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Be Your Age

Reginald Denham and Mary Orr
Full length, Romantic Comedy
5 men, 6 women
Total Cast: 11, Interior
ISBN-13: 990284


MIN. PERFORMANCE FEE: $105 per performance. MS.
THE STORY: Archibald K. Holly is a widower with three daughters and a problem. Gwendolyn, his middle daughter, wires that she is jilting the boy next door for a new beau from college, and that she is bringing him home. The potential groom is not a young man as expected, but Eliot Spurgeon, a suave, sophisticated professor as old as Mr. Holly himself. But the fun really begins when Mr. Holly realizes, that Eliot is an old fraternity brother of his, famous as the campus wolf. Holly’s determination to break up this May-December infatuation and get his stubborn daughter to marry the more suitable young man her own age, leads to a crescendo of comic situations.
“This season’s best stage comedy.” —Variety