Winner of the 2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival

This much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous socialite-novelist, Charles Condomine; his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira; one Madame Arcati, the ‘happy medium’ enlisted by Condomine to ‘call up’ new material for his book; and his current wife, Ruth, who accidentally ‘passes over’ as a result. As these (worldly and un-) personalities clash, Charles’ gets more material than he bargained for.

“Can still keep an audience in a state of tickled contentment” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times, 2009. “A world-class comedy” – TheatreMania.com, 2009.

Four months after it’s first production set a performance record in London’s West End in 1941, this smash comedy hit was produced in New York, at Broadway’s Morosco Theatre. Its many manifestations since include movies, television, radio, and the musical, High Spirits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE PLAYERS

Edith	Amy Scanlon
Madame Arcati	Noelle McGrath*
Mrs. Bradman	Patricia Lavin
Dr. Bradman	Elliott Mayer*
Ruth	Bonnie Wickeraad*
Elvira	Amber Nicole Guest*
Charles	Matt W. Cody*

*members of Actors’ Equity Assoc.

THE STAFF

Producer	Frankie Dailey
Director	Sue Glausen
Production Stage Manager	Kathleen Parker
Set Designer	Olia Rogova
Asst Set Designer	Soh-Young Lee
Lighting Designer	Andrew Lu
Costume Designer	Joey Haws
Sound Designer	Jacob Subotnick
Props Designer	Sara Slagle