Miners Alley Playhouse presents

The Underpants

By Steve Martin

Adapted from Carl Sternheim original 1913 play Die Hose

Directed by Rick Bernstein

Opening night features a great, gala hors d’ oeuvres reception after the show; audience is invited to join the festivities and mingle with the cast. On Saturday, July 17, Miners Alley holds its 'Second Saturday' talk back with the cast after the performance. 

In The Underpants, actor-writer Steve Martin has adapted the 1910 social comedy by German playwright Carl Sternheim and turned it into a hilarious, over-the-top farce centered on an unruly pair of knickers. Louise is a pretty, young housewife in turn-of-the-century Germany, whose frilly pantaloons accidentally fall to her ankles while watching the Kaiser's parade, it causes a scandal and sets in motion a zany chain of events. A foppish poet and a nebbish barber, both entranced by the brief glimpse of her underwear, vie to become Louise's lover. Her new-found fame terrifies her husband, thrills her neighbor and brings out her own parade of bizarre suitors.

In 'The Underpants' actor-writer Steve Martin turns the 1910 social comedy by German playwright Carl Sternheim into a hilarious, over-the-top farce centered on an unruly pair of knickers.

The cast includes: John Greene as Theo Maske, Haley Johnson as Louise Maske, as Paige L. Larson Gertrude Deuter, Chris Bleau as Franklin Angelo “The Cat” Luigi Versati III, Christian Mast as Benjamin Cohen,  Del Domnik as Herr Klinglehoff.

”Not since Monica Lewinsky's thong almost toppled a presidency has a pair of panties caused such a national fuss. ...a hilarious, over-the-top farce' -The New York Daily News

Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m.; *Sunday, August. 29 will be at 2 p.m.—no evening performance on this date.  Industry Night on Thursday, July 15 at 7: 30 p.m., industry night tickets $15. Regular Tickets are $20 ($21 online). Senior, Student and Group rates available.