The 2016 Springfield Contemporary Theatre "Solo Play Festival" at SCT Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza presents three one-person plays depicting three great American humorists. Actor/playwright J.R. Stuart opened the festival with a show he wrote about Mark Twain, The Gospel According to Mark. Stuart is also directing the second of the three shows in the festival, Zero Hour by Jim Brochu, featuring David Rice as theater legend Zero Mostel. David calls the play “a real tribute” to Mostel, best remembered for his definitive portrayals of Tevye and Pseudolus in the original Broadway productions of Fiddler on the Roof and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, as well as creating the role of Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’s original motion picture version of The Producers. Of course, he also played Pseudolus in the movie version of Forum. Asked if he’s felt that Zero Mostel was the role he was “born to play,” David Rice chuckles and says, “You know, strangely, I think I have. I’ve
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