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Murder at the Howard Johnson's

  • Ron Clark Sam Bobrick
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573612022

Enough laugh lines, mirth provoking situations and extravagant sight gags to outfit two rapid fire farces of the absurd.

Variety

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
All is fair in love? Even murder? That's the question posed by this light and funny suspense comedy about a love triangle in a Howard Johnson Motor Inn. A three scene love triangle involving a woman, her lover, and her husband.

In the first scene the wife and her lover plot to murder the husband. In the second scene the wife and her husband are plotting to murder the lover. The third scene has the husband and the lover plotting to murder the wife - but this attempt, like the others, fails.
REVIEWS:

Enough laugh lines, mirth provoking situations and extravagant sight gags to outfit two rapid fire farces of the absurd.

Variety

A holiday of laughter... Beautifully polished, very funny very American comedy.' - WNBC TV'Funny and intelligent and certainly pertinent to the people who flock to Broadway... Magnificently zany.

Saturday Review

Funny is funny.

TIME Magazine
Premiere Production: Murder at the Howard Johnson's premiered at the Golden Theater in New York City, May 17, 1979, directed by Marshall W. Mason.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

  • ARLENE MILLER - An attractive woman in her mid-thirties
    MITCHELL LOVELL - A dentist and Arlene's lover, in his mid-thirties
    PAUL MILLER - Arlene's husband, in his late thirties

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    All is fair in love? Even murder? That's the question posed by this light and funny suspense comedy about a love triangle in a Howard Johnson Motor Inn. A three scene love triangle involving a woman, her lover, and her husband. In the first scene the wife and her lover plot to murder the husband. In the second scene the wife and her husband are plotting to murder the lover. The third scene has the husband and the lover plotting to murder the wife - but this attempt, like the others, fails.

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