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Comedy

Ben Starr

2m, 2f

Int.

Starred Tony Randall, Chuck Connors, Bob Denver. After countless alimony payments to ex-wife Gloria - Frank Forbes' life is unbearable and he's destitute - even with three jobs. Desperate, he plans to murder her attorney, David Morgan, and then commit suicide. He goes to David's office and aims a gun at him in Pat Jamison's presence who's David's mistress-secretary. But Frank wants the satisfaction of having Gloria hear the gunshots ending her alimony payments - so he defers his grim mission, gun still pointed, forcing David to try to reach her by phone. At the same time David and Pat are trying to get the gun away from him. David's problems are compounded when his wife, Lucille shows up and Pat learns Lucille knows all about her affair with David. Worse still, Pat's crushed when she finds she's only one of David's mistresses, all approved by Lucille. As allegiances shift, the gun passes from hand to hand and we're aware that - under the right circumstances - any of us can flirt with the idea of murder.

FEE: $75 per performance.