The IPAL Christmas show this year will be If It’s Monday, This Must Be Christmas!-–a comedy by Pat Cook, directed by Mac Stearns. In order to produce the show during the Christmas season without conflicting with Christmas itself, there will be eight performances in the first two weeks of December. Performance dates and times are: Thursday, Friday & Saturday – December 4,5,6,11,12, & 13 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, December 7 & 14 at 3PM.
Tryouts for the play will be held at the ESSANEE at 6 PM on Sunday and Monday, September 14th & 15th. No special preparation is required. The cast is large at 13, so there are great opportunities for both experienced and first time actors. There are parts for children, teens, middle age and the just plain old. Basically we need 5adult males; 6 adult females; one male child and one female child. An outline of the parts is as follows:
Harry Monday – a wise-cracking private eye.
Titus Harrigan – an over-excitable store owner.
Loretta Mondello – a level-headed store manager.
Scarlet Kloontz – a very friendly gift wrapper.
Trixie O’Brien – a stressed-out Santa’s helper.
Louie Grandville – a gentlemanly con artist.
Carson Page – a naïve young clerk.
Penny Harrigan – a naïve young lady, in love with Carson.
Mildred Wolensky – a pompous rival store owner.
Harold – Harry at around age 9
Opaline Lampbert – Titus’s mousey secretary
Polly Brogan – a talkative girl – around age 9
Lieutenant Brogan – a cynical police inspector
The play takes place just before Christmas in Harrigan’s Department store. Both the employees’ Christmas bonuses and the store Santa are missing and they call in private detective, Harry Monday, to sort things out. This decision may very well not be a good one.
All who saw IPAL’s production of Murder Is Bad But Monday Can Kill You! will remember the hilarious antics of Harry Monday and his rival, Lieutenant Brogan. They are back in an equally funny romp celebrating the Christmas season in the center of Christmas activity – a department store.
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