Roomies!
by Jack Sharkey

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90 mins Present Day Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

Full Length, Comedy / 3 m., 2 f. / Interior / Hal Mastik, a masseur on the brink of marriage to emerald mine heiress Miranda Kerwyn, learns to his horror that his college roommate Zenobia Poindexter is dropping by.

Though their relationship had been innocent she had everything a man could muscles, a moustache, and a dueling scar, a post grad hormone treatment has made her a knockout.

He cons jockey Bert Pandangus into dressing as a girl to pose as Miranda during Zenobia's visit except that Miranda meets Bert first and Hal has to introduce Miranda to the real Zenobia each woman believing the other one is "Hal's sister Gretchen" while a supposed "Mastik family curse," an eerie thunderstorm, and total confusion of identities creep toward a hilarious climax and cast and audience have the time of their lives.

/ "Lighthearted full of fun confection .

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invested with wit, cleverness and imagination .

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nutty as a Marx Brothers movie.

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Comedy of a high order."

Jeffersonian, Md.

Press Reviews

"Lighthearted full of fun confection...invested with wit, cleverness and imagination...nutty as a Marx Brothers movie…. Comedy of a high order."

— Jeffersonian

Characters

Character
Miranda Kerwyn

Heiress to an emerald mine

Bert Pandangus

a jockey

Zenobia Poindexter

an architectural triumph

Howard Van Clyden

an ancient family laywer

Hal Mastik

a not-quite-former masseur

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1974
Binding Paperback
Pages 85
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573614996
ISBN-10 0573614997
LCCN 75317564
LCC PS3569.H3427 R6
DCC 812/.5/4

Roomies! is a American comedy play written by Jack Sharkey and published by Samuel French in New York (1974).

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