The Walpole Footlighters are getting ready for their spring show at their Playhouse on Scout Rd. in East Walpole, where they are rehearsing “Lost in Yonkers.” This Neil Simon classic Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama will be performed weekends from May 5 to May 21. This is the third production of the Walpole Footlighters 2016-2017 season, their 92nd in continuous operation.
Written by America’s great comic playwright, Neil Simon, this memory play is set in Yonkers NY in 1942. Bella is a 35 year old, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne’er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady’s doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.
The cast consists of Riley Mulroy and Colin Wilbur of Walpole as the two grandsons, Matthew Kinney of Brockton as their father, and Karen Woodland of Randolph as Grandma. Melissa Pinzari of Norton and Cynthia Small of Medfield play the sisters, and Ken Golner is the small-time hood brother.
The show is directed by Peter Bradley. It will be performed May 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, and 20 at 8:00 p.m., with Sunday matinees on May 7 and 21 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $20 and may be obtained by calling (508-668-8446) or on the Footlighters website at www.footlighters.com.
