DON'T TELL MY WIFE is a hotel-room farce suitable for community theatres.  The action includes mistaken identities, disguises, people in closets, frantic exits, and dives off balconies.  Also two inept ladies of the evening and a 25-foot snake. The cast includes roles for 5 women and 3 men.

 

The action occurs in one room in a convention hotel.  "Domina" and "Kitten," actually Ann Olsen and Shirley Peterson, are hoping to meet an unknown investor so they can retire from their temporary stint in the "personal entertainment industry" and open a bakery in Mason City, IA.  Jerry Stockbridge hopes his speech at the tool convention will boost the sliding finances of StoneTuff Tools.  Jerry's wife, Emily, encounters the bakery investor and mistakes him for a pervert when he boasts about his pumpernickel.  Jerry's secretary, dowdy Miss Finster, visits the Ultimate Glamour Salon and Spa in the hotel concourse and ends up looking as though she is also in the personal entertainment business.  Jerry's boss, Mr. Stone, is delighted to meet Domina, Kitten, and the now-transformed Miss Finster.  Mrs. Stone takes time from searching for her philandering husband to visit the Ultimate Glamour Salon, and she, too, ends up looking like she's in the personal entertainment industry.  As in all farces, fast action and mistaken identities drive this plot.  The play ends happily with Domina and Kitten finally meeting their investor, Jerry's speech generating tool clients, Miss Finster back to normal and Mr. Stone wildly happy with Mrs. Stone's new look.  The script stays in the realm of sassy and does not contain any raw situations or offensive language.

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