"Funnyman" presented by Circle Theatre

FUNNYMAN
play program

Recently The Travelling Toe and a Dear Friend attended the Saturday afternoon performance of the play "Funnyman" at the Circle Theatre. The play was written by Bruce Graham.

Bruce Graham
playwright

The play takes place in the 1950's and is centered on funnyman Chick Sherman.  He is a former star of vaudeville and movies but now he is no longer in demand.  He makes money doing commercials, which he is rather good at doing adding  his signature tagline "wowzeer". However a project comes along that  catches Chick's attention  - a serious role on Broadway. But can Chick stop being the funnyman and become the serious man required of the project? 

During the play Chick has to come to terms with a lot of buried issues. He tries to 
re-establish a relationship with his adult daughter and come to term the abuse of his mother when he was a young star on vaudeville.

This is a very interesting play. In one scene you are laughing hard and another scene tears come to your eyes.  Each cast was magnificent in their role and made the play the success it is. 

Randy Perlman played Chick Sherman and was funny and poignant.  In one scene he is sitting at a table and without a mirror applies makeup for his dramatic scene in the Broadway play. When he turns around he looks completely different. How did he do that?

Jakie Cabe plays the flamboyant Southern playwright to a tee.  He always does an excellent job in all the plays that The Travelling Toe has seen him in.

CAST:

Jakie Cabe
                      Victor LaPlant

Eric Dobbins
                      Matthew Baroni

Jacob Grant
                      Nathan Wise

Robert Michael James
                     Milt(Junior) Karp

Randy Pearlman
                     Chick Sherman

Melissa Rosenberg
                      Katharine Sherman

       

Circle Theatre