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STAGE BEAT : COMING UP A WINNER.

Byline: Janet Weeks

In sports, they'd say actor Eddie Frierson is on a streak.

His one-man tribute to baseball legend Christy Mathewson has played the Two Roads Theatre in Studio City for five months - the longest run ever for a show at the 49-seat theater - and is New York New York, state, United States
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Frierson of Sherman Oaks wrote the show after discovering a book written by Mathewson, a New York Giants
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 pitching great who died of tuberculosis in 1925. A gentleman who treated fans kindly and fought in World War I, Mathewson, Frierson reasoned, was a perfect dramatic figure and role model. And ``Matty: An Evening With Christy Mathewson'' was born.

Frierson himself is a former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
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 baseball player and former Santa Monica High School Wikipedia is not the place for advertisement or self-advertising.

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 varsity baseball coach.

``Matty'' producer Edmund Gaynes says the show will go to off-Broadway in New York after its run here. He's currently shopping for a theater to book.

This will be the second show produced by Gaynes to make it to New York. ``Bein' With Behan,'' writer-actor Michael L. Kavanagh's tribute to Irish playwright Brendan Behan (``The Hostage''), has played the Irish Repertory Theatre The Irish Repertory Theatre is an Off Broadway theater company and venue in New York City dedicated to presenting works by Irish playwrights. Founded in 1988 in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan[1], the Irish Rep has presented the New York premieres of John B.  for seven weeks and recently was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award Begun during the 1949-1950 theater season, the Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on and Off-Broadway. The awards are decided upon by theater critics who review for out-of-town newspapers, national publications, and other media . ``Bein' With Behan'' also played the Two Roads.

The `Human' element Anthony Geary, best known to soap fans as the Luke half of ``General Hospital's'' Luke and Laura team, stars in the world premiere of ``Human Scratchings'' at the Court Theatre in Los Angeles.

Written and directed by veteran TV, film and theater writer Rick Edelstein, ``Human Scratchings'' is the story of a man who contemplates ``extreme behavior'' after the death of his wife.

The play opens this weekend and runs through June 2. Tickets are $20. The Court Theatre is at 722 N. La Cienega Blvd. Call Theatix at (213) 466-1767 for information and reservations.

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The comedian-actor appears Sunday in concert with singer Aliza Kashi at the new Performing Arts Centre Theatre at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an .

For information and tickets, call (818) 785-8885 or (818) 704-8189.
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Title Annotation:L.A. LIFE
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Apr 26, 1996
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