Stage the Warner Studio Theatre productions are sponsored by Northwest Community Bank. We have the power to give Misery eternal life. Playing in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre The Misery cast features Veronica 'Ronnie' Gelormino as Annie Wilkes, Deron Bayer as Paul Sheldon, and John Quinn as Buster. The Stage the Warner production of Misery is directed by Dick Terhune. The irate Annie has Paul writing as if his life depends on it, and it does.

Annie forces Paul to write a new “Misery” novel, and he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go anywhere. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads the manuscript to his newest novel and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “Number One Fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. STARRING ELIZABETH PRICE & DAVID R.“There are no lulls in famed screenwriter William Goldman’s 90-minute stage adaptation of the Stephen King story, which Goldman himself translated into the 1990 film…Exposition that took a dozen pages in paperback and at least several minutes on screen plays out…faster than snow piling up in a Colorado blizzard.” -NBC New York. “There are no lulls in famed screenwriter William Goldman’s 90-minute stage adaptation of the Stephen King story, which Goldman himself translated into the 1990 film… Exposition that took a dozen pages in paperback and at least several minutes on screen plays out…faster than snow piling up in a Colorado blizzard.” -NBC New York.

King was in attendance, Goldman wrote, so the screenwriter was expectedly nervous about his reaction. Annie forces Paul to write a new Misery novel, and he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go anywhere. In his 2000 memoir Which Lie Did I Tell, screenwriter/playwright William Goldman discusses the very first screening of Misery, his adaptation of Stephen King’s acclaimed 1987 novel. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. MISERY follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home.

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