By SUE SUCHYTA
The Players Guild of Dearborn started rehearsals for the comedy “Til Beth Do Us Part” last week, and lead actors April Denny and Patrick Denyer did some ad-libbing to offer an early look at what promises to be a very funny comedy.
APRIL’S NO FOOL
April Denny of Dearborn Heights describes her character, Suzannah Hayden, as business woman who works for Carmichael’s Chocolates and who loves her husband but is becoming increasingly frustrated at his not helping her at all around the house.
“She decides to take on an assistant to take on some of the duties, and the assistant has a tendency to run things into the ground to get them her way,” Denny said. “Comedy ensues, and mistaken identities and cross-dressing.”
EVERYBODY OUGHT TO HAVE A MAID
Denny said that it would be fantastic to have someone come in and clean her house, walk her dog and do all the things she doesn’t want to do.
She adds that people will enjoy “the comedy that is marriage.”
“Marriage itself is a comedy no matter what you do,” Denny said. “It kind of highlights the trials and tribulations of marriage and divorce and what happens in and around all those things.”
She is excited to be doing the show, and predicts audience members will be laughing a lot throughout it.
SEEING HERSELF IN THE ROLE
“I can relate a lot to this character,” Denny said. “She’s a busy woman who schedules her time and takes care of everything and wants everything taken care of and sometimes unfortunately people get left in the lurch, and unfortunately that’s part of me, too.”
PATRICK DENYER DISHES – OR DOES HE?
Patrick Denyer of Dearborn describes Gibby Hayden as a weatherman who is a benevolent husband and who loves his wife but is a slob.
“He just doesn’t think about her needs at all,” Denyer said. “He lives his life… he loves her, he’s very happy, a very motivated person, and doesn’t see the train wreck that’s about to happen in his life.”
BREAK-OUT ROLE, OR LIFE IMITATING ART?
Denyer added that this is the largest role he played at the Guild, and it really gives him a chance to be himself. He says sometimes he’s neater than Gibby, and sometimes he’s not.
“Sometimes I have to be told what needs to be done,” Denyer said. “But I’m used to that – I’m used to having my better half organizing the family structure and the things that happen in the family home, and she’s very good at it, too.”
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