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Grasse River Players to present comedy 'The New York Idea' Feb. 9-11 at St. Lawrence University

Posted 1/10/12

CANTON – Grasse River Players have started their rehearsal for the comedy The New York Idea adapted by David Auburn from the original by Langdon Mitchell. The dates are Thursday, Friday and …

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Grasse River Players to present comedy 'The New York Idea' Feb. 9-11 at St. Lawrence University

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CANTON – Grasse River Players have started their rehearsal for the comedy The New York Idea adapted by David Auburn from the original by Langdon Mitchell.

The dates are Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9, 10, and 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Gulick Theater, St. Lawrence University. Tickets are $8 and may be obtained at the box office or at The Pear Tree in Canton.

Cynthia Karslake, played by Hannah Harvester, is a freewheeling divorcee in 1906 New York City society. She has decided to settle down again into a much more stable relationship with the prominent, but dull, Judge Philip Phillimore, Stephen J. Majer.

Little does she know, however, that neither of their bombastic and blowsy ex-spouses, Elaine Kuracina and Morgan Hastings, nor her beloved horse Cynlthis K is yet down for the count.

This is a fast moving, sharp-tongued comedy with three GRP favorites, Libby Brandt, Carole Berard and David Tisdale playing the elderly staid and stand-fast generation.

Peter Jenson-Moulton is a minister. Add a titled and rich Englishman, Adam Gardarm; a Cockney horse trainer, Shawn Jon Roberts; a French maid, Anna Marie Wilharm and a proper butler, David Brill, and the audience is in for a treat.

David Auburn, a Pulitzer Prize winner, uses all the tricks of screwball comedy in a slick, sophisticated and proper world.