The Centenary Stage Company (CSC) will open its 2001-2002 series With Terence Rattigan's wacky World War II comedy While the Sun Shines, October 12-27. In this uproariously funny farce from the author of Winslow Boy and Separate Tables, you are in 1943, at the height of the German Blitz. On the eve of his marriage, the Earl of Harpenden puts up a drunken American Lieutenant for the night, intending to fix him up with a former girlfriend. The American mistakes the Earl's fiancée for the girlfriend. Add a French officer, the fiancée's father, and the amorous girlfriend, and you have a situation where mistaken identities lead to comic chaos!

The run of While the Sun Shines will include a Buffet Matinee series for groups of 20 or more, a "First Sunday" Symposium on Terence Rattigan's place in theatre history and style (October 14), a Student Matinee (October 24), a "Meet & Greet" special night for Singles (October 19), and Family Night "rush" specials every Thursday, where audience members are admitted two-for-one at the door.

Broadway veteran Ken Krugman (Les Miserables, Titanic and Candide) makes his CSC premiere portraying the amorous American flyer, "Mulvaney." Local audiences will enjoy the performance of YPW Alumnus, Jessica Baron (formerly Hackettstown, now NYC), a former student of CSC's Young Performer's Workshop and recent graduate in Theatre of Southern Methodist University, Texas, performing the role of "Elizabeth." Comedic artists Wesley Stevens (NYC) and Allen Rickman (NYC) return to CSC as part of this classic comedy. Also featured are Steve Barron (Metuchen), Amy Morse (Princeton Junction, now NYC), and Wayne Gordon (Augusta, NJ).

Playwright: Terence Rattigan
Director: Carl Wallnau

Audio Described Performance
for the visually impaired on the second Sunday.

Tickets:

Centenary Stage Company productions are offered Fridays & Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 2:30 PM, Wednesday, October 4, 2001 at 11:00 am, Wednesday, October 17,2001 at 2:30 PM and Thursdays at 7:30 PM, with a special opening Matinee the first Friday, October 12, 2001, and an 11 am student matinee October 24, 2001. Tickets range in price from $17.50 (regular reserved on Saturday evenings) to $12.50 (students), with discounts for Family Night audiences and for groups of 20 or more. For tickets and reservations, call the CSC Box Office at 908-979-0900, or use our online Tickets/Ordering form. Locally, tickets can be purchased at the Baron's Hallmark in the Hackettstown Mall.

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Annual programming at the Centenary Performing Arts Guild are made possible in part through the generous support of the The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour (Penn PAT) , Heath Village, Coldwell Banker and Arts Guild Members and Sponsors.