Production History

Tom Griffin’s The Boys Next Door was presented at CST’s 400 W. Main Street theatre. In his original director’s note, Kenneth Benton described the production as a celebration of life and identified the work’s earlier title as Damaged Hearts, Broken Flowers.

CST Connections

Kenneth Benton played Tom and Uncle Fred in Prelude to a Kiss (1993) and later directed Other Desert Cities (2014).
Terry Veal and Nick Backes played Lenny Ganz and Ken Gorman in both CST productions of Rumors (1992 and 1998).
Marcellus Hankins later played Lewis Barnett in Proposals (1999) and performed in The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged) (2002).
Lilli Bassett and Marilyn Ragan played Mary and Barbara Smith in Run for Your Wife (1993).
Sally Noakes subsequently operated the light board for Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (1995).
Joe Daleo also designed lighting for Prelude to a Kiss (1993) and later served as lighting and sound designer for Sylvia (1997).

Press and Photography

“Comedies Dominate Carpenter Square’s ’94–’95 Season” — The Oklahoman, August 19, 1994, supplied season-announcement lead. The page could not be retrieved to confirm its connection to this particular staging.

Acknowledgments

Richard Kleffman; Dr. Laurel Van Horn; Mary Dean; Jonathan Roberts; Choctaw Living Center; Lyn Adams; Jimmy Vaughn; Oklahoma Children’s Theatre; Buster Bassett; Ron Martin; April Harrington.

Licensing

Produced by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Current performance licensing is available through Concord Theatricals, which identifies The Boys Next Door as a Dramatists Play Service title by Tom Griffin.

THEATRE UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

Pam Fields