Newport Playhouse Announces 2019 Season Of Comedies!

In celebration of their 36th year producing award-winning entertainment for thousands of visitors a year, Newport Playhouse and Cabaret Restaurant, 102 Connell Highway, Newport, is thrilled to announce the seven shows that make up their 2019 Season of comedic plays.

Now playing through March 31 is the uproarious lusty comedy Lone Star Love Potion, a Texas-size farce about a mysterious love charm that will keep you guessing until the final curtain. Next up from April to May is Clothes Encounters, a ridiculous comedy spurred on by missing clothing, mistaken identities and double entendres galore.

Running through the month of July is Always A Bridesmaid, a hilarious comedy following four gal pals who pledge to be each other's bridesmaids in college and still find themselves at it many years (and many husbands) later. For the summer months, Funny Money hits the ground running when a briefcase full of money ends up in the wrong hands bringing wild adventure at every turn.

It's back to school in September with Bingo!, a no-holds barred comedy about a frazzled tenured professor juggling women behind every door. On stage for fall is Boeing Boeing, the lightning-fast bedroom comedy about a bachelor juggling three stewardess fiancees - until all three ladies land on his doorstep at the same time.

Just in time for the holidays, A Christmas Cactus brings to the stage a "dickens" of a holiday mystery when a detective is tapped to take a second chance on love.Tickets for all shows are on sale now and start at $52.95 per person, which includes dinner buffet, full-length play, and post-show cocktail cabaret. Purchase at www.newportplayhouse.com or by calling (401) 848-7529 (PLAY).
2019 Season of Plays
February 21-March 31, 2019
Lone Star Love Potion by Michael Parker
directed by Daniel Lee White
The owner of a vast fortune and a two hundred thousand-acre Texas ranch has died. His will refers to the butler, the maid, his niece and the neighbor, Tammy Jo, as well as a formula and a sample of what appears to be a love potion. Can it really work? It has the potential to be worth billions to whoever can obtain it! Before long everyone is testing it with hilarious results. Only in the last 30 seconds of the play is the surprising truth revealed.

April 4-May 25, 2019
Clothes Encounters by Roger Karshner
directed by W. Richard Johnson
Alan, a real estate broker, shows a property to Betty, a misdirected shower inadvertently soaks her, requiring her to disrobe. Alan's wife, Kathy, also a broker, arrives to show the property to Betty's husband, Ralph, who also falls victim to the goofy shower. Betty and Ralph must be kept out of each other's way by the artful, ridiculous machinations of Alan and Kathy. The plot thickens with a bumbling handyman, double-meanings, mistaken identities, and sexual innuendo resulting in riotous satisfaction of all.

May 30-July 1, 2019
Always A Bridesmaid by Jones, Hope, Wooten
directed by Olivia M. Sahlin
In this hilarious comedic romp, four friends have sworn to keep the promise they made on the night of their Senior Prom: to be in each other's weddings...no matter what. Thirty years later, these Southern friends-for-life are still determined to honor that vow. If you've ever elbowed a stranger out of the way to catch a bride's bouquet, seriously questioned the mental stability of the duo saying "I do" or been forced to wear the world's ugliest bridesmaid dress, this deliriously funny JONES HOPE WOOTEN COMEDY is definitely for you...and your dearly beloved!

July 10-August 30, 2019
Funny Money by Ray Cooney
directed by Michael Johnson
Henry, a mild-mannered CPA, accidently picks up the wrong briefcase full of money and decides to keep it. Knowing the former owner must have his briefcase, he rushes home to book a one-way fare to Barcelona and tell his confused wife to leave everything behind. The doorbell rings and the detective at the door thinks Henry was soliciting in the men's room of the local pub when actually, he was sitting in the loo counting the cash. The bell rings again and another detective arrives thinking Henry is dead; a man with Henry's briefcase was found in the Thames. Henry's inept attempts to extricate himself from this impossible situation lead to increasingly hysterical situations.

September 5-October 6, 2019
Bingo! by Allan Stratton
directed by Rick Bagley
David, Professor of English, is giving a tutorial to a pretty co-ed who aspires to the lofty heights of poetical inspiration and romance. David is fending her off when the department chairman's wife barges in with plans to make her husband jealous by telling him she is having a torrid affair with David. David, worried about his tenure review is even more shocked when the chairman arrives and finds his wife in one room and the love-smitten co-ed in another. Matters become hilariously complicated in this fast-moving comedy.

October 10-November 17, 2019
Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti
directed by Daniel Lee White
The play centers on bachelor Bernard, who has a flat in Paris and three attractive flight attendants all engaged to him without knowing about each other. But Bernard's life gets bumpy when his friend Robert comes to stay, and a new, speedier Boeing jet disrupts his careful planning. Soon all three flight attendants are in the city simultaneously and timid Robert forgets which lies to tell to which lady and soon catastrophe looms.

November 21-December 31, 2019
A Christmas Cactus by Eliot Byerrum
directed by Tony Annicone
Christmas Eve is tough for private investigator Cactus O'Riley, a white-hot redhead with the holiday blues. She is trying to lure her secretary Fred away from his protective mother, dodging the affections of Deputy D.A. Windsor, and considering closing her business. She doesn't need the added aggravation of two fugitives who burst into her office looking for justice and a dead detective named Jake Marley. Cactus also doesn't need Fred's mother, who arrives to take Fred home but decides to stay because she thinks this is the Christmas murder mystery party she has always dreamed of attending. Christmas turns into a "dickens" of a holiday for Cactus as she solves mysteries, delivers small miracles and takes a second chance on love and sleuthing.

All shows are performed at the Newport Playhouse & Cabaret Restaurant, 102 Connell Highway, Newport, RI 02840. Tickets for the show, homemade buffet, song-filled post-show cabaret are $52.95, show only admission is $25. Purchase online at www.newportplayhouse.com or by calling (401) 848-7529.