What do you mean, you haven’t yet seen the Albany Civic Theater production of “Wait Until Dark”? What are you waiting for, Halloween? It’s going to be OVER by then! You can watch it tonight, at tomorrow’s Sunday matinee, and Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights this week.

Did I, um, mention my kid is in it? Well, it’s worth seeing anyway. Now, go buy a ticket, and don’t make me get out my mom voice.

Slightly Older Princess plays Gloria, the little kid who lives upstairs from Sam and Susy Hendrix. The couple accidentally gets mixed up in a deal involving a heroin-filled doll, and a murderous thug is trying to get it back. Susy is blind, which should make her an easy mark for the thug and his buddies … right? Wait until dark, and see.

SOP received word about auditions from the people who’d directed “Schoolhouse Rock” last spring. I’d never seen the 1967 Audrey Hepburn movie and just took her to auditions on a whim. I’m guessing I won’t be winning Mother of the Year for allowing my 10-year-old to participate in a play about drugs and homicide, but as a friend of mine summed up, it will make great material for her autobiography.

The audition scene called for SOP to smart off to “Susy,” then to throw a tantrum and start flinging things to the floor after Susy calls her “four-eyes.” She was to end the scene by stomping off in a huff.

Gloria

Needless to say, she got the part. I couldn’t help wondering if maybe somebody had been bugging my house.

Seriously, the play is great. Cathleen Hockman-Wert, who plays Susy, is amazing at being “blind,” and Eric Jones, the thug (Harry Roat, Junior and Senior) is downright chilling. I especially like watching Joshua Winter as Mike Talman, who is caught between trying to be either worse or better than he really is.

If you do go see it, I’m curious to hear whether you think it’s a story that holds up over time. Key elements of the play surround two phones: the one in the apartment (rotary dial! With a cord!) and a phone booth just outside the building. The story would have to be entirely different with cell phones.

It’s also sort of quaint to think of a trio of criminals setting up such an elaborate con game, rather than just bursting into an apartment, demanding the doll and shooting everything in sight. Ah, the good ol’ days.

Anyway, here’s all the information about show times and tickets. Get down to ACT. Because I said so.