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The Ballad of Gopher Gap
or...  Sticky Fingers Won’t Wash


By Tim Kelly


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CAST:  5M, 6F, optional extras
SET:  Interior office set
TIME:  About 60 minutes
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Bunco DeSneer (slicker than lard on hot cornbread) is salting the Spenawampum Mine in Gopher Gap with fake minerals.  He hopes to snare rich Easterners looking for a good investment.  He’s aided in his dirty work by Flora Fourflusher, a phony assayer, and Slats, a stupid stagecoach driver.  The other full-time resident is Crazy Nanette, whose only child disappeared years ago when she left it in a nice cool spot...  under an ice wagon.  When the suckers show up (including a waif, a judge, a newspaperwoman and the man-hungry Ottillie), Bunco wastes no time in fleecing them.  But wait!  Two unexpected visitors arrive:  Rocky Romantic, a mountain man and ’wilderness poet,’ and Verlinda Springblossom, a beauty.  She’s inherited the town from a distant relative (the best kind), Piute Pete.  Verlinda doesn’t believe in ’robbing the earth,’ so she intends to close down the mine and open a hummingbird sanctuary.  Naturally, Bunco will have none of this and the hilarity begins.  This is a side-splitting romp that’s overripe with cornball gags and puns, fast riotous action and fun roles.


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