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Becky's New Car

Show Dates

October 22 - 27th

Have  you ever been tempted to flee your own life? Becky Foster is caught in  middle age, middle management and in a middling marriage—with no  prospects for change on the horizon. Then one night a socially inept and  grief-struck millionaire stumbles into the car dealership where Becky  works. Becky is offered nothing short of a new life…and the audience is  offered a chance to ride shotgun in a way that most plays wouldn’t dare.  BECKY’S NEW CAR is a thoroughly original comedy with serious overtones,  a devious and delightful romp down the road not taken.

“Perhaps  the highest praise that can be given to Steven Dietz’s praiseworthy new  comedy is that it’s funny. Not ironic. Not hysterical in a slapsticky  kind of way. Just gently and consistently funny—right up to the point  that it’s touching, and then even a little bit after that. BECKY’S NEW  CAR takes the audience on a smart, comic cruise through the perils of  middle-aged longing and regret.” —Variety.

“On a classic mistaken-identity premise, playwright Steven Dietz has  constructed a warmly humorous and nimble romantic farce that doesn’t  oversell itself, or ever sell its American Everywoman protagonist short.  Dietz has created a comedy of modern manners…one that derives as much  power from its humanity as its fine-tuned craftsmanship.” —Seattle  Times.

“The world premiere production of Steven Dietz’s warm and amiable new  comedy is the perfect two-hour escape from the endless political  campaign, stock market collapse, and other daily woes of modern life.  You won’t see a comedy this good on television or in the neighborhood  multi-plex.” —Talkin’ Broadway.

“Playwright Steven Dietz’s new production is a laugh-out-loud  amusement-park ride where the comedy spins out of control like a bumper  car. BECKY’S NEW CAR is witty and droll, with delicious deadpan humor  and U-turn plot twists. But it turns out there’s more under the hood of  BECKY’S NEW CAR than just the comedy. The story has depth. It has themes  like confronting the unexpected. It has conflict such as a woman being  pulled in two directions. It has, like Yogi Berra once suggested, a  person coming to a fork in the road and taking it.” —Everett Herald.

“BECKY’S NEW CAR is that perfect blend of hilarious comedy and  substantial weight, a story about choices and consequences that could  believably happen to anyone.” —Broadway Hour.

Director

Jeff Neary

Producer

Bob Hill

Cast

Melanie Sailer, Joe Ouradnik, Mitch Zenk, George New, Ashlyn Vander Stelt, Michael Donlin & Janelle Hultquist

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