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Four Old Broads

  • Leslie Kimbell
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, 1990s
  • 1M, 6F
  • ISBN: 9780573707162

"If The Golden Girls was rebooted today, it would look much like Four Old Broads, a clever geriatric comedy."

Carolina Curtain Call

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1990s
  • Target Audience: Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Alcohol

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Senior Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
Retired burlesque queen Beatrice Shelton desperately needs a vacation -- and NOT another trip up to Helen, Georgia to see that "precious little German village for the umpteenth time."

A Sassy Seniors Cruise through the Caribbean may be just the ticket if she can just convince her best friend, Eaddy Mae Clayton, to stop praying and go with her. Unfortunately, things have not bee very pleasant at Magnolia Place Assisted Living since Nurse Pat Jones began working there. The newest resident, Imogene Fletcher, is suddenly losing her memory. Maude Jenkins is obsessed with her favorite soap opera and planning her own funeral. Sam Smith, retired Elvis impersonator, keeps trying to bed every woman in the building.

A mystery unfolds with laughter as the gals try to outsmart the evil Nurse Pat Jones and figure out why so many residents have been moved to "the dark side," what exactly IS that mysterious pill, and what happened to Doctor Head? Hilarity ensues as Imogene goes undercover and Maude enters the Miss Magnolia's Senior Citizen Pageant to throw Pat off their trail. If they can solve the mystery, they may make it to the cruise ship after all.

REVIEWS:

"Leslie Kimbell is a much needed new voice in theatre, writing these 'old broads' with authenticity, pathos and humor. Audiences eat them up! Four Old Broads is laugh-out-loud hysterical with a whole lot of heart."

 Del Shores

"If The Golden Girls was rebooted today, it would look much like Four Old Broads, a clever geriatric comedy."

 Carolina Curtain Call

Premiere Production: Four Old Broads premiered at the Winder Barrow Community Theatre in Winder, Georgia in March 2017 under the direction of LĂ©land Downs Karas.
  • Casting: 1M, 6F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors

  • BEATRICE SHELTON - a former burlesque star with an attitude - Senior Citizen
    EADDY MAE CLAYTON - a former nurse and "religious" lady - Senior Citizen
    IMOGENE FLETCHER - the newest resident at Magnolia Place - Senior Citizen
    PAT JONES - a rude and pushy nurse - 40s-50s
    MAUDE JENKINS - a funeral and soap opera obsessed frump - Senior Citizen
    SAM SMITH - retired Elvis impersonator and Casanova - Senior Citizen
    RUBY SUE BENNETT - a quiet, romance novel loving nurse - 30s
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    Retired burlesque queen Beatrice Shelton desperately needs a vacation -- and NOT another trip up to Helen, Georgia to see that "precious little German village for the umpteenth time."

    A Sassy Seniors Cruise through the Caribbean may be just the ticket if she can just convince her best friend, Eaddy Mae Clayton, to stop praying and go with her. Unfortunately, things have not bee very pleasant at Magnolia Place Assisted Living since Nurse Pat Jones began working there. The newest resident, Imogene Fletcher, is suddenly losing her memory. Maude Jenkins is obsessed with her favorite soap opera and planning her own funeral. Sam Smith, retired Elvis impersonator, keeps trying to bed every woman in the building.

    A mystery unfolds with laughter as the gals try to outsmart the evil Nurse Pat Jones and figure out why so many residents have been moved to "the dark side," what exactly IS that mysterious pill, and what happened to Doctor Head? Hilarity ensues as Imogene goes undercover and Maude enters the Miss Magnolia's Senior Citizen Pageant to throw Pat off their trail. If they can solve the mystery, they may make it to the cruise ship after all.

    $24.95