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Blog Entry 120 of 190 From the mountains to 6th Avenue

Many Evergreeners commute. It's been described as a commuter community. Accurate. So there is an etiquette to commuting. The first rule: Leave early. Even if you depart for a 9 to five job at 6:30 a.m., you will not be alone. If you like being alone on the highway, go to Montana. The second rule: Leave early If you don't get off til 5 p.m., take a book on tape, because you will be sitting in traffic near Federal and 6th, and entertainment of any kind is helpful. There are polite drivers, like me, who let others sneak in, especially in merge lanes. I try. You probably do too. The one thing I have decided that will not happen to me is that I will not be mangled in a car wreck on 6th Avenue or I-70 in either direction. What do you do to keep this promise to yourself?

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Contributed by: Karen Groves/YourHub.com on 3/18/2007

Len Matheo is a perfect buffoon in Evergreen Players production of Moon over Buffalo by Ken Ludwig. Matheo easily changes character, as any good actor can, from the slobbering unfaithful husband of Charlotte, to the regal demanding, albeit nosey, Cyrano de Bergerac in his role as the way off-Broadway actor George Hay.

In the performance I saw March 17, there is not a moment that languishes.
A tightly written play, the actors have perfected the essence of what makes comedy tick: Timing.

From a raised eyebrow of Matt Bachus, who plays the slightly naive Paul, to the mountain range of inflections in Patrick Collins's voice, it is a well rehearsed and wonderfully acted play about a theatre family that doesn't care if they dysfunctional, because they're actors . . . of course they're dysfunctional.

You're expected to be unfaithful, alcoholic and zany. After all, it's so much fun. If only it didn't have to be in Buffalo, which, as Roz says, "is like Scranton, without the charm."

When George and Charlotte's daughter, played with gusto by dark-haired beauty, Haley Johnson, returns home to introduce her fiance (played by Collins) she's eager to prove she has a life outside the theater, a normal life.

That is until she's drawn back into family life and everything unravels into a series of farcical incidents and misunderstandings, where characters are seen, then not seen, going and coming through one of the five doors on the set.

Grandma Ethel is hard of hearing, the acting couple's lawyer, Richard, is lonely and the TV weatherman Roz brings home has his own set of problems.

It's a delightful play directed by Bernie Cardell that made the audience laugh even harder in the second act.

It runs weekends through April 1. For information, go to www.evergreenplayers.org

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