ARSENIC CAST FOLLOWS IN FOOTSTEPS
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Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor are currently starring on Broadway in the female leads of Abby and Martha Brewster; the Drama Society is fortunate to have Mary Rees and Gale Shaw play these parts.
Originally, the play was presented at the Fulton Theatre in New York in August of 1941 and had none other than the late great Boris Karloff in the role of Jonathan Brewster. The play, which will run in Cayman at the Town Hall from Monday through Saturday, April 28th to May 3rd, has Jim McClure in that role, with Andy Jackson playing the redoubtable Dr. Einstein, his companion in crime.
Do you know that our own Peter Webber and Cary Grant have something in common? Both have portrayed the character Mortimer Brewster; Cary in the 1955 movie version of Arsenic and Old Lace, and Peter at 8.00 p.m. on many of the nights mentioned earlier.
The plot is relatively complex to explain it would give away many of the surprises in the play.
We can let you know that Abbey and Martha Brewster are two very kind and charitable old ladies who have a somewhat warped idea of what constitutes other people's welfare. Their nephew Mortimer inadvertently stumbles upon this "charity" of theirs, at first believing it to be the work of his eccentric brother, Teddy, (played by John Whalen) who thinks he's Theodore Roosevelt!
The play is truly a modern classic, one of the best comedies the Society has done to date.
