Noel Coward’s BLITHE SPIRIT

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Winner of the 2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival

This much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous socialite-novelist, Charles Condomine; his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira; one Madame Arcati, the ‘happy medium’ enlisted by Condomine to ‘call up’ new material for his book; and his current wife, Ruth, who accidentally ‘passes over’ as a result. As these (worldly and un-) personalities clash, Charles’ gets more material than he bargained for.

“Can still keep an audience in a state of tickled contentment” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times, 2009. “A world-class comedy” – TheatreMania.com, 2009.

Four months after it’s first production set a performance record in London’s West End in 1941, this smash comedy hit was produced in New York, at Broadway’s Morosco Theatre. Its many manifestations since include movies, television, radio, and the musical, High Spirits.

 

Matt W. Cody as Charles and Amber Nicole Guest as Elvira in Blithe Spirit
Matt W. Cody as Charles and Amber Nicole Guest as Elvira in Blithe Spirit (photo by Bella Muccari)

 

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Matt W. Cody as Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit. (photo by Bella Muccari)
Matt W. Cody as Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit. (photo by Bella Muccari)

 

Amber Nicole Guest as Elvira in Blithe Spirit. (photo by Bella Muccari)
Amber Nicole Guest as Elvira in Blithe Spirit. (photo by Bella Muccari)
Bonnie Wickeraad as Ruth in Blithe Spirit. (photo by Bella Muccari))
Bonnie Wickeraad as Ruth in Blithe Spirit. (photo by Bella Muccari))

THE PLAYERS

Edith Amy Scanlon
Madame Arcati Noelle McGrath*
Mrs. Bradman Patricia Lavin
Dr. Bradman Elliott Mayer*
Ruth Bonnie Wickeraad*
Elvira Amber Nicole Guest*
Charles Matt W. Cody*
*members of Actors’ Equity Assoc.

THE STAFF

Producer Frankie Dailey
Director Sue Glausen
Production Stage Manager Kathleen Parker
Set Designer Olia Rogova
Asst Set Designer Soh-Young Lee
Lighting Designer Andrew Lu
Costume Designer Joey Haws
Sound Designer Jacob Subotnick
Props Designer Sara Slagle