Cast Announced For East Lynne Theater Company's THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN

Where else have the actors performed and how did they get into this production? How does ELTC's artistic director choose a show? How and why do actors even do what they do? And who is George S. Kaufman?

Audience members will have the opportunity to ask these and other questions of the talented ten-member cast and the company's artistic director, Gayle Stahlhuth, on Friday, Oct. 2, immediately after seeing the Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company's "The Butter and Egg Man." Forty years before Mel Brook's film, "The Producers," there was this George S. Kaufman comedy about two men trying desperately to fund their Broadway-bound production.

The cast includes ELTC favorites Tiffany-Leigh Moskow and Morgan Nichols, who were in last year's "To the Ladies!," Mark Edward Lang, Alison J. Murphy, and SuzAnne Dawson who were in the recent "Alice on The Edge," and Tommy Raniszewski, who performed with Susan Tischler in "Helpful Hints."
New to the company are Justin Flagg, who performed in the recent Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce film, "Death Defying Acts," John Cameron Webber, who played Michael Husted in CBS's "As the World Turns," and Daisy Ouzts, a recent graduate from the Atlantic Acting School in NYC.
This marks Gayle Stahlhuth's 27th production as a director since she became ELTC's artistic director in 1999, and she also has a role in the show.

George S. Kaufman (1889-1961) became America's most successful playwright in the 1920's and 30's. He collaborated with Marc Connolly, Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Ring Lardner, Morrie Ryskind, Moss Hart, and Howard Teichmann. Kaufman's two Pulitzer Prizes were for "Of Thee I Sing," with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin, the first musical to be so honored, and with Moss Hart for "You Can't Take It With You."

Last year, when ELTC producEd Kaufman and Marc Connelly's "To the Ladies!" Kaufman's daughter, Anne, charmed the audience after the show with tales of her father, family, and friends in the theater. She intends on having a Q&A with the audience again this year, and hopes to be at the October 2 performance. Currently she's busy preparing for the much anticipated Broadway opening of the revival of "The Royal Family" written by Kaufman and Edna Ferber, and is unable to totally commit to a Cape May-date at this time. Check www.eastlynnetheater.org for updates.
"The Butter and Egg Man" runs from September 23 through October 24, every Wednesday through Saturday at 8:00p.m., where the company is in residence at The First Presbyterian Church, 500 Hughes St., Cape May. Opening night, September 23, is the 84th Anniversary of the play's original Broadway opening.

"The Butter and Egg Man" was selected by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as part of the American Masterpieces Series in New Jersey. American Masterpieces is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts. ELTC, itself, was recently voted one of the top two Equity professional theaters in the state in the Discover Jersey Arts' "People's Choice Awards."
Tickets are $28 general admission; $23 for seniors and those with disabilities and their
support companions; and $13 for full-time students. Children ages 12 and under are always
free. There is an American Sign Language Interpretation on Friday, October 16. For information and reservations, call 609-884-5898 or visit www.eastlynnetheater.org. To make a reservation using a credit card, call 866-280-9211.

The production of "The Butter and Egg Man" would not be possible without season sponsors Curran Investment Management, Aleathea's Restaurant, La Mer Beachfront Inn, and funding received through a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The New Jersey Department of State, Division of Travel and Tourism, as well as the generosity of many patrons.

To post a comment, you must register and login.