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Cherry Lane Theater, NY

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Romantic Comedy

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Synopsis: As told by Oppenheimer, of New York Newsday: "This first act is a farce. . .and very funny it is too. The scene is the Palace of King Ambrose of England in the year of 470 A.D. A war has just ended and the soldiers and the populace are indulging in all sorts of delightful human sacrifices. The Queen, a thoroughly domestic type, just loves sacrifices and is bustling about busily, seeing to everyone's welfare, except, of course, the victims', while the wizard Merlin is up to his old tricks, one of which is to make Muzak accompany him on his entrances. The Princess is engaged to a Prince and all is well until the King sights a prisoner and, on a whim, snatches him from the ax, to the displeasure of the Druid head-priest. An Act II farce gives way to a sort of philosophical comedy. The prisoner, a Roman Christian, becomes the Princess' bodyguard and shortly thereafter they fall in love. Then the King, worrying about his conquering army becoming too rambunctious, decides to send them on a mission to Ireland, headed

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Synopsis: Having engineered the social coup of the Long Island season, the imperious Millicent Foxxe-Firestone has snagged the Earl of Baggersley as a weekend guest. Anxious to show off her catch, she has invited a number of the "right people" to her estate, including the enormously wealthy (but distressingly plain) Carlotta Gumpertwho might just be the right match for the bachelor earl. Also present are the charming and debonair Mariners, Clarke (who had once been engaged to Miss Gumpert) and Cora (who had once almost married the earl). Having made the mistake of marrying for love, Clarke and Cora are reminded upon renewed acquaintance with their former sweethearts, of all the riches their foolishness has denied them, and the simultaneous thought occurs to them that perhaps it's not too late to try again. But, as divorce is unthinkable in their circle, murder appears to be the only answer, whereupon they try to do away with each other their hilariously diabolical plans going awry to the extent of nine unintended victims. Suffice it to say that the police are as inept as the murderers, and all ends in as stylishlyand as charmingly bizarrea fashion as it began.

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Samuel French, London

1982

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Comedy

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Synopsis: send up of grade B horror flicks with an ancient and wealthy recluse creepily ensconced in Seal Castle