Emmy Award Winner Kim Zimmer and Carl Wallnau to Lead BAKERSFIELD MIST at the Morris Museum

The Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum is pleased to announce the cast of their upcoming production of Bakersfield Mist. The play will be directed by Bickford Theatre Producing Artistic Director Eric Hafen. Bakersfield Mist will be performed from October 26 - November 5, 2017. The book is written by Stephen Sachs.

Leading the cast in the role of Maude Gutman is Kim Zimmer, four-time Daytime Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Leading Actress, of Verona, NJ. Carl Wallnau, Artistic Director of the Centenary Stage Company, of Hoboken, NJ plays Lionel Percy.

Maude, a fifty-something unemployed bartender living in a trailer park, has bought a painting for a few bucks from a thrift store. Despite almost trashing it, she's now convinced it's a lost masterpiece by Jackson Pollock worth millions. But when world-class art expert Lionel Percy flies over from New York and arrives at her trailer home in Bakersfield to authenticate the painting, he has no idea what he is about to discover. Inspired by true events, this hilarious and thought-provoking new comedy-drama asks vital questions about what makes art and people truly authentic. Adult language.

"Stephen's play is full of character for these actors. We watch two socially mismatched worlds crash into each other. And this collision would never have happened if not for a work of art. The dialogue is both delightfully funny and thought provoking." - Eric Hafen.

Performances:

Thursday, October 26 and November 2, 7:30PM; November 2, 2:00PM

Friday, October 27, and November 3, 8:00PM

Saturday, October 28 and November 4, 8:00PM

Sunday, October 29 and November 5, 2:00PM

There will be a post-performance chat with the cast and creative team on Thursday, November 2.

Tickets

$45 General Public; $40 Seniors; $38 Museum Members; $33 Groups (10 or more); $20 Students (with a valid student ID). There is a $3 service charge per ticket.

Tickets may be purchased online at http://morrismuseum.org/main-stage-performances/, by phone at (973) 971-3706, or in person at the Bickford Theatre Box Office. The Bickford Theatre is an integral part of the Morris Museum, located at 6 Normandy Heights Road in Morristown, NJ, and offers free parking and full accessibility. Box Office hours for phone sales are Monday through Friday, 10:00am to 5:00pm. Walk-up hours are Tuesday through Friday, 11:00am to 5:00pm.

Cast

Kim Zimmer of Verona, NJ - TV: Guiding Light (CBS), One Life to Live (ABC), Santa Barbara (NBC), The Doctors (CBS); Episodic TV: Designing Women, Seinfeld, MacGyver, Models Inc., Babylon 5; Off-Broadway: Love, Loss, and What I Wore; North American tour of Broadway's Wicked; Regional Theatre: Connecticut Repertory, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Barn Theatre - Michigan.

Carl Wallnau of Hoboken, NJ - Artistic Director of Centenary Stage Company, Hackettstown, NJ, Professor of Theatre Arts and Chairman of the Fine Arts Department of Centenary University. Broadway and National Tour: Titanic; Regional: PA Shakespeare Festival, Centenary Stage, Hartford Stage, Bristol Riverside, Orlando Shakespeare Company, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Arden Theatre, Asolo Theatre; Author: Mary Todd: A Woman Apart (Centenary Stage, NJ and Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC).

About The Bickford Theatre

The Bickford Theatre is a professional theater that produces and presents year-round entertainment, including a Main Stage Series, two Children's Theatre series, a Jazz Showcase, and other special performances and concerts. The theatre is an Equity Producing Theatre member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, a not-for-profit organization of 30 professional theaters throughout the state, and works in conjunction with Actors' Equity Association (AEA) and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC). From its beginnings in 1994 to the present, tens of thousands of theater-goers from across the tri-state area have enjoyed the Bickford Theatre's many entertaining and diversified offerings in theatre, music and dance.

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