Slow Down, Sweet Chariot
by Dave Reiser, Jack Sharkey

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Highlights

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

Synopsis

When Kitty Shannon dies, she refuses to accompany her guardian angel to heaven when she learns daughter Joan's fiance Norman Gorman is a scheming swindler in love with another woman.

Songs range from the wildly funny one wherein Kitty and Joan lament they can't stand half of the invited wedding guests to a lilting romantic number wherein Joan and the man she should be marrying pretend they really don't love one another to a poignant one when Kitty finally must bid goodbye to her daughter.

Audiences will laugh through their tears during this heartwarming show with a lively and lovely score, startling special effects and zany plot.

Characters

Character
Joan Shannon

an uncertain bride-to-be

Norman Gorman

a despicable groom-to-be

Larry Roberts

Joan's childhood beau

Eileen Roberts

Joan's maid of honor

Melody Nelson

Norman's cast-off love

Father Francis Finnegan

parish pastor

Mrs. Petrucci

friend of Kitty

Mrs. O'Boyle

also a friend of Kitty

Mrs. Kovitch

another friend of Kitty

Opharel

a Heavenly Messenger

Kitty Shannon

a moderately merry widow

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573616303
ISBN-10 0573616302

Slow Down, Sweet Chariot is a comedy play written by Dave Reiser and published by Samuel French .

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