Falconbridge Players will present The Butter and Egg Man by George S. Kaufman, on Tuesday, November 28 at 7:00pm. Free admission, RSVP at Eventbrite. Doors open at 6:30pm
The Butter and Egg Man (1925): A comedy about hitting it big on Broadway when everything’s stacked against you, and the only play that George S. Kaufman wrote solo. (His later collaborators included Moss Hart, Ring Lardner, Edna Ferber, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, and others.)
Now she wants a butter an' egg man
From way out in the west
She wants somebody who's workin' all day
So she's got money when she wants to play
Before Mel Brooks' The Producers, there was George S. Kaufman’s The Butter and Egg Man, a tale about Peter Jones, a rube with more money than sense. Jones travels from the wilds of Ohio to New York City hoping to turn an investment stake into a fortune. Theatrical moguls Joe Lehman and Jack McClure think he’s just the sucker they’ve been waiting for. They're right and they're wrong, and finding out how provides all of the fun in this classic comedy.