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South Shore Theatre Experience presents Romance/ Romance

South Shore Theatre Experience presents Romance/ Romance.
Book and Lyrics by Barry Harman
Music by Keith Herrmann

Directed by Deborah Cascio Plezia
Musically Directed by Carl Ferrara

Starring Katie Schrader & Gerry Ferretti
with Heather Ball & Bryan Mayer

November 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19 at 8pm
November 13 at 3pm
All Tickets $15

Two Musicals in One.

The show is composed of two acts linked only by the common theme of love and one song performed in both acts. The first,The Little Comedy, is based on a short story by Arthur Schnitzler and explores the budding relationship between two people who have adopted personas other than their own. Set in late 19th century Vienna, it focuses on Josefine, a demimondeweary of the social life provided by her upper class lovers, and wealthy playboy Alfred, who has tired of a seemingly endless round of inconsequential affairs. She assumes the guise of a working class woman, while he pretends to be a strugglingpoet, and the two meet while enjoying their new identities. Whether or not they can survive a weekend in the country with their usually glamorous trappings replaced by inedible food, bad wine, swarming insects, and total boredom is the question to be answered.

Summer Share, the second act based on Jules Renard's 1898 play Le pain de ménage, is updated to the late 1980s and set in The Hamptons, where two married couples in their thirties are spending the season in a rented cottage. Sam, who is married to Barb, and Monica, who is married to Lenny, find themselves gradually progressing from harmless flirtation to the serious possibility of an illicit affair.

Nominated 1988 Tony for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Score.

Nominated 1988 Drama Desk - Best Original Lyrics

South Shore Theatre Experience
315 West Montauk Hwy. Lindenhurst, NY 11757
For more info or reservations
631-669-0506 or
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