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That's My Cousin

Full length, Comedy
8 men, 10 women
Total Cast: 18, Interior
ISBN-13: 992183


MIN. PERFORMANCE FEE: $105 per performance. MS.
THE STORY: Cousins Kitty Drake and Adele Warren inherit a dude ranch at Cross Roads Canyon, Colorado. Kitty, the more impetuous one, resigns her job and takes the first bus West. She determines to put the ranch on a paying basis, and resourcefully looks about for the necessary capital and discovers it in Carleton Up de Graff, the local banker’s son. With Carleton as co-signer, she negotiates a loan at his father’s bank and transforms her inheritance into an attractive dude ranch. But this brings on Sheriff Henshaw and her brochures have been confiscated for false advertising. An ad in a New York newspaper, however, brings three young girls from Brooklyn, and Harriet Baker, who is on a husband-hunting expedition. Things look even brighter when Tullina La Gallimore, a TV actress and her director, Kent Tyler, make reservations. Everyone is happy until Bramwell Up de Graff, the banker, storms in and accuses Kitty of tricking his son into co-signing the note. The first payment is due on Monday and if it isn’t paid, the bank will take over. But that’s only one of Kitty’s problems—her guests came to the ranch to meet men and since there aren’t any around, the girls are thinking of leaving. The scheme that Kitty concocts with Carleton’s reluctant assistance turns into a boomerang, but despite one hilarious complication after another things do work out for the best.