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Human Race Theatre to stage thriller
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By Terry Morris,
Staff Writer
2:52 PM Thursday, April 30, 2009
DAYTON — Gloria Hendrix is blind. Three desperate and dangerous men have invaded her apartment in search of a doll loaded with heroin. They will do practically anything to get it.
How it got there is a story. A woman on an international flight asked her husband to hold it because she was afraid she wouldn’t be able to get it through customs. He was left holding the doll.
Anyway, Gloria doesn’t use or sell drugs. She didn’t know there was a stash in her home until the uninvited guests showed up. But she has no intention of meeting their menace by rolling over with no resistance. She is one determined person against three.
That’s the looming conflict in the Frederick Knott stage and screen thriller “Wait Until Dark,” which the Human Race Theatre Company has dusted off for a production that opens Tuesday, May 5, at the Victoria Theatre.
The finale in the 2008-09 Chase Broadway Series is directed by Drew Fracher, whose background in choreographing stage combat attracted him to a play that contains a famous climax.
Fracher, who has directed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati and the Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky and Cincinnati Shakespeare Festivals, helmed “Macbeth,” “Of Mice and Men” and “I Hate Hamlet” for The Human Race.
“Wait Until Dark” was produced on Broadway with Lee Remick as Gloria in 1966, adapted into a movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin in 1967 and was revived on Broadway in 1997 with Marisa Tomei and Quentin Tarantino.
Knott also wrote “Dial M for Murder.”
Fracher’s cast includes: Annie Paul as Susy and Robert K. Johansen as the villain, Roat, Buz Davis and company resident artist Scott Stoney as bad guys Mike Talman and Sgt. Carlino, Bellbrook Middle School student Sydney Elena Schultz as Gloria, Jamie Cordes as Susy’s husband, Sam Hendrix, Daniel C. Britt as policeman 1 and Gregory Hall as policeman 2.
For more information about the cast and other behind-the-scenes information about the production, visit www.victoriatheatre.com.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2377 or tmorris@DaytonDailyNews.com.
How to go
What:The Human Race Theatre production of “Wait Until Dark.”
Where: Victoria Theatre, First and Main streets.
When: May 5-17 at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays.
Tickets: $37-$77, with discounts for groups, senior citizens, students and groups.
Call: (937) 228-3630, (888) 228-3630 or www.ticketcenterstage.
Extra: A free opening night cast party, open to all ticket holders, will follow the Tuesday performance. Location is the Dayton Racquet Club, located on the top floor of the Kettering Tower, Second and Main streets. Food will be served. There will be a cash bar.
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