Grosse Pointe Theatre presents the hilarious comedy Fox on the Fairway, opening on March 9th

Grosse Pointe Theatre presents Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig, opening Sunday, March 9 at 2:00 pm, with additional performances Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 13-15 at 8:00 pm, Sunday, March 16 at 2:00 pm, and Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 20-22 at 8:00 pm.

Fox on the Fairway will be performed at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial’s Fries Auditorium, 32 Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased by phone, (313) 881-4004, on line at  www.gpt.org;  or at the Grosse Pointe Theatre ticket office at 315 Fisher Road, Grosse Pointe (Monday through Saturday, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm). Tickets are also available on show dates at the Fries Auditorium Lobby Box Office.

Fox on the Fairway is a hilarious comic farce, revolving around an annual golf tournament between rival country clubs Quail Valley Golf Club and Crouching Squirrel Golf & Racquet Club. Quail Valley’s General Manager, Henry Bingham, and Crouching Squirrel’s GM, Dickie Bell, usually enjoy a friendly wager, but this year’s betting gets a little out of hand. Add into the mix the antics of young lovers, and Quail Valley employees, Justin and Louise, the sexy candor of Bingham’s assistant Pamela, and Muriel, Bingham’s domineering wife and owner of an antique shop, The Olde Crock, and the action will be fast, furious, funny and totally unpredictable.

Fox on the Fairway is directed by Grosse Pointe Park resident Michael Trudel, who directed GPT’s highly acclaimed comedy, Moonlight and Magnolias in 2012. Playwright Ken Ludwig’s comic work was very popular with Grosse Pointe Theatre audiences in previous productions of Lend Me a Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo. Fox on the Fairway is a fairly recent work by Mr. Ludwig, having debuted in Arlington, Virginia in late 2010. Grosse Pointe Theatre’s production of Fox on the Fairway will be its southeast Michigan premiere.

Cast

Playing the role of Henry Bingham is Tim Reinman (Grosse Pointe Farms), Elizabeth Perkin Moen (Grosse Pointe Woods) is playing Pamela Peabody, Kevin Fitzhenry (Warren) is playing Justin Hicks, Sara Shook (Grosse Pointe) is playing Louise Heindbedder, John Leo (Grosse Pointe) is playing Dickie Bell and Anne Maters (Grosse Pointe) is playing Muriel Bingham.

Show Staff

Assisting director Michael Trudel are: producer Gretchen Archinal (Grosse Pointe Park), stage manager/assistant director Geoff Proven (Grosse Pointe Woods), set designer Art Thompson (Grosse Pointe Park), tech directors Jim Arnold and Don Corbin (both of Grosse Pointe Woods), Tom Archinal (Grosse Pointe Park) on lights, Bill Tuthill (Grosse Pointe Woods) and David Hertzberg (Royal Oak) on sound, Ruth Ellen Mayhall (Grosse Pointe Farms) doing costumes, Kathy Lusk (Detroit) doing props & set dressing, and Rachel Settlage (Grosse Pointe) doing makeup.

Next at Grosse Pointe Theatre

Grosse Pointe Theatre wraps up their 66th season with one of the great musicals of all time, the epic Les Miserables, (music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil & Jean-Marc Natel, English libretto by Herbert Kretzmer, based on the novel by Victor Hugo) May 4, 8, 11, 15-18, 22-25, 2014.

66-4-66 Ticket Promotion

Grosse Pointe Theatre is celebrating the fabulous finish of our 66th season of community theater by offering a special ticket promotion with Fox on the Fairway and Les Miserables. Buy two tickets to any performance of Les Miserables and Fox on the Fairway tickets are half-off. That’s $66 for four tickets, an $84 value. This promotion is only available by phone (313) 881-4004 or by stopping by the Grosse Pointe Theatre box office at 315 Fisher Road, Grosse Pointe.