The Hot L Baltimore

Curtain Call, Inc. in cooperation with The City Of Stamford, with special permission by Dramatists Play Service Inc. and Sponsored in part by  the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, Proudly Present;

"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.

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