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Gainesville Community Playhouse presents Kong's Night Out

  • When: Friday, February 9, 2024,  8:00 pm
  • Location: Gainesville Community Playhouse, 4039 NW 16th Blvd, Gainesville, Florida 32605
  • Cost: Adult Tickets: $24 | Senior Tickets $20 | Student Tickets $12

Directed by: Pat Thompson
By Jack Neary


You think you know the whole story of the classic 1933 film King Kong? Think again! In the film, Broadway producer Carl Dennam sets out to capture a terrifying forty-foot ape, King Kong --- the bait, beautiful blond actress Ann Farrow. When first mate Jack rescues Ann from the beast, Dennam traps Kong and transports him to Manhattan to star in a Broadway show. But lovelorn Kong has other ideas! He escapes, rampaging throughout the city in search of Ann.
Now here’s the backstory. Producer Myron Siegel’s entire career has been constantly sabotaged by Dennam. So Siegel is furious when he learns that Dennam has booked a “mystery” show to open in the theater next door to where Siegel’s next show will open the very same night. Siegel gathers his entourage—his sassy, ex-stripper, mother, his gangster henchman, his Hungarian backer, and his wide-eyed niece —and concocts a plan to find out what the mystery show is all about and prevent Dennam from ruining his show. As this screwball comedy unfolds there are mistaken identities, pies in the face, cat fights, kidnapping, ape fights, deceit, underhandedness and even some romance, as Siegel and his entourage collide with Dennam, Ann and Jack to save Siegel’s show.

January 26-February 11, 2024 (Preview: January 25)
Thursday, Friday & Saturday Shows at 8 pm | Sunday Shows at 2 pm

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