The Maderati - Playwrights Horizons
The Maderati (February 19 through March 1st, 1987)
Written by Richard Greenberg
Directed by Michael Engler
Playwrights Horizons
Role: Ritt
Information: The Unofficial Lenny Von Dohlen Fan Page
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS
Artistic Director Executive Director
Andre Bishop Paul S. Daniels
Presents
THE MADERATI
by
Richard Greenberg
Cast
(in alphabetical order)
Amanda Carlin Patricia Clarkson Philp Coccioletti
Paul Collins Boyd Gaines Mary Joy
Anna Levine David Pierce Lenny Von Dohlen
Set Design by Costume Design by
Phillip Jung Candice Donnelly
Lighting Design by Musical Direction by
Michael Orris Watson Lia Vollack
Press Representative Production Manager Production Stage Manager
Bob Ullman Carl Mulert Melissa Davis
Directed by
Michael Engler
My Playbill is from February, 1987. Mr. Von Dohlen's biography reads:
Lenny Von Dohlen (Ritt) has appeared in Richard Greenberg's Vanishing Act, as Betty/Gerry in Cloud 9, Eben in Desire Under the Elms and as Tom in Asian Shade. Regionally he starred in world premiere of The Team at the Hartman and also in Loot at the Oregon Contemporary Theatre. He made his television debut in "Kent State" and has subsequently starred in "Under the Biltmore Clock," "Don't Touch" and "Tales From the Darkside" among others. His first film role was as Robert, the leader of the band, in the Academy Award winning Tender Mercies. He starred in Electric Dreams and played the title role in the recently released Billy Galvin.
A synopsis of the play from Amazon.com,
Focusing on the self-centered concerns of a rather inbred group of Manhattan "yuppies," the action of the play deals with the ultimately hilarious misunderstandings which arise when one of their number, a frustrated, somewhat overweight and definitely suicidal poet named Charlotte, is temporarily detained in a mental hospital. The news of Charlotte's plight is misunderstood by the couple to whom it is reported (Dewy, an ambitious would-be photographer, and Ritt, her stockbroker husband, who is given to sudden "epiphanies") and assuming that Charlotte has died they eagerly impart this privileged information to the others in their set. This leads to a series of inventive and brightly satiric scenes as the "news" is passed along (with incremental exaggeration) from couple to couple, and culminates in an impromptu get-together honoring the "deceased" at which Charlotte herself shows up as a surprise guest! Among the others involved in the antic doings are a literary couple, Chuck and Rena (who first reported Charlotte's absence); a sexually ambivalent publisher who affects an English accent; a young poet who tends to fall asleep without warning; a man-crazy feminist named Cuddles Molotov; and the current object of her desire, a "hunky" and faithless method actor, Danton, whose primitive grunts apparently have an aphrodisiac effect on the other women present, and whose hilarious obtuseness gives a fine point to the overall irony of the play.
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