Laurel Mill Playhouse Presents LAUGHING STOCK, Opens 2/28

Laurel Mill Playhouse, located at 508 Main Street in historic Laurel, MD., presents Laughing Stock by Charles Morey. Directed by Michael Hartsfield and produced Maureen Rogers, this hilarious comedy opens February 5! Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Publishing Company,performances run weekends through February 28 with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m. There will be two Sunday matinees on February 21 and February 28 at 2pm.

Tickets are $13 for general admission, $10 for students (18 and under) and seniors (65 and over). For reservations, please call 301-617-9906 and press 2. For further information visit the web site at www.laurelmillplayhouse.org

The ensemble cast includes;

Gordon Page: Larry Simmons
Jack Morris: Skylar Sanders
Susannah Huntsmen: Karen Ross
Mary Pierre: Jessica Wieder
Tyler Taylor: Ed Higgins
Vernon Volker: Eric Henry
Richfield Hawksley: Dan Staicer
Daisy Coates: Mary Dodd
Craig Conlin: Rob Allen
Sarah McKay: Maureen Rogers
Henry Mills: Lenne Sirasky
Karma Schneider: Lauren DeZinno
Braun Oakes: Erik Mueller
Ian Milliken: Jeremiah Fisher

"...a summer stock production of Dracula disintegrates into chaos on opening night. Gothic horror becomes high comedy amid misplaced technical cues, forgotten lines, wrong entrances and eccentric acting...the large audience howled with glee as they watched the mayhem unfold..." -Salt Lake Tribune. "LAUGHING STOCK soars as farce..." -Salt Lake City Weekly. "The delightful thing...is that Morey strikes a balance between a depiction of everything that can and usually does go wrong...and a genuinely affectionate look at the magic that holds theatre companies together...these are all type characters but Morey adeptly deepens and individualizes each one...The Dracula section and a rehearsal of Charley's Aunt where the actors improvise being animals at dusk around an African water hole are comic high point..." -Event (Salt Lake City). "LAUGHING STOCK will indeed have you laughing in your seat if not rolling in the aisles...It's hard to imagine anyone whose funny bone wouldn't be tickled by this one...it's a hoot...it's a blast..." -Monadnock Ledger (NH). "Scene after scene, beat after beat, LAUGHING STOCK piles on the laughs...every single piece crackles with successful wit and abundant humor...virtuoso farce..." -Keene Sentinel (NH). "I cried, I choked, I fell into a coughing fit, I cried some more...can't help but love this play." -Nashua Telegraph (NH).

LAUGHING STOCK is a hilarious backstage farce and genuinely affectionate look into the world of the theatre. When The Playhouse, a rustic New England summer theatre, schedules a repertory season of Dracula, Hamlet and Charley's Aunt, comic mayhem ensues. We follow the well-intentioned but over-matched company from outrageous auditions to ego-driven rehearsals through opening nights gone disastrously awry to the elation of a great play well told and the comic and nostalgic season close.

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