06/08/2026
Ken Ludwig may well be the most performed playwright of his generation! He has had six productions on Broadway and eight in London’s West End. His 34 plays and musicals are staged throughout the United States and around the world every night of the year. They have been produced in over 20 languages in more than 30 countries, and many have become standards of the American repertoire.
His first play, Lend Me a Tenor, was produced on Broadway and in London by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century” by The Washington Post. Crazy For You was on Broadway for five years, West End for three, and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical. It’s been revived twice in the West End and is currently touring Japan. Since its premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2022, Ludwig’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express has had hundreds of international productions.
His other plays include Moon Over Buffalo, Leading Ladies, Baskerville, Sherwood, Twentieth Century, A Fox on the Fairway, and A Comedy of Tenors.
“Summer of 1953, former Broadway stars George and Charlotte Hay have taken their run-down touring company to Buffalo, New York to perform a couple shows in repertory, all the while grumbling about missed Hollywood opportunities. But on-stage harmony is compromised when George commits off-stage infidelity. When Charlotte learns this, she prepares to run away with the family lawyer, sending George on a grief-stricken drinking binge. However, it turns out that famous director Frank Capra is headed to town on a talent scouting mission for his upcoming show.
As a result, the Hay family, deaf mother-in-law Ethel, daughter Rosalind and her dashing ex-fiancé Paul, must work overtime to get sloppy drunk George into his Cyrano hat and nose. With the entrance of Rosalind’s new fiancé, anxious TV weatherman Howard, and the wealthy lawyer hoping to lure Charlotte away, the confusion only intensifies.”
Ludwig says that the title just popped into his head one day. The notion was that Buffalo is generally thought of as the antithesis of romance and by juxtaposing "Moon Over" with a city like Buffalo instead of the glamorous Miami, it would be a funny statement about where my protagonists are in their lives. They're not playing London or New York or Miami; they're playing Buffalo!
Moon Over Buffalo will be running from Aug 6-15. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bvtnaples.org/box-office or by calling the Box Office at (585) 374-6318.
“Ken Ludwig’s Moon Over Buffalo” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf on Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
