39 Steps and Four Actors

Being an actor on Broadway is no doubt stressful.  Taking on an eccentric character, remembering lines, attending rehearsals and performing for an audience most nights during the week is enough to make any other job look like piece of cake.  But how about if you were taking on 10 characters in just one play?  This is the task at hand for four Broadway stars when they appear in the new Broadway production of “The 39 Steps.”  The Olivier Award winning thriller-turned-stage comedy opens tonight at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway.

Charles Edwards, Jennifer Ferrin, Arnie Burton and Cliff Saunders are the talented actors who bravely take on this feat of bringing many different characters to live on stage.  All are part of this whodunit, part espionage thriller and part slapstick comedy.  The story begins with the main character Richard Hannay being lured into a world of intrigue by a mysterious woman claiming to be a spy.  When this woman winds up dead in his flat he flees London with the police hot on his trail.  The 39 Steps is based on an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon and the novel that was eventually penned in 1915 by John Buchan.  This was then brought to life on film with the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock movie.  Don’t miss out on all of the action with your pair of The 39 Steps tickets.

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