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Moon Over Buffalo (Ludwig)

Moon Over Buffalo (Ludwig)
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
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

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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