| Left to Right: Michele Barg, Bob Stacy, Jayson Clark, John Denlea, Gene O'Hare, Ray Huth, Merylee Band, Doug Huth |
| About the Show The time is shortly after the end of World War II. Brothers Stanley and Eugene have both been soldiers and are now home with their parents in their Brooklyn house. Aunt Blanche has long ago left the house, and married a man who has gone on to great business success. She is now very wealthy. Kate resents her sister's good fortune and it is one of the sources of tension between them. Meanwhile, the somewhat senile grandfather Ben now lives with the family. He is an old socialist and can be lucid for long moments during the play. Jack has had an affair with a woman of greater education and level of culture than Kate, and Kate finds out about it during the play. In one of the show's big scenes, Eugene talks to Kate about her past, and she tells him about once dancing with movie star George Raft while he was still a young man in Brooklyn, before he made it in Hollywood. Played against all this is the growing success of Stan and Eugene in show business, writing comedy routines for a radio program broadcast in Manhattan. Another big scene is when their first comedy skit airs on the radio, with the family members listening, and becoming upset to hear a comic rendition of their personal trials and tribulations The sketch is a take on a Brooklyn family, much like their own (and Neil Simon's, in this autobiographical comedy.) The New York Daily News called the play "Expectedly funny and unexpectedly moving." BLT CAST: Ray Huth (Stanley Jerome), Jayson Clark (Eugene Jerome), Gene O'Hare (Ben), Doug Huth (Jack Jerome), Merylee Band (Kate Jerome), Michele Barg (Blanche), John Denlea (Announcer), Bob Stacy (Chubby Waters), Michele Barg (Mrs. Pitkin) |
