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have invited four couples to their
fancy suburban home to celebrate
By day, Mark Bernstein toils at his
their wedding anniversary. When the
computer keyboard, programming
first couple arrives, they find the host-
software for Arbor Text in Ann Arbor.
ess missing and the host lying upstairs
Though he might argue that it is not
with a gunshot wound. They try to
an altogether humorless vocation, cer-
hide what they fear is a scandal from
tainly it can't compete with the laugh-
the second couple, who tries to hide it
ter quotient he receives from his after-
from the third, and so on, until all of
hours gig — director of the Neil
the guests are caught in a mad melee
Simon comedy Rumors, opening June
of rumor and misunderstanding.
17 at the Ann Arbor Civic Theater.
What happens when nobody
"After a long day at the office, just
remembers who has been told what
when I think I can't work another
about whom? It's the kind of contem-
minute, I head over to the theater and
porary middle-class farce at which
get a huge energy surge
Simon excels. And if
as soon as we start
you're familiar, as
rehearsing," says
Bernstein is, with the
Bernstein, 43, an Ann
rhythms of fast-paced
Arbor resident, formerly
New York Jewish dia-
of Southfield.
logue, you're in for a
In his AACT director-
particularly good time.
ial debut, Bernstein feels
When not on stage
lucky to be involved with
or in front of his com-
a superb cast of 10 and
puter, Bernstein enjoys
some wonderfully funny
writing and storytelling.
dialogue from one of
His wife, Sharon
America's most popular
Brevoort, is also a pro-
playwrights. "Rtimors is
grammer and sings with
pure comedy," he says.
the Arbor Consort. His
"We crack up all the
son Alan, 19, attends
time."
In Neil Simon's "Rumors," college in Kalamazoo.
Bernstein is no
"My mom was a
directed by Mark
stranger to community
speech
teacher and my
Bernstein for Ann Arbor
theater. He's been per-
wife
performs.
It's great
Civic Theatre, a group of
forming since junior
that
they
can
under-
friends arrive at a fancy
high school, and
stand my passion for
party to find the food
although his classes at
the theater," says
uncooked, their hostess
University of Michigan
Bernstein as he logs
missing and their host
took place mostly in
another 16-hour day of
with a gunshot wound.
computer labs, he "did
computers and comedy.
theater for fun." He's
-- Linda Bachrack
given voice to the chorus in a number
of musicals and played a sleazy
Hollywood director in City of Angels,
The Ann Arbor Civic Theater
as well as having occupied the direc-
presents Neil Simon's Rumors 8
tor's chair for the Ypsilanti Players'
p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, June
Arsenic es, Old Lace.
17-19 and June 24-26; and 2
AACT administrative director Ron
p.m. Sundays, June 20 and 27, at
Baumanis suggested that Bernstein
its playhouse, 2275 Platt Road,
apply for the Rumors director's job.
in Ann Arbor. $16 adult/$14 stu-
Once hired, Bernstein threw himself,
dents/seniors. (734) 971 2228.
heart and soul, into the play. "When
you're performing," he says, "you focus
on your lines, on developing your
character. But as director you must see
the entire show in your head. For eight
"You can take the -boy out of the
weeks, the show has been my life."
'60s, but you can't take the '60s out of
And Rumors s is pure Simon, says
the boy," says Mike Meyers, reprising his
Bernstein. "Doors slam, one-liners fly,
role as that swinging International Man
there's lots of physical humor. Timing
of
Mystery Austin Powers in Austin
is crucial."
Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
The story revolves around a deputy
This time around, the year is 1999
mayor of New York and his wife, who
Rampant 'Rumors
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