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Do you ever wish that Pace University had some sort of theatre production or class? Did you ever wonder to yourself and think that maybe Pace University should do theatre at the school?

Since Pace University here in Pleasantville doesn't offer theatre classes, the next best thing is the theatre shows being shown at Woodward Hall in Briarcliff.

Hudson Stage Company "has become one of Westchester's premiere professional theatres." and guess what, Pace students get many advantages.

One advantage that the Pace students get is the discount to the shows. Instead of the $25 general admission, Pace students get the advantage of a student discount. $15 is what you pay. That's ten dollars less than others have to pay.

Another great opportunity to see the shows is being an usher. Pace students get the chance to be ushers at the show and watch the play for FREE. I guess hard work pays off.

The last great opportunity that benefits Pace students the most is the internship opportunities they have. You can intern with them and get the real experience of working with theatre productions. Also with the internships, you are welcomed to be in the show.

Since we all know that the city campus has great theatre classes and a great stage, we might as well take advantage of what we have here. I am encouraging those students who wish to become an actor/actress or a production manager, to look into the opportunities that Hudson Stage Company has for you.

At the time, Hudson Stage Company is showing the play, Murderers, at Woodward Hall. Posters have been posted all over the halls of Pace University and I am sure you have seen it. The posters have three pink flamingos, it's pretty hard to miss.

Directed by Jeffrey Hatcher, Murderers was first performed on October 26 and will continue to be performed until November 10. On October 28, I was invited to see the play.

When walking in, the first thing that caught my eye was the audience. The audience was all elders. This may sound a little discouraging, but this is why I feel more Pace students should go watch the play. Although some of the catch phrases were more for the adults, the play was pretty cleverly funny. There are three main characters, when the lights dim the light shines upon one each time as they admit that they are "murderers."

The first story is the tale of Gerald, who is played by Matthew Arkin. Arkin's voice is one of those voices you would hear in a movie. You know, the guy who talks in the background and tells you what's going on, yeah, he has one of those voices. The way he tells the story of Pus and Pepper, who are two important characters in his journey to being a murderer.

Gerald tells the story of how he marries his wife's mother and begins to actually fall for her. The reason for his murder, is her.

There were very funny lines in Gerald's story. The way he presented it was even more funny. The best line was, "Tuesday, pedicure. Wednesday, she bought closed pumps. Now what was the point in getting the pedicure? What were her intentions with having the shoes and the pedicure if she didn't have the intention in removing the shoes to show off the pedicure." Now to understand that line, I must tell you that, she did not get the pedicure nor buy the pumps for Gerald, but for someone else. Jealousy comes into play. The second story is the tale of Lucy Stickler, played by Lucy Martin. This story is different from the previous. Here we follow the retirement of Lucy and her husband. It all goes bad when someone from both their past seems to find her way into the same retirement home.

Margaret, the woman who seemed to have every husband in the past after her, has every woman in the retirement home hating her. Lucy doesn't murder anyone, she planes her own death to get her husband and Margaret in jail for what happens in between the whole scenario.

The best line in Lucy's part was when she described the discreet warnings her and other woman would tell to the na've wives that didn't know their husbands were cheating on them with Margaret. "Margaret is fucking your husband." The other clever one that is actually true was, "you all move down in a group," she was describing when people move down to Florida to retire.

The last murderer, Minka, played by Andrea Gallo, is by far the craziest. She introduces herself by saying, "I am not ashamed of being a murder." We learn that her favorite author is a murder author in which all the titles of his books have the word murder in it.

Minka doesn't like to be called a serial killer, but that is exactly what she is. She believes that her killings are for justice, "after you've done it once, it just gets easier and easier like riding a bike or having sex, which I consider both the same." By far the best line of the whole play.

In four years, Minka killed six people. She followed the books of her favorite author and used the killings in the books as guide lines. Her last death, is done by someone else. Her fans.

I know that I didn't explain much about the three murder scenes. Why would I? I want you to be so curious, that you end up watching it for yourself and understanding why I gave you cliff hangers. If it wasn't obvious, I enjoyed the play very much and thought that even though some jokes were to elder for me, it kind of made it funny since these people were in a retirement home.

"MURDERERS is an elegant, pitch-black comedy, as compelling to watch as it is to hear. The play manipulates the genre to enliven rich stories, passionately told. High-definition characters…surprise twists and sharply comic turns…masterly writing." stated by the Philadelphia Enquirer.

Do you want to see the play now? I bet you do. Become an usher and see the show for free, or if you have $15 bucks, invite a friend and go enjoy a good cheap play.

Tickets are selling out, and they are receiving rave reviews. Don't you want to be apart of what everyone is talking about?

For more information, visit hudsonstage.com or call 914-271-2811.

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