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James Cougar Canfiled plays Paul, who tinkles on the piano, with Georgia Fender - seen earlier in the Cabaret’ s “Savannah Sipping Society” and “The Marvelous Wonderettes” - playing his wife Laura.Ĭhristopher David Roche, most interested in his after-show date, plays Alex, with Kirstena Walz, as Debbie, who wonders how she can play her big love scene with a telephone. The couple, whose divorce is off-again, on-again during the show’s opening night performance are the Beckers. Farrington, as Tony Langdon, the has-been playwright, whose hysterical direction turns the show into a shambles. Working up a sweat literally and figuratively is David M.

The zaniest performance is Galen Monk’s school janitor Benny, who after initial reluctance, eagerly assumes his role as Johnny Chicago.

Though set in the present, there is a funny, off-handed remark about 1930 - or just a few years before the outbreak of WWII. The answer: having the role of the tough criminal Johnny Chicago now played by the janitor, while the accommodating butler is also replaced - by a telephone.Īlthough “Tarnished Silver” is written as a tragedy in “four searing acts,” “Footlight Frenzy” is presented by Millbrook’s talented cast in two acts, with a running time of slightly more than 90 minutes. It’s a “show within a show” that gives the Millbook audience a peek from the back of the stage, peering out towards the (imaginery) audience, which happens to include producer David Merrick.Īdding to the early chaos is two would-be actors calling in to tell the frazzled director, who also penned ” Tarnished Silver,” that they’re not showing up. That’s because the small cast ripping and tearing back forth with their frantic movements resembling dancing features a bit of singing and a little jazz incorporated into the loony script. “Footlight Frenzy,” despite not be a musical, has “Music by” and a “Choreographer” credited in the program.