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Whose Wives Are They Anyway?

  • Michael Parker
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 3M, 5F
  • ISBN: 9780573629662

A veritable laugh riot.

The Boca Raton News

An entertaining evening of deftly executed comedy.

The Delray Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Outdoor, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
The Ashley Maureen Cosmetics Company has been sold and two of its vice presidents, David McGrachen and John Baker, have planned a weekend off before the new C.E.O. arrives on Monday. With their wives safely off on a shopping spree in New York City, they check into The Oakfield Golf and Country Club intending to "golf their brains out." They unexpectedly encounter their new boss, Ms. Hutchison, and she insists on meeting the wives, commenting blithely "no one who went golfing for a weekend without his wife would ever work for me."

So... David and John have to produce wives. John persuades Tina, the hotel's sexy receptionist, to play the role of his wife, but the only one who can pretend to be David's wife is...JOHN! Inevitably everything goes wrong as John moves in and out of bedrooms, changing from male to female at a frantic pace. Hilarious chaos ensues when the hotel phone system goes on the blink, Tina has too much champagne and can't keep her clothes on, and, yes, the real wives arrive!
REVIEWS:

A farce, with veteran actors,  that had the audience applauding and praising them during the performance and on the way out of the theatre.

The Montgomery Advertiser, Alabama

An exhausting comedic ride

Ventura County Star

A veritable laugh riot.

The Boca Raton News

Crossed phone lines, and cross-dressing buffoonery produced continuous laughs, as evidenced by the full-house audiences giggles, guffaws, chuckles, chortles, shrieks and snickers.' - Tampa Bay Newspapers, On-line edition.'Michael Parker has written another farce. That's about all Delray Beach Playhouse audiences need to know to start buying tickets.' - The Palm Beach Post'Indescribably funny

Jacksonville News, Florida

An entertaining evening of deftly executed comedy.

The Delray Times

An enjoyable evenings entertainment, not too taxing on the brain, but good for many, many laughs.

The Simi Valley Acorn
Premiere Production: Whose Wives Are They Anyway? was first produced at the Delray Beach Playhouse, Delray Beach, Florida on October 1st, 1998.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Parts for Senior Actors, Color blind casting

  • JOHN BAKER (age 35-40) - A vice president of The Ashley Maureen Cosmetics Corporation, he is a successful business executive, who, because of his kind and gentle nature, allows himself to be manipulated into compromising situations by the more dominant personality of David. Alternating between the roles of himself and David's "wife," he is caught up in a whirlwind of events beyond his control, but nevertheless manages to show great strength of character and personality. (Hardworking, honest, straightforward and full of initiative.)

  • DAVID McGACHEN (age 45-50) - A distinguished looking man, he has risen to become a vice president of The Ashley Maureen Cosmetics Corporation more by guile and cunning than ability and hard work. Relentless in his efforts to impress his new boss, he attempts to manipulate all those around him. Even when his plan to create two alternative wives begins to unravel, he never gives up scheming and plotting, and always seems to come up with "one more idea." (Clever and cunning, a relentless schemer.)

  • TINA (age 20-30) - The young, pretty country club receptionist. She is good at her job, impressing the guests with her smile and personality. Once she has been persuaded to impersonate John's wife, she embraces the role wholeheartedly. After a little too much champagne, she seems to have difficulty keeping all her clothes on, and ends up at the heart of many of the visual comic sequences. (Bright, sexy, a bubbling personality.)

  • MRS. CARLSON (age 45-55) - The club manager. A straight-laced, severe woman who, in a few years will no doubt become a typical "old battleaxe." At this stage in her life she prefers to take the moral high ground, and does not hesitate to preach the evils of sex and adultery. She sees herself as a guardian of morality for the country club, and makes sure all her guests know it. (Dominant, bossy, efficient, yet rather likeable.)

  • WILSON (age 60+) - The club handyman. He is the complete and total hypochondriac. You name it, he suffers from it! An endearing and comic character, he lights up the stage at his every entrance with his chronic complaints. Never far from most of the comic sequences, he is a pivotal character who observes all the madcap happenings going on around him. (Likable, funny, with a great sense of humor.)

  • D.L. HUTCHISON (age 45-50) - The new president of The Ashley Maureen Cosmetics Corporation. She is bright, smart and self-assured, with a "take charge" nature. She is the "straight man" of the plot, for whose benefit the duplicate wives have been produced. She is a somewhat overbearing character, serious in nature, who, at all times, is all business. She is finally revealed as a duplicitous hypocrite in the surprise ending. (Smart, attractive, efficient and personable.)

  • KARLY McGACHEN (age 40ish) - She is quite a strong character who reacts in a positive and forceful way to the apparent infidelity of her husband David. Determined to make him jealous, she is party to several hilarious scenes as she makes a play for the reluctant Wilson. (Determined and calculating, yet with a tender side.)

  • LAURA BAKER (age 30-40) - A pretty little thing who is somewhat dominated by the stronger character of Karly, she is a simple soul who just wants to love and be loved by her husband John. She never quite understands what is going on around her. She cries at the drop of a hat, and spends much of her time on stage in tears. (Tender, loving, naive.)

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    The Ashley Maureen Cosmetics Company has been sold and two of its vice presidents, David McGrachen and John Baker, have planned a weekend off before the new C.E.O. arrives on Monday. With their wives safely off on a shopping spree in New York City, they check into The Oakfield Golf and Country Club intending to 'golf their brains out.' They unexpectedly encounter their new boss, Ms. Hutchison, and she insists on meeting the wives, commenting blithely 'no one who went golfing for a weekend without his wife would ever work for me.' So ... David and John have to produce wives. John persuades Tina, the hotel's sexy receptionist, to play the role of his wife, but the only one who can pretend to be David's wife is...JOHN! Inevitably everything goes wrong as John moves in and out of bedrooms, changing from male to female at a frantic pace. Hilarious chaos ensues when the hotel phone system goes on the blink, Tina has too much champagne and can't keep her clothes on, and, yes, the real wives arrive!

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