A comedy about multiple seductions, where everybody’s getting some. Except Gary.
The world premiere of this production ran in The Midtown International Theatre Festival July 16 – August 5, 2007 and earned six nominations and two wins for the “Best of the Fest” Awards in the following categories:
- Outstanding Overall Production of a New Play
- Outstanding Playwriting for a New Script – Alex Goldberg (WINNER!)
- Outstanding Supporting Actor – Ron Palillo
- Outstanding Supporting Actress – Katie Kreisler (WINNER!)
- Outstanding Supporting Actress – Marion Wood
- Outstanding Choreography – Ryan Kazprzak
Written by Alex Goldberg
Directed by Tom Wojtunik
When Gary’s friend Paul confesses to an affair with Gary’s wife, and Paul’s wife confides in Gary her own dirty secrets, Gary must face his demons in this story of sexually obsessed New Yorkers. With the help of his therapist, Gary confronts everyone at a dinner party, but will sexual mania trump morality?
With: Shane Jacobsen*, Katie Kreisler*, Ean Sheehy*, Marion Wood*, Monica Yudovich* and Ron Palillo* (“Arnold Horshack” from Welcome Back, Kotter) as Dr. Feldberg
Set Design: Kina Park; Costume Design: Isabelle Fields; Lighting Design: Travis Walker; Assistant Director/Production Stage Manager: Stephen Barikian; Assistant Stage Manager: Melissa Jernigan
Casting by Charles Rosen & Scott Wojcik
The exact performance dates are as follows:
- Tuesday, July 17 – 8:30pm SOLD OUT
- Friday, July 20 – 6:00pm SOLD OUT
- Sunday, July 22 – 8:45pm SOLD OUT
- Wednesday, July 25 – 5:45pm SOLD OUT
- Saturday, July 28 – 3:00pm SOLD OUT
- NEW SHOW ADDED: Thursday, August 2nd – 4:00pm
- Friday, August 3 – 8:00pm SOLD OUT
Jewel Box Theatre
312 West 36th St., 4th Floor (between 8th and 9th Avenues)
Tickets are $18 and available at SmartTix.
* Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
Alex Goldberg (Playwright) is proud to have two plays premiering within a month of each other this summer: I’m In Love With Your Wife at the 2007 Midtown International Theatre Festival and Stock Home at the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival. His musical, Election Day, for which he wrote the book and co-lyrics, premiered at the American Theatre of Actors in 2005, earning him multiple ASCAPlus awards. He is a member of the award-winning sketch comedy group FEARSOME, winner of the 2004 Vital Funny Sketch Competition, a 2005 Emerging Comics of New York nominee (best sketch group), five-time Sketch Fights Champion at The People’s Improv Theater in 2006 and participant in comedy festivals nationwide. His short videos can be seen on broadband comedy sites College Humor, Comedy Net and Westside Eclectic. Screenplays include Wednesday Night Man, runner-up for best dramatic script in the 2006 Woods Hole Film Festival screenplay competition and finalist in the 2006 Anything But Hollywood competition, and Winners, a drama quarterfinalist of the PACE competition, and numerous short films. He directed the film Today Will Be Yesterday Tomorrow featuring Billy Dee Williams. His original sitcom pilots include Jack of All Trades and The Lost Chronicles of Rick Brickman. He co-produced HERMANAS in the 2006 FringeNYC, will co-produce the 2007 ECNY Awards which celebrate the comedic arts in New York City and is currently a contributing columnist to Backstage.com. He graduated from Skidmore College and is a member of The Dramatists Guild and ASCAP.
Tom Wojtunik (Director) directed and co-created The Miss Education of Jenna Bush, starring Melissa Rauch (FringeNYC, Best Solo Show & Audience Favorite). NEW YORK THEATRE: Take Me Out and Urinetown, The Musical (The Gallery Players); Edenville, starring Sebastian La Cause (Emerging Artists Theatre, NY IT Award Nomination for Best Director); Rum and Vodka and The Good Thief (Prospect St. Productions). He directed the premieres of the original plays Princes and The Calcutta Auction, as well as productions of Pterodactyls, U.S. Drag, and Eastern Standard, and assisted Steven Williford on Walking Down Broadway at the Mint Theatre Company. Tom is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab and Emerging Artists Theatre, and was a finalist for the Mike Ockrent Directing Fellowship. This fall he will direct Six Degrees of Separation (The Gallery Players). BFA: Marymount Manhattan College. SSDC Member.
