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"Love, Sex and the I.R.S"
by William VanZandt and Jane Milmore
Spring 2008 - Currently in production
John Trachtmand and Leslie Arthur
are two out-of-work male musicians who room together in New York City. To save money, John has been filing tax returns listing the pair as a married couple.
The day of reckoning comes when the Internal Revenue Service informs the "couple" they're going to be investigated by a Mr. Spinner.
Leslie masquerades as a housewife, aided by John's fiancé, Kate. Complicating matters further-Leslie and Kate are having an affair behind John's back,
John's mother drops in unexpectedly to meet her son's finance, and Leslie's ex-girlfriend shows up demanding to know why Leslie has changed and won't
see her anymore.
This play premiered at New Jersey's Dam Site Dinner-Theatre. "Enough comic lines to fill an encyclopedia of humor." said the Red Bank Register.
The Asbury Park Press warned the diner to eat carefully before curtain time or "he might laugh enough to choke if he does not."
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"Rumors", by Neil Simon
Spring 2007
America's premier comic playwright delighted audiences with this out and out funny offering. The play premiered 1980 and has been seen on many stages throughout the country since then.
The plot of the play centers around four couples in a Manhattan suburb celebrating their best friends' 10th wedding anniversary. The couples discover that their host, the New York City Mayor has been shot (it's only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing.
The first couple to arrive just happen to be lawyers and want to protect the mayor from scandal and they don't even want to tell the other arriving guests, even though they are friends. They're the ones that start the rumors about the shooting and missing wife. With each couple that arrives at the party all kinds of scenarios get tossed about because no one really knows what has happened and each couple makes up their own scenario depending on what they've heard from previously arriving guests.
The couples banter back and forth about what to do and how to minimize what's happened fearing that the police will find out about the shooting and before you know it, police officers do knock on the door. By the time the police arrive, everyone is inebriated and the rumors have just become unbelievable.
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"Who's In Bed With The Butler?"
by Michael Parker
Spring 2006
A California billionaire has bequeathed all of his assets to his only daughter Constance - except the 22-million-dollar yacht he wanted Josephine to have, a 25 million-dollar art collection left to Rene and some priceless antique automobiles willed to Marjorie.
Constance arrives at her father's mansion with her lawyer, determined to find out who these women are and to buy them off or contest the will. The butler seems to hold the key and she learns from him that the three sultry ladies were her father's lovers. She also discovers that the yacht, the art and the cars have vanished, all having been sold to The Bimbo Corporation.
Could the butler be behind the shenanigans - and is he carrying on with all of the ladies in question? Does the elderly, deaf housekeeper really have a pet rat? Can the bumbling detective hired by Constance really be so inept, linguistically as well as professionally? And why has the butler hired an actress to play his wife?
Hilarity erupts long before the audience realizes that the temptresses are all being played by the same actress!
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"Lend Me A Tenor", by Ken Ludwig
Spring 2005
The Cleveland Grand Opera has hired Tito Merelli to open its 10th anniversary season, hoping that the world's greatest tenor will bring financial rewards to the second-rate company. Merelli first scares company manager Saunders and his assistant Max by being late, then proves to be all he is reputed to be – a heavy drinking womanizer.
If that weren't enough, everyone wants to meet Merelli. The bellhop wants an audition; his costar Diana wants career help, as well as a little affection; and even Max's girlfriend thinks the macho tenor is the ideal candidate for "a fling." In order to keep Merelli out of trouble until the performance, Max secretly administers a sleeping draught into his Chianti. What Max doesn't know is that Merelli's wife Maria has already given him sleeping medication so that the tenor can nap before the performance. If that weren't enough, when the jealous Maria leaves him as well as a note, Merelli takes even more.
When Max goes to awaken Merelli, he finds him lifeless. If Merelli doesn't go on, everyone will leave and their money will have to be refunded. Can Max, an aspiring tenor, impersonate Merelli? To find out, everyone goes through a series of madcap scenes that, though silly and predictable, are terribly funny.
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"Whose Wives Are They Anyway"
by Michael Parker
Spring 2004
After sending their wives shopping in New York, two well-meaning golphers are anticipating a fun filled golphing excursion on their own until their new CEO arrives unexpectedly and wants to meet their wives, announcing that "Anyone who goes to a resort without their wife won't be employed with me." So our golphers must hastily produce wives - one man talks the sexy receptionist into portraying his wife, but the only other person available to be the second wife is the other man!
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"Let's Murder Marsha", by Monk Ferris
Spring 2003
Marsha, a happy housewife, happens to be obsessed with murder mysteries. The laughs begin when Marsha
overhears a conversation that has her convinced that she is about to be murdered, when what her husband is really planning is a surprise birthday party for her.
When she tries to turn the tables on her would be murderers, all hell breaks loose in the household.
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"The Party", by Robert J. Flaherty
Spring 2001
The Party is about a successful woman executive who is planning to retire and move into a beachfront community. Her old friends are planning a party for her, but she has some surprises in store for them.
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"The Cemetery Club", by Ivan Menchell
Spring 2000
Ida, Doris and Lucille are part of a club - the cemetery club. Every month they meet at Ida's house in New York for tea, then trundle off to the cemetery to remember the good times and gossip with their deceased husbands. Sam, a butcher, meets the widows at the cemetery whilst visiting his late wife and changes their lives forever. The play is touching, wise and gloriously witty.
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"The Odd Couple", by Neil Simon
Spring 1999
Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondant, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. The only problem is that Felix is neat, tidy, and neurotic, whereas Oscar is slovenly and casual.
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"Love Letters", by A.R. Gurney
Spring 1992
Tracing the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner, the story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is written -- and what is left unsaid -- in their letters.
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