Theatre 9-12 will present “a tomorrow peek at” Garson Kanin’s famed play Born Yesterday, which originally opened on Broadway in 1946, ran for 1,642 performances until Dec. 31, 1949. Then it was made into a movie with Billie Holliday, Broderick Crawford and William Holden.
“Born Yesterday” is a scathing comedy about the idealism visualized in the United States Constitution corrupted by greed, ignorance, self-service, and disillusion shortly after World War II. Without altering text or era, Theatre9/12 re-interprets this hysterical play paralleling today’s events.
The self-made millionaire, Harry Brock, has thieved his way up the ladder to purchasing Senators. Paul Verral, an international journalist, sidles his way into Brock’s new Washington D.C. circle, endearing himself to the criminal who hires Paul to class up his main squeeze: a “showgirl” of great beauty and no desire to behave properly among the stuffed shirts, nor the effort needed to think.
Born Yesterday, Theatre 9-12-Actor Development. Trinity Parish Hall, 609-8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104 (First Hill) Fri, Sat. 8:00 pm. Sun 2:00 matinée. Mar. 3 to March 26. All shows Pay What You Can. Info: www. theatre912.com