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Missing Link

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  6w, 4m

Jack Sharkey

Lindy Baxter misses Lincoln Sinclair in fact she's been missing Link since World War II when he vanished in the Pacific. A fall puts her into the hands and the arms of orthopedist Simon Fletcher. They set a wedding date despite her parents misgivings and the fact that the best man and his sister…

Missing Link

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    6w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

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Summary
Lindy Baxter misses Lincoln Sinclair; in fact she's been missing Link since World War II when he vanished in the Pacific. A fall puts her into the hands and the arms of orthopedist Simon Fletcher. They set a wedding date despite her parents misgivings and the fact that the best man and his sister, the maid of honor, are respectively in love with the bride and the groom. On the wedding's eve, Link shows up with an enormous diamond ring and a box of money as his gift for the bride who he thinks is marrying him. A reporter comes with a strange story about another vanished man and Link's mother arrives with a question about an identifying birthmark. Then a cross between an aborigine and a savage shows up and he certainly resembles the missing Link (in more ways than one)! Who's who? What's what? This play will have audiences rolling in the aisles.
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Performing Groups

ROSE BAXTER, the very relieved mother of also-relieved

BELINDA "LINDY" BAXTER, an upper-middle-aged bride-to-be

ED BAXTER, Lindy's father, a semi-retired photographer

SIMON FLETCHER, Lindy's fiance and orthopedist

FIONA BRODERICK, Lindy's maid of honor

LINCOLN SINCLAIR, Lindy's long-lost childhood  sweetheart

JAKE BRODERICK, Simon's best friend and best man

MISS BEASLEY, a middle-aged bank vice president

JUDY MITCHELL, a reporter from a Toronto newspaper

AUGUSTA SINCLAIR, Lincoln's extremely wealthy mother

RANCE BICKFORD, a good-but-dishonest friend of Judy's

Can be cast with 5 males and 6 females

  • Time Period 1970s
  • 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)

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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Jack Sharkey

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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