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Proof Runs at NC's Kennedy Theatre from June 29-July 10

By: Jun. 27, 2005
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David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof is the next entry of the Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy's series of summer productions in North Carolina. The show will run at the Kennedy Theatre in downtown Raleigh's BTI Center for the Performing Arts from June 29th to July 10th.

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A show for mature audiences, Proof is "a beautiful drama about the intellect of the human mind, but also the heavy responsibilities on family when love, guilt, mental illness and death come into play and the test of still being able to find one's own true self through it all," according to production notes. 

"Proof centers on Catherine (GiGi Delizza) the daughter of a once-brilliant mathematician who drops out of college to care for her aging father Robert (Chris Chappell). She is at once attracted and repelled by his genius and worries whether she has inherited her father's instability. Her sister Claire (Tracey Phillips), who lives in New York, returns to Chicago for their father's funeral.  Upon their return, the audience is introduced to Hal (Jonathan Putterman) a former student of their father, who salvages something meaningful from the stacks of notes their father kept.  Falling in love with Hal, Catherine learns how much she and her father may have in common.  When Catherine says it was she, not her father, who created the proof, trust between the two young lovers as well as between the sisters, is put to the test."

Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy runs though August 28, 2005 with each production in the six-show series completing a 10-day run.  Other shows in the season include Starting Here, Starting Now and a special season ender featuring Lauren Kennedy and her husband Alan Campbell In Concert. Other stars in the summer season include Raleigh favorite, Michael Hunsaker alongside Melissa Kite, who will both star in the season's fourth show, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy is a professional theatre company whose mission is to serve the citizens of Raleigh, Wake County and Eastern Carolina by "keeping the lights on" and producing professional theatrical performances in the Kennedy Theater at the BTI Center for the Performing during the months of June, July and August. Hot Summer Nights goal is to produce great shows that are varied in type, attitude and scope and employ actor, stage crew and staff of all ages, races and creed from North Carolina and Broadway. Hot Summer Nights will use its resources to nourish, celebrate and employ many theatrical groups, colleges, charities and citizens and support and assist the City of Raleigh with entertainment needs.

Individual tickets for Proof are $35 but with the purchase of two seats, the second ticket is only $15 (when purchased together and excluding opening night). Group and Student discounts are also available. To order call 919-834-4000, go to www.ticketmaster.com, the BTI Center Box Office. For additional info: visit the Hot Summer Nights website at www.hotsummernightsatthekennedy.org.



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