Not Now Darling
Not Now, Darling
by Ray Cooney and John Chapman
Synopsis:
The tremendously successful hit is set in the elegant fur salon of Bodley, Bodley & Crouch. Gilbert Bodley, a flamboyant extrovert, is scheming to seduce a beautiful stripper, Janie,with the aid of a $5,000 mink. Unfortunately, she is married and her husband, Harry, would notice such an acquisition.So Gilbert reduces the mink to $500 and Janie tries to get Harry to buy the coat for her, Gilbert paying the difference. Harry realizes a bargain when he sees one and buys it instead for his own curvaceous little secretary, Sue.Gilbert is quite demented by this turn of events and both he and his dithering assistant, Arnold Crouch, are further embarrassed when Janie strips and refuses to leave the salon without the mink. Their frenzied attempts to retrieve the coat from Sue and hide the naked Janie are further complicated by the unexpected arrival of Gilbert’s wife, Maud. Meanwhile, Arnold’s method of hiding any discardedladies’ underwear is to throw them out of the window and it is left to Miss Tipdale, the firm’s spinster secretary, to retrieve the garments and the situaion whenever necessary. The hilarious permutations reach a point of hysteria before everyone gets their just desserts.
Cast:
Miss Whittington | Michelle Clark |
Arnold Crouch | Shannon Klatt |
Miss Tipdale | Leah Passler |
Mrs. Frencham | Margaret Bell |
Gilbert Bodley | Ashton Lisitza |
Harry McMichael
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David Slykhuis |
Janie McMichael | Denise Singleton |
Mr. Frencham | Don Carter |
Sue Lawson | Evelyn Cullum MacCuish |
Maude Bodley | Debbie Bedecs |
Mr. Lawson | Dean Albano |
Director
Dianne Twietmeyer
Promptor
Gillian Maher
Stage Manager
Kristy Wempe
Stage Crew
Make-up