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Wrong Window!

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 5m

"If you're a fan of Rear Window
on screen, you'll award Wrong Window on stage a perfect 10. A barrage
of gag-filled dialogue. Knee-slappingly funny from start to finish! Take
the money and run to this window before it closes!" - Two River Times

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 5m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Mystery/Thriller, Parody / Spoof
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Details

Summary
Van Zandt & Milmore pay tribute to Master of Horror Alfred Hitchcock, with this comedy whodunit. Off-and-on New York couple Marnie and Jeff enter an even more complicated phase of their relationship when they think they spy their cross-courtyard neighbor do away with his wife. After they draw their torn curtain, the lady vanishes, and suspicion places murder beyond a shadow of a doubt. The bumbling witnesses sneak into their neighbor's apartment - 39 steps away - and the fun begins. Among multiple door-slammings, body-snatchings, and a frantic flashlight chase scene, two questions remain: Who killed Lila Larswald? And… if she's not dead…then who is? The crazy farce plays out on a shadow-box set that allows the audience to be present in one apartment, while viewing the action in its mirror-image neighboring unit across the way.
History

Wrong Window opened May 23, 2008, at the Brookdale College performing Arts Center, Lincroft, NJ, under the direction of Mark Fleming.


Cast Attributes
MARNIE ELBIES
JEFF ELBIES
ROBBIE
MIDGE
THOR LARSWALD
LILA LARSWALD
LOOMIS
DETECTIVE DOYLE THOMAS
  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Setting A New York high-rise apartment. 
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Stage Combat, Special Effects
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol
    • Gun Shots
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

"If you're a fan of Rear Window on screen, you'll award Wrong Window on stage a perfect 10. A barrage of gag-filled dialogue. Knee-slappingly funny from start to finish! Take the money and run to this window before it closes!" - Philip Dorian, Two River Times

"Fever-pitched one liners, puns, slapstick, pratfalls...There are probably no people in America more adept at conveying these classic comic styles than Van Zandt & Milmore, with their wacky anything for a laugh adventuring and willingness to toss all actorly dignity out the window!" - Asbury Park Press

"With snappy dialogue peppered with Hitchcock film titles, allusions and references (there are over twenty), plus laughs aplenty, Wrong Window is a right choice for an evening's entertainment." – Syracuse.com

"You know it's a good show, when after seeing it you want to see it again!"- Ashburton Guardian, New Zealand


Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

Billy Van Zandt

Billy Van Zandt and his writing partner, the late Jane Milmore, are two of the most often produced playwrights in the world. Together for 46 years, they wrote and starred in 23 plays together, including the international hit comedy You’ve Got Hate Mail; off-Broadway’s tribute ...

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Jane Milmore

Jane Milmore began her career as an actress. After starring in several national TV commercials, she appeared in the TV shows Anything But Love and Sydney, as well as guest-starring on Bless This House, Newhart, Martin, The Hughleys, and The Wayans Bros. Jane also appeared in ...
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