Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have THE 39 STEPS, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance!
Over 150 zany characters played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4.
featuring
Resident Artist
BRUCE CROMER
In THE 39 STEPS, a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, THE 39 STEPS amounts to an unforgettable evening of pure pleasure!
“THEATER AT ITS FINEST.” –Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“ABSURDLY ENJOYABLE! THIS GLEEFULLY THEATRICAL RIFF ON HITCHCOCK'S FILM IS FAST AND FROTHY” –Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“THE MOST ENTERTAINING SHOW ON BROADWAY!” –Liz Smith, The New York Post
“RIOTOUS & MARVELOUS” –Clive Barnes, The New York Post
“A GIDDY DISPLAY OF THEATRICAL INVENTION WITH A CRACKERJACK CAST!” –David Rooney, Variety
This brilliant Send-Up is even funnier if you know
the basic plot line of the original 1935 film.
Canadian Richard Hannay is mistakenly implicated in the murder a woman, Annabelle Smith, he met at the music hall while watching an act called Mr. Memory. She admits to being a spy selling herself to the highest bidder and right now, the British were paying the best. She is being followed by foreign agents who are on the verge of smuggling top-secret papers out of the country. In a Hitchcock film, it does not really matter what the papers are, this is the MacGuffin, a red herring that gets the story moving. Taking sanctuary in Hannay’s apartment, Annabelle tells the skeptical Canadian that two men are following her. After looking out his window, seeing two shadowy figures standing out on the street Hannay become’s a believer. Unfortunately, her time is short, as Hannay sleeps; Annabelle is knifed in the back. With Annabelle leaving few details before her death, something about “39 Steps” a map of Scotland with the area known as Alt-na Shellach marked on the map as the location she believes the ring leader of the spies is located, Hannay heads for Scotland with the police on his trail as the accused murderer of Annabelle Smith. Along the way, Hannay ends up handcuffed to Pamela who turns him into the police or so she thought, as they turned out to be foreign agents kidnapping both Hannay and Pamela. The plot leads up back to London and the famed Palladium where Hannay comes to the realization how the foreign agents are going smuggle the secret plans out of the country.
THE ADAPTOR - Patrick Barlow
Barlow (born 18 March 1947) is an English actor, comedian and playwright. His comedic alter ego, Desmond Olivier Dingle, is the founder, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the two-man National Theatre of Brent, which has performed on stage, on television and on radio. His stage adaptation, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps premiered in June 2005 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. After revision, the play opened at London’s Tricycle Theatre in August 2006, and after a successful run transferred to the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly in September 2006. The play also opened on Broadway in early 2008, in Australia by the Melbourne Theatre Company in April 2008 and in Wellington, New Zealand, by Circa Theatre in July/August 2009.
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“THEATER AT ITS FINEST.”
Canadian Richard Hannay is mistakenly implicated in the murder a woman, Annabelle Smith, he met at the music hall while watching an act called Mr. Memory. She admits to being a spy selling herself to the highest bidder and right now, the British were paying the best. She is being followed by foreign agents who are on the verge of smuggling top-secret papers out of the country. In a Hitchcock film, it does not really matter what the papers are, this is the MacGuffin, a red herring that gets the story moving. Taking sanctuary in Hannay’s apartment, Annabelle tells the skeptical Canadian that two men are following her. After looking out his window, seeing two shadowy figures standing out on the street Hannay become’s a believer. Unfortunately, her time is short, as Hannay sleeps; Annabelle is knifed in the back. With Annabelle leaving few details before her death, something about “39 Steps” a map of Scotland with the area known as Alt-na Shellach marked on the map as the location she believes the ring leader of the spies is located, Hannay heads for Scotland with the police on his trail as the accused murderer of Annabelle Smith. Along the way, Hannay ends up handcuffed to Pamela who turns him into the police or so she thought, as they turned out to be foreign agents kidnapping both Hannay and Pamela. The plot leads up back to London and the famed Palladium where Hannay comes to the realization how the foreign agents are going smuggle the secret plans out of the country.
Barlow (born 18 March 1947) is an English actor, comedian and playwright. His comedic alter ego, Desmond Olivier Dingle, is the founder, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the two-man National Theatre of Brent, which has performed on stage, on television and on radio. His stage adaptation, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps premiered in June 2005 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. After revision, the play opened at London’s Tricycle Theatre in August 2006, and after a successful run transferred to the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly in September 2006. The play also opened on Broadway in early 2008, in Australia by the Melbourne Theatre Company in April 2008 and in Wellington, New Zealand, by Circa Theatre in July/August 2009.
