Wrong Window!
by Billy Van Zandt, Jane Milmore

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Highlights

120 minsPresent DayRoom for ExtrasInterior SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesAmericanMysteryComedy

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the unique premise centered around mystery and psychological themes. The humor and quirky character dynamics also resonate well with the audience, making for an entertaining experience.

Unique premiseHumorous charactersEngaging storylineCould use more character development

Synopsis

Comedy/Thriller / 5m, 3f / Interior Van Zandt & Milmore pay tribute to Master of Horror Alfred Hitchcock, with this comedy whodunit.

Off-and-on New York couple Marnie and Jeff enter an even more complicated phase of their relationship when they think they spy their cross-courtyard neighbor do away with his wife.

After they draw their torn curtain, the lady vanishes, and suspicion places murder beyond a shadow of a doubt.

The bumbling witnesses sneak into their neighbor's apartment - 39 steps away - and the fun begins.

Among multiple door-slammings, body-snatchings, and a frantic flashlight chase scene, two questions remain: Who killed Lila Larswald?

And... if she's not dead...then who is?

The crazy farce plays out on a shadow-box set that allows the audience to be present in one apartment, while viewing the action in its mirror-image neighboring unit across the way.

"Take the money and run to this window before it closes!" Two River Times.

"If you're a fan of Rear Window on screen, you'll award Wrong Window on stage a perfect 10.

A barrage of gag-filled dialogue.

Knee-slappingly funny from start to finish!

Take the money and run to this window before it closes!" -Philip Dorian, Two River Times "Fever-pitched one liners, puns, slapstick, pratfalls...There are probably no people in America more adept at conveying these classic comic styles than Van Zandt & Milmore, with their wacky anything for a laugh adventuring and willingness to toss all actorly dignity out the window!" -Tom Chesek, Asbury Park Press

Press Reviews

"With snappy dialogue peppered with Hitchcock film titles, allusions and references (there are over twenty), plus laughs aplenty, Wrong Window is a right choice for an evening's entertainment."

— Syracuse.com

"You know it's a good show, when after seeing it you want to see it again!"

— Ashburton Guardian, New Zealand

Publication

PublisherSamuel French
Year2010
BindingPaperback
EditionIllustrated
Pages84
PlaceNew York
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780573698323
ISBN-100573698325
LCCN2012532683
LCCMLCS 2013/42355 (P)

Wrong Window! is a American mystery play written by Billy Van Zandt and published by Samuel French in New York (2010).

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Samuel French · 2010 · 84 pp

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