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Click below for a small video teaser for Move Over, Mrs. Markham: Move Over, Mrs. Markham teaser Jennifer Finch (Linda Lodge) and Shelagh Roberts (Joanna Markham) Charles Boyington (Henry Lodge) and James Raby (Philip Markham) Shelagh Roberts (Joanna Markham) and Erik Harrison (Alistair Spenlow) James Raby (Philip Markham), Suzanne Behsudi (Miss Wilkinson), and Charles Boyington (Henry Lodge) Katie Zitz (Sylvie) and Erik Harrison (Alister Spenlow)

Until now, I've never thought much about my underpants. Is this the face that launched a thousand ships? No. It isn't. My name is Erik Harrison, and I play Alistair Spenlow in Move Over, Mrs. Markham . I'm also a bit of a loudmouth - that may be why the producers asked me to write about the experience of putting the show together. The last few weeks before a show opens are a mad dash. Early weeks are actors miming imaginary telephones and directors saying "Okay, try it again, only funny". The show is, at best, theoretical. Then it becomes terrifyingly actual. Props are coming in thick and fast, costumers start forcing clothes on you like your mom on a school morning, people in overalls with loud machines start building things and suddenly you want to say "Wait, no stop! I didn't know this was going to get so bloody serious!" Lots of people have put lots of time into sewing and painting and chopping and finding and designing and you're the

Next on stage... Move Over, Mrs. Markham written by Ray Cooney and John Chapman June 4 - 25, 2011 LTA’s offers another outrageously funny bedroom farce this season! Move Over, Mrs. Markham electrified London and New York, with audiences gasping for breath during non-stop laughs! The Markham’s fifteen-year marriage seems just about undone, along with everything and everybody else in this wild and crazy free-for-all. Come join us for an evening full of laughs and riotous entertainment filled with mistaken identities, titillating liaisons, risqué remarks, and double entendres. Meet the Cast Billie Williams Jennifer Finch Shelagh Roberts Suzanne Behsudi Charles Boyington Erik Harrison Katie Zitz James Raby Peter Alden Hyde Photography: Shane Canfield

Josh Goldman as Hunter Scott Harrison as Jeff Sharon Grant as Heidi Anne Marie Pinto as Susan Photography: Shane Canfield

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