Three Wise Guys
by Scott Alan Evans, Jeffrey Couchman from Damon Runyon

Three Wise Guys Book Cover
Three Wise Guys Cover

Synopsis

Christmas Eve, 1932. Three New York wise guys on the run from a hotheaded racketeer journey from a Manhattan speakeasy to a swanky Long Island mansion to a ramshackle barn in Pennsylvania, inadvertently spreading holiday cheer everywhere they go.

Based on two short stories by Damon Runyon (GUYS AND DOLLS), this effervescent comedy fizzes with laughter and heart.

"Funny, sweet, and thoroughly charming...

The voices here are unalloyed, cartoon New York, with a 'guys and dolls' locution that earns laughs as much from sentence structure as from the jokes themselves.

In Runyon's universe, unlawful activities are mitigated by a deep but grudging moral code.

And his characters, like all good gangsters, occasionally break out into impeccable barbershop harmonies."

The New Yorker

Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 7 total roles, 2 female and 5 male roles.

Publication

Year Published
2019
ISBN 10
0881457949
ISBN 13
9780881457940
Print Length
82 pages
Language
English
Print
Three Wise Guys is a American adult christmas play written by and published by Broadway Play Publishing in 2019. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780881457940 and an ISBN-10 of 0881457949.

Rating

3.6 out of 5

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