Newtown Arts Company Opens 2015 Season With "Come Blow Your Horn"

The Newtown Arts Company presents “Come Blow Your Horn” for the opening of the 2015 season.

The play, which was Neil Simon’s first Broadway comedy, runs from April 9 through April 15 at the historic Newtown Theatre on North State Street in Newtown.

In 2006, “Come Blow Your Horn” was the first live show to appear on the Newtown Theatre stage since the 1930s. John Rasiej of Wycombe, who directed the production then, returns to direct again.

“It was great to fill Newtown theatre with so much laughter from a live stage production for one special gala night in 2006 to prove live theatre could flourish here,”Rasiej said in a press release. “The play deserves a full run so more people can appreciate Neil Simon’s genius portrayal of family dynamics that trigger roll-on-the-floor laughs while resonating with the off-beat love and quirky family dynamics we all face in one way or another.”

“Come Blow Your Horn” is about two brothers (played by Joey Joyce of Langhorne and Ronnie Palmieri of Willow Grove) living a carefree bachelor’s lifestyle in Manhattan, frustrating their father (played by DJ Holcombe of Yardley) who is upset about the older brother’s mentoring, and the loss of an important business account.

The young men’s mother (played by Jane Landes of Newton) and the older brother’s two girlfriends (played by Sarah Vohn of Yardley and Cynthia Reynolds of Bordentown, NJ) add even more comedy to the production.

Newtown’s Nancy Pickering is the play’s producer and Natalie Chernicoff is the Stage Manager. Debby DerDerian of Holland is the Costume Designer.

Show times are 7:30 p.m. on opening night, April 14 and April 15; 8 p.m. on April 10 and April 11; and 3 p.m. on April 11. The theatre will be dark on Monday, April 13.

Tickets for reserved front orchestra and front row balcony seats are $20l reserved rear orchestra and balcony seats are $17. Extended legroom seating is available in Row 1 for an additional accommodation feed. Groups of 10 or more qualify for a $2 discount.

Ticket are available by credit card by calling 800-838-3006 or online at www.mewtownartscompany.com (service fee applies). Tickets can also be purchased at the box office, beginning one hour before curtain on performance dates.

For more information call 215-860-7058.

(Photo/The Baker family, from left, Mom (Jane Landes of Newtown), Dad (DJ Holcombe of Yardley), Alan (Ronnie Palmieri of Willow Grove) and Buddy (Joey Joyce of Langhorne) keep the laughs coming in the Newtown Arts Company production of “Come Blow Your Horn,” Neil Simon’s first Broadway comedy.