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Directed by DAVID ESBJORNSON

If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. From her home outside Dayton, Ohio, bestselling author Erma Bombeck gave a hilarious voice to ordinary suburban housewives everywhere, using humor to tell the reality of her life and theirs. At Wit’s End chronicles Bombeck’s fascinating story, beginning in 1964 with the launch of her groundbreaking newspaper column through her emergence as America’s favorite mother, with top billing on kitchen refrigerators from coast to coast. Filled with Bombeck’s own wit and wisdom, this new play paints a warm and funny portrait of the woman who dared to ask, "If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?"

"Immensely entertaining." — TheaterMania

 

ADVISORYErma Bombeck: At Wit's End is appropriate for adult and teenage audiences. It contains no adult language.

RUNNING TIME: Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End runs approximately 65 minutes with no intermission.


 

 

 

Rob Milburn

May 8, 2017, 17:00 PM
Role : Sound Designer (with Michael Bodeen)
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Broadway credits include music composition and sound for No Man’s Land, Waiting for Godot, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Miracle Worker, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Speed of Darkness; music for My Thing of Love; and sound for Sweat, The Price, Larry David’s Fish in the Dark, This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Superior Donuts, reasons to be pretty, A Year with Frog and Toad, King Hedley II, Buried Child, The Song of Jacob Zulu and The Grapes of Wrath. Off-Broadway credits include music and sound for Guards at the Taj, Sticks and Bones, Checkers, How I Learned to Drive, Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci and Marvin's Room; sound for Gently Down the Stream, The Babylon Line, The Spoils, Brundibar and August Wilson's Jitney; and music direction and sound for Ruined. They have created music and sound at many of America's resident theatres (often with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre), the Comedy Theatre in London's West End, Barbican Centre, the National Theatre of Great Britain, the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv, the Subaru Acting Company in Japan and festivals in Toronto, Dublin, Galway, Perth and Sydney. Please visit milbomusic.com.
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In 1963, suburban housewives rushed out of their homes to purchase what would quickly become one of the most subversive books of the decade: "The Feminine Mystique," written by feminist author and activist Betty Friedan.

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May 2, 2017
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Barbara Chisholm, who plays Erma Bombeck in Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT'S END sheds light into her character development of this trailblazing woman.

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Erma Bombeck Reading List

Jun 12, 2017
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Did you leave ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT'S END laughing, reminiscing on your own household comedy hours or feeling an urge to fight for the Equal Rights Amendment? We’ve compiled a list of books in case you’re still wanting more daily life amusement, or if you’re curious about the feminist movement of the 1960s and ‘70s.

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