CAST: 3M, 3F
SET: Interior living room set
TIME: About 70 minutes
Script:
$8.75 each Director’s book: $25.00 each
ROYALTY:
$65 First Performance
$65 Each Additional Performance
SET: Interior living room set
TIME: About 70 minutes
Script:
$8.75 each Director’s book: $25.00 each
ROYALTY:
$65 First Performance
$65 Each Additional Performance
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In this convulsively funny comedy for high schools and community theatre, everything goes from bad to awful. John is anxious about turning 50 and having done nothing with his life. His loving wife, Marianne, decides to show him he’s wrong by hosting a surprise funeral instead of a birthday party. Sounds strange, but her intentions are good — she wants him to know how much he’s loved. It’s to be a fantastic surprise party for guests, relatives, the undertaker, and most of all, John. But there’s a mixup. John catches wind of Marianne’s plans for the funeral and assumes she’s planning to murder him. He purchases a plane ticket to Mexico to escape. When Marianne finds the plane ticket, she thinks John is leaving her! Their teenage daughter and the neighbors all have other even wackier ideas. This delightful mess is amazingly resolved in a hurricane of hilarity.
Additional products available:
Director’s book: $25.00 each
Director’s book: $25.00 each
Let Him Sleep ’Til It’s Time for His Funeral
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