The Hot L Baltimore
Production Team:
Producer - Lou Ursone
Director/Production Design - Peter Barbieri, Jr.
Production Stage Manager - Tom DeSalvo
Stage Manager - Jim Ringel
Rehearsal Coordinator - Brent McKinley
Costume Designer - Michele Pasqua
Sound Design - Joel Fenster
Master Capenter - Eric Lawrence
Building Crew: Brent McKinley, Cidalia Alves, Deborah Burke, Tom DeSalvo, Richard Cummings, Roger Dykeman, Megan Zaminski, Jason Ventola, Jim Ringel, Tom Hadden, Brian Bianco
"The Hot L Baltimore" by Lanford Wilson
Presented in The Dressing Room Theatre March 2nd - 18th, 2007
Winner of the New York Drama Circle Award, the Obie Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award. A brilliant Off-Broadway success by an outstanding playwright, which brings compassion, humor and arresting theatricality to its imaginative, touching study of lost souls trapped by society's inexorable decay. "…as good as you will find in the modern American theater…Wilson's writing is simply superb, a triumph of inspiration and craftsmanship." —Women's Wear Daily. "Mr. Wilson is both funny and sad about today, and the combination is an unbeatable winner." —NY Times. "…a warm, intelligent, wonderful evening in the theater." —Village Voice.
SYNOPSIS: The scene is the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the "e" from its marquee. As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and talk and interact with each other during the course of one day. The drama is of passing events in their lives, of everyday encounters and of the human comedy, with conversations often overlapping into a contrapuntal musical flow. In the resulting mosaic each character emerges clearly and perceptively defined, and the sum total of what they are—or wish they were—becomes a poignant, powerful call to America to recover lost values and to restore itself in its own and the world's eyes.
NOTE: This show contains adult content and brief nudity.
Cast:
Names in red denote Curtain Call debut.
Bill Lewis...........................................Roger Dykeman
Girl...................................................Dana DiCerto
Millie.................................................Judith Phillip
Mrs. Bellotti.......................................Andrea Garmun
April Green.........................................Cidalia Alves
Mr. Morris..........................................Philip Cook
Jackie...............................................Lynne Colatrella
Jamie................................................Michael DeSalvo
Mr. Katz............................................Bob Praid
Suzy.................................................Deborah Burke
Suzy's John........................................John Atkins
Paul Granger III...................................Richard Cummings
Mrs. Oxenham.....................................Elayne Mordoff
Cab Driver..........................................John Atkin
*Member Actors' Equity Association, the union of prfessional actors and stage managers in the United States, appearing under aSpecial Appearance Contract.