The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing but slovenly.  Sources vary as to the origins of the play. Most sources claim that Simon was inspired to write the play when he saw his brother Danny Simon and theatrical agent Roy Gerber living together after recent divorces. However, in the Mel Brooks biography It’s Good to Be the King, author James Robert Parish claims that the play came about after Simon observed Brooks, in a separation from his first wife, living with writer Speed Vogel for three months. Vogel later wrote that Brooks had insomnia, “a brushstroke of paranoia,” and “a blood-sugar problem that kept us a scintilla away from insanity.”

PERFORMANCE DATES: February 6 – March 1, 1997

CAST:  Speed – Paul D. Marshall, Murray – Mark Mahieu, Roy – David Cox, Vinnie – Pete Bethke, Oscar Madison – Jim Johnson, Felix Ungar – Kent Ross, Gwendolyn Pigeon – Sarah Simpson,  Cecily Pigeon – Darleen Clifton Smith

CREW: Director – Don Steele, Stage Manager – Jason Keezer, Costume Design – Dee Miller

MENU: Minestrone, baked pork chops, corn, scalloped potatoes, cornbread muffins, cheesecake.  Catering provided by Brona Love, Dee Miller, Linda Owens, Denis Ann Bamberger, Alisa Nickel, Deanan Johnston, Kathy Morgan, Liz Riegel, Mischell Miller, Monica Mills

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