Raleigh Little Theatre Review
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by Robert W. McDowell
February 17, 2011
Stellar RLT Cast Makes "The Man Who Came to Dinner" Sparkle
Amy Flynn as Lorraine Sheldon and David Anthony Wright
as Sheridan Whiteside in "The Man Who Came to Dinner"
This weekend and next, a stellar community-theater cast, under the sure-handed guidance of long-time Raleigh Little Theatre artistic director Haskell Fitz-Simons, will delight RLT audiences with their effervescent version of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's classic 1939 screwball comedy, The Man Who Came to Dinner.
David Wright is a stitch as nationally known radio broadcaster and waspish wit Sheridan Whiteside, a curmudgeon's curmudgeon who becomes a real pain in the patootie when he reluctantly agrees to have dinner at the home of irascible Mesalia, OH factory owner Ernest W. Stanley (Phil Crone) and his sociable wife, Daisy (Kate Tonner), slips on their icy doorstep afterwards, injures his hip, and must convalesce for weeks in the Stanley household. As is his want, Whiteside imperiously takes over the first floor of the Stanley domicile, banishes his hosts and their progeny to the upper stories, and temporarily relocates the three-ring circus that is his life to rural Ohio.
Read the rest of the review at Triangle Arts and Entertainment.
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