October 9, 2008

The Chandler-Gilbert Community College Performing Arts Department will present Neil Simon's, Jake’s Women, on Thursday, October 23, Friday, October 24, and Saturday, October 25. Each performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center on CGCC’s Pecos campus.

Neil Simon, America’s premier comic playwright, makes another hilarious foray into the world of modern relationships. Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life. The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from the actual women. These women include Jake’s revered first wife who was killed years earlier in an accident, his daughter who is recalled as a child but is now a young woman, his boisterous and bossy sister, an opinionated analyst, his current wife who is leaving Jake for another man, and a prospective third wife.

The cast of Jake’s Women includes: J.C. Carlson of Gilbert (Jake); Lori Carter of Gilbert (Edith); Stephanie Zavala of Gilbert (Karen); Nikki DePriest of Mesa (Maggie); Jennifer Glick of Mesa (Julie); Tristan Hallam of Chandler (Molly, age 21); Carol Field of Queen Creek (Molly, age 12); and Amy Coulter of Phoenix (Sheila).

Ticket prices are $8 general admission and $5 with a student ID, and can be purchased by calling the CGCC Box Office at (480) 732-7343.

Chandler-Gilbert Community College is located at 2626 E. Pecos Rd. in Chandler.

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