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Melinda Buckley’s Mother (and Me) comes to Playhouse on Park

Mother (and Me)
Playhouse on Park • 244 Park Rd, West Hartford, CT 06119 
November 2 & 3, 2024
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Mother (and Me)

Playhouse on Park brings Melinda Buckley’s story of a larger-than-life Hungarian Mama Rose who’s slowly waltzing into dementia as her Broadway baby, Melinda, shimmies into middle age. This outrageous one-woman show skillfully blends storytelling with sharp humor, while tackling an important issue—Alzheimer’s, and the struggles of caring for a loved one. This beautiful play about stepping up and into your own light- is sure to move you, make you laugh, and in the end, is an incredibly uplifting piece of theater for adults of all ages. It has been a hit Off-Broadway and in regional theaters and most recently, was nominated for a BroadwayWorld Award for Best Solo Performance. Mother (and Me) will be performed at Playhouse on Park on Saturday, November 2nd at 8pm and Sunday, November 3rd at 2pm. Tickets are $30 plus a $2.50 service fee. For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.PlayhouseOnPark.org or call 860-523-5900 x 10.  There will be a talk back following each performance, featuring either Carolyn DeRocco or Tina Hogan from the Alzheimer’s Assn Ct Chapter, alongside Susie Sarkisian Coaching, Navigating Aging in Families.

Patrons are encored to consider walking with Team MOTHER at this year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Saturday November 9, 2024 in East Hartford, CT.  Visit www.Act.Alz.org to learn more or register. 

Melinda Buckley

MELINDA BUCKLEY (Writer / Performer) has appeared on Broadway and in the national tours of several shows, including Crazy For You, A Chorus Line and Bob Fosse’s revival of Sweet Charity. She performed improv and sketch material with Gotham City Improv and Chicago City Limits, and appeared as a stand up at Caroline’s, Stand-Up NY, and Gotham Comedy Club. She has written and performed several solo shows, her latest being, MOTHER (and me). On the other side of the table, highlights include directing Town Hall’s hit musical series, “Broadway By The Year”, which featured a Tony award winning cast, and choreographing Paramour, which starred Len Cariou and premiered at the Old Globe Theatre. For the big screen, she choreographed the musical sequences for Columbia Pictures’, Stuart Little I and II with Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie and Jonathon Lipnicki, the independent film 1999, starring Amanda Peet and Jennifer Garner, and assisted Pat Birch on Working Girl as well as several episodes of Saturday Night Live. Other TV credits include, choreographing the daytime drama One Life to Live and an award-winning promo for the CBS Fall Lineup. Most recently, she choreographed a CBS promo for Girl Power which aired during Super Bowl 2019 and was named one of the top ten ads by Paste magazine. She assisted Lonny Price (as SDC Fellow) in the filming of Company at the NY Philharmonic, which starred Neil Patrick Harris, Patti Lupone, Stephen Colbert, Martha Plimpton, and Jon Cryer. Melinda has written, directed, and choreographed numerous commercial and corporate productions for such clients as Bloomberg Philanthropies, Fox, ESPN, WE tv, Sesame Street, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Pepsi, IBM, American Express and Audi. She is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA and SDC.

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