Written by Paul Slade Smith

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Brad Bellamy (Mayor Meekly) was formerly Chairman of the members’ council of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and an artist-in-residence at Manhattan Punch Line. He most recently appeared off-Broadway in Alphabetical Order and before that in the Drama Desk nominated So Help Me God.  He has performed at the Cape Playhouse in Thumbs, Beard of Avon, Corpse, and Born Yesterday.  Other regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Atlanta’s Alliance, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre Center, Long Wharf, and The Denver Center. Film appearances include “Ira and Abby,” “The Spring in Her Step,” “Burning Point,” and “The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle.” On television he has been the special musical guest on ABC’s “On the Edge,” with Rodney Dangerfield, in “It’s Not Easy Being Me,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Conviction,” “30 Rock,” various soaps, and in commercials for AARP, Snickers, Sprint, Nabisco, and many others.

Jennifer Cody (Billie Dwyer) returns to the Cape for the fourth season coming directly from the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s World premier play, In The Mood. She was last seen as the Italian stewardess in Boeing Boeing, Maggie in Lend Me A Tenor, and Rosalind in Moon Over Buffalo. She has performed in over 15 Broadway and off-Broadway shows including: Shrek, Pajama Game, Taboo, Urinetown, Seussical, The Wild Party, Beauty and the Beast, Grease, Cats, No, No, Nanette (Encores), Best Little Whorehouse, Henry and Mudge, Junie B Jones…Kevin Kline Award Winner. Drama League nominee. IRNE award nominee.  TV/Film: Annie Award Winner (Voice Acting Oscar) for the role of Charlotte LaBouff in Disney’s “The Princess and The Frog”. Voice of Darcy in the upcoming Nickolodeon cartoon “Winx” and Lucy in “Robot and Monster”, “Rosie Live,” “American Dad,” “Law & Order.”

Suzanna Hay (Mary Meekly) Broadway: Dance of Death with Sir Ian McKellan and David Strathairn, A Month in the Country with Helen Mirren, Whose Life is it Anyway? with Mary Tyler Moore. Film & TV: “Three Windows,” “The Dissection of Thanksgiving,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Kidnapped,” “Guiding Light,” “As the World Turns,” “One Life to Live.” Off-Broadway: Fool for Love directed by Sam Shephard, Flight, A Case of You. Regional: Dearly Departed (Dramalogue Award), To Kill a Mockingbird (Carbonell Award Nomination), Macbeth, and Crimes of the Heart among many others, including over 25 productions with the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Suzanna is a graduate of LAMDA and is married to actor Brad Bellamy.

Dee Hoty (Karen Brown) has earned three Tony nominations for her starring roles in Footloose, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Will Rogers Follies. Other Broadway: Bye, Bye Birdie, Mamma Mia!, City of Angels (Outer Critics Circle Nomination), Me and My Girl, Big River, The Five O' Clock Girl, Shakespeare's Cabaret. Tours: 9 to 5, Doctor Dolittle, Mamma Mia!, Will Rogers Follies (Jefferson Award), Barnum with Stacy Keach. Off-Broadway: Personals, Vanities, Forbidden Broadway. Regional: St. Louis Rep, Hartford Stage, Cape Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, Paper Mill, O'Neill Conference, Bay Street, Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, Goodspeed, Ford's, 5th Ave Theatre, George Street, Kay Thompson in Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne (Barrymore Award, LA Ovation Award), Phyllis in Papermill’s Follies (released on CD), Dodsworth with Hal Linden. Workshop productions: Dangerous Beauty and Night of the Hunter. TV/Film: “The Understudy,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies,” “Untold West,” “Harry and Walter Go to New York,” “Models Inc.,” “St. Elsewhere,” “Spenser: For Hire,” “The Equalizer.” Recurring roles on “Law & Order,” “Capital,” “Ryan’s Hope,” “Guiding Light,” “As the World Turns.” Proud Equity member since 1976. Otterbein College graduate. www.deehoty.com

Michael McGrath (Agent Frank) last appeared at the Cape Playhouse as Harry Brock in Born Yesterday. Also at the Playhouse he was seen as Groucho in Hollywood/Ukraine and Pseudolus in Forum. Broadway: Born Yesterday, Memphis, Spamalot (Tony and Drama Desk award nominations), Is He Dead?, Wonderful Town, Little Me, Swinging on a Star (Theatre World Award winner, Drama Desk nom.), The Goodbye Girl, My Favorite Year, also Follies, The Boys from Syracuse, and DuBarry was a Lady at City Center Encores. Off-Broadway: The Cocoanuts, The Butter, and Egg Man, Game Show, Louisiana Purchase, and Forbidden Broadway. Michael is thrilled to be back on the Cape (working vacation) where he can spend time at the McGrath compound in West Yarmouth with family and friends from Worcester.

John Scherer (Eric Sheridan) is happy to return to the Cape Playhouse where he has previously been seen in Boeing Boeing, Moon Over Buffalo, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The World Goes Round, My One and Only, 42nd Street, and Dames at Sea. He has appeared on Broadway in Lovemusik, By Jeeves, Sunset Boulevard, The Most Happy Fella (NYC Opera), and the Actors Fund benefit performances of Funny Girl. He was in the original cast of 3hree, directed by the legendary Harold Prince. Off-Broadway credits include Olympus on My Mind and Dames at Sea. He has toured nationally in White Christmas, 42nd Street, Cats, Hello, Dolly!, and Mame. He won critical acclaim for his performance as George M at the Goodspeed Opera House. Other regional credits include the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Ahmanson Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, and many others. Television appearances include “Crossing Jordan,” The Shield,” “Law & Order” (all three series), “Titus,” and “Guiding Light.”

Jeremy Webb (Todd) New York: Reading Under The Influence (DR2), Photograph 51 (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theatre), BFF (DR2), The Baltimore Waltz (Signature Theatre), Tabletop (The Working Theater, Drama Desk Award), Summer ‘69 (Fairbanks), The Royal Family of Broadway (Workshop) Dance of The Vampires (Workshop). Also Williamstown Theater Festival, New York Stage and Film, Long Wharf, McCarter, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Old Globe, the Cape Playhouse, and The Hangar. TV and Film: “Law & Order” (Guest Star), “Law & Order Criminal Intent” (twice), “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Guiding Light,” and “Love Walked In” (Feature). Graduate of the Drama School, University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

James Brennan (Director) Jim has directed productions of Student Prince, Into the Woods, Crazy for You, Sound of Music, and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change for Pittsburgh CLO, a Call Me Madam at the Goodspeed Opera House, Regrets Only, Moonlight and Magnolias, On Your Toes, Noises Off, Don’t Dress For Dinner, Hollywood/Ukraine, Boeing, Boeing, and A. R. Gurney’s The Dining Room for the Cape Playhouse on Cape Cod. He directed the off-Broadway premieres of Ed Dixon’s musicalizations of the ribald 16th century novel “Fanny Hill” at the York Theatre, and Richard Corey, based on the Gurney play of the same name, at The Lion Theatre in NYC. Jim was responsible for the first full production in the NYC area of A Wonderful Life, by Sheldon Harnick and Joe Raposo, as well as The New York Philharmonic’s acclaimed production of My Fair Lady at Lincoln Center.  He has created the Paper Mill Playhouse productions of Kiss Me Kate, She Loves Me, Oklahoma!, Noises Off, Sound of Music, and Crazy for You (which was telecast on PBS), as well as a Where’s Charley? in Wichita, a 42nd Street, Crazy For You, and a Hello, Dolly! in Sacramento, Crazy for You’s in Atlanta,  Sacramento, Westchester, and Wichita, a Drowsy Chaperone at the Surflight Theatre, and She Loves Me in Philadelphia and Maine. On Broadway, he directed and choreographed the revivals of Cole Porter’s Jubilee and Jerome Kerns Sally. He has over the years, in various stock and dinner theatres, directed and choreographed productions of Chicago, Cabaret, The Merry Widow, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Bells Are Ringing, George M, The Apple Tree, and High Button Shoes among others. Quite recently, he has been an Artist-in-Residence at both Otterbein College and Oklahoma University.  As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in Good News, Rodgers and Hart, So Long 174th Street, I Love My Wife, Little Me, 42nd Street, Singin’ In The Rain, Me And My Girl, and Crazy for You. He toured America in No, No, Nanette, Good News, Me and My Girl, Camelot, and Crazy for You. Jim has played Elyot Chase in Private Lives at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady in Philadelphia, Sacramento, Wichita, and Winnipeg (and an Alfred P. Doolittle in Portland and Dallas), King Arthur in Camelot in San Diego, Sacramento, Philadelphia (Barrymore nomination), and at the Paper Mill Playhouse, John Adams in 1776 in Sacramento, Rochester, and Philadelphia (Barrymore Award), and both the Devil in Damn Yankees and Pseudolus in …Forum in both Sacramento and Wichita.  When he’s been directing for a while, he misses acting…and vice versa.

Ray Klausen (Scenic Designer) has designed over 350 productions. Broadway: Burn the Floor. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Liza’s at the Palace, On Golden Pond, Brooklyn The Musical, Big River, Comedy Tonight, Waiting in the Wings, and Bea Arthur on Broadway, plus numerous Off-Broadway shows including Pete ‘n Keely, My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish, and I’m in Therapy, Inventing Avi, Yank!, The Pretty Trap, and The Shoemaker. Other New York City Productions: My Fair Lady at Avery Fisher Hall, My Favorite Broadway at Carnegie Hall and City Center. Regional theater: The Mark Taper Forum (5 shows), St Louis Rep (3), The Kennedy Center (6), Prince Music Theatre (2), Reprise! in Los Angeles (3) and The Dallas Summer Musicals. Future productions: Yank! – Broadway, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Boeing Boeing at The Riverside Theatre, Vero beach Florida and Cold as Ice – pre Broadway, Toronto. Other productions: Jazz Leggs in Berlin, Jubilee! at Bally’s Grand in Las Vegas and Hello Hollywood, Hello! at the MGM Grand in Reno. His television credits include sets for the “Tonys,” the “Night of 100  Stars,” “The Academy Awards” plus sets for Cher, Diana Ross, Martha Graham, Michael Jackson, Liza Minneli, Ann-Margret, Elton John, Princess Grace, Barbra Streisand,  Madonna and yes, even Elvis. He is the recipient of numerous awards including 3 Emmy Awards and has been named to the Hoffman Eminent Scholar chair at Florida State University. Web sites: rayklausen.com and sculptor.rayklausen.com

Meganne George (Costume Designer) Broadway: A Wonderful Life (Actors' Fund Benefit). Off-Broadway: Mabou Mines' Finn (NYSCA Commission Grant Recipient), Red Beads, DollHouse (also National and International tours), and Cara Lucia (American Theatre Wing Hewes Award Nomination); adobe theatre's Superpowers and Orpheus and Eurydice, Children of Ararat, Two Little Indians. New York: Costumes for Lee Breuer’s Pataphysics Penyeach and Suma Dramatica, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (FringeNY Outstanding Costume Design), Go-Go Kitty, Go!, Robin Becker Dance, Maffei Dance Company, Sal LaRussa Dance Theatre and Nicholas Andre Dance Theatre; Sets for Little Suckers (New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination). Opera: Sets for Susannah, The Consul, La Traviata, La Boheme, l'Equivico Stravagante (American premiere), Dido and Aeneas, The Merry Widow; Production Design for The Tender Land, Don Pasquale and Orphee aux Enfers. Film: Costumes for Mabou Mines DollHouse, Production Design for Don't Nobody Love the Game (featured on PBS's Independent Lens), Katinka, Das Kapital. International: Choephorae (World premiere, 2006 European Capital of Culture, Patras, Greece), Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth By Day and A Prelude to a Death in Venice (Kilkenny Arts Festival).   She is also designing costumes and sets for Lee Breuer's new piece, The Crucifixion Project.  www.megannegeorgedesigns.com 

Paul Slade Smith (playwright) was named one of "50 To Watch" ("writers of exceptional merit and promise") by The Dramatist magazine in 2007. Paul turned to writing after fifteen years as an actor in Chicago, where his credits include the Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Marriott, Drury Lane, Apple Tree and Royal George Theatres. As a performer, he has been honored with a Chicago After Dark Award, and two Joseph Jefferson Award nominations. Unnecessary Farce, his second play, is making its way around the country, from Pennsylvania to Texas, with seven productions or planned productions since its 2006 premiere at Michigan’s BoarsHead Theatre. Paul’s first play, Hymn & Carol, premiered at Chicago’s Shattered Globe Theatre, and will be seen this season at the BoarsHead. His original song from that show, “Mary’s Lullaby”, was included on the CD Broadway’s Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure 2007. Paul left Chicago to join the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera, which he left to join the national tour of Wicked, which he has yet to leave. He dedicates Unnecessary Farce to Erin, who’s in this play, in every sense, and to his Mom and Dad, with gratitude and love. Paul is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and Actors’ Equity Association.

Actors' Equity Association ("AEA" or "Equity"), founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 48,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans, for its members.  Actors' Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.