Two-time Oscar nominated show business legend Arnold Schulman’s delightfully humorous, intensely romantic world premiere comedy about love and lust, longing and belonging, sex and sensibility, parents and pediatrics, and the passion and pain of living with a werewolf – a marvelously funny, touchingly ironic surreal adult cartoon come to larger-than-life in a joyous theatrical explosion. Acclaimed director Chris DeCarlo takes audiences on a wild ride, combining the Playhouse’s signature Commedia-Circus style with physical theatrix, multi-media design and live underscore.
Arnold Schulman’s extensive credits include Love with the Proper Stranger, Goodbye, Columbus, A Hole in the Head (Broadway and motion picture), And the Band Played On, Tucker: the Man and His Dream, A Chorus L
ine, Funny Lady, The Night They Raided Minsky’s.
Chris DeCarlo recently directed the Critics’ Pick of the Year (American Radio Network) comedy Love in Bloom. More than 500 production credits include the LA TIMES Critics’ Picks Dying for Laughs and Charlie Lustman’s Made Me Nuclear.
Commedia Movement Director Serena Dolinsky. Associate Producer Peter Schulman. The brilliant cast of stage, film and TV personalities includes Alison Blanchard (Everybody Hates Chris), Serena Dolinsky (Dolls!), Juliet Ladines (Dirty Sexy Murder), Scot Shamblin (Talk Radio), Constance Strickland (Trojan Women), James Terry (General Hospital, Protocol), with Jaimi Paige (Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side, Medium) as the gorgeous but hopelessly klutzy Judy and Chuck Raucci (ER, Veronica Mars) as the adorably compulsive dentist cum werewolf Stanley.
Commedia Movement Director Serena Dolinsky. Lighting and Set Design by James Cooper. Graphic Design and Projections by Timothy Chadwick. Costumes by award-winning designer Ashley Hayes. Sound by Linn Yamaha Hirschman. Production Stage Manager George J Vennes III.
Ever felt less than perfect? Ever lain awake staring at that second pillow and wondered, “Will there ever be anyone lying there beside me?†(or wished the person lying beside you wasn’t)? Ever dreamed of finding, or keeping, the perfect partner? SLEEPING UGLY will corroborate, with tongue firmly in cheek, your worst nightmares, and then lift up your spirits with the life-affirming discovery that there really is a Jack for every Jill and your wildest dreams really can come true.
Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm, April 15 through June 17, 2012.
General admission $25; students, teachers, seniors and members of the military $22.50, groups of 8 or more $17.50, low-priced previews Apr 15-May 4, all seats $15. Rated PG-13 for sexual innuendos and heavy ‘petting.’ Advance reservations are suggested.
Call the Playhouse box office at 1-310-394-9779 ext. 1 or visit visit SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com.
1211 4th Street (between Wilshire & Arizona) in the heart of Santa Monica’s Bayside District. Convenient Parking is located across the street.
By public transportation: take the Santa Monica Blue Bus or the LA Metro Rapid #720 and exit at 4th and Wilshire.
