After collaborating on multiple productions together, theater veterans Diane Hill and Barbie Amann Weisserman decided to form their own company – one focused on providing opportunities for women in theatre while promoting female artists and artisans. Together, they are the two muses behind Two Muses Theatre.
Last fall’s inaugural production of The Odd Couple (with female leads) proved that the combo works.
Now they’re back with their second production, Bernard Slade’s romantic comedy, Same Time Next Year, presented in the Barnes & Nobel theatre space in West Bloomfield. The show runs February 3-19, in time for a romantic Valentine’s date. But if you go, be sure to bring your sense of humor – this is not a typical romance. Granted, the couple in this play have been in love for 25 years …and are happily married. The twist is, they are married to other people.
This is the story of George and Doris, who meet in 1951, fall instantly in love, and agree to meet once a year, every year thereafter.
Back in 1975, the show was nominated for the ‘Best Play’ Tony Award with stars Ellen Burstyn (who won the Tony Award for Best Actress) andCharles Grodin. It was later made into a popular film starring Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda.
This Two Muses production features co-founder Diane Hill as Doris, a role she tackled in a dinner theatre production 25 years ago, and happily returns to with more life experience behind her interpretation. Veteran actor Aaron Alpern, who recently appeared at Meadow Brook Theatre in Something Wicked This Way Comes, plays George.
Same Time Next Year is directed by Nancy Kammer of Grosse Pointe Park. ‘I hope it will be an interesting ride for the audience as they see the decades from l951-1975 reflected in the behavior and relationship of two people who are able to value their own lives more for having the special time every year with one who truthfully, deeply, cares,’ says Kammer.
‘Same Time, Next Year is not just a play about two people having an affair,’ says Hill. ‘These two people fall in love, and they don't take the impact of this lightly. They develop a deep bond and, as a result of this relationship, they are able to be better people in their own marriages.’
You can catch Same Time Next Year in the Barnes and Noble Booksellers Theatre Space, 6800 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield, MI 48322 (south of 15 mile in West Bloomfield. Enter the bookstore and the theatre is on the left.)
Advance tickets are $18 for Adults; $15 for Students and Senior citizens 62 years and older; tickets are $2 more when purchased at the door. Tickets can be purchased online or by calling 248.850-9919. All tickets are for general admission seating; the house opens 30 minutes prior to performance.
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