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Play It by Ear (The Festival)

Samuel and Bella Spewack
Full Length, Drama
5 men, 4 women, 2 boys
Total Cast: 11, Interior
ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-0897-6


MIN. PERFORMANCE FEE: $105 per performance. MS.
THE STORY: Tells of Sally Ann Peters, a young piano teacher whose knowledge of life is entirely academic. Sally Ann appears in the Los Angeles home of Max Granada, a sophisticated and charmingly unscrupulous impresario, in an effort to fire him with some of her own enthusiasm for a young pupil of hers, who she claims is a child prodigy. Granada will have none of her until he finds a way of using her for his own purposes. He is frantically trying to get his chief client, a famous Pianist, to go to Mexico to participate in a festival there, and Sally Ann finds herself involved in the plot to get the pianist off for his concert. At the end she has learned a great deal about herself, accomplished her mission, and has conquered the impresario. A highly amusing play for groups interested in producing sophisticated comedy.