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Bergen County Players
continues its 75th season with Winner of 2001 Tony Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play Opens at Oradell’s Little Firehouse Theatre on March 22 Oradell, NJ, February 27, 2008 -- The Bergen County Players (BCP), one of America’s foremost community theaters, continues its 75th consecutive season with the multi award-winning play by Dale Wasserman, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest to be performed at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell from Saturday, March 22 through Sunday, April 13. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bcplayers.org, or by calling 201-261-4200, or by visiting the box office at 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell during regular box office hours. To commemorate its Diamond Jubilee season, BCP is presenting a “Season for the Decades” in which every show represents one of its seven-plus decades of existence. Directed by Alyson Cohn of Wyckoff, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, representing the 60’s, first opened on Broadway in 1963 one year after Ken Kesey’s bestselling novel of the same name was published. Kesey’s searing narrative was partially inspired by his experiences as a part-time orderly in a Palo Alto veterans' hospital. Despite its counterculture themes, the novel was a popular and critical success. Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation ran through 1964 and has had two revivals: the first an off-Broadway production in 1971, the second a Broadway production in 2001 with Gary Sinise as McMurphy. A film version released in 1975, with Jack Nicholson in the lead, was based on the novel. The 2001 Broadway production won the Tony Award that year for Best Play Revival. Boisterous, ribald and ultimately shattering, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is the unforgettable story of bad boy, Randle P. McMurphy (Brian Milli of Harrington Park) – lover of life, liquor and girls – who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy state mental institution rather than in a prison. Confronted with a repressive regime, he challenges the domineering and tyrannical Nurse Ratched (Carol Fisher of Teaneck) and manages to bring defiance, laughter and liberation to his introverted fellow inmates. In a world where sanity means conformity and following the rules is the only way to survive, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is a powerful exploration of both the beauty and the danger of being an original. The New York Post said, "Cuckoo is captivating." The New York Times called the play, "Scarifying and powerful," while the New York Daily News called it, "Funny, touching, and exciting." THE DIRECTOR Directing One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is Alyson Cohn of Wyckoff. Both a seasoned BCP director and performer, Cohn has painstakingly assembled a cast that meets the challenges of portraying Kesey and Wasserman’s complex family of characters. Cohn’s previous directorial credits include Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Proof, Art, Marvin’s Room, True West, Proposals, Six Degrees of Separation, Lips Together Teeth Apart, The Heidi Chronicles, and BCP’s live radio production of It Happened One Night. THE CAST Featuring resident BCP company actors, as well as performers new to the BCP stage, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest boasts an accomplished cast of performers: Brian Milli of Harrington Park and Carol Fisher of Teaneck star as the inexorably opposed central characters, the wily con man Randle P. McMurphy and the domineering, tyrannical Nurse Ratched. Larry Kadish of New Milford is the well educated but emotionally inhibited Dale Harding, and Rich Ardito of Hackensack portrays the humiliated, emotionally adolescent Billy Bibbit. The powerful satire also stars veteran BCP performer Jon Cole of Glen Rock as the schizophrenic Native American narrator Chief Bromden (who played R.P. McMurphy in BCP’s 1983 production) and Brad Forenza of Hawthorne as the lobotomized and emotionally tortured Ruckley. Rounding out the cast are Jenna Corrado of Little Ferry as Nurse Flynn; Peter Curley of Maplewood as Scanlon; Rob Kopil of Suffern, N.Y. as Martini; Chris Lamberth of Hackensack as Aide Warren; Bill Macchio of Dumont as Turkle; Roy Mossi of Maywood as Dr. Spivey; Kathi Nubile of Mahwah as Sandra; Candy Predham of Hopatcong as Candy; and Chris Ryan of New Milford as Cheswick. THE CREW Marisa Dolkart of New Milford is supporting director Alyson Cohn as assistant to the director. Ethan Addes of Haworth serves as producer and Michele Roth of New Milford serves as co-producer. Leslie Cohn of River Edge will stage manage. Bill Joachim of Englewood and Lauren Zenreich of Oradell lend their expertise to the set design, construction and décor, respectively. Lighting design will be conceived by Allan Seward of Bardonia, NY and be operated by Thom Roberts of Westwood. Sound will be designed by Rob DeScherer of Woodcliff Lake and will be operated by Mary Upham of Oradell. Bunny Mateosian of Closter and Janica Carpenter of Ridgewood will team up to design the costumes. Property master will be Patricia Bain of Englewood. Laure Mantia of Montague and Judy Millian of Cliffside Park will handle make-up. Alan Zenreich of Oradell serves as production photographer. This powerful, poignant, disturbing and ultimately liberating theatrical experience is not to be missed. For mature audiences. TICKET AND SCHEDULE INFORMATION
The Bergen County Players has grown tremendously from its roots as a small community theater when it was founded in 1932 by a small group of actors, including John Travolta’s mother, Helen Burke Travolta. Today, nearly 300 volunteer members, working on and off stage, make possible the seven main stage and two second stage productions presented each season. The company's professional alumni include Tony Award-nominated actress Beth Fowler (The Boy From Oz, Sweeney Todd), Tony Award-winning actor Robert Sean Leonard (FOX’s House, The Invention of Love), Tony Award-nominated director Robert Jess Roth (Beauty and the Beast, Lestat), and international best-selling suspense author Mary Higgins Clark, just to name a few. In May 2001, Tony Award-winning playwright and composer Rupert Holmes (Curtains, The Mystery of Edwin Drood) collaborated with the Bergen County Players to premier his new play at the Little Firehouse Theatre, a comic mystery called Thumbs.
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