And Then I Wrote...
by Jack Sharkey, Mel Buttorff

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Highlights

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

Synopsis

In this riotous showbiz comedy, a producer, his secretary, and associates try to re-write an epic drama by a neophyte playwright into a broad farce.

A vicious gossip columnist tries to blackmail the producer into marriage, while a scatterbrained old character actor erroneously creates the impression that the leading lady has died.

The author, also an apprentice mortician, is appalled by the histrionics that accompany the opening of a Broadway show.

As the columnist draws mistaken conclusions that this show is really a cover for a bizarre murder cult, the rest of the group foster this impression and substitute a lady undertaker in the role of the much-alive leading lady.

Mistaken identities, romance, and silly situations combine to keep the audience laughing through three acts of hilarity.

Characters

Character
Annabel Holmes

Bronian's secretary.

Rory Madden

Bronian's general factotum.

Andrew Kimmer

a neophyte playwright.

Alison Blair

a well-known actress.

Frieda Nebcott

a Broadway columnist.

Charles Carpenter

an amiable actor.

V. Nelson Slomber

an undertaker.

Bronian Pendrick

a theatrical producer.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573619564
ISBN-10 0573619565

And Then I Wrote... is a comedy play written by Jack Sharkey and published by Samuel French .

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Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)

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