The Lucky Spot
by Beth Henley

Name: The Lucky Spot
Brand: Beth Henley
SKU: 9780822207061
Rating: 3.12 (31 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

90 mins Interior Set American Comedy

Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley spins one of her most colorful tales, as she follows a hilarious band of ne er-do-wells trying to scratch dreams from the Louisiana mud.

It is Christmas Eve, 1938, and 15-year-old Cassidy Smith is very pregnant with the child of 40ish Reed Hooker.

Cassidy is desperate to marry Reed, Reed is desperate to open the hottest new taxi-dancing emporium in Louisiana and neither are prepared for the arrival of Reed s wife, Sue Jack Hooker, a dangerous beauty who has just been let out of the penitentiary.

A L.A.

Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Jean Smart, Jack Black, Brandon Maggart, Jim McLure, Laurel Moglen, Elizabeth Ruscio, and Kurtwood Smith.

Press Reviews

"By far her best play since CRIMES OF THE HEART. It has the same offhanded energy, the same unwitting wit with which the characters confront their predicaments, the same pathos that gets drowned in humor rather than tears…” —New York Magazine. “The playwright has melded eccentric characters, grotesquely farcical events and genuine compassion into touching comic theatre…” —The New York Times. “Her newest and probably funniest play…"
— New York Post