June 6, 2007 -- Neil Simon's endearing tale of a midlife crisis gone terribly awry
launches the University of Wyoming 2007 Snowy Range Summer Theatre and Dance Festival,
June 12-16.
"The Last of the Red Hot Lovers," shows nightly at 7:30 in the Fine Arts Center studio
theatre. Tickets cost $5 for students, $8 for seniors (60 and older) and $10 for others.
Tickets are available at the Fine Arts Center box office, by calling (307) 766-6666,
or by visiting www.uwyo.edu/finearts.
Jay Edelnant, professor of theatre at the University of Northern Iowa, directs the
opening play that features middle-aged restaurateur Barney Cashman, who yearns for
one big romantic fling to spice up his predictable life. Cashman is a gentle soul
who has been married to his high school sweetheart for 23 years and is inexperienced
with adultery.
Cashman makes hilarious attempts to become "a spoiler of women" after discovering
his mother's apartment will be empty one day a week. As he haplessly attempts to seduce
wildly unsuitable women, he finds his mother's empty apartment is not the love nest
he had once imagined.
This production of "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers" features Devin Sanchez, a UW
Department of Theatre and Dance alumna who is a working actress in New York City.
Since graduating in 2004, Sanchez has performed in both Off-Broadway and Off-Off
Broadway productions. She also has appeared in TV's “Law and Order SVU” and Walt Disney's
“Enchanted,” and starred in the TV pilot of “Temps.” Sanchez recently was accepted
into the prestigious Atlantic Theater founded by David Mamet and William H. Macy.
Edelnant, a Roy Carver Fellow and Sasakawa Fellow, served as the national chair of
the prestigious Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and on the governing
board for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2007
