Taylor Rouse
  • Music
  • Class of 2018
  • Columbia, MO

Rouse To Perform In Brighton Beach Memoirs

2018 Apr 10

Central Methodist University student Taylor Rouse, from Columbia, Mo., will participate in Neil Simon's comedy with a heart, Brighton Beach Memoirs, on Thursday, April 26 through Sunday, April 29 at the Little Theatre on the campus of CMU.

The schedule calls for a 4:30 p.m. Thursday show, 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. The cost is $8 for adults, $5 for seniors and CMU faculty and staff, and $2 for children and CMU students with identification.

The play is the first of a trilogy reflecting Simon's youth in a Jewish family growing up in Brooklyn. The other two parts of the trilogy include Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound.

Set in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn in 1937 during the Great Depression, the coming-of-age comedy focuses on Eugene Jerome, a Polish-Jewish teenager who suffers his way through puberty, sexual awakening, and a search for his identity as he tries to deal with his family, including his older brother Stanley, his parents Jack and Kate, his aunt Blanche and her two daughters, Nora and Laurie.

Rouse is a senior currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in music at CMU.