PATCHOGUE, NY – SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 – The Clare Rose Playhouse, a community theatre located on the Patchogue campus of St. Joseph’s College, will begin its 2006-07 season with I Bet Your Life, a delightfully breezy comedy written by Fred Carmichael.

Written in two acts, I Bet Your Life is a fun-filled mixture of romance, suspense and hilarity involving a soap-opera writer, his agent/best friend, a secretary and a hit man. The writer, Matthew Stoddard, has penned a script about a terminally ill man who hires a hit man to kill him, only to later discover he has been incorrectly diagnosed. Matt’s agent/friend, Greg, thinks it’s a hard sell and doesn’t believe the plot is realistic. To prove the validity of his plot, Matt hires a hit man in disguise to join them at a dinner party in order to convince Greg the script is realistic. Circumstances arise and chaos ensues, and before you know it, Greg has to figure out who at the dinner table is the hired hit man or else someone will die. It’s a spiraling con game, but the question is, who is conning who and what is real versus part of the game?

General admission tickets cost $14 each with a reduced rate of $12 for students and senior citizens. Group rates, season subscriptions and dinner and lunch packages also are available. Performances will run all throughout the month of November. Shows begin at 8:00 PM Friday and Saturday evenings, with Sunday matinees starting at 3:00 PM. For reservations or further information, please call the box office at (631) 654-0199.

The Clare Rose Playhouse, which serves as a major teaching facility for the College’s theatre courses, is accessible via the South Service Road of Sunrise Highway, just east of Exit 52 (Waverly Avenue) in Patchogue, on the northeast corner of the campus of St. Joseph’s College. A former cottage converted in 1985 through the generosity and guidance of the man for whom it is named, the Playhouse serves as a major teaching facility for the college’s theater courses and is a training ground for young actors. The Playhouse is the site of community theater productions of musicals, dramas, comedies, cabaret acts, musical performances, dance troupes and comedians.

About St. Joseph's College

St. Joseph’s College has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the College provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility, and service. With campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn and in Patchogue, Long Island, the College offers degrees in numerous majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs through its School of Arts and Sciences and its School of Professional and Graduate Studies.