Vanities

Written By Jack Heifner
Directed By Cindy deSa

March 2-18, 2007
Friday-Saturday Nights at 8pm
Sunday Matinees at 2pm

Performed at Playhouse Costume Cooperative

This bittersweet comedy is an astute, snapshot-sharp chronicle of the lives of three Texas girls. In 1963, Joanne, Kathy, and Mary are aggressively vivacious cheerleaders. Five years later in their college sorority house, they are confronting their futures with nervous jauntiness. In 1974, they reunite briefly in New York. Their lives have diverged and their friendship, which once thrived on assumptions as well-coordinated as sweater sets, is strained and ambiguous. Old time banter rings false. Their attempts at honest conversation only show they can no longer afford to have very much in common.

Featuring: Lyndsay Antos, Diann Gogerty, and Melodie Norman

Jack Heifner is the author of over thirty plays and musicals produced in New York, Los Angeles and theatres around the world. He is best known for the play version of Vanities, which ran for five years in New York, is published by Samuel French, and became one of the longest-running plays in off-Broadway history. He is also the author of Patio/Porch, Boys' Play, Home Fires, Comfort and Joy, Heartbreak, Bargains, Earth To Bucky, The Lemon Cookie, China Dolls, Natural Disasters and many other plays. His musicals include Leader of the Pack and Vanities - The Musical, both also published by Samuel French. A graduate of Southern Methodist University, Mr. Heifner was Playwright-in-Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas from 1997 to 2021. He has also worked in television and film.