YCPTW presents California Suite by Neil Simon

Veteran director, Joel Karpoff will stage YCP TheaterWorks' first offering of its 54th season, Neil Simon’s diverting comedy, California Suite. It will be presented by YCP TheaterWorks Oct. 26, Nov. 1, 2 and 9 at 8:00 pm and Oct. 27, Nov. 3 and 10 at 2:00 pm at the Van Cortlandtville School Theatre, Rt. 6, Mohegan Lake, directly across from the Cortlandt Town Center Shopping Mall. Tickets are $18, adults; $15, seniors and students, at the door. Tickets can be purchased online through PayPal at a discount; $17/$14, by going to our website www.YCPTW.org. Group rates are available.

In Visitor from New York, Hannah Warren (Susan Bond) is a Manhattan Workaholic who flies to Los Angeles to retrieve her teenage daughter Jenny after she leaves home to live with her successful screenwriter father William (Jonathan Nelson). The bickering divorced couple is forced to decide what living arrangements are best for the girl.

Conservative middle-aged businessman Marvin Michaels (Gary Simon) is the Visitor from Philadelphia, who awakens to discover a prostitute named Bunny (Liliana Ardaix) unconscious in his bed after consuming a bottle of vodka. With his wife Millie (Jacqueline Smith) on her way up to the suite, he must find a way to conceal all traces of his uncharacteristic indiscretion.

The Visitors from London are British actress Diana Nichols (Elise Godfrey), a first-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and her husband Sidney (Ed Fonzo), a once-closeted antique dealer who increasingly has become indiscreet about his sexual orientation. The Oscar is an honor that could jumpstart her faltering career, although Diana knows she doesn't have a chance of winning. She is in deep denial about the true nature of her marriage of convenience, and as she prepares for her moment in the spotlight, her mood fluctuates from hope to panic to despair.

The Visitors from Chicago are two affluent couples who are best friends. Stu Franklyn (Jonathan Nelson) and his wife Gert (Karen Symington Muendell) and Mort Hollender (Bruce Apar) and his wife Beth (Enid Breis) are taking a much-needed vacation together. Things begin to unravel quickly when Beth is hurt during a mixed doubles tennis match and Mort accuses Stu of having caused her injury by lobbing the ball.