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Monday, January 25
7pm @THE PLAYERS
Arms and the Man
Written by George Bernard Shaw in 1894
A Romantic Comedy in Three Acts
This farcical comedy from 1894 takes place during a battle between two European nations. An enemy soldier is found hiding in the bedroom of a young woman, the daughter of the Major of his enemy. He escapes, returns after the war is over, and she finds herself torn between deciding between her heroic soldier fiance and the chocolate-eating man she hid in her boudoir. Musical buffs will remember this as the play that inspired the operetta, THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER.

Cast:
Raina Petkoff — Maria Dizzia
Catherine Petkoff — Jayne Houdyshell
Louka — Kelli Barrett
Captain Bluntschli — Michael Cerveris
Major Plechanoff — David Belcher
Nicola — Rufus Collins
Major Paul Petkoff — George S. Irving
Major Sergius Saranoff — Marc Kudish
Narrator — David Belcher
The action occurs at Major Petkoff’s house in a small Bulgarian town near the Dragoman Pass.
Act I: Raina’s Chamber
Act II: The Garden
Act III: The Library
There will be one ten minute interval
Tickets go on sale January 1st
@THE PLAYERS
16 Gramercy Park South
(20th Street east of Park Av)
Produced and directed by David Staller.
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please make out checks to:
Gingold Theatrical Group
520 8th Avenue #312, New York, NY 10018.