"MOVIE, MOVIE' by Thomas Meehan

      

PUNCH 59 is proud to perform  "Movie, Movie", written by Thomas Meehan, Tony Award Winner and writer of the stage versions of The Producers, Annie, Young Frankenstein, and 
Cry-Baby, as part of its sketch comedy repertoire. 

Originally published in the New Yorker, "Movie, Movie" features the characters Bonnie and Clyde, who meet "in Coney Island; in shadows and fog; rain...", and their ensuing dialogue consists only of movie titles. 

"Movie, Movie" was adapted for the stage by Jen Ryan ("The Imaginary, All-True Leni Riefenstahl Show"). Another of Mr. Meehan's New Yorker essays, "Yma Dream", was performed by Anne Bancroft in her Emmy award winning 1970 TV special "Annie - The Women In The Life of a Man". 

"Movie, Movie" features Ms. Ryan as Bonnie and Adam P. Murphy as Clyde, and is directed by Rik Sansone. 


"I contacted Mr. Meehan after reading the essay in hopes of adapting it for the stage," says Ms. Ryan, "and much to my surprise he gave me his enthusiastic approval." 

Thomas Meehan received his first Tony Award in 1977 for writing the book for Annie, his Broadway debut, and subsequently won for The Producers (2001) and Hairspray (2002). He is the writer of the Broadway versions of Cry-Baby. Young Frankenstein, I Remember Mama, Aint' Broadway Grand, and Bombay Dreams. Mr. Meehan is a long-time contributor of humor to The New Yorker, an Emmy Award-winning writer of television comedy, and a collaborator on a number of screenplays including Mel Brooks' Spaceballs and To Be or Not to Be.