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             The play is set in 1965, Queens, New York. Artie Shaughnessy, a zoo attendant played by Jerry Brown, dreams of becoming a successful songwriter while his cuckoo wife, Bananas, played by Kit Kongos, and his mistress from downstairs, Bunny, played by Andrea Gerlach, are awaiting the arrival of the pope to New York. In this scene Meredith Francis, left, who portrays Corrinna Stroller, talks to the three nuns, Natosha Massie, Amy Strickland and Emily Crabtree. Stage manager for “The House of Blue Leaves” was Ammie Phipps. The play was produced by special arrangement with Samuel French Inc.