Love, Sex, & the I.R.S.

Directed by Leo Lunser

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Other Programming at the Arts Center...

Past GP Seasons....

2009-2010
The Foreigner
History of the Roses
Not on this Night
The Miracle Worker
Over the River and through the Woods
The Importance of Being Earnest

2008-2009
Nunsense
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
A Christmas Carol
Footloose
Bottoms Up
Love, Sex, and the IRS

2007-2008
Academia Nuts
Two by Two
The Wizard of Oz
We the People
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Our Town

2006-2007
How the Other Half Loves
The Fantasticks
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Into the Woods
The Road to Mecca

2005-2006
Cemetery Club
Little Shop of Horrors
No Sooner Won Than Wed
Laura
Quilters

2004-2005
1776
A Voice of My Own
The Pirates of Penzance
Run For Your Wife
Pippin

See a list of all previous shows!

Show Times: Friday & Saturday nights @ 8 pm, Sunday afternoons @ 3 pm

May 1-3, 8-10, 2009

Written by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore

Try to cheat the IRS and look what happens! Here is a a wild farce with twists of fate, sight gags, mistaken identities and hilarious comic lines. Jon and Leslie are out of work musicians who room together in New York City. To save money, Jon has been filing tax returns listing the pair as a married couple. The day of reckoning comes when the Internal Revenue Service informs the "couple" they're going to be investigated. Directed by Leo Lunser.

The Cast....

Melissa Moore (Kate Dennis) received her Bachelor's degree in Theatre from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2007. She most recently performed in the award winning Caucasian Chalk Circle with The Winni Players last spring. Prior to that she played Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol with The Players Ring. Other previous credits include The Bourgeois Gentleman (Dance Teacher), A Dream Play (Quarantine Master), Marathon 33 (Helen), A History of The American Film (Ma Joad), and Jesus Christ Superstar (Maid by the fire). Melissa is excited to be performing with Garrison Players for the second time, having recently played Victoria in Bottoms Up!.

Rich Salvati (Mr. Jansen) is thrilled to be involved in his fourth production at Garrison Players. Previous roles include The Street Singer in The Madwoman of Chaillot, Sam Craig in Our Town and Roger Hopewell in Musical Comedy Murders of 1940. It's an honor to be working with Leo and such a talented cast. Rich would like to thank all who support the Garrison Players in their efforts to bring quality community theatre to the area.

Phil Hesketh (Leslie Arthur) is glad to be in his second show here at GP, and he's extremely happy to be back at this great little theater! You may remember him from How The Other Half Loves, the last comedy he did here. Phil has been actively involved in Community Theater for thirteen years, mostly in Sanford, ME, and has been in dramas as well as his favorites, farce comedies. Phil has had parts as Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit, Peter in Prelude To a Kiss, and George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life. Comedic shows have included No Sex Please, We're British, Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her, What The Rabbi Saw, and Neil Simons' Rumours.

Seth Mazzaglia (Jon Trachtman) is an alumni of the UNH Theatre program and graduated with his emphasis in Acting and a Minor in Dance. An Actor, Writer and Director in the region, he has been in a great many productions including The Crucible as Reverend Hale, The Glass Menagerie as Tom, Buddy: A Buddy Holly Story as Richie Valens and Beauty and the Beast both as the fight choreographer and the Understudy to the Beast. Always looking for something new and interesting, he is now excited to be a part of Love, Sex and the IRS.

				Bob Boucher (Floyd Spinner) has been involved in all aspects of the theatre since 1984 (yes, 25 years and he still has nothing better to do) and his favorite moments include meeting his wife in Lucky Dollar - the Musical. Bob is happy to be joining the cast and crew in bringing this production to life. He has been involved with the theater for quite a while and has a special place in his heart for the GP family that has accepted him with open arms…whodathunk!?!? Bob's latest endeavor was in GP's production of Bottoms Up in the role of Smith (and still has the bruises to prove it!). Bob wants to thank his family for their support and you, the audience, for your patronage.



		Donna M. Goldfarb (Vivian Trachtman) is happy to be back onstage at Garrison under Leo’s direction. Donna has recently been seen in NH Theatre Project’s ENTR’ACTE, at playreadings for BOLD FACE and for Generic Theatre, and with GET-A-CLUE Productions’ dinner theatres. A performer in New England, NYS, and the Midwest for over 14 years, Donna has had the opportunity to play such wonderful roles as Carlotta (Phantom!), Mother Abbess (Sound of Music), Miss Clairie (Steel Magnolias), Ida (Cemetery Club), and Fraulein Schneider (Cabaret)--for which she received a Best Supporting Actress NH Theatre Award. A cantor, liturgical soloist, and Justice of the Peace, Donna resides in Dover with husband Alan and, is a proud grandma, to boot!

				Tarnya Miller (Connie) lives in South Berwick, Maine and is enjoying her second debut in community Theatre as Connie (this is her first performance with Garrison Players). Her first role as Janice in Those The River Keeps staged in Portsmouth was very well reviewed. She enjoys running and spending time with her family.



		Carol Bitov (Arlene Grunion) is GP’s Marketing Director, but occasionally appears onstage; most recently as Aunt Lulu in Footloose, Leah in Two By Two, and as Mildred in GP’s award-winning Cemetery Club. Other stage credits range from the Baroness in Murder at Rutherford House to Edgar, the son of the Duke of Gloucester in Lear, the Musical. Her favorite roles include Ouiser in Steel Magnolias and the odd Mary in How the Other Half Loves. Carol recently retired from the working world as the Communications Director for the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce and lives in Dover with husband Gadi and their two furry girls, Mitzi and Pixel. “Thanks Leo, for letting me be wild and crazy again!”