Terri and Brian Cody are trying to sell their one star (and often one guest) hotel in the Florida Keys. A prospective buyer is about to arrive from New York. They decide to have the staff masquerade as paying guests to convince the him that the establishment is busy and prosperous. Unfortunately, the staff consists of a bibulous maintenance man and a curvaceous but somewhat vacant young maid. Add the eccentric retired British Army Major who resides at the hotel, a wealthy Arab Sheik (who looks suspiciously like the Major), a nymphomaniac dubbed The Barracuda during her annual stays, the prospective buyer's girlfriend and, unexpectedly, his wife, and you have a laugh a minute merry go round that leaves audiences screaming with delight.
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Hilarity erupts long before the audience realizes that the temptresses are all being played by the same actress! This is a madcap addition to the author's string of inventive American farces.
A Dickens' Christmas Carol: A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultuous Acts
... ) At first I thought it was real . Then I saw it was only stage blood ! CARL . He's dead . HELGA . It isn't real . It's stage blood , I tell you ! Stage blood ! ( Curtain . End of Act I. ) ACT TWO Scene : Same as in Act I. HELGA 30 STAGE ...