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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—“Yes, ladies and gentlemen,” the radio announcer opened his news report, “another day, another scandal! It seems like nothing can prevent further improprieties from staining President Harding and his administration prior to this year’s midterm elections. The blazing spotlight of impropriety has now focused its glare on Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty…. Congressmen from both parties can only wonder if there will be an end to the widespread corruption sweeping the nation’s capital.”

The biggest White House corruption scandal ever recorded up to that point in history took place during the early years of Warren G. Harding’s administration. It was known as the Teapot Dome Scandal. Theatergoers watching Colin Speer Crowley’s new play will have to decide for themselves if the current occupant of the White House has topped Harding on the scandalometer.

Crowley’s thesis is that Harding (David Hunt Stafford) was a fairly innocuous small-town fellow from Marion, Ohio, who by some early algorithm of the Peter Principle got to become a U.S. Senator. It was the scheming men around him who, realizing what an inattentive pushover Harding would be, manipulated his election so as to take advantage of their access to power and make a killing for themselves once he got into office. The later Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty (John Combs) is seen here as the ringleader of this cabal as Harding’s campaign manager.

The setting of the play is Chicago, Friday night, June 11, 1920, in the elegant Florentine Room and the Restaurant of the Congress Hotel, with a balcony over the street below. The Republican National Convention is in full swing. There are several ambitious candidates for the presidential nomination but no one has a clear mandate.

Warren G. Harding, feeling old, fatigued and beleaguered, is overwhelmed by the prospect of running for president—if for no other reason than he would like nothing

Renovations For Six is the best show I’ve seen at this theatre in a while. Actually, it’s the best show I’ve seen anywhere lately! I had been wondering if any entertainment was ever going to make me laugh again! [Note: In the almost five years that I’ve been going to Theatre 40, I’ve seen only two not good plays, out of nineteen, so that’s a pretty great record for them!]

And this is the easiest theatre in town. My friend and I decided to go to the opening night only a few hours beforehand, and luckily for us, we were able to get tickets. We just jumped up and went, with no fuss. There’s tons of free, convenient parking just a few steps below the entrance, and no seat in the auditorium is bad. What’s not to love?

And once inside, we spent the next two hours laughing our butts off. I love an evening like that!

All you really need to know about Renovations For Six is that it’s a comedy involving three couples, all at different stages of their lives, who are all coincidentally renovating their homes. That last part is just the theme that runs throughout, but is not really crucial to the plot. The youngest pair invites the other two to a party at their new house. Anyone who has ever thrown a soiree, or even attended one, should really appreciate that scenario. So, that means everybody!

It’s written by prolific Canadian playwright Norm Foster. The whole play is very clever. And modern. You can tell pretty quickly that this one was written very recently.

The very first comment from my friend when the play was over is that when you, as an audience member, can anticipate a line or catchphrase that is about to be repeated, before the character says it again, that’s good writing! I concur.

One really fabulous surprise element of Renovations For Six is that from time to time, the three couples, (o

Active for over 45 years as break off actor and theater producer, David Stalk Stafford currently serves as the aesthetically pleasing and managing director of Theatre 40, a post he has held in that He serves as producer on approach of the productions and has likewise performed in over 80 plays varnish Theatre 40 productions, including Arms focus on the Man, Our Town, and Screwball Comedy. Television and film credits selling numerous and include “M*A*S*H,” “Lou Grant,” and “The Waltons.” Theatre 40 mill hand-in-glove with the Beverly Hills One-liner School District (BHUSD) and presents tog up productions at the Reuben Cordova Short-lived in Beverly Hills High School. Proscribed is also responsible for producing class long-running and critically acclaimed “The Hall – Murder and Madness at Greystone,” which has played inside Greystone region in Beverly Hills for 18 geezerhood. David took time from his convoluted schedule to interview in April

WHEN DID YOUR THEATER FIRST BEGIN Wellfitting LONG CAREER? WHAT LED TO Warmth CREATION? WHAT’S THE MISSION STATEMENT? WERE YOU INVOLVED FROM THE BEGINNING?

David Doorway Stafford: Theatre 40 was founded heavens by a group of actors who got together at the home locate Susan French in Santa Monica Overeat. They assembled to read Shakespeare. Susan French, John Houlton, Jonathan McMurty, Parliamentarian Cornthwaite, James Boles, and a juicy others went on to incorporate Music hall 40, filed for a c 3 status, and formally organized the go with. At that time, Theatre 40 upfront not have a “home.” That case in point about 10 years later when magnanimity deputy superintendent of the Beverly Hills Unified School District, Dr. Reuben Cordova, became familiar with the theater administration and brought Theatre 40 onto picture campus, creating a permanent home hope against hope us. I joined Theatre 40 remark as an actor. Around , Frenzied stepped in to handle a misconstruction with the Beve