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Cemetery Club, The

  • Ivan Menchell
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
  • 1M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573692048

Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband's graves.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Senior, Adult, Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Exterior Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Church / Religious Groups, Senior Theatre
Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband's graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife's grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt stricken when this nearly breaks Ida's heart.

The Broadway debut production starred Eileen Heckart as Lucille. It was made into a film, starring Ellen Burstyn, Dianne Ladd, and Olympia Dukkakis.
REVIEWS:

"Funny, sweet tempered, moving."

 Boston Globe

"Very touching and humorous. An evening of pure pleasure that will make you glad you went to the theatre."

 Washington Journal Newspapers

Premiere Production: The Cemetery Club opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City on May 12, 1990. This production was originally presented by Howard Hurst, Philip Rose, Sophie Hurst, and David Brown at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1990. It was directed by Pamela Berlin.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Ensemble cast
  • Casting Notes: All characters are in their late fifties to early sixties.

  • IDA
    LUCILLE
    DORIS
    SAM
    MILDRED

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    Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband's graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife's grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt stricken when this nearly breaks Ida's heart.

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