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e-Release sm Running Time:2 hours 5 minutes
For Immediate Release: "Room Service"
The critically acclaimed comedy Room Service will serve up a
double- month portion of new tickets thru March 25th for their extended
engagement at Off-Broadway's SoHo Playhouse
(15 Vandam
Street ~ between 6th Avenue and Varick). Presented by the Soho Playhouse & the award-winning Peccadillo Theater Company along with
Jonathan Reinis Productions, Jeffrey Sine
and
The StoryLine Project, Room
Service features al cast of twelve in what
many consider the funniest American play of the 1930’s. Dan Wackerman
directs. A
classic screw-ball comedy, Room Service centers around the efforts
of an unscrupulous producer to find a backer for his new show. Holed up in
a Times Square hotel with nineteen hungry actors and a ballooning room
service bill, he tries to forestall eviction by convincing the show’s
gullible young playwright to fake his own death. Meanwhile, an emissary
from one of the country’s wealthiest businessmen turns up with money to
invest in the show; that is, until he discovers the hotel doctor bound and
gagged in the bathroom. The situation goes from bad to worse as the
much-abused hotel manager threatens to have the entire show confiscated by
the sheriff on opening night! First produced on the Broadway stage in 1937 and directed by George
Abbott, the original cast of Room
Service included Sam Levene, Eddie Albert and Betty Field. In
1938, it was made into a movie starring the Marx Brothers and in 1944,
into a musical film entitled Step
Lively starring Frank Sinatra.
Room Service was last seen in
New York twenty
years ago when the Roundabout Theater Company produced a revival starring
Mark Hamill. **Beginning February 7th, the production will be adding a Wednesday Matinee at 3pm and dropping Sunday evening performances. ** # # #
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