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Through June 20: "Plaza Suite"

Olympia Little Theatre

PLAZA SUITE: Mustaches were as sexy in 1968 as they are today.

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Neil Simon's Plaza Suite debuted in 1968, four months before I was born, so it was probably inevitable that I found myself contemplating the passage of time as I watched Olympia Little Theatre's revival.  In three acts, each of which take place in Suite 719 of the Plaza Hotel in New York City, we meet seven hotel guests.  Two of those guests, Karen and Sam Nash, are over two decades into a faltering marriage; she brought her husband to the site of their honeymoon in an effort to reignite their fading flame.  In Act II, Hollywood producer Jesse Kiplinger labors to seduce Muriel Tate, a young married woman from his hometown.  And in the final, most intensely comic act, Roy and Norma Hubley beg their daughter to come out of the bathroom and get married downstairs.

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Plaza Suite

Through June 20, 7:55 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 1:55 p.m. Sunday, $10-$12
Olympia Little Theatre, 1925 Miller Ave. NE, Olympia
360.786.9484

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