A reading

Sometimes writers need to hear their plays read aloud by actors to see if they're on the right track. Today a bunch of us gathered at Pearl Studios to read a new farce called FEYDEAU IN LUH. The title refers to the titular character's inability to say the word "love". I played a French theatre manager and a South American priest. Typecast yet again.

The script is by the prolific Jeffrey Haddow and John Driver who wrote a long running Off-Broadway revue called SCRAMBLED FEET which tt and I saw on our first visit to New York in 1980.

Feydeau was read by Robert Petkoff, most recently Sir Evelyn in ANYTHING GOES.

Steve Rosen of GUYS & DOLLS and SPAMALOT played a temperamental South American with hopelessly fractured English.

Deanna Gibson (L) played a french maid and Katherine Puma was Feydeau's wife

Elizabeth Ward Land closed after 20 months in MEMPHIS only last night. She played a glamorous Parisian actress.

Bill Nolte, who played a Russian inventor, is off to star in a regional production of THE  MOST HAPPY FELLA.

Tony Dodge read the stage directions and his wife Marcia Milgrom Dodge directed the reading. Marcia is a good friend who looks out for me and I am extremely grateful for her support and encouragement.