Regional NewsCape Playhouse Summer Season Launches June 12 With The Importance of Being Earnest, Starring Edward HibbertThe season also features Andrew Keenan-Bolger in Little Shop of Horrors and Alison Fraser in Deathtrap.
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Andrew Gans
June 12, 2019
Edward Hibbert
The Cape Playhouse at the Cape Cod Center for The Arts kicks off its 2019 summer season June 12 with Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Directed by Matt Lenz, performances continue through June 22 at the Massachusetts venue.
Edward Hibbert (The Drowsy Chaperone, Frasier) stars as Lady Bracknell with Sandra Shipley as Miss Prism, Younger's Dan Amboyer as Jack, Jason Gotay as Algernon, Mahira Kakka (Orange is the New Black) as Gwendolen, Olivia Hebert as Cecily, and John Thomas Waite as the Rev. Charles Chasuble. Rounding out the cast are Jesse Sharp as Lane and Victor Warren as Merriman.
Andrew Keenan-Bolger
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The limited engagement also features scenic design by Rob Odorisio, costume design by Sky Switser, lighting design by Jaron Hermansen, sound design by Joe Palermo, and wig design by Tommy Kurzman. The production stage manager is James Hansen, and casting is by Geoff Josselson Casting.
The season will continue June 26–July 6 with Little Shop of Horrors, starring Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Newsies, Tuck Everlasting); the Tony-winning Once, July 10–20; the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Chorus Line, July 24–August 3; Michael Frayn's Noises Off, starring Saturday Night Live’s Heidi Gardner, August 7–17; and Ira Levin's Deathtrap, starring two-time Tony nominee Alison Fraser, August 21-31.
Playbill.com takes a look back at a few of Oscar Wilde's works to play the New York stage in recent decades. Roundabout Theatre Company is currently offering The Importance of Being Earnest, the first Broadway revival of his famed comedy in over 30 years.
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Patricia Conolly, Elizabeth Wilson, John Glover and James Valentine in the 1977 Broadway revival of The Importance of Being Earnest.
Kathleen Widdoes and John Glover in the 1977 Broadway revival of The Importance of Being Earnest.
Kathleen Widdoes, John Glover, Patricia Conolly, James Valentine, Elizabeth Wilson, G. Wood and Mary Louise Wilson in the 1977 Broadway revival of The Importance of Being Earnest.
Sheryl Lee and Esai Morales in the 1992 Broadway production of Salome.
Al Pacino and Suzanne Bertish in the 1992 Broadway production of Salome.
Filmed in 2023, the one-night-only event featured Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Peter Friedman, and more from the Ahrens and Flaherty musical's original cast.
