Jack Klugman to Star in George Street’s The Value of Names

Legendary stage and screen star Jack Klugman will headline Jeffrey Sweet’s The Value of Names at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, November 14-December 17.

The show, which is the second offering of the George Street 2006-2007 season, concerns a retired comic whose career was derailed by the blacklist and who finally gets the opportunity to confront the director who accused him of being a Communist. Klugman has starred in numerous Broadway shows including Golden Boy, Gypsy, The Odd Couple, I’m Not Rappaport, and the revivals of The Sunshine Boys and Three Men on a Horse. He is best known for playing Oscar Madison on the TV sitcom The Odd Couple.

The season will open with Joan Vail Thorne’s The Things You Least Expect, about a woman who has an affair with a younger man (October 3-29), followed by Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, starring Mark Nelson (January 16-February 11), and Souvenir, the bioplay based on the life of socialite Florence Foster Jenkins (February 27-March 25). A fifth production will be named at a later date.

For more information, call 732-246-7717 or visit www.GSPonline.org.