Town Players of Pittsfield : Winter Production 2002 : 82nd Season : Red Hot Lovers

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Last of the
Red Hot Lovers
By Neil Simon
Directed by John Trainor

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Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simonis a classic dark comedy about sex, marriage, mid-life crisis, show business, sex, seafood, friendship and sex!
The play is set in the 1970s where a 47-year-old man named Barney Cashman runs the family seafood restaurant and has been faithfully married to his wife for 23 years. As middle age rears its ugly head, Barney decides that just once...he's gonna live and not let the sexual revolution pass him by!
When Barney finds that his mother's apartment is empty on Tuesday afternoons from one to five (while mom is off wrapping bandages as volunteer work), Barney borrows her apartment to attempt an afternoon of illicit sex with three separate women. If he speaks low and brings his own liquor, wine, cigarettes and glasses, mom will never suspect.
The first dalliance is Elaine, something of an enigma who needs sex and cigarettes, not necessarily in that order. Talk is optional. The second is Bobbi Michelle, a pickup from the park who is a kooky and KINKY actress. She gives new meaning to the term California sunshine. And, finally, Jeanette, a manic depressive housewife whose husband is Barney's best friend and undergoing her own marital burps. But once she gets there, she gets skittish and realizes she loves her husband.

The Scene:
The action takes place in a New York apartment
Act One:	A late afternoon in November
Act Two:	A late afternoon in August
Act Three:	A late afternoon in September

CHARACTERS

Barney Cashman

Kevin Wixson

Elaine Navazio

Barbara LaCascia

Bobbi Michele

Brenda Galenus

Jeanette Fisher

Denese Roller

This production will use the Three Quarter Theater Seating Layout.

Production Dates

Friday January 11^th
Saturday January 12^th
Friday January 18^th
Saturday January 19^th

Random Pictures from the Production
All pictures and set designs © copyright 2002 Townplayers of Pittsfield, Inc.

By Neil Simon
Directed by John Trainor
January 11^th,12^th, 18^th& 19^th at 8:00PM
Berkshire Community College's
Koussevitzky Arts Center
Robert Boland Theater
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ACT I
A late afternoon in November

Barney : Hello? Mom?

Barney : Better put these shoe rubbers on a newspaper to keep the water off the floor.

Barney : Comfy

Elaine : You look surprised. Didn't you think I'd come?
Barney : I wansn't sure . . but I was hoping.

.Elaine : Are you nervious?
Barney : The truth? . . . Yes. Are you?
Elaine : The truth? . . . No.
Barney : Good. No sense in both of us of us being nervious.

Barney : Your'e not supposed to say nice things to me. I'm suppose to say nice things to you
Elaine : All right. Say nice things to me.
Barney : Your'e and attractive woman.
Elaine : That's it? You came off better than I did. Cheers.

Barney : I gather then your'e not very happy with Mr. Navazio?
Elaine : WHat the hell kind of a question is that?
Barney : I'm sorry. It's none of my business.
Elaine : I didn't come up here to get reformed.
It's bad enough you got me to quit smoking; leave my sex life alone.

. Elaine : My lip is bleeding.
Barney : I'm sorry, Elaine.
Elaine : If you wanted me on the the sofa, why didn't you just point to it?
Barney : Stupid idiot. I didn't know why I kissed you so hard.
Elaine : It was a terrific kiss.

Elaine : Who are you to tell anybody how to go through life?
You know that tomorrow you'd be back behind that counter
and praying that I'd never come back in your restaurant..

Barney : I've never kissed another woman. In twenty three years. . . .
I don't smoke, I don't gamble and you've had more to drink than I've had in my whole life. . . .
Shouldn't there be something else besides opening the restaurant? . . .
Couldn't I just once give in to my fantasies.

Barney : I'll never do that again! . . . Never . . . Never . . . NEVER!
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ACT II
A late afternoon in August

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Barney : Mom?

Bobbi : I was wandering up and down the hall.
All these apartments look alike.

Barney : I love this neighborhood.
I knew this street looked familiar.
I once had a girl friend who lived on this block.

Bobbi : I thought I had the wrong address. 432 Eqast Thirty-Seventh?
Barney : No, that's the right address.
Bobbi : Well I hope so. Otherwise where am I and who are you?
Oh, that's silly. If I'm goofy today, it's the heat.

Bobbi : Hello, Hilda.
Vas nicht gessen? Auf lichter shein bister?
I make up German, she gets hysterical.

Bobbi : Someday I'm going to write a book naming names, dates and places.
I wouldn't leave a single man out
Oh, you wouldn't be in the book.

Bobbi : That's why I had to leave the Coast.
He once tried to have me committed to a hospital.
Barney : No. Why?
Bobbi : Obviously to keep tabs on me.
Actually, it was my own fault.
I was faking a nervous breakdown so he'd leave me alone.

Bobbi : Babylon Revisited. They want me to record with them.
Don't you think I'm better off taking hte show?.
Barney : I thought that they turned you down?
Bobbi : .Where did you hear that?
Barney : You told me.

Bobbi : You want me to leave?
Barney : No, I don't want you to leave -
Bobbi : But you'd be happier if I left.
Barney : Happier? No, not happier -
Bobbi : Don't worry, I'm not going to try anything.

Bobbi : I'm not going unless you have one with me.
Barney : Two puffs. Two quick puffs.
Bobbi : I like the way you hold it in your mouth.
You can tell a lot about a man by the way he holds pot.

Bobbi : Toes tingling yet?.
Barney : Toes tingling.
I just lost the use of my tongue. I'll never talk again.

Barney : So many things I wanted to do.
We're all trapped.
Bobbi : What the world needs now, is love, sweet love.

ACT III
A late afternoon in September

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Barney : Hello, Jeanette! Any trouble finding the place.
There's nothing wrong is there?

Jeanette : Why am I here Barney?
I've known you and Thelma for eighteen years.
So why am I here?
Barney : Why? Because I asked you here, thats why.

Jeanette : Barney. Do you know that I haven't slept with Mel in eight months?
Barney : No I didn't.
Jeanette : Have not slept with him in eight months.
Barney : That's between you and Mel . . .
Jeanette : He's slept with me. I haven't slept with him.
Barney : How does that work out?

Jeanette : What do you think about all this.
Barney : About what?
Jeanette : About all this that's going on.
Barney : Nothing's going on. I can't even get your pocketbook.

Jeanette : Let me ask you a wuestion. Do you have any guilt about asking me here today?
Barney : Do I have any guilt? . . . No, I do not.
Jeanette : You don't care who you hurt?
Barney : I'm not hurting anyone.
Jeanette : You want to think about that answer.

Jeanette : I told you I consider Thelma a gentile and loving woman.
Barney : Wait a minute. That's the second time you left out decent.
Jeanette : Do you consider Thelma decent?
Barney : She's the most decent human being on earth!
Jeanette : That's wonderful.
Barney : Then why did you leave out decent.
Jeanette : She's on your list.
Barney : She is as totally incapable of an act of deception as you would or I would be or . . . . . .
Oh, my God!

Jeanette : What's happened to us? What's happened to the world.
Barney : There's no sense denyig it. It's changing.
Jeanette : I read about it. In New York, I've seen it. I never expected it in Great Neck.

Jeanette : You actually believe that some of us are decent, gentle and loving.
Barney : I do. And deep down, so do you
Jeanette : Maybe . . . but at two o'clock in the morning I think I'm going to tap Mel onthe shoulder and tell him I've had an affair . . . Let him be depressed for a while.

Barney : Hello, Thelma? . . . Why don't you meet meet me this afternoon, we could do something . . .

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(Curtain Call)

Kiss!

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Production Dates

Friday January 11th Saturday January 12th Friday January 18th Saturday January 19th

Friday January 11^th
Saturday January 12^th
Friday January 18^th
Saturday January 19^th