   Hughie Directed by Jon Dambacher
Jan 9 - Feb 1 Friday & Saturday Evening Performances 7pm Saturday & Sunday Matinee Performances 2pm Hughie is set in the lobby of a seedy Times Square Hotel early one morning in the late '20s. Its characters are the hotel's gray, withdrawn night clerk, and "Erie" Smith, a penny-ante gambler who has spent most of his last fifteen years at the hotel between periods of drunkenness. His most recent bender was prompted by the death of the title character who was the night clerk's predecessor. Erie babbles through tales of his life's imaginary successes, as well as his panicky optimism towards the futile future. The night clerk can only listen to this study in fraudulent glibness which is touching, revealing, and a telling measure of what is behind this man's delusions.
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The Valley Stage - Eugene O'Neill's Hughie at Stage 3 - For Dambacher, finding the new is what always matters, even if the material was written decades ago. “One of the things that makes O'Neill great is the same thing which makes Shakespeare great; the story is about right now. It could be set in any time or place and new events can be discovered with every production. The key is in finding our story beneath the words, what these two men in this hotel lobby at 4 am are doing, physically.”
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The Union Democrat Weekender -New Artistic Director takes Reins at Stage 3 - “If people want something different and new, we welcome them,” he said. “Everybody knows ‘Glass Menagerie,’ but my feeling is if it’s been seen before, you’d better bring something fresh and new to it, or else leave it off the stage. I encourage our directors to bring something fresh that we haven’t seen from that story.”
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