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Announcing the New Vic's 2010 Season
New Vic Theatre Support
 
Opening February 12
 

A comedy by Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick


All is fair in love? Even murder? That's the question posed by this light and funny suspense comedy about a love triangle in a Howard Johnson Motor Inn.

Consider Arlene Miller. For some women, a home, furniture, clothing and five watches equals marital bliss. But not for Arlene. Her husband Paul, a used car dealer, will buy her everything but happiness. Searching for self-fulfillment, Arlene discovers the couple's flamboyant dentist, Mitchell Lovell. But Paul won't agree to a divorce, so just in time for Christmas, Arlene and Mitchell try to murder him at a Howard Johnson's hotel. This is only the beginning of the trouble Arlene causes.

You'll laugh every minute while watching Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick's screwball comedy as the tangled triangle careens on its roller coaster plot. The pressure of planning and attempting murders for love forces each character to spout pithy witty remarks and ironies about life and love that will amuse and entertain you.

"The New Vic's season opener, "Murder at the Howard Johnson's", is a hysterical romp." - Gordon Bolar, Kalamazoo Gazette

"A holiday of laughter. . . . Beautifully polished, very funny very American comedy." WNBC TV“

"Enough laugh lines, mirth provoking situations and extravagant sight gags to outfit two rapid fire farces of the absurd." Variety

Since our 1997 production, the play holds the distinction of being the largest selling, non-musical production at The New Vic.

Under James Furney’s flawless direction The New Vic’s production features Mary Ellen Harris as the happiness-seeking Arlene with Her real-life husband, Adam Harris as her “on-stage” husband and used car dealer, Paul, and Keith Fuller as the self-possessed dentist, Mitchell. Another tangled triangle.

The production will continue Fridays and Saturdays through March 13 so make your reservations soon. All seats are $23, all performances at 8:30.

Park Club Diner-Theatre performances will be Friday, February 19 and Friday, March 5. Make both theatre and dinner-theatre reservations with The New Vic. We’ll take care of everything else. 269-381-3328 or email newvicinc@aol.com

 

  
Coming to the Park Club in March
 

Arnie Johnston, New Vic Theatre Fundraiser
Arnie Johnston's
An Evening With Jacques Brel
Friday, March 19th at 8pm
The Park Club
219 West South Street

A fundraiser for the New Vic Theatre.

Over the past twenty years Arnie Johnston has established himself as perhaps the foremost translator of songs by Jacques Brel, the noted Belgian singer-songwriter whose work entranced millions of listeners and theatregoers until his untimely death in 1978. On his 1997 compact disk recording Jacques Brel: I'm Here! Arnie performs 19 of his 80 or so translations of Brel's songs. Four revues featuring Arnie's Brel translations have been staged in New York City, as well as others in Chicago (recognized by nine Jefferson Award nominations), Houston, Boca Raton, Cincinnati, and Kalamazoo. The most recent Chicago production, Jacques Brel's Lonesome Losers of the Night, played to rave reviews and packed houses in Fall 2008 and Summer 2009. A member of the Dramatists Guild and the American Literary Translators Association. A longtime performer with and supporter of the New Vic, Arnie now offers, with the excellent assistance of acclaimed musical performer and arranger Lori Hatfield, a concert to benefit this beloved Kalamazoo institution.

Admission: $50 per person
(includes light refreshments with bar available from 7:30 PM)
For reservations call 381-3328

If you have dinner at the Park Club before the concert from 5-7:30 PM, the Park Club will donate 10% of the cost of your meal to the New Vic. For dinner reservations, please call the Park Club at 381-0876.

  

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