— New York Post
"...Moon Over
Buffalo is what a staged comedy should be. It is a wild
and wacky farce. It's Waiting for Guffman meets Noises Off meets your
favorite Shakespeare comedy as performed by the Marx Brothers. Be
prepared to leave the theater exhausted from laughter." —
The News Tribune
(Tacoma)
About the Playwright:
Ken Ludwig is an internationally acclaimed American
playwright whose work is performed throughout the world in more than
thirty countries in over twenty languages. He has written twenty-five
plays and musicals, with six Broadway productions and seven in
London's West End. He has also won two Laurence Olivier Awards and
the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
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Ken Ludwig from the Alexandre Dumas novel
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