Desert Foothills Theater presents Moon Over Buffalo (March 17 - April 3) by Tony Award winning playwright Ken Ludwig at Cactus Shadows Fine Arts Center. Moon Over Buffalo is a Broadway comedy of misunderstandings and misadventures as a husband and wife acting team in a second rate touring company go to desperate lengths to impress an important movie producer. The mischief is magnified by the blithe ignorance of the deaf stage manager who happens to be the actor’s mother-in-law.

Moon Over Buffalo is right out of the Marx Brothers, Monty Python or “Saturday Night Live” with backstage swordplay and wordplay, on-stage confusion and delusion, husbands, wives, lovers and the overly befuddled. This farce by the author of the outrageous Lend Me A Tenor brought Carol Burnett back to Broadway as Charlotte, one half of a has-been acting couple on a 1953 swing through Buffalo with a repertory consisting of a one-nostril version of Cyrano de Bergerac and a low budget Noel Coward’s Private Lives.

Desert Foothills Theater’s feisty Charlotte Hay is played by Jan Clevenger. Roy Hunt is the other half of the swashbuckling theatrical equation, the grandiloquent George Hay. George’s mother-in-law, theater company manager Ethel, is Janice Lombardos. Shannon Whirry has the role of daughter Rosalind who would like nothing better than to have nothing to do with the failing theater company. Rosalind’s sweetheart is Buffalo weatherman Howard played by Louis Baca. Christen Erber appears as the buxom toothsome ingenue Eileen. Richard Briggs is Paul the troupe's stage manager who may or may not be in love with Rosalind and Norman Sheriff is Richard, the troupe’s attorney who is most definitely in love with Charlotte.