‘The 39 Steps’ coming to Auburn on April 23
Published 12:09 pm Friday, March 11, 2011
Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps” – a spy thriller and killer comedy – takes the stage at the Auburn Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The award winning and nationally touring show marks the end of the Bravo Performing Arts Series with a one-night only performance.
The show follows a man with a boring life as he meets a woman with a strange thick accent who claims she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she ends up murdered. Soon after, a mysterious organization calling themselves “The 39 Steps” is hot on the man’s trail in a nationwide manhunt. And all 150 of the shows characters are played by the tiny cast of four.
“The 39 Steps” originated as a 1915 adventure novel by John Buchan. Twenty years later, Hitchcock released a film adaptation of the novel, starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim and Godfrey Tearle, which will be screened at the Auburn Avenue Theater on Saturday, April 9. The performance is a comic theatrical adaptation by Patrick Barlow based on Hitchcock’s “39 Steps”.
Winner of two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards (including the Award for Unique Theatrical Experience) and a Laurence Olivier Award, “The 39 Steps” was one of the most successful nonmusical shows on Broadway and London’s West End before it’s recent close.
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Show time
• What: Bravo presents the national touring Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps
• When: 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 23
• Where: Auburn Performing Arts Center, 700 E Main St.
• Tickets: $25 regular, $23 students, seniors. Call 253-931-3043, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or online through Brown Paper Tickets at www.auburnwa.gov.
