THE STORY: In MICKEY’S TEETH, Steven, a former Mouseketeer, is drinking spiked coffee in a coffee shop in Riverside, California, brooding over his failures as a salesman. Being a Mouseketeer has opened some doors, it has also proved to be a detriment. As Steven says, “when it comes to closing, they just won’t hand an ex-Mouse a four-figure check.” He is waiting in the coffee shop to meet another former Mouse, but when Leah arrives, wearing her mouse ears, he does not recognize her. After questioning her, Steven determines that she was not a true Mouse, but a girl who lived on a farm in Nebraska that two of the Mouseketeers visited as part of several episodes. The show, however, had tragic consequences for Leah’s life, resulting in the deaths of her entire family, and now, embittered, Leah has become a “Mouseketerrorist.” She claims to have a bomb and is ready to kill them both. Only the timely arrival of the Blue Fairy saves Steven’s life, and furthermore, she gives him the opportunity to exchange his past life for a new one.
MICKEY’S TEETH, first produced at Milwaukee Rep, is a comic look at the dark side of the life of a former Mouseketeer.
“Amlin Gray’s darkly funny MICKEY’S TEETH contains two prize monologues that reveal the consequences of Mousketeer celebrity.” —Milwaukee Sentinel.
Included in the collection
Mickey’s Teeth and Bindle Stiff.
