by Neil Simon

Performed
May 15–26, 2012
at
The Boal Barn Playhouse

Production Staff

Director	Jason Poorman
Scenic Design	Jon Vickers-Jones
Costume Design	Ann Denner
Lighting Design	Jake Van Bramer
Sound Design	Matthew Eissler
Stage Manager	Dan Landers-Nolan
Producers	Rick Gilmore Bruce Fleischer
Assistant Producer	Marilyn Knoffsinger

About the Show

Some plays are dramatic. Some plays are important. Some plays are pure, unadulterated fun. Neil Simon’s Rumors quite blissfully falls into the last category. Rumors is -above all else- an entertainment, and it has been consistently delighting audiences since its Broadway debut in November of 1988.

Neil Simon has been one of our preeminent comic playwrights since he burst onto the Broadway scene in the 1960s with hits such as Come Blow Your Horn, Barefoot in the Park, and The Odd Couple. The 1980s found Simon exploring his own history with a trilogy of semi-autobiographical plays: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound. After these successes, Mr. Simon went through difficult times in his personal life, and it is from these struggles and his desire to work on something purely comic that Rumors sprang. Written in the grand tradition of classic door farces, Rumors reminds us of the great importance of laughter and cautions us to not take life quite so seriously all the time.

Because Rumors debuted in 1988, almost 24 years ago, we have set our production in that very year. I hope that you’ll enjoy taking a trip back to the glamorous 80s with us tonight, and I hope that you’ll have as much fun watching tonight’s performance as we’ve had working on it together.

JASON POORMAN, DIRECTOR

The Cast

Chris Gorman	Sunam Ellis
Ken Gorman	Ben Whitesell
Claire Ganz	Ellysa Stern Cahoy
Lenny Ganz	Nick Downs
Ernie Cusack	Lyn J. Frymiller
Cookie Cusack	Lisa Wiedemer
Glen Cooper	Edgar Martinez
Cassie Cooper	Lois Abdelmalek
Officer Welch	Rob Arnold
Officer Pudney	Jackie Elliot