Randi—Jennifer Jett
Andy—Charlie Hamilton
Emily—Jennifer Waldron
Phil—John Kenning
Mickey—Carter Kight

THE NEW YORKER:
Tom Dudzick’s comedy is a hilarious boy-brings-fiancée-home at-Christmas story.

LOS ANGELES TIMES:
“Greetings!” is a wonderful, wacky look at how cleverly a mixture of Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Age philosophy can--in the right hands--flick on the electricity.

CLIVE BARNES, NEW YORK POST:
“Greetings!” deserves a shelf life long after Christmas.

JOHN GRAF, JR., THE SOMERSET SPECTATOR:
It was well worth the wait. Written partially from a true-life experience, the author brings home more than just a two-hour family brawl on religious beliefs. The work also takes on the sensitive subjects of death, prejudice and objective versus subjective reality. “Greetings!” is the perfect holiday gift for a loved one. Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, this “guess who’s coming to dinner” comedy should not be missed.

STUART DUNCAN, TIME OFF:
“Greetings!” is a play that only the cynics will hate. The work by Tom Dudzick is receiving its world premiere at George Street Playhouse and it is a delightfully old-fashioned blend of warm family humor and joyous “new age” fantasy that leaves an audience limp from laughter and with just the hint of a tear in the corner of the eye. This is no message play. The values are homespun. There is nary a mention of sex or drugs. How exciting to find a playwright who can work without those crutches. It is quite the best new play to come along in several seasons. Don’t you dare miss it.

JIM BECKERMAN, NEWS TRIBUNE:
In the expert way it plays every audience-pleasing trick in the book, from the clockwork gag lines to the tidbits of New Age philosophy, to an uplifting ending that even Steven Spielberg would have thought twice about, it’s as smooth as a con man trying to talk his way into your house. The twist itself is a great one, theatrically speaking. Leave it to American ingenuity to take the most profound subjects and render them as entertainment that would disturb nobody.

Playwright Tom Dudzick
Often referred to by theatre critics as “the Catholic Neil Simon,” Tom Dudzick has created a series of semi-auto­biographical comedies that have been performed in theatres from New York to Los Angeles and doz­ens of cities in between. His plays have broken the box office records at Buffalo Studio Arena, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Chicago’s Northlight Theatre. A native of Buffalo, New York, Tom was born over a tavern in 1950 and received his early theatrical training creating musical comedies for Buffalo’s extensive dinner theatre industry. He managed to consistently cast himself in the lead role, thus garnering critical acclaim as “Western New York’s premier comic actor.” In the 1980’s Tom relocated to New York, left performing behind and focused on writing. Within a few years he landed his first Off-Broadway play: Greetings! a Christmas-themed family comedy produced by the legend­ary Arthur Cantor and starring veteran film and television actor Darren McGavin. The Los Angeles Times described Greetings! as “a wonderful, wacky look at how cleverly a mixture of Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Age philosophy can – in the right hands – flick on the electricity.” The play is now a holiday favorite, appearing annually in theatres all over the country. For his next play, Tom dipped into his own childhood. He semi-fictionalized his family and renamed them the Pazinski’s, called the play Over the Tavern and turned it into what Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune called, “one of the biggest grass-roots successes in American re­gional theatre of the last few years.” The hilarious and touching play created such interest that Buffalo Studio Arena commissioned him to write a sequel, employing the same characters ten years older, which Tom entitled King o’ the Moon. This comedy has been performed to great success in major cities such as Pittsburgh, Chicago and Los Angeles. Tom has created an “Over the Tavern Trilogy” by writing yet a third play about the Pazinski’s, set in the infamous Blizzard of ’77. It is entitled The Last Mass at St. Casimir’s. Tom’s most recent play, Don’t Talk to the Actors, premiered in 2007 at Buffalo’s Studio Arena Theatre, and receives its West Coast Premiere at The Laguna Playhouse. Tom lives in New York with his wife Holly Caster, and their children, Charles and Emma.