Posted by Florence Pape on January 31, 2002 at 12:18:40:
For Immediate Release Contact: Florence Pape 201-798-0200 1/14/02
HUDSON THEATRE ENSEMBLE PRESENTS PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE
Hoboken, NJ - Renowned comic wit Steve Martin paints a “wild and crazy” award-winning comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile full of laughs and intriguing ideas about art and science and creativity and celebrity and the future of the world and splatters the whole affair with a colorful cast of characters and a high-gloss shine!
The Hudson Theatre Ensemble (H.T.E.), Hoboken’s own repertory theatre company, joyfully presents the second play of its 2001-2002 season, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, a hilarious 90-minute rollicking romp that straddles the profound and the absurd. In this invigorating vaudeville for the mind, Steve Martin pays tribute to two of the most influential men in history in an imaginary meeting between a fiery Albert Einstein and a passionate Pablo Picasso in 1904 in a bohemian Paris bar, the Lapin Agile. Shortly thereafter, each completes his most influential and revolutionary work, Einstein’s momentous Special Theory of Relativity and Picasso’s watershed Les Demoiselles D’Avignon.
With a solid cast and fast-paced sparkling direction, Picasso is Diana Sutherlin’s second directorial outing for H.T.E. Her extremely well-received Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound demonstrated her special talent for rip-roaring farce! Picasso includes many well-respected Hudson County, New Jersey, and New York actors. Paul Marcazzo (H.T.E.’s Lone Star, Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Real Inspector Hound, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls) plays the young Picasso dreaming the impossible. Michael Giorgio (Hoboken’s Waterfront Ensemble’s On the Waterfront, Inappropriate Behavior, award-winning Technical Difficulties, The Most Perfect Day; Montclair’s 12 Miles West Theatre Company’s Dracula) plays the brilliant Einstein; Bob Armstrong (H.T.E.’s Antigone, Waiting for Lefty, The Tempest; Princeton Repertory Shakespeare Theatre’s As you Like It) plays the irrepressible art dealer, Sagot; Chuck Wagner (Jersey City Attic Ensemble’s, How I learned to Drive) plays the Lapin Agile’s bartender Freddy; “Indie” film and opera diva Rebecca Olympia makes her H.T.E. debut as the sultry Suzanne. The production also features Jeff Allen as Elvis, George Rex as Gaston, Ghylian Bell as the beautiful Germaine, Andrew Horwitz as the hyper Schmendimen, Babette Garber as the Countess, and Hudson School’s own Ashley Hearon as the Female Admirer.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile is being presented at the Performance Space of The Hudson School Building at 506 Park Avenue (5th & Park) basement in Hoboken, NJ. Performances are:
Friday Feb 8 at 8PM
Saturday Feb 9 at 8PM
Sunday Feb 10 at 7PM
Friday Feb 15 at 8PM
Saturday Feb 16 at 8PM
Sunday Feb 17 at 7PM
Tickets are $12 for Adults; $7 for Students & Seniors. For reservations, please call 201-377-7014. For further information, contact: Florence Pape, Director of Development, 201-798-0200, florence@fpls.com