Off-Bway to Ring Once Again for Room Service in Nov.

Off-Broadway will once again ring for Room Service, the 1937 farce by John Murray and Allen Boretz that was recently a summer hit for the Peccadillo Theatre Company.

The new production of Room Service, which is perhaps best known today as the source of a 1938 film starring the Marx Brothers, will begin previews at the SoHo Playhouse on November 18th for a November 28th opening.

Produced by the Peccadillo Theatre Company with Jonathan Reinis Productions, Jeffrey Sine and The StoryLine Project, the show will feature the previous Off-Broadway cast of David Edwards (The Producers national tour), Fred Berman, Dale Carman, Sterling Coyne, Scott Evans, Blythe Gruda, Robert O'Gorman and Kim Rachelle.  Dan Wackerman directs.

According to Peccadillo notes, the comedy is a "classic door-slamming farce centered around a theatrical producer of questionable morals, holed up in a Times Square hotel with nineteen starving actors who attempts to rehearse and find a backer for his new show. Hoping to forestall eviction, he convinces the show's gullible young playwright to fake his own death. Meanwhile, an emissary from one of the country's wealthiest businessmen turns up, offering to invest in the show; that is, until he discovers the hotel doctor bound and gagged in the bathroom. The situation goes from bad to worse as the bill-collecting manager of the hotel threatens to have the entire show confiscated by the sheriff on opening night!"

The production will feature sets by Chris Jones, costumes by Gail Cooper-Hecht and lighting by Jeffrey Salzberg.

Visit www.sohoplayhouse.com for tickets.  Visti www.thepeccadillo.com for more on the Peccadillo Theatre Company.