A New Comedy on the Boards at Hampton Theatre Co.
The Hampton Theatre Company will present “The Boys Next Door,” Tom Griffin’s 1988 comedy about four men with mental disabilities who live in a group home, from next Thursday through April 8 at the Quogue Community Hall.
The men, whose lives are captured in brief vignettes set over a two-month period, are Arnold (played by Matt Conlon), an obsessive-compulsive talker who works as a janitor at a movie theater, Norman (Scott Hofer), whose job at a doughnut shop has contributed to his weight problem, Lucien (Dorian M. O’Brien), whose mental disorders include an inability to read, and Barry (Spencer Scott), a schizophrenic who believes he is a professional golfer.
The cast also includes Jessica Howard, Paul Velutis, Mike Boland, Catherine Maloney, and Bob Kaplan. Ed Brennan is the director, Sean Marbury the set designer, Sebastian Paczynski the lighting designer, and Teresa Lebrun the costume designer.
Performances will take place Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. There will be no performance on Easter Sunday, April 1, but extra 2:30 p.m. shows are set for March 31 and April 7. Tickets are $30, $25 for senior citizens (except Saturdays), $20 for theater industry members, veterans, and those under 35, and $10 for students under 21.