Published: July 17, 2008 12:39 pm            

Playhouse comedy | Curtain is rising on 'Stonewall's Bust' in Jennerstown

BY TED POTTS

TPOTTS@TRIBDEM.COM

“Stonewall’s Bust,” a comedy about a man who breaks a priceless statue and then tries to cover up his misfortune, will premiere on Tuesday at Mountain Playhouse in Jennerstown. The comedy will continue through Aug. 3.

The play is written by John Morogiello and is the winner of the 2007 Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Contest.

In the play, Paul, a professional skeptic from New York, accidentally breaks a statue of Stonewall Jackson at a confederate heritage museum owned by his girlfriend’s mother.

Embarrassed and fearful, Paul claims the statue “just fell off” its pedestal, setting in motion a series of even larger lies and misunderstandings.

The situation leads to an exorcism on live television and a difficult choice for Paul between his personal safety and the woman he loves.

Producer Teresa Stoughton Marafino said that when a reading of the script was held at the playhouse after “Stonewall’s Bust” won the comedy playwriting contest, the audience loved the play.

Between playwright Morogiello, who is from Montgomery Village, Md., director Daniel Gidron and an excellent cast, Stoughton Marafino said the debut run at Mountain Playhouse should be wonderful.

Paul, described by Morogiello as a Ben Stiller-type northern liberal city boy, will be played by Robert Rokicki and Nancy, his southern debutante girlfriend, will be played by Seana Hollingsworth.

Kippy Goldfarb, who will play Nancy’s genteel southern mother Liddy who has come on hard times, is making her Mountain Playhouse debut.

Goldfarb played Francine Doyle in the movie “Gone Baby Gone” directed by actor Ben Affleck and played Miss Maudie Atkinson with Will Lyman in the Wheelock Family Theater’s production of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”



Premiere

What: “Stonewall’s Bust.”

When: Tuesday through Aug. 3.

Where: Mountain Playhouse, Jennerstown.

Curtain times: 8 p.m. Tuesdays, 2 and 8 p.m. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Thursdays, 2 and 8 p.m. Fridays, 8 p.m. Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets: Range from $8 to $31.

        

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