Say Goodnight Gracie

Television and Radio Legends Love Story To Unfold at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre “Say Goodnight Gracie” to run for three performances

(Jupiter, FL) February 20, 2007 - The hit Broadway play, Say Goodnight Gracie comes to The Maltz Jupiter Theatre to tell the life-affirming poignant love story of the world's most famous radio couple, George Burns and Gracie Allen. Showtime’s are Tuesday, March 6th at 8 pm and Wednesday, March 7th at 2 pm and 8 pm. Say Goodnight Gracie is a tender, funny, love story. A personal guided tour through an American century in the company of George Burns, a man who laughingly lived and loved each day for all it had to offer, until he finally went “gently into that good night” to forever reunite with his beloved Gracie. Say Goodnight Gracie is a multimedia presentation that also features evocative music and moving images from George’s long life and good times. George Burns, who spanned one hundred years of American entertainment history, is now miraculously alive and kicking. The New York Times includes in its review, "You'll be in heaven yourself, at least for an hour and a half." Broadway’s third longest running solo performance show, Say Goodnight Gracie was nominated for a 2003 Tony Award for Best Play and won the 2003-04 National Broadway Theatre Award for Best Play. The play has been created with the approval and cooperation of the Estate of George Burns and Gracie Allen. Its author is multiple Tony Award-winning playwright Rupert Holmes, whose Broadway credits include the Tony Award-winning musical The Mystery Of Edwin Drood and Emmy Award-winning comedy series Remember WENN. Don McCart, who has worked for years at the Palm Dinner Theatre in Boca Raton stars in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre production. Showtimes for Say Goodnight Gracie are Tuesday March 6th at 8 pm and Wed, March 7th at 2 pm and 8 pm. Tickets for the matinee are $27. Evening performances are $42 orchestra and $34 mezzanine. Tickets can be purchased 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 is located at 1001 Indiantown Road and A1A in Jupiter and is a member of the prestigious League of Resident Theatres.

Don McArt – Bio Don grew up in Anderson, Indiana, a factory town North of Indianapolis. Working his way through college with a dance band, he graduated from Indiana University and started as a disc jockey/newscaster at NBC affiliate WEOA in Evansville, IN, before venturing to New York where he attracted the attention of legendary stage director George Abbott. He began his long time acting career which eventually led to performing in either the Broadway or national companies of Pajama Tops, Barefoot In The Park, The Odd Couple and There’s A Girl In My Soup with Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, Virginia Mayo, John Agar, Jean Parul Belmondo, Jean Pierre Aumon, Margaret Obrien and Patty McCormick, among others. Migrating to Hollywood, and soon under contract to The Disney Studios, he did The Absent Minded Professor and The son of Flubber- both with Fred MacMurray, followed by various other films, including, most recently, Two Much with Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith. In television, he appeared in a wide variety of shows with such stars as Shirley Temple, Groucho Marx, Ray Bolger, Gale Storm, Robert Taylor, Chill Wills, JoAnne Worley, Dwayne Hickman, Jackie Coogan and Peter Lorre. With Caroline Jones and Jon Astin, he was seen as one of the hairy “Cousin” characters on The Adams Family. Over the years, he also produced and directed at different Hollywood theatres, wrote for radio and was a television producer at NBC. Seen on various commercials for State Farm, Chevrolet, Hamm’s Beer, Allied Van Lines, and others, Don has performed for many years at the Palm Dinner Theatre in Boca Raton, FL, receiving various awards in recognition of his comedy appearances in a long series of popular, Broadway musicals. A published author and popular motivational speaker, he is also an enthusiastic “antique car nut” and enjoys nothing more than driving his 1931 Model A Ford roadster whenever time permits!