[Capdist-announce] The Lady And The Clarinet - an exploration of love from The Two Of Us Productions - opens next Friday Feb. 17, 2023

[stephensanbornphd at gmail.com]

For Immediate Release

Contact:  Stephen Sanborn, The Two Of Us Productions

                 (day) 518 387 4155     (home) 518 329 6293

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WHAT:  The Lady And The Clarinet, by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright
Michael Cristofer, an exploration of aspects of love from a tantalizingly
abstract perspective. Cristofer doesn't provide any easy answers concerning
questions of the heart, but instead demonstrates love's ability to
manipulate human behavior.

WHEN:  Feb. 17th through 26th, 2023.   Friday and Saturday performances are
at 7:30pm and Sunday matinees are at 3pm.

*	Fridays -  Feb. 17th & 24th  at 7:30pm
*	Saturdays -  Feb. 18th & 25th at 7:30pm
*	Sundays -  Feb. 19th & 26th at 3pm

WHERE:  The comfortable & intimate Theater at the Copake Grange is located
at 628 Empire Road in Copake NY, right down the street from the Clock Tower
Pub in the center of town.  Masking is recommended for the safety of all.  

TICKETS:  Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for Students & Seniors.  Please
call for Group Rates.  For advance reservations visit
<http://www.thetwoofusproductions.org/> www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org or
call 518-329-6293.  Make your reservations early for the best seats on the
date you want!  

 

 


The Lady And The Clarinet  .  


                       presented by The Two Of Us Productions


 

The Two Of Us Productions, the award winning theater company based in Copake
NY, is pleased to open their 2023 season of live in-person theater with The
Lady And The Clarinet, by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Michael
Cristofer.  Performances are Feb. 17th, 18th 19th, & the following weekend
of February 24th, 25th & 26th 2023.  Presented in collaboration with The
Copake Grange in the intimate theater at the historic Grange Hall in Copake
NY., you don't want to miss this exploration of aspects of love from a
tantalizingly abstract perspective. Cristofer doesn't provide any easy
answers concerning questions of the heart, but instead demonstrates love's
ability to manipulate human behavior.

The scene is the cozy New York apartment of Luba, a woman successful in
business but less fortunate in her private life. She is awaiting a male
dinner guest and has engaged a clarinet player to provide romantic
background music. Falling into a reverie, Luba begins to reminisce about the
three men who have meant the most to her in her life, which leads to a
series of intriguing flashbacks. In the first Luba is sixteen and meets
Paul, a young employee of her father's, who initiates her into the mysteries
of sex, but bores her otherwise. Then comes Jack, a high-powered television
producer who is successful, exciting and funny, but also married to someone
else. Finally there is George, a rich widower who keeps the house for her
but looks elsewhere for love. As the play ends the unanswered question is
whether her new dinner companion will, at last, be "the man" she has been
searching for, but as the nonspeaking clarinet player so eloquently suggests
with smiles, shrugs & instrumental trills, the prospects (measured by Luba's
past) are not too promising.

The Lady And The Clarinet Player features Constance Lopez as Luba, Eamon
Martin as Paul, Bill Solley as Jack, John Leinung as George), and Stephen
Sanborn on clarinet.  The Theater at the Copake Grange's historic grange
hall provides an intimate performance space that brings the audience into
this engrossing romantic comedy.  

Performances of The Lady And The Clarinet are 2 weekends only - Feb. 17th,
18th & 19th, and the following weekend of Feb. 24th, 25th & 26th, 2023.
Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and Sunday matinees are at
3pm.  The comfortable & intimate Theater at the Copake Grange is located at
628 Empire Road in Copake NY, right down the street from the Clock Tower Pub
in the center of town.  Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for Students &
Seniors.  Please call for Group Rates.  For advance reservations visit
<http://www.thetwoofusproductions.org/> www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org or
call 518-329-6293.  Make your reservations early for the best seats on the
date you want!  Masking is recommended for the safety of all.  

The Two Of Us Productions is well known throughout the Hudson Valley for
presenting quality theater, both musicals and dramas.  Their recent
productions of A Shayna Maidel, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, Chicago, Les
Miserables, next to normal, Deathtrap, Lend Me A Tenor and Jesus Christ
Superstar have all been recognized by the Theatre Association of NYS with
multiple awards, including outstanding work by the company, outstanding
performance by the orchestra, excellence in direction, and many cast
ensemble &  individual actor awards.   

These performances are supported with funds from Hudson River Bank & Trust
Foundation, Stewart's Shops, Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation,
Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation, Greylock Federal Credit Union, and Key
Bank Foundation.  This project is made possible with funds from the
Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State
Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Office of the Governor and
the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the
Columbia County Council on the Arts dba. CREATE Council for the  Arts.

 

 

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