Great Plains Theatre's Mainstage Season Continues with Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers

Great Plains Theatre's Mainstage Season Continues with Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers

 

Neil Simon's Pulitzer prize winning play Lost in Yonkers opens July 8th at Great Plains Theatre. 

Great Plains Theatre continues is 22nd Season with Lost in Yonkers, by America's great comic playwright, Neil Simon.  The play will run July 8 through July 17.  As the play opens, ne'r do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons, Jay and Arty, on the grandmother's  doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, and their Bella, their mentally challenged aunt, with her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers, NY in 1942.  The hit Broadway production featured Irene Worth, Mercedes Ruehl and Kevin Spacey in award-winning performances. The NY Post wrote, said about Lost in Yonkers, "THE BEST PLAY SIMON EVER WROTE." 

The cast of professional actors includes Kathleen Warfel as Grandma Kurnitz, Matthew Aaron as Eddie Kurnitz, Sarah Hoch as Bella, Cody Davis as Louie and Jamie Finkenthal as Gert.  The two young boys Jay and Arty Kurnitz are played by Nichols Wright and Jackson Welch respectively.  The production is directed by Great Plains Theatre's Artisitc Director, Randal K. West. 

Following the opening night production on July 8th, will be a catered Afterglow, to give the audience patrons a chance to meet and greet the actors.  The Afterglow hor d'oeuvres are sponsored by West's County Mart.  

Great Plains Theatre's entire 2016 Season is graciously underwritten by Astra Bank, with corporate sponsorship provided by Brierton Engineering, Inc., First Bank Kansas, Advantage Trust Company.

For Tickets and more information, please contact Great Plains Theatre at 785.263.4574 or visit us at www.greatplainstheatre.com