Blue Ridge Community Theatre: The Prisoner of Second Avenue

The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon (PG-13) Directed by Sonia Smith

Mel Edison is a well-paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm, which has suddenly hit the skids, and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment being paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors private lives, things can’t seem to get any worse…Then he’s robbed, and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a nervous breakdown and it’s the best thing that ever happened to him…

“A gift for taking a grave subject and, without losing sight of its basic seriousness, treating it with hearty but sympathetic humor…A talent for writing a wonderful funny line…full of humor and intelligence. Fine fun.” – New York Post

Thursday through Saturday productions are at 7:30 P.m.

Sunday productions are at 2:30 p.m.

For more info or to buy tickets, go to blueridgecommunitytheater.com