The Bandla Family, long time members of OP will be united on stage in Ira Levin’s “Deathtrap”, the legendary comedy-thriller coming to the Francis Marion Brown Theater at Fort Ontario in May courtesy of The Oswego Players.
The production, part of The Little Theatre on the Water’s 86th-anniversary season, will run weekends, May 10th through 19th, 2024. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30PM, with Sunday matinee curtain times at 2PM.
Tickets for the show are $15 for adults, $11 for seniors and $10 for students. They may be reserved online at oswegoplayers.org, or by calling the Players’ box office at 315-343-5138.
Scott and Angella met on stage during the Oswego High School summer theater program’s production of Oliver! in the late 1980s. Scott visited SUNY Fredonia during one of Angella’s shows, and they started dating. The rest is history. Marrying five years after what can best be summed up as a very silly relationship, they started a family at the turn of the millennium with Will, Parker and finally Quinn each making their debut between 1999 and 2005. Years later when Angella started work as the Stage Manager on the musical, Carousel for the Oswego Opera, Will joined the cast as a young seven-year-old.
Deathtrap is the first show since 2015 that Scott and Will have been on stage together, while Angela over sees it all from the wings as Stage Manager.
The hit dark comedy – which holds the record for the longest-running comedy-thriller on Broadway – tells the story of playwright Sidney Bruhl, who has not had a hit show in years. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college – a thriller that Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway smash. Sidney’s plan, devised with his wife’s help, is to offer collaboration to the student for co-credit. Or is it?
Suspense mounts steadily as the plot begins to twist and turn with devilish cleverness, and with such an abundance of thrills and laughter, that audiences will be held enthralled until the final, startling moments of the play.
“Deathtrap” features the talents of: Bill Cowham as Sidney Bruhl, Will Bandla as Clifford Anderson, Karla Chandler-McCord as Myra Bruhl, Adele Cronk as Helga ten Dorp, and Scott Bandla as Porter Milgrim. The production is under the direction of Inez Manor Parker.
Deathtrap is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
Cutline: A Family Affair. The Oswego Players upcoming production of “Deathtrap” is the first show since 2015 that Scott and Will Bandla (standing from left) have been on stage together with Angella Bandla (seated center). Parker Bandla (seated left) and Quinn Bandla (seated right) are taking acting and technical-theatre classes at different colleges and are happy to cheer on the rest of the family in the upcoming show. “Death Trap” will run weekends, May 10th through 19th, at the Francis Marion Brown Theater at Fort Ontario. For tickets and more information call the Oswego Players’ box office at 315-343-5138.