You're Only Young Once
by Glenn Hughes

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Highlights

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

Synopsis

A play about the sheer insanity of high school life and its societies.

The plot is a simple one of life's little complications, romantic entanglements and academic pressures.

The real delights in this enormously popular play are the almost allegorical types the characters portrayed.

There's the principal, the coach, the English teacher, the athletic star, the honors student, the ladies' man, the President of the PTA and many others.

The setting is the principal's office on the morning of the big game, and all kinds of confusion ensue!

Characters

Character
Paul Chapman

who wants to be popular.

Mrs. Chapman

his mother.

Mona Fisher

a glamor girl.

Gloria Price

the popularity queen.

Shirley Walker

shy but attractive.

Jean Fox

a budding journalist.

Bernice Johnson

a busybody enamored of Ron.

Mr. Birch

the principal.

Mr. Pettit

the vice-principal.

Miss Chandler

the principal's secretary.

Miss Ross

the girls' adviser.

Miss Spencer

the English teacher.

Mr. Bell

the mathematics teacher.

Mrs. Burton Lee

president of the PTA.

Harvey Jones

a motion picture equipment salesman.

Ron Dayton

a high school football start.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1945
Pages 86
Language English
ISBN-13 9780874404975
ISBN-10 0874404975

You're Only Young Once is a American comedy play written by Glenn Hughes and published by Samuel French (1945).

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