Audition Dates
27 Mar 2006 – 29 Mar 2006
- Mon 27 March 2006
- Wed 29 March 2006
Details
- Playwright
- Ray Cooney & John Chapman
- Director
- Bronwyn Egan
AddressOakgrove Community Centre, Oakgrove Drive, Narre Warren South
PLOT SUMMARY
A mad cap British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster dirt cheap for his wife, because the wife is Gilbert's mistress and he wants to "close the deal". However, instead of doing his own dirty work, he gets his reluctant partner, Arnold Crouch, to do it for him. Things go awry when the mobster plans to buy it for his OWN mistress and soon the whole plan goes out the window along with women's clothing and a few other things. Mistaken identities, scantily clad women kept hidden in closets, mobsters, suspicious wives and misguided shoppers keep this comedy trucking along in the spirit of the Marx Brothers' and Noises Off.
CHARACTERS
MISS WHITTINGTON - Model
ARNOLD CROUCH - One of the three directors of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch. Makes the furs. Easily flustered especially with talk of Bodley's extra-marital affairs.
MISS TIPDALE - Secretary. Efficient, attractive but retiring woman in her early thirties. Takes dress off.
HARRIET FRENCHAM - Client. In her late forties and speaks with a frightful Kensington drawl. Married to Mr Frencham.
GILBERT BODLEY - One of the three directors of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch. A flamboyant extrovert in his late forties with a natural penchant for flowery language and intrigue. Sells the furs. Married to Maude Bodley and having an affair with Janie McMichael. A womaniser.
HARRY MCMICHAEL - Handsome, well built man in his forties. Owner of several gambling casinos. Married to Janie McMichael and having an affair with Sue Lawson, his secretary. Had an affair with Maude Bodley.
JANIE MCMICHAEL - Striptease artiste. Tall, slender and soigne. She is the epitome of sensual sophistication. Married to Harry McMichael. Having an affair with Gilbert Bodley. Must take clothes off.
GEORGE FRENCHMAN - Married to Mrs Frencham.
SUE LAWSON - Short, cuddly, blonde baggage about 23. Nothing up top but everything to make up for it elsewhere. Harry McMichael's secretary and also having an affair with him. Must take clothes off.
MAUDE BODLEY - One of the three directors of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch. Married to Gilbert Bodley. Nobody's fool. She is an attractive, businesslike woman of about 40 and is quite a sexy lady. Had an affair with Harry McMichael.
MR LAWSON - Good looking, tough, young man. Married to Sue Lawson
AUDITIONS ARE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
A mad cap British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster dirt cheap for his wife, because the wife is Gilbert's mistress and he wants to "close the deal". However, instead of doing his own dirty work, he gets his reluctant partner, Arnold Crouch, to do it for him. Things go awry when the mobster plans to buy it for his OWN mistress and soon the whole plan goes out the window along with women's clothing and a few other things. Mistaken identities, scantily clad women kept hidden in closets, mobsters, suspicious wives and misguided shoppers keep this comedy trucking along in the spirit of the Marx Brothers' and Noises Off.
CHARACTERS
MISS WHITTINGTON - Model
ARNOLD CROUCH - One of the three directors of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch. Makes the furs. Easily flustered especially with talk of Bodley's extra-marital affairs.
MISS TIPDALE - Secretary. Efficient, attractive but retiring woman in her early thirties. Takes dress off.
HARRIET FRENCHAM - Client. In her late forties and speaks with a frightful Kensington drawl. Married to Mr Frencham.
GILBERT BODLEY - One of the three directors of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch. A flamboyant extrovert in his late forties with a natural penchant for flowery language and intrigue. Sells the furs. Married to Maude Bodley and having an affair with Janie McMichael. A womaniser.
HARRY MCMICHAEL - Handsome, well built man in his forties. Owner of several gambling casinos. Married to Janie McMichael and having an affair with Sue Lawson, his secretary. Had an affair with Maude Bodley.
JANIE MCMICHAEL - Striptease artiste. Tall, slender and soigne. She is the epitome of sensual sophistication. Married to Harry McMichael. Having an affair with Gilbert Bodley. Must take clothes off.
GEORGE FRENCHMAN - Married to Mrs Frencham.
SUE LAWSON - Short, cuddly, blonde baggage about 23. Nothing up top but everything to make up for it elsewhere. Harry McMichael's secretary and also having an affair with him. Must take clothes off.
MAUDE BODLEY - One of the three directors of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch. Married to Gilbert Bodley. Nobody's fool. She is an attractive, businesslike woman of about 40 and is quite a sexy lady. Had an affair with Harry McMichael.
MR LAWSON - Good looking, tough, young man. Married to Sue Lawson
AUDITIONS ARE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
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