Shear Madness
Now Playing at New World Stages NYC
Seen by over eleven million people worldwide, this wildly popular comedy keeps every audience laughing as they try to outwit the suspects and catch the killer. New clues and up to the minute improvisation deliver a different show every night. Shear Madness is one of the longest-running non-musical plays in the world.
It’s been voted Best Comedy of the Year eight times in Boston and Best Play of the Year in both Chicago and Philadelphia. It’s even listed in the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS as the longest-running play in the history of the USA. Now, at long last, Shear Madness has made its long-awaited, first-ever arrival in New York at New World Stages.
The play is set in a unisex hair salon in the city in which it plays. The landlady, Isabel Czerny, who lives above the shop is murdered and the audience gets involved in the action by questioning the actors and attempting to solve the crime. The characters include a flamboyant hairdresser and his flirty yet ditzy assistant, along with a prim and proper uptight older lady, and an older man who is a used antique dealer. Much of the dialogue is improvised by the actors, and the humor tends to revolve around topical references to current events.
The ending of the play is different every night as audience members hear clues, question the characters, and then vote on who they think is guilty.
New York Cast
Jordan Ahnquist- Tony
Adam Gerber – Mike
Jeremy Kushnier – Eddie
Kate Middleton – Barbara
Patrick Noonan – Nick
Lynne Wintersteller – Mrs. Shubert
Mary Ann Conk – Understudy
Ethan Dubin – Understudy
Creative
Paul Portner – Author
Bruce Jordan – Director
Marilyn Abrams – Creator, Original Producer
Bruce Jordan – Creator, Original Producer
William E. Cotton – Scenic & Lighting Designer
Rodney Harper – Costume Coordinator/Wardrobe Supervisor
Bruce Landon Yauger – Sound Designer
Danny Maly – Production Stage Manager
