New Jersey Stage - September 2014 | Page 18

Watch the Top 5 endings of “The Wonder Years” with an intermission it runs less than two hours. It’s one set and there’s very little special effects. I’m tired of seeing movies being put on stage and telling everybody it’s a play. This is a play. It’s something I hope other regional theaters will do because it’s easy to produce.” The cast includes Ray Abruzzo who played “Little Carmine Lupertazzi” in the Sopranos, Morris “Moe” Rosenbaum, Richard Zavaglia, and Lauria. It’s directed New Jersey Stage by Frank Megna. Lauria says that everyone was involved in adding little bits and pieces to the script and he was completely fine with that even if it seemed a bit odd to others in the crew. “I’m working as an actor would write, not as a writer would write,” he said. “When an actor comes up and says can you change this or here’s a good joke, we try it and we actually do it. I don’t sit back and say no, it’s not what I wrote. I’d say about 8 out of every 10 September 2014 pg 18