Arriving for final rehearsals today in his hometown, Van Youngman is looking forward to his performance Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Brandon Park, where he will give a special one-man show for the community free recreational series.

Mr. Youngman, whose family resides in town, is a professional actor who has been studied and played in New York City at the Circle in the Square, as well as other theaters. His program this week is being produced by Hugh MacMullen and is called “Man vs. Man.”

The solo readings will consist of several excerpts and scenes from the works of William Shakespeare, linked together by narrations, which will comment and explain about the ideas expressed in the selections.

Mr. Youngman has received favorable notices from many of the Manhattan critics, but he is anticipating his first hometown performance before his friends, family and neighbors with whom he grew up.

Several of his friends are pitching in with lighting and sound for the show, and Mr. MacMullan has contacted Marvin Katz, a “Grit” reporter with a professional theater background, to help coordinate the production.

Mr. Youngman personally chose the music for before-the-curtain and intermissions. It will consist of a number of authentic Shakespearean songs and lute solos sung and played by Alfred Deller, counter teller and Desmond Dupree.

Several selections from “Macbeth,” will open the program. One of Caliban’s speeches from: “The Tempest” will follow, afterward, succeeded by “Richard III’s”

“Now is the winter of Our Discontent,” The opening choral passage from “Henry V” and the Act III address to the army from the same play and it will conclude the first half of the program.

After the intermission Mr. Youngman will begin with a passage from “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” followed by the famous “Hath the Jew No Eyes?” from the “Merchant of Venice’.

The funeral oration of Antony in “Julius Caesar” will then be delivered, after which Mr. Youngman will read one of Iago’s addresses from “Othello.”

Three of the later sonnets will round out the program, together with “Hamlet’s” “To be Or Not To Be.”