EVERETT — Laura and Curt Shriner are at it again.
As they have in past Outcast Players comedy productions, the Shriners portray a married couple.
This time, in Ken Ludwig’s “Moon Over Buffalo,” they are Charlotte and George Hay, a couple of itinerate actors who run a dysfunctional theater troupe performing “Private Lives” and “Cyrano De Bergerac” in repertory at the Erlander Theatre in Buffalo, New York, in 1953.
Charlotte, the troupe’s diva, and her husband, George, are on the brink of a disastrous split-up caused by George’s dalliance with a young ingenue.
Then they receive word that they might just have one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee, and if likes what he sees, he might cast them in his movie.
Unfortunately for George and Charlotte, everything that could go wrong does go wrong.
The hopeful actors sprint through the tangle of confusion to produce a woefully misbegotten mixture of two different plays in their hoped-for presentation piece.
The Outcast Players are Historic Everett Theatre’s in-house community theater group.
Along with the Shriners, the cast includes:
Cheryl Calhoun as Rosalind Hay, George and Charlotte’s daughter, left the stage for a “normal” life.
George Sayah as Howard, a broadcast weatherman and Rosalind’s fiance.
Ric Calhoun as Rosalind’s ex-fiance Paul, the company’s stage manager.
Iris Lilly as Charlotte’s nearly-deaf mother, Ethel.
Scott Freshman as Richard, a love-sick lawyer who would like to court Charlotte.
Hannah Gustafson, the ingenue actress who in the midst of the hilarious mishaps, reveals her pregnancy to all.
“Moon Over Buffalo”
The comedy “Moon Over Buffalo” plays 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 26. For tickets, go to www.historiceveretttheatre.org or call 425-258-6766.
Correction: The headline and photo caption for an earlier version of this story gave an incorrect date for the play’s opening. The headline and caption is now correct.
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