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 Loretta
Swit, Emmy Award Winning Actress stars in
Murder Among Friends at the
Forestburgh Playhouse
Performance Schedule - 7 Performances Only!
Tuesday, August 21 at 8 PM
Wednesday, August 22 at 2 PM and 8 PM
Thursday, August 23 at 8 PM
Friday, August 24 at 8 PM
Saturday, August 25 at 8 PM
Sunday, August 26 at 3 PM
Ticket Prices: Evenings $35 and $42, Matinees
$35
Loretta Swit,
Emmy Award winning star of TV’s M*A*S*H will return to the
Forestburgh Playhouse to star in
Murder Among Friends,
a comedy thriller with enough twists and turns to make
Deathtrap look like a kindergarten pageant! Ms. Swit, an old friend of Playhouse Artistic
Director Ron Nash, has appeared previously at the Playhouse in single
performance benefits of such shows as Shirley Valentine, Doubt, Love
Letters, and The Apple Tree, but this is the first
time that her schedule has permitted her to play a full week run.
Honored
with such recognition as the People’s Choice Award, The Genie Award, The
Silver Satellite Award, The Jean Golden Halo Award and two Emmy Awards,
Loretta Swit is known to a generation of television viewers as
the quickwitted, impassioned Major Margaret Houlihan of television’s
most honored series, “M*A*S*H.” Ms. Swit made her Broadway debut in
Same Time Next Year opposite Ted Bessell, and later appeared in
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, replacing Cleo Laine. She has toured
with national companies of Any Wednesday, and with two companies
of Mame, starring as Agnes Gooch alongside two illustrious “Mames”,
Susan Hayward and Celeste Holm. Between innumerable television and
cinema appearances, she has appeared in over 500 performances of
Shirley Valentine, a role for which she has won Chicago’s most
prestigious theatrical honor, The Sarah Siddons Award. Ms. Swit was
also seen in touring companies of the musical comedy, Song of
Singapore, while continuing to perform select dates of Shirley
Valentine and Love Letters with Anthony Franciosa. Her
television career, aside from “M*A*S*H,” includes over 25 movies,
including the original “Cagney and Lacey,” in which she created the role
of Chris Cagney. Ms. Swit has also sung and danced her way through most
of television’s musical specials, most notably “The Muppet Show,” with
Kermit and Miss Piggy. Each year, she can be seen in the annual specials
“The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” “Miracle At Moreau,” and “A Christmas
Calendar,” aired worldwide during the holidays. Ms. Swit has starred in
such films as Stand Up and Be Counted with Jacqueline Bisset,
Freebie and the Bean with James Caan, and Alan Arkin, Race with
the Devil with Peter Fonda Beer opposite Rip Torn, Blake
Edwards’ S.O.B. with Julie Andrews and William Holden, Whoops
Apocalypse with Peter Cook and Herbert Lom, The Lords of
Tanglewood with Chuck Norris, and Boardheads in which she
co–starred with Bronson Pinchot. Ms. Swit’s wildlife series, “Those
Incredible Animals,” was shown twice weekly on the Discovery Channel for
an amazing five–year run, and now can be seen on Animal Planet, as well
as being aired in over 30 countries. As impassioned about animals as she
is about her career, Ms. Swit is an active board member of the Actors
and Others For Animals, The Wildlife Waystation, the Hooved Animal
Rescue Protection Society (HARPS) and the Ark Trust. She has served as a
spokesperson for the Humane Society of the United States. For her
ceaseless humanitarian efforts, she has been named Woman of the Year by
both the Animal Protection Institute and the International Fund For
Animal Welfare.
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