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Guests will be treated to a complimentary flute of champagne as they enter the Hall for this special event celebrating the venue's storied history. From it's earliest days of vaudeville entertainment, to today's modern presentations, the Music Hall has been a destination for culture and entertainment in Cohoes and the greater Capital Region. LONDON ASSURANCE was not only the first play to appear on the Hall stage, but also the first production to play the venue on it's reopening following a 1970's era restoration. Creative License co-founder Aaron Holbritter has adapted the play for modern audiences, while retaining the classic, farcical stylings of original authors  Dion Boucicault and John Brougham.

What better way to ring in the venerable Cohoes Music Hall's sesquicentenial than to be part of this special matinee performance? Join us!

ABOUT THE PLAY…

In this high-spirited farce by Dion Boucicault and John Brougham, and adapted by Aaron Holbritter,, the vain aging fop, Sir Harcourt, sets off to Oak Hall in the country to marry the beautiful eighteen-year-old Grace, the niece of his old friend, Max Harkaway. In doing so, he will get his hands on her fortune and secure himself a nimble young bride. Sir Harcourt leaves his son, Charles Courtly, at home, little realizing that he is a dissolute man about town and not the hard-working student Sir Harcourt believes him to be. He also does not realize that Charles has followed him to Oak Hall and is simultaneously wooing Grace, under the assumed name of Augustus Hamilton.

However, Sir Harcourt finds himself aroused and distracted by the playful Lady Gay Spanker, who has agreed to help Charles’ romance by distracting his father. With a double courtship, comical deception, and tons of naive vanity, Dion Boucicault’s farce ridicules the tendency to make snap judgments based upon fashion or wealth, town or country, nature or artifice.