Moonlight and Magnolias
September 27, 2008 - October 19, 2008
Overview
Movie producer David O. Selznick has just shut down filming on the most anticipated movie of its time, Gone with the Wind. The screenplay just isn’t right. So what is a movie mogul to do? He takes Victor Fleming off his directing duties for The Wizard of Oz, coerces talented screenwriter Ben Hecht to help, and traps them in his office for a week as they rewrite the screenplay…and history…on a diet of peanuts and bananas. Only one problem: neither Fleming nor Hecht has ever read the book. What follows is a funny, fact-based take on the making of a classic.
"uproariously funny"
"delivered with ... comic ingenuity by a wonderful cast... act with breathlessly entertaining goofiness"
-Telegram & Gazette
"Hysterically funny.. if you enjoy laughing out loud, call for today for tickets"
- The Item
Meet the Actors Night is Thursday October 9th after the 8:00pm show!
Photos
Anthony Jarrod Goes
Barry Press and Anthony Jarrod Goes
Barry Press, Anthony Jarrod Goes, and Peter S. Adams
Dee Nelson, Peter S. Adams, and Anthony Jarrod Goes
Peter S. Adams and Anthony Jarrod Goes
Peter S. Adams and Anthony Jarrod Goes
Cast
PETER S. ADAMS* (Victor Fleming) is thrilled to be returning to Foothills Theatre. We last saw him at Foothills as Jitter in Musical of Musicals. Other roles here at Foothills include Harold in The Full Monty, and Eddie/Dr. Scott in Rocky Horror. Peter has toured the country playing Father on the National Tour of Ragtime (dir. Stafford Arima). He has received Boston IRNE nominations for his portrayal of The Engineer in Miss Saigon and Peron in Evita. Peter just finished recording the song "Annunciation" for new musical being written called Glory. You can listen to it on www.myspace.com/gloryanewmusical.
Anthony Jarrod GOES* (David O. Selznick) holds a BFA in Performance Concentration from Salem State College. Since graduating in 2006, Anthony has worked throughout the New England area as well as New Hampshire and Connecticut. Past roles include: Hamm in Endgame, James Leeds in Children of a Lesser God, James/Simon in Simon Says, Dale Harding in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Peter in The Zoo Story, Dracula in Dracula, Dasher in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Lysander in Midsummer's Night Dream and a list of other shows. Anthony will also be appearing in Foothills production of Take me Out as Toddy
Dee Nelson* (Miss Poppenguhl) past roles at Foothills: Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Miss Cavendish in It's a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Hester in The Scarlet Letter, Viola in Twelfth Night, and Elvira in Blithe Spirit. She just finished her third season with the venerable Peterborough Players in NH, appearing as Amanda in Private Lives, Laura Cheveley in An Ideal Husband, and Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town (with James Whitmore playing the Stage Manager). Other New England venues include the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Huntington Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lyric Stage, New Repertory Theatre, and the NorthEast Shakespeare Ensemble (where she recently appeared as Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing). Dee has played small roles in films including Moonlight Mile, Blown Away, and State and Main, and appeared in TV guest roles on Grey's Anatomy, Judging Amy, Joan of Arcadia, Summerland, and The Sopranos.
BARRY M. PRESS* (Ben Hecht) is delighted to return to the Foothills Theatre, where he last appeared as the angel, Clarence in It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Mr. Press is an active professional actor/director/teacher of over thirty years. He has performed Off-Broadway, and at the Merrimack, Seattle, Yale and Trinity Repertory Theatres, among others. Some of his favorite roles include: Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, Morrie Schwartz in Tuesdays With Morrie (at Foothills), Buffalo Bill in Indians, Azdak in Caucasian Chalk Circle, and Falstaff in Henry IV, Parts I & II. He is founder and Artistic Director of Living Literature, a literacy program using readers theatre techniques on non-dramatic writing, now in it’s twelfth year (www.livingliterature.org).