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Quote skywalkerlt Replybullet Topic: Screwball/Zany/Fast Paced Comedy
    Posted: 5/21/13 at 11:48am
Hello all!

I'm looking for a good screwball/zany/fast paced comedy. Something that isn't your usual Ray Cooney door=slamming farce.

A few titles that have been suggested in the past were "Rumours" by Neil Simon and "Room Service" by Allen Boretz and John Murray.

Something that doesn't go crazy with the cast size (12 or less) would be ideal. Thanks!
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Quote donzolidis Replybullet Posted: 5/21/13 at 1:08pm
I have a few community theatre plays that might work well for you.
 
Check out The Bold, The Young, and The Murdered - here's the description from my publisher:
 
"The long-running soap opera The Bold and the Young is in its last days: its hunky hero has self-esteem issues, its villainous old man is more interested in soup, and its heroines are slightly psychopathic. The executive producer gives the squabbling cast an ultimatum: Complete one episode overnight or the show dies. But when the director ends up murdered, and other cast members start dropping like flies, it seems like his threat might actually come true. Can these misfits discover the murderer before the show is literally killed off?"
 
You can read it online here - (just click on "read free sample") -
 
 
And I have a brand new play, The Tell-Tale Farce, - about to be published, but still looking for a world premiere
 
"It's 1848, and Edgar Allen Poe is just coming off the spectacular success of the Raven. Unfortunately, it's only earned him a grand total of nine dollars. So when a wealthy dowager commissions him to write her an immortal love poem for the vast sum of one hundred dollars, he leaps at the chance. Only problem: the poet who shows up to write the poem isn't Poe, he's Poe's mailman, and he's on a quest to woo the dowager's spinster daughter. Pretending to be Poe is harder than it looks, though, epecially when your mustache keeps falling off, the teenage grand-daughter of the house is madly in love with you, and Poe's arch-nemesis, Rufus Griswold, just happens to be dropping by to settle old scores. A door-slamming, closet-hiding farce of unspeakable evil. "
 
I can send you that script if you're interested.
 
 
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Quote Ogreking4 Replybullet Posted: 6/06/13 at 11:19am
THE BIG FIVE-OH
By: Brian Mitchell
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Whoever said life is better after fifty had better be right! George Thomas is turning fifty on Saturday, and it has been a terrible week. His dog is sick, his son is a slacker, and his daughter wants to marry a Republican. With a neurotic wife and a widowed neighbor providing more challenges than even George can overcome, this may be the worst week of his life. Through these trying days, George will discover the wonders of family, the responsibilities of parenthood, and the results of his latest physical.

The Big Five-Oh is a hilarious, sometimes touching account of a grown man coming to terms with his age, his relationship with his son, and his future. It is the story of a middle-aged man finally growing up.



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