(HILLSBOROUGH, NJ) -- Somerset Valley Players presents Funny Money by Ray Cooney weekends from September 5-21, 2025. Never has this master of farce been frenetically funnier! Henry A. Perkins, a mild- mannered CPA, accidentally picks up the wrong briefcase – one full of money.
Henry assumes it is illicit cash and decides to keep it and run away to Barcelona with his wife, Jean. Jean doesn’t want to go and while he tries to change her mind, the criminal to whom the money belongs keeps calling on the phone and two police detectives arrive, each for a different reason.
Add Henry and Jean’s closest friends and a taxi driver to the mix, and Henry’s inept attempts to extricate himself from this impossible situation lead to increasingly hysterical situations. Do he and Jean ever make it to Barcelona?
The cast includes Debbie Badal, Paul Grote, Stan Karuzis, Becky Marshall, Mark Noble, Cynthia Okamoto, Brian Shanahan, and Danny Siegel.
Performances take place Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00pm and Sunday matinees at 2:00pm. Tickets are available for purchase online. Somerset Valley Playhouse is located at 689 Amewell Road in Hillsborough, New Jersey.
The production team includes Linda Viel (Director), Roberta Steve (Producer), Harriet Trainor (Stage Manager), Mark Noble (Set Design), Suzanne Wengryn (Lighting Design), Joanne Guerriero (Properties Mistress), Melissa Hommes (Costume Designer), Adam Noble (Sound Design), and Katie Sillitti (Fight Coordinator).
Playwright Ray Cooney began his theatrical career as a boy actor in Song of Norway at the Palace Theatre in 1946. He played in Dry Rot and Simple Spymen and then began a writing career which, to date, has sent 18 plays to the West End, including One for the Pot, Not Now Darling, Move Over Mrs. Markham, and There Goes the Bride, Chase My Comrade, Why Not Stay for Breakfast, Wife Begins at Forty, Run for Your Wife!, Two Into One, Out of Order, It Runs in the Family, Funny Money, Caught in the Net, and Tom, Dick and Harry. In 1983, Mr. Cooney formed the Theatre of Comedy Company (bringing together the founding members consisting of 30 West End stars) and he became its first Artistic Director. During Mr. Cooney’s tenure, the company produced over 20 plays. During his time with the Theatre of Comedy Company and throughout his career, Mr. Cooney has continued to act, direct and produce while he writes.
