Same Time, Next Year Kicks Off

Maltz Jupiter Theatre

Fifth Anniversary Season

The Most Produced Two Character Play In History To Be Directed by Local Favorite J. Barry Lewis

(Jupiter, FL) October 26, 2007 - The fifth anniversary season, admittedly the most aggressive season to date, selling over 6,200 season subscriptions, begins on November 6 with Bernard Slade's Same Time, Next Year.

The most produced two character play in history, Same Time, Next Year, directed by local favorite, J. Barry Lewis, is one of the most popular Tony-nominated® comedies of the century.  The play opened in 1975 and ran on Broadway for four years starring Ellen Burstyn (who won the Tony Award for her portrayal of Doris) and Charles Grodin.  This hit play, with 1453 performances under its belt, ran longer than musicals such as The Sound of Music, The Music Man, and Funny Girl to name a few.  It later became a motion picture starring Burstyn and Alan Alda.  This crowd-pleasing play, written by Bernard Slade, follows the love-affair of a couple who rendezvous once a year at a California inn.  Their fling lasts for over twenty years spanning 1951 to the mid-1970s through changing America, including the Vietnam War and the ups and downs of the couple's evolving lives. 

"We chose Same Time, Next Year because this play was once a contemporary comedy but has become a classic period piece revealing strong humor and humanity," said Andrew Kato, Maltz Jupiter Theatre Artistic Director.

"I am thrilled to be bringing this classic back to the stage with a fresh look; it is like engaging an old friend in an evening of great entertainment," said J. Barry Lewis.

Same Time, Next Year will enchant theater-goers for two weeks only November 6 through 18. Showtimes are Tuesday through Friday at 7:30 pm; Saturday at 8 pm; Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm. Tickets are $28 to $48 and are available at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre Box Office, online at www.jupitertheatre.org or by phone 561-575-2223 or 800-445-1666. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre opened in February 2004 as a 550-seat, nonprofit community-based regional theater in the former Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre. The theater is a member of the prestigious League of Resident Theatres. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre is located at 1001 E. Indiantown Road and State Road A1A in Jupiter.

Cast Bios:

Paul DeBoy (George):

Broadway:  Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies, Manhattan Theatre Club, Daniel Sullivan director.  Off-Broadway:  eurydice by Sarah Ruhl , Second Stage, Les Waters director; Patriot Acts, Soho Playhouse;  He & She, The Actor's Company Theatre. Regional: Bill in The Swan, American Stage (St. Petersburg); Charles in The Clean House, Cincinnati Repertory Theatre; Hector Hushabye in Heartbreak House, and Ariel in The Pillowman, both for The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Henry in The Real Thing, Pioneer Theatre; Simon in ...Lady From Rwanda, Kansas City Rep.; Paul in Moon Over Buffalo, The Walnut Street Theatre; Charles in Blithe Spirit, The Olney Theatre; Tom/Phyllis/Leslie in Sylvia, Cleveland Playhouse; Gerlach in The Einstein Project, Theatre of The First Amendment; as well as over thirty productions for the Totem Pole Playhouse. Film & Television: A Dirty Shame, John Waters director; Law & Order (three episodes) Law & Order; Trial by Jury. Paul is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and studied at RADA and with Wynn Handman.

Henny Russell (Doris):

Broadway: Major Barbara (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: Fuddy Meers (Minetta Lane); Boy Gets Girl, Moonlight and Magnolias, Labor Day (Manhattan Theatre Club); Marion Bridge (Urban Stages).  Regional: Season's Greetings (Denver Center); The Constant Wife, Sylvia, The Comedy of Errors, Dracula, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV (Old Globe Theatre); Frozen (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Dinner With Friends (Pittsburgh Public Theatre); Proof (Virginia Stage Co.); the World Première of Smell of the Kill (Cleveland Play House); Abigail's Party (Two River Theatre Co.); Something in the Air (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); the World Premiere of One (Cincinnati Playhouse); Spinning Into Butter (Hartford Theater Works); the American Premiere of Things We Do For Love (Studio Arena); the World Premiere of The Lake's End (Adirondack Theatre Festival); It Pays To Advertise (Yale Repertory Theatre); State of the Union (Indiana Repertory Theatre), Mask of Moriarty (Paper Mill Playhouse).  Television: Law & Order, Hope and Faith, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, Silk Stalkings, and numerous commercials.  Film: Revolutionary Road (in theatres in December), Tie A Yellow Ribbon (currently in the film festival circuit), Loopy (Independent Film Channel), Corn (released on DVD).

Production Bios:

J. Barry Lewis (Director):

During the past two seasons, J. Barry staged the critically acclaimed production of the murder mystery DEATHTRAP and the Neil Simon comedy BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. J Barry has lived and worked in the south Florida area for the past fourteen years and has worked with the leading artists in the community including Florida Stage and the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. For the past three seasons he served as the Festival Artistic Coordinator of the City Theatre Short Play Festival located in Miami at the new Carnival Center for the Performing Arts. He has recently been appointed the Resident Guest Director of  Dramaworks Theatre in West Palm Beach where he will stage the comedy THE FOURTH WALL by A. R. Gurney this December as well as a production of BENEFACTORS next spring. He is a recipient of the Carbonell Award for Directing, most recently for the musical revue JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS at Dramaworks Theatre.  When not directing for the stage, he serves as a Cultural Officer for the U. S. State Department, Bureau of Education and Culture Affairs. Barry is a life-long member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.   

Andrew John Tucker (Production Stage Manager):

 A native New Yorker, Andrew grew up in an artistic household. After attending The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, Andrew quickly decided to move to the other side of the business. So he caught a break when Barry Kyle (Royal Shakespeare) decided to move to America to open a company called Swine Palace Productions. In his first season, Andrew had the honor of stage managing for Steven Soderburgh (Oceans 11, etc). Over the next ten years, he went on to PSM for multiple national tours, San Jose Rep, Shear Madness in San Francisco (longest running comedy), off Broadway with the long running "The Countess" among many others.  He eventually ended up as National Director for Stage Management for Blue Man Group overseeing all the stage managers in Las Vegas, Boston, Chicago and New York.

Steven Capone (Scenic Designer):

Most recently: Margaret Cho's Sensuoue Woman (Off Broadway), Once Upon A Mattress (Chautauqua Opera), John Goldfarb Please Come Home (NY Fringe Festival), Election Day (Second Stage - NYC), All The Great Books - Abridged (Hangar Theatre - Ithaca), Terezin (Village Theatre - Seattle). Off Broadway: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Abridged, Blood on the Dinning Room Floor, Duet! - A Romantic Fable, Graham Norton's Red Handed (national tour as well) to name a few. Selected Opera: The Crucible (Chautauqua Opera, Opera Boston, Mobile Opera co-production), Lucrezia Borgia (Opera Boston), Idomeneo (USC Thornton School of Music), Eugene Onegin (Opera Norfjiordeid - Norway), Transformations, Monsieure Choufleurri, Gianni Schicchi (all for The Juilliard School). Regionally, Steven's work has been seen on the stages of The Goodspeed's, Norma Terris Stage, Capital Rep, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, New Rep (Boston), Shakespeare Rep (Chicago) and many others as well. Next up, Steven will be designing Barefoot in the Park in Seattle, and Street Scene for the Manhattan School of Music and Chautauqua Opera.

Kirk Bookman (Lighting Designer):

New York productions: What Then, Ohio Theater, The Cook at Intar Theatre 53, Recent Tragic Events at Playwrights Horizons (starring Heather Graham), Shangai Moon at Drama Department. (starring Charles Bush). For the National Actors Theatre/Broadway: The Sunshine Boys (Jack Klugman and Tony Randall), The Gin Game (Julie Harris and Charles Durning), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Right You Are. For the Irish Rep: Bedbound, Playboy of the Western World, Eclipsed, and two productions directed by Tony Walton, The Importance of Being Earnest and Major Barbara. Other New York productions include Mondo Drama, Havana is Waiting, Force Continuum, My One Good Nerve (starring Ruby Dee), The Green Heart at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Shawl, Rude Entertainment, The Book of Liz (David and Amy Sedaris), Les MIZrahi (Isaac Mizrahi), Hope is the Thing with Feathers, As Thousands Cheer, and June Moon. Regionally, CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE: More than 65 productions including Sing Hallelujah! (2004), A Christmas Carol (1991-2006), Proof (2003) and The Mystery of Irma Vep (2001). Other notable theaters as Goodspeed Opera House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Geva Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and Santa Fe Stages. Ballet credits include English National Ballet, Santiago Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet and the Kansas City Ballet. Thomashefsky, Oedipus Rex, Nightingale, for the San Francisco Symphony.  Most recently: A Flowering Tree directed by Peter Sellars.

Keith Kohrs (Sound Designer):

Keith was born and raised in upstate New York, where his interest in music began. His father was a jazz guitarist and Keith followed those footsteps, becoming a very popular musician and touring all over the Northeast. Upon his graduation from high school he enrolled at the Rockland Institute of Sound Recording technology, earning a degree in Sound Engineering. Years later, after moving to Florida, he formed his own Sound and Lighting company which he still runs to this day, supplying sound equipment, sales, service and rentals for all types of events and venues. Last year he was hired by the Maltz Jupiter Theater as a sound engineer, but as fate would have it, he was also offered the job as the Sound Designer for last season's production of Death Trap. With the success of Death Trap last season, he has been asked to return to the Maltz as the Sound Designer for all of this seasons productions.

Gail Baldoni (Costume Designer):

Design credits include Wonderful Town, New York City Opera, My Fair Lady starring Kelsey Grammer at The New York Philharmonic, Off-Broadway shows include Jolson & Co, A Majority of One, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, The Subject was Roses, Rags, Milk and Honey, Home of the Brave, Cinderella, Tall Grass and The Yiddish Trojan Woman.  Gail is an emmy nominated designer for NBC's drama Another World, has worked for Ringling Bros. Circus and made Cher's mermaid costume for the film Mermaids.  She has also designed the film Boy In A Bathtub, many shows for Papermill Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera and the Boston Ballet as well as Westchester Broadway Theatre. At Maltz Jupiter Theatre last season's A Christmas Story.

Gerard James Kelly (Theatrical Wig & Hair Design):

Gerard has designed extensively for North Shore Music Theater, The Walnut Street Theater, and The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, N.Y.U. and many

off-Broadway productions including the world premieres of Fanny Hill at The York Theater, and The Internationlist at The Vineyard Theatre. Other regional credits include The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Westchester Broadway Theater, Goodspeed Opera, Paper Mill Playhouse, The Williamstown Theater Festival, San Diego Repertory Theater, San Francisco¹s Theater Works and The Magic Theatre, The Westport County Playhouse, Main State Music Theater, the New Jersey and Idaho Shakespeare Festivals, the Sacramento Theater Company, The Carousel Theater, New Freedom Theater, The Northern Stage Company, Downtown Cabaret Theater and The Geva Theater.

Gerard has also created wigs for performers such as  Harvey Fierstein, Felicity Huffman, Laura Linney, Marlo Thomas, The B-52¹s , Sandy Duncan, Jennifer Holiday, Ru Paul, Lypsinka, Varla Jean Merman, and Brini Maxwell. Gerard's  films include Transamerica, Girls Will Be Girls and soon to be released The Ten and The Savages.