TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Book by Mitch Albom, 11/5

Basketball Coach Jim Valvano once said that there are three things you should do every day: You should learn something, you should laugh and you should be moved to tears. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE fulfills all three of these requirements. Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of The New York Times best-selling book by Mitch Albom when TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE - THE PLAY comes to the stage at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Sunday, November 5 at 7pm as part of the Ridgefield Magazine Broadway and Cabaret Series and is partially underwritten by Books on the Common and Ridgefield Visiting Nurse Association with support from the Ridgefield Library. In this new production of the book, fans can relive the touching and at-times funny story chronicling the relationship between an old professor dying of ALS and his former student who visits him every Tuesday for the "last class" of Morrie's life. Gabriele Angieri (Morrie) is a Minneapolis based stage and screen actor and Brandon Ewald (Mitch) is a stage actor and choreographer.

Mitch Albom is a best-selling author, a nationally acclaimed newspaper columnist (with the "Detroit Free Press"), a radio host (with WJR-AM), and a television commentator (with ESPN and ABC). His well-known book "Tuesdays With Morrie" is now the best-selling memoir of all time, with nearly ten million copies sold worldwide. Albom, along with playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, adapted the book into a hit play, which opened Off-Broadway in late 2002 and has been performed in regional theaters throughout North America. Albom's first novel, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," was published in 2003 and was on the "New York Times" best-sellers list for two years. With a screenplay by Albom, "Five People" was adapted into an ABC movie that aired in December 2004 and starred Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, and Jeff Daniels. Albom has founded three charities in Detroit: "The Dream Fund," "A Time To Help," and "S.A.Y. Detroit," which helps Detroit's homeless. He serves on numerous charitable boards around the country and makes his home in suburban Detroit.

Brandon Ewald (Mitch) recently performed in the world premiere of Park Square Theatre's Might As Well Be Dead; In the Twin Cities he has performed with Jungle Theatre (Hamlet), Mu Performing Arts (Yellow Fever), Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company (Photograph 51), Acadia Repertory (School For Wives, The 39 Steps), Theatre in the Round (The Three Musketeers), Shadowplay Theatre (I Hate Hamet) and Pioneer Place on Fifth (Romeo and Juliet, The Seagull). Brandon has trained at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, Brave New Institute and Remedios Creative. He holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Augsburg College and is an accomplished fight choreographer.

Gabriele Angieri (Morrie) is a Minneapolis based stage and screen actor who has appeared in numerous starring roles on twin cities stages including Thomas More (A Man for All Seasons), Vinnie (Sam Shepard's Simpatico), Marvin (Midwest Premiere of The Last Seder), Nunzio (Over the River and Through the Woods), Max (Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming") and on the stages of Park Square Theatre, Guthrie Lab, Playwright's Center, Illusion Theatre, Gremlin Theatre, among others. Gabriele can currently be seen starring as the FBI Profiler Saul Aitken in the independent feature, "Profile of a Killer", on Amazon Prime. Gabriele is a native of New York City.

For tickets ($55), call the box office at 203-438-5795, or visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a non-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.

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