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Cookin' with Gus

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  2w, 2m

Gussie Richardson is a famous food columnist and cookbook author. Her agent comes to tell her she's been offered her own daily network television show. She wants to do it, but her husband Walter is dead set against it and Gussie discovers she has stage fright and can't open her mouth in front of a c…

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce, Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

Details

Summary
Gussie Richardson is a famous food columnist and cookbook author. Her agent comes to tell her she's been offered her own daily network television show. She wants to do it, but her husband Walter is dead set against it and Gussie discovers she has stage fright and can't open her mouth in front of a camera. Everybody tries to help her get over it . . . Walter through hypnotism, Bernie her agent by threats; and even wacky Gypsy Carmen from next door casts spells. Just when she thinks she's cured, the taping turns into a comic nightmare concluding in an all out food fight that almost ends the show and her marriage. Cookin' with Gus brings together four unlikely characters in a stew of hijinks and hilarity. Fun for the performers and a great evening for the audience.
History
Cooking With Gus premiered at the Fountain Theatre Los Angeles on December 23, 1980
GUSSIE - 30-50
WALTER - 30-50
BERNIE - 40
CARMEN- 20-60

Should be naturally funny people.

  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Setting A kitchen/den area.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Local Celebrity Cameo
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

"A non-stop laugh riot from beginning to end!" - Menachem Young, Citiscape Magazine

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

Jim Brochu

Jim Brochu is the only actor in America to have won the New York Drama Desk Award, the Washington, DC Helen Hayes Award, the Los Angeles Ovation Award and the South Florida Carbonell Award, all for Best Actor in a Play. He appeared on Broadway as Andrew McLaren in Brigadoon o ...

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