Fountain Hills Theater is thrilled to be the first theater to present Mr. Holmes' 2022 adaptation
of his Broadway comedy/thriller.
When eccentric billionaire Richard Jannings discovers that someone is trying to murder him
in his high rise, security-controlled penthouse, it becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse between
the paranoid Jannings and the mysterious would-be assassin. This wildly unique murder mystery by
Rupert Holmes (Say Goodnight, Gracie, Curtains and The Mystery of Edwin Drood) becomes a
thrilling and funny whodunit. The brilliance of this story will challenge your imagination and powers
of deduction - every time you think you've figured out the story, it twists and turns, upending your
perceptions and reshaping Jannings' fate.
In addition to Solitary Confinement, the play’s author, Rupert Holmes is best known for
penning many popular songs recorded by Barbra Streisand and others and broke into the popular
music scene with his performance of Escape (The Pina Colada Song). Holmes is the first person in
theatrical history to singly win Tony awards as a playwright, a lyricist, and a composer. He has won
identical honors from the New York Drama Desk, with a fourth award in their additional category for
his orchestrations.
His works for Broadway include The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which won the
Tony award for Best Musical and had a critically-acclaimed Broadway revival by the Roundabout
Theatre Company in 2012-2013. His script for Curtains, with a score by the legendary team of
Kander and Ebb, won Holmes an additional Drama Desk award for Best Book while receiving two
further Tony nominations for Book and Lyrics.
Solitary Confinement is directed by David Barker and stars Ben Tyler, Brad Erhardt,
Norman Jurgens, Andre Montaigne, Ian North, Terence Yates-Lowndes and Eliza Redmond. Solitary
Confinement is presented through Special Arrangement with Rupert Holmes and The Holmes Line
of Music, LLC.
Solitary Confinement will play Aug. 19 through Sept. 4, 2022. Performances are Thursdays,
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30PM and Sundays at 2PM.
photos by Patty Torrilhon
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