2 acts, 85 minutes
5f, 4m w/some doubling
Unit set
Licensing:
$75 per performance
$50 duplication license
Combining pre-recorded movie sequences, live camera feeds, and breakneck physical comedy on stage, this farce will delight your audiences and keep them laughing from start to finish!
Synopsis: In the fall of 1936, RCA's new Television Department has just launched at Studio 3-H in 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The fledging TV crew is thrown together with a famous Hollywood director and a trio of movie stars to broadcast the first-ever dramatic episode for television. The Hollywood actors are woefully unequipped for live performance, and when the director becomes violently ill just before air time, an unlucky assistant producer is suddenly placed in charge to pull together the performance with less than two hours' notice. To do so, she must overcome temperamental actors, technical challenges, a nosy Variety reporter who wants to expose the Hollywood actors as frauds, and a Texan boyfriend who has suddenly chosen now as the time to try to rekindle their romance.
The centerpiece of this show is the 2nd Act, when the audience can view the live broadcast on monitors or a projection screen while simultaneously watching all the outlandish mayhem and chaos occurring outside the camera frame on stage.
November 15 - Dec 8, 2024 Love Street Playhouse Woodland, WA USA