LANCASTER—The Lancaster Players will present “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” in March at The Playhouse, 361 Chesapeake Drive, White Stone.
Evening performances will begin at 8 p.m. March 6–7, 13–14 and 20–21. Matinees will begin at 3 p.m. March 8, 15 and 22. The Playhouse and cash bar will open an hour prior to curtain. Tickets are $30 and may be purchased at lancasterplayers.org, or 435-3776.
The cast brings together an engaging mix of seasoned performers and fresh faces, reported Karen Stanley. John Pitman, whose history with the Lancaster Players stretches back to the 1980s, returns to the stage alongside Bill Casey and Phoebe Hollingsworth, both of whom made their Players debuts last season.
Cheryl Hoovler and Caroline Sullivan step into their first Lancaster Players roles, while Michelle Ayala—new to The Playhouse stage but well known to Westmoreland Players audiences—joins the ensemble as Edna.
Rounding out the company are two newcomers. Mark Beran appears onstage for the first time as newscaster Roger Keating and Austin Burch adds his voice as the “second news voice.”
Rebecca Tebbs Nunn directs the Neil Simon classic comedy-drama, which follows Mel and Edna Edison as they navigate a cascade of misfortunes: job loss, a brazen apartment robbery, noisy neighbors, a citywide garbage strike and an unrelenting heat wave. When Mel finally reaches his breaking point, his nervous collapse becomes the unexpected turning point he never saw coming.
