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Bottoms Up!

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 6m

"Suitcase, suitcase, who's got the suitcase?" is the urgent question in this hilarious farce set in a Caribbean hotel. One composite set represents the hotel's lobby, elevator, and second floor. The comedy charts the confusion that occurs when June, an earnest aerobics instructor, unknowingly acquir…

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 6m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Details

Summary
Suitcase, suitcase, who's got the suitcase? is the urgent question in this hilarious farce set in a Caribbean hotel. One composite set represents the hotel's lobby, elevator, and second floor. The comedy charts the confusion that occurs when June, an earnest aerobics instructor, unknowingly acquires the cash filled suitcase of two money launderers from Cleveland. Their attempts to retrieve it cause a soft core movie director to mistake June for the next star of his basement budget production "Tan All Over". Then he discovers the money and joins the convoluted efforts to get the suitcase. Interference is provided by his former star who is now an outraged moralist, a nervous chemistry instructor visiting the island under duress, the hotel owner and her sticky fingered nephew. Wild chases, bizarre disguises, and the silliest looking aerobics dance ever make this a truly riotous farce.
History
Bottoms Up! was first performed Aug 3, 1989 at the Brooke Hills Playhouse, Wellsberg, West Virginia.
SENORA VALDEZ - Owner of the hotel, extravagantly proud of her somewhat dilapidated Caribbean establishment
JUNE - wholesomely pretty, a strong believer in firm thighs and firm values
SMITH - eager for ill-gotten-gains but not too good at getting them
SCOPEC - vicious thug unhappy to be stuck with Smith
PUMPHREY - a nervous chemistry professor visiting the island under duress
RUSHMORE - a sleazy movie maker committed to making a sleazy movie
KEITH - Rushmore's laid-back assistant
THE PORTER - a cheerful maniac who's got his eye on the suitcase.

Ages may vary from early to late 20s (June and Keith) to 30s (Pumphrey) to any variety of ages for the rest of the cast.

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Physical Comedy
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

Gregg Kreutz

Gregg Kreutz has written three full length plays that are published by Samuel French. They have been and continue to be performed world wide, and one of them - Bottoms Up!-  has been translated into (of all things) Dutch. In addition, his ten-minute play Floore' has been publ ...
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