Our pal Frank Ferrante usually wanders the land doing one-nighters or occasionally two-nighters with his wonderful show, An Evening With Groucho. Starting Valentine's Day next week, he'll be doing fourteen shows in the same place — and the same place is a venue with special significance to Marx Brothers fans. It's the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
You can't read a book about the great plays of the Twentieth Century without learning about the ones that tried-out and were shaped at that theater…or about legendary productions that played there and nowhere else. Few are the superstars of Broadway who have not graced the stage of the Bucks County Playhouse. George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart were frequent patrons and several of their shows were birthed there. They even once did a production there of their The Man Who Came to Dinner with Kaufman in the role based on Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Marx in the role based on Harpo Marx.
And now Frank's going to be there impersonating the Great Groucho through February 25…ten performances of An Evening With Groucho, many of them in the afternoon. If you're anywhere near the place, click there to obtain tickets. After you see it, it is not necessary to write me and thank me for the recommendation but many people do.