Little Firehouse Theatre
298 Kinderkamack Road
Oradell, NJ 07649

  PRESS RELEASE

IT'S GREED VS. GOOD WITH BERGEN COUNTY PLAYERS'
THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC

Written by George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichmann
Direction by Peter Colletto

Oradell, NJ, October 1, 2009

Long considered one of America’s foremost community theater groups, Bergen County Players (BCP) continues its 77^th consecutive season with the hilarious George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichmann comedy The Solid Gold Cadillac.  Under the direction of Peter Colletto, The Solid Gold Cadillac opens at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell on October 24^th and runs through November 14^th, 2009. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bcplayers.org, by calling 201-261-4200 or by visiting the box office at 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell during regular box office hours.

Long before the current financial crisis, outrageous Wall Street bonuses and Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff—even before Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street (in which Michael Douglas proclaimed “greed, for lack of a better word, is good,”)—a little old lady rocked the corporate world when she said simply “I think the salaries are too big.” Set in the early 1950s, The Solid Gold Cadillac tells the story of General Products, a giant manufacturing conglomerate with a Board of Directors who earn enormous salaries in return for very little work.  Then, mild-mannered Laura Partridge shows up at a stockholders’ meeting and starts asking questions.  As current as today’s headlines, The Solid Gold Cadillac will have you laughing and cheering as good triumphs over greed.  George S. Kaufman (You Can’t Take It With You, The Man Who Came to Dinner) has written “…another big hit, with riotously funny roles.” (New York Mirror).

The Solid Gold Cadillac marks Leonia resident Peter Colletto’s fifth directorial assignment at Bergen County Players after previously helming productions of Lend Me a Tenor, Fuddy Meers. The Odd Couple (Female Version), and Table Manners.  He also has various credits as a lighting designer, actor, and is the current chairperson of the Play and Casting committee.  Mr. Colletto has been a teacher of theater, mass media, and English for over thirty years.

The talented cast of The Solid Gold Cadillac includes Michele Blum of Oakland (Mrs. Laura Partridge), James Lesko of Englewood (Edward L. McKeever), Glenn Woertz of Alpine (T. John Blessington), Larry Braverman of Westwood (Alfred Metcalfe), Howard Kerner of Teaneck (Warren Gillie), Arie Moller of Rutherford (Cliff Snell), Christine Laydon of Bloomfield (Amelia Shotgraven), Michael Spadaccini of Old Tappan (Mark Jenkins) and Pat Smith of River Vale (Narrator), Rosemary DeFlorio of River Vale (Miss Logan), Jason Lewis of Ridgewood (Newscaster Bill Parker), Joanne Mischa of Montvale (News Broadcaster) and Pat Bain of Englewood (Little Old Lady).

In addition to Colletto, the team behind this timely and hilarious comedy includes Kathie Robitz (Producer); Dorothy Carlos (Assistant to the Director); Marissa Dolkart (Stage Manager); Eric Zolbeck (Set Design/Construction); Bill Wetzel (Set Décor); Allan Seward (Lighting Design); Joe Lanteri (Lighting Operator); Rob Descherer (Sound Design); Joe Halajian (Sound Operator); Jason Lewis (Props Master); Eva Piccioni (Props Chief); Marisa Dolkart (Costume Design); Dana Robitz (Hair Design), Janet Kroenke (Photography) and Vicki Edwards, Darren Carfano and Jim Kelly (Stage Crew).

TICKET AND SCHEDULE INFORMATION

• All performances take place at The Little Firehouse Theatre at 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell, home to the Bergen County Players since 1949. Tickets for The Solid Gold Cadillac are $19.00 for Friday and Saturday performances, and $16.00 for Sunday performances. Performance times are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.
• As it has for the past few seasons, the Players will continue to offer a Q & A (“Questions & Artists”) discussion following select performances.  The popular “talk-back” series will kick off immediately following the Friday, October 30^th performance of The Solid Gold Cadillac.  Admission is included in the cost of the ticket.
• Those interested in schedules, discount offers and buying tickets for the 2009-10 season, can log onto BCP’s website at: www.bcplayers.org, visit the box office at 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell or call (201) 261-4200.  Visa, Master Card, and American Express accepted.
• Those interested in Group Sales or benefit theater parties can call (201) 262-0515.
• Student Rush tickets available for $5 for students age 25 and under with valid ID, 30 minutes prior to curtain. One ticket per ID. Cash only. Students can also guarantee their seats in advance either online or through the box office for the special student price of just $14.00.
• Parking is free for our patrons at the Park Avenue municipal lot, across the street, one-half block north of the theater.

The Bergen County Players has grown tremendously from its roots as a small community theater when it was founded in 1932.  Today, nearly 300 volunteer members, working on and off stage, make possible the seven mainstage 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.

The Bergen County Players, Inc., is a non-Equity, non-profit community theatre company dedicated to presenting quality productions for the enrichment of the community.