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 "Leave
it to Carl Wallnau, artistic director of Centenary
Stage Company in Hackettstown, who has a great penchant
for things British, to resuscitate it -- and to
stage it with the proper freneticism. At Friday's
opening, it indeed did shine....
As the lieutenant says, 'This
is going to make one helluva story when I get home.'
Rattigan makes sure that it becomes just that, and
Wallnau enhances it through his top-notch cast.
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Peter Filichia, Star-Ledger
October 16, 2001
Full
Review
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 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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