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TOMS RIVER – Enjoy a memorable evening of laughter, tears and the love of life’s journey. The Ocean County Library Toms River Branch will host “A Variety of Vignettes” by The Guild Theatreworks, 7 PM Wednesday, September 21.

The performance in Mancini Hall will include iconic monologues and sketches from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, City Slickers, Bridesmaids, California Suite, Come Blow Your Horn, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, and other classic and contemporary works.

Ensemble members will portray characters in works created by Neil Simon, Lanford Wilson, Alan Ayckbourn, Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron, Michael Frayn, Leonard Gershe, and more.

The nonprofit troupe, which began as the Brick Community Players, is in its 32nd year of performing musicals, dramas, comedies, and improvisations. The group operates in the Robert Anstett Cultural Arts Center in Brick, and maintains an active Facebook following.

Appearing will be Corey Crawford, Kelly Cusick, Jeri Georger, Jeff Hand, Kelly Lundstrom, Linda McLaughlin, Gail Sheehan, Janet Lynn Spahr, Bill Weston and others, many of whom worked together in the 1980s at the Macallister Playhouse in Jackson.

Registration at www.theoceancountylibrary.org/events is required for this free program, sponsored by the Friends of the Ocean County Library – Toms River. The Toms River Branch is at 101 Washington Street. For more information, call (732) 349-6200.

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