To the Editor:

“Moon Over Buffalo,” directed by Thom Watson, is now playing at the Chocolate Church, the Studio Theatre’s final show of the season.

It’s a great one. This is the story of a couple of actors with big ambitions and waning careers working with a small repertory company in Buffalo with dreams of returning to Hollywood for those last big roles. They come close to getting there.

The leads are played by Wayne Otto and Tamara Lilly. They are gifted comics that manage to make mugging look perfectly natural. Wayne is physically marvelous as he stumbles his way through the plot’s twists, and adds the occasional big fall.

April Purinton, a Studio Theatre regular, brings all the right touches to her role as the long suffering daughter who is trying to escape show biz. Clay Hawks ably plays the hapless fiancé who finally realizes that theater people are a different breed. Amanda Bobbe is the ingénue with the big problem carries it off with aplomb and Colin Kelley eloquently mixes lawyering and loving in a key role.

It’s always good to see Max Ater. He’s the guy who tries to hold the whole thing together as the ex-boyfriend whose love of theater trumps everything.

Check it out for yourself.

Debby Hayden
Bath