Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Roy Steinberg
July 1 - Aug 7
Tuesday - Sunday at 8:00PM
Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late and arranges three seductions: the first, Elaine Navazio proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of neuroses; Bobbi Michele is next, a 20-ish actress who's too kooky by half; finally comes September and Jeanette Fisher, a gloomy, depressed housewife who happens to be married to Barney's best friend.
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Age Guide: 16+
July 1st - Preview Night
July 2nd - Official Opening with Pre-show Soiree and After-Party
July 5th - Best-Value Performance (All tickets at best value pricing)
July 11 - Pay-What-You-Wish
(Pay-What-You-Wish is only avaliable 1 hour prior to show time, at the theatre, and is a first come first serve basis. Doors open up 1 hour before the show. Patrons pick whatever seat is available and Pay-What-You Wish. You must have cash or check only. If you would like to see the show on this date and don't want to run the risk if it being sold out, you may still purchsase a ticket at a regular price by calling the box office or purchasing online.)
July 17th - Best-Value Performance (All tickets at best value pricing)
July 22nd - Cast & Crew Talk-Back
Directed by Roy Steinberg
July 1 - Aug 7
Tuesday - Sunday at 8:00PM
Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late and arranges three seductions: the first, Elaine Navazio proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of neuroses; Bobbi Michele is next, a 20-ish actress who's too kooky by half; finally comes September and Jeanette Fisher, a gloomy, depressed housewife who happens to be married to Barney's best friend.
Show Sponsor:
Age Guide: 16+
July 1st - Preview Night
July 2nd - Official Opening with Pre-show Soiree and After-Party
July 5th - Best-Value Performance (All tickets at best value pricing)
July 11 - Pay-What-You-Wish
(Pay-What-You-Wish is only avaliable 1 hour prior to show time, at the theatre, and is a first come first serve basis. Doors open up 1 hour before the show. Patrons pick whatever seat is available and Pay-What-You Wish. You must have cash or check only. If you would like to see the show on this date and don't want to run the risk if it being sold out, you may still purchsase a ticket at a regular price by calling the box office or purchasing online.)
July 17th - Best-Value Performance (All tickets at best value pricing)
July 22nd - Cast & Crew Talk-Back
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Cast Biographies:
Scott Greer (Barney) bio coming soon
Jennifer Childs (Elaine/Bobbi/Jeanette) bio coming soon
Crew Biographies:
Neil Simon (Playwright) is widely regarded as one of the most successful, prolific, and performed playwrights in the world. He is also responsible for many film adaptions of his plays as well as writing new works for television. Simon has received more Academy and Tony nominations than any other writer. Awards he has received include the Pulitzer Prize for Lost In Yonkers, Emmy Awards for The Sid Caesar Show and The Phil Silvers Show, Tony Awards for The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues, Lost In Yonkers and a special Tony Award For Overall Contribution To The Theatre. His nominations include Tony Award Nominations for Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers and The Goodbye Girl (musical). 
Roy Steinberg (Director) has directed classical and contemporary plays as well as world premieres all over the United States. He directed Ann Jackson, Kim Hunter, and Alvin Epstein in The Madwoman of Chaillot at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. As a member of Circle Repertory Company, he developed and directed The Marriage Fool with Lynn Cohen and Farley Granger. His production of Othello played at the Intar Theatre on Theatre Row in New York and he directed Joan Copeland in a new play called Second Summer for the Colleagues Theatre Company. He was the Artistic Director of Theatre Matrix in New York and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin. He has directed touring companies of bilingual productions of Moliere’s The Miser and The Bourgeois Gentleman. As a Guest Artist he has directed college students throughout our nation in plays like American Buffalo, Our Town, The Importance of Being Earnest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mr. Steinberg has also produced and directed film and television including Guiding Light, One Life To Live, Days Of Our Lives, Forensic Files, and Scandalous Art. He has four Emmy nominations for his work. He directed Jo Beth Williams in Life In General on strike.tv, which won five Spirit Awards. At Cape May Stage, Mr. Steinberg has directed Souvenir, Moon Over Buffalo, Blithe Spirit, How to Make a Rope Swing, Say Goodnight Gracie, Social Security, Visiting Mr. Green, Proof, Class, Steel Magnolias, The Understudy, I Hate Hamlet, Boeing Boeing, Happy Days, Freud’s Last Session, The Santaland Diaries, The Woolgatherer, Mistakes Were Made, This Wonderful Life, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Disgraced, Buyer and Cellar, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Gin Game, Outside Mullingar, and The Ultimate Christmas Show. Most recently, Mr. Steinberg directed Chapter Two, the world premiere of The Shuck, and the East Coast premiere of An Actor’s Carol, Heisenberg, Sylvia, Sidekicked and this season’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Guilty Pleasures, Shirley Valentine and 25 Decembers. Roy Steinberg has an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He also functions as the Producing Artistic Director. His proudest production is his daughter, Alexa Catherine. 
Amy Hadam (Production Stage Manager) is so thrilled to be back for her fourth season! Past Cape May Stage credits include: The Whipping Man, Sex with Strangers, Barefoot in the Park, Disgraced, Buyer & Cellar, One Christmas Carol, Billy Bishop Goes to War, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, The Gin Game, Outside Mullingar, The Ultimate Christmas Show, Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End, Chapter Two, The Lion in Winter, The Shuck, and An Actor's Carol. She is also the Education Director here at Cape May Stage. Amy has also been the Stage Manager for Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre (Summit, NJ) since 2013; recent credits include Continuing the Conversation, What Stays, Things Being What They Are, and Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told By Himself). Other credits include: 21: The Musical (NYC), Jekyll & Hyde and Spamalot at Surflight Theatre (Beach Haven, NJ), A Piece of My Heart and Janey Miller's World Tour at Speranza Theatre Company (Jersey City, NJ), Miss Witherspoon and The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler at The Theater Project (Maplewood, NJ), and Talking to Westfield and At Liberty Hall at Premiere Stages (Union, NJ). Amy is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.
Zach Weeks (Lighting Design) (He, Him, His) is excited to be designing at Cape May Stage. Zach is a New York based designer whose designs have been seen all over New York. Selected credits include Peter and the Starcatcher, Little Shop of Horrors, You’re are a good man Charlie Brown, The Tempest, Little Prince (Epic Players), Pushkin (Sheen Center), Fall of the House of Usher (The New School). Regional Credits include Brigadoon & Love and the Law (Muhlenberg College), The Producers, Into the Woods, Hairspray, & Legally Blonde (White Plains PAC). Zach has worked as an Assistant Designer at Carnegie Hall, New York City Center, Plaza Hotel, and Theatre Row just to name a few. To learn more about Zach or to see more of his work please go to zwdesigns.net.
Asia Twi McCallum (Sound Design) is a sound designer/engineer raised in Baltimore, MD currently living in New York. Recent design credits include Kansas City Rep, Long Wharf Theater, TheatreSquared, and off-Broadway credits include New York Theater Workshop and WP Theatre. Twi is super thankful to Cape May Stage for believing her, every opportunity is a dream come true! Website: www.twibackstage.me. 
Leah Nadolski (Props Master) is happy to be working at Cape May Stage. She graduated from DeSales University in 2017 with her degree in Theatre Tech and Design with a concentration on set design and props. She also interned at the Arden theatre as the props intern. She would like to thank her family and friends for their love and support. 
Leah Mazur (Set Design) Leah Mazur received her MFA from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. She is a freelance Scenographer and Assistant Professor of Scenography at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She has worked professionally in the Chicago lakeshore and Kansas City areas. Select design credits include the costume designs for Spring Awakening, Amadeus, Hand to God, and Eclipsed; scenic designs for Spring Awakening, Nora, Little Women, The Broadway Musial, and Next to Normal; and lighting designs for Angel Street and Next to Normal. Previous Cape May Stage designs include The Lion in Winter.
Melanie Miles (Costume Design) received her undergraduate degree from Otterbein University and her MFA from Ohio University. Melanie has a wide spanning career that has included work in both academic and professional theatre. Past work has included: Costume Director at The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Costume Shop Manager/Designer at CATCO in Columbus, Ohio, Assistant Professor of Costume Design at The University of Toledo. Recent work includes: Costume Designer at Lafayette College, Costume Designer for Dorney Park Haunt, freelance contracts at Bucks County Playhouse, The McCarter Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and adjunct teaching at DeSales University, Centenary University, and Montclair State University. Melanie currently resides in a historic stone bank barn in Hunterdon County, NJ with her husband Tom.Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actors’ unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote, and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers, and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org
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