Rebecca Gilman’s Chiller “Boy Gets Girl” to Thrill Hollywood Audiences

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Rebecca Gilman’s Chiller “Boy Gets Girl” to Thrill Attic Audiences

The Attic Theatre and Film Centre located at 5429 W. Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016, will present Rebecca Gilman’s chilling thriller “BOY GETS GIRL”. The play opens at the Attic on Friday, May 25th, plays Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM through June 30th 2007. Tickets are $20.00, with Student and Senior discounts available. Call (323) 525-0600 Ext 2# for tickets and information.

The title suggests a “pass the popcorn and cotton candy” theme, but BOY GETS GIRL is hardly that. Rebecca Gilman offers up a peppy, edgy New York City-as-urban jungle chiller about a career woman, Theresa Bedell, whose life of accomplishment is quickly destroyed by an insane admirer. Tony is a blind date-turned stalker who invades every aspect of his victim’s life.

BOY GETS GIRL was first performed at Chicago’s Goodman Theater, has played in New York City at the City Center, in Seattle at Seattle Rep, and here in L.A. four years ago at the Geffen Playhouse. The reviews have been unani-mously favorable. BOY GETS GIRL provides genuine suspense and mounting terror that keeps an audience on the edge of their seats. It functions on two levels; as a chilling thriller and as a treatise on gender politics.

BOY GETS GIRL is directed by Cindy Marie Jenkins whose prior successes range from musical theater in Hollywood , “Assassins”, by Stephen Sondheim, to “Antigone” at the Collective/Unconscious in N.Y. City. Rebecca Gilman is the only American playwright to win the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright with “The Glory of Living”. “Glory” also brought her a Pulitzer nomination. Other works include “The Crime of the Century”, The American In Me”, “Spinning Into Butter” (the Roger L. Stevens Award), and “The Crowd You’re In With”. She adapted Carson McCuller’s novel “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” for the stage. BOY GETS GIRL was chosen the Number One play of the year 2000 by Time Magazine.

BOY GETS GIRL will play Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM starting Friday May 25th, through June 30th. Tickets are $20, with Student & Senior discounts available. Call the Attic Theatre at (323) 525-0600 Ext 2# for reservations and information. The Attic Theatre is located at 5429 W. Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016.

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