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Your Flake or Mine?

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 3m

Tony Dawson, a greeting card writer, has lost his wife, Margo, because he speaks in couplets on the wrong occasions. She plans to marry her boss, a breakfast food tycoon. Tony, in a last ditch attempt to win her back, offers to throw a “no hard feelings” engagement party.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

Details

Summary
Tony Dawson, a greeting card writer, has lost his wife, Margo, because he speaks in couplets on the wrong occasions. She plans to marry her boss, a breakfast food tycoon. Tony, in a last ditch attempt to win her back, offers to throw a “no hard feelings” engagement party. His plans are complicated by the arrival of a friend who is a perpetual student, the nightclub singer for whom he is writing special material, and his editor who stops by just before the party to collect his monthly greeting card output. Irv is wearing a towel on his way to the shower, Coral gets her dress ripped off, and the editor in the go-go outfit is stashed in the closet that Tony pretends is a darkroom. Add to this a nightclub full of little waiters, a ghastly television show on which Tony accidentally pans Sagamore’s breakfast cereal, and all manner of people being shoved behind screens, out into halls, into closets and shower stalls, and you have one of the wackiest farces ever seen on a stage.
TONY DAWSON - a writer of greeting-card verse
IRVING MOSS - Tony's best friend, a professional student
CORAL KELLY - chic chanteuse at a Hollywood hotspot
MARGO CORCORAN - a high-toned executive secretary
LUCILLE LARRABEE - Tony's copy editor
SAGAMORE DUNSTAN - a breakfast-food manufacturer
  • Time Period Present Day
  • Setting Tony's office/apartment in L.A. area.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)
  • Vocal DemandsN/A (Not a musical)
  • Chorus Size N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

Jack Sharkey

Jack Sharkey (1931-1992) was born on May 6, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois. He began writing when he was 10 years old. He graduated from college with a BA in Creative Writing and taught school from 1953 to 1955. In mid-1955, Mr. Sharkey enlisted in the Army, serving at Sandia Base ...

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