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You Could Die Laughing!

Television mogul Jacque St. Yves invites eleven has been comics to his island lodge off the Canadian coast to audition for the central in role his new TV series. It's an opportunity to die for ... and that is someone's intention!

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

Television mogul Jacque St. Yves invites eleven has been comics to his island lodge off the Canadian coast to audition for the central role in his new TV series. It's an opportunity to die for ... and that is someone's intention!

Shortly after arriving, the comics find they are stranded along with the pilot of St. Yves's private jet, the attractive flight attendant and the couple employed as housekeeper and handyman. That night, the housekeeper disappears during a violent thunderstorm and her husband drops dead after ingesting candy that any of them could have sampled. Laughs and chills abound until the startling truth emerges and the tension mounts.

Characters

  • Casting: 7M, 8F

  • MR. THORN - 50's, gaunt, dour, doesn't say much
    MRS. THORN - 50's, gaunt, dour, what she says is sharp and critical
    SUSAN HARRISON - 20's, pretty, a flight attendant
    ALLEN RUDOLPH - 30's, handsome, a pilot
    CORKY EVANS - 20's, a zany comic, does impersonations and funny voices
    ZOWIE MILLER - 20's, a savvy, modern, female comic
    LUCINDA TATE - 50's to 60's, loud clothes, loud mouth, does broad comedy
    HELENA HOLLIS - 30's, catty, sarcastic, but funny
    DEXTER PORTER & STANLEY - 50's, a ventriloquist and his little boy dummy
    ANTONIO JOHNSON - 20's, a New York street-smart comic
    SAMMY SALT - 40's, plays straight man to his ditzy wife
    PAULETTE PEPPER - 40's, aforementioned ditzy wife
    JOEY JAMES - 50 but looks 40, conceited, arrogant, can be cruel
    CORA APPLE - 40's or older, a country comedienne
    COLLEEN BAKER - 30's, a household hints expert who happens to be funny

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    Television mogul Jacque St. Yves invites eleven has been comics to his island lodge off the Canadian coast to audition for the central in role his new TV series. It's an opportunity to die for ... and that is someone's intention! Shortly after arriving, the comics find they are stranded along with the pilot of St. Yves's private jet, the attractive flight attendant and the couple employed as housekeeper and handyman. That night, the housekeeper disappears during a violent thunderstorm and her husband drops dead after ingesting candy that any of them could have sampled. Laughs and chills abound until the startling truth emerges and the tension mounts.

    		$24.95

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