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ELMHURST HIGH SCHOOL IS STAGING GOD’S FAVORITE

November 7, 2007September 2, 2017 The Waynedale News Staff

The cast of Neil Simon’s comedy, God’s Favorite (front) Paul Berghoff, Nathan Krueckeberg, Becca Coffelt, (middle) Sarah Smith, Kurtis Plohr, (back) Jayson Barrand, Jordan Plohr, Liz Jones.

Neil Simon created a joke-filled play while maintaining the integrity of the setting from the Book of Job by turning suffering into awesomely funny. The Long Island mansion of a super-successful businessman, his jewelry-loving wife, a party-loving son, and a set of twins playing “ditto” are all met by a messenger from God testing our comic version of Job to renounce Him or suffer. Tests are extreme: the house burns, his wife threatens to leave him, his oldest son becomes a drunk, and the twins represent double nothing. Physical tests are next with itching, tennis elbow, neuralgia then,…well, worse.

“Awesomely funny…The work of a man of vision. It’ll make you laugh out loud.” N. Y. Daily News.

Performance dates are Friday, November 2 and Saturday, November 3, 2007 on stage at Elmhurst at 7:30 PM. Tickets are available at the door for students at $5 and adults at $7. Director Rosy Ridenour. Technical director Don Goss.

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