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bullet Posted: 9/04/07 at 2:26am
I would like to strongly recommend "Dearly Beloved"  We just finished playing to large audiences who loved it.  While it is contemporary it has funny lines and is very upbeat.  We, too received an email and personal phone call from one of the writers.  Our community is also mostly retired but our advertising got them out.
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bullet Posted: 9/05/07 at 4:04pm

Hmm I would say Arsenic and Old Lace
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The Second Time Around
 
Samuel French
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Little Theatre

Comedy

Henry Denker

4 m., 4 f.,

Int.

Senior citizens Samuel Jonas and Laura Curtis, a widower and a widow, strike up a love affair. When they announce plans to live together without marrying so they can keep social security benefits they'd otherwise lose, their children hit the ceiling even though they were never close to their deceased parent and their own marriages leave a lot to be desired. Sam's daughter is married to her ex analyst, a stuffy neurotic, and Laura's son has a wife who is paranoid about food additives and their sexual performance. All ends well for the elderly twosome, but not before the entire second generation is in nervous fits.

"A winner ... with lots of topical, pertinent cracks." Atlanta Constitution.

Royalty, $50-$40
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bullet Posted: 9/05/07 at 7:22pm
Thanks a lot for your suggestions. They are much appreciated--I met with out adviser today, and we're taking a look at them.
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You might look at Taking My Turn.  It's a musical about aging, has a cast of 8 (4-m, 4-f) and uses middle age/older actors.  I managed an off-broadway theatre where the show premiered and it ran for nine months.  The original cast included Tiger Haynes (original Tin Man in The Wiz), Margaret Whitting, Cissy Houston (Whitney's Mom) and Marni Nixon (she sounds like Julie Andrews and was the singing voice in the movies "West Side Story" for Natalie Wood, "The King & I" for Deborah Kerr, "My Fair Lady" for Audrey Hepburn).  Taking My Turn is a little produced play and older folks just love it.
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