One Toe in the Grave

By Jack Sharkey

Jason Kingsley is treasurer of a billion dollar patent medicine corporation that requires its officers to be married. Jason claims his wife has a rare disease that prevents her from entertaining or attending corporate functions. A cure is accidentally discovered in one of the company's patent medicines and Jason's ecstatic boss is arriving any minute with the company doctor to administer the cure and then bask in the publicity. Jason, however, doesn't really have a wife so he cons his fiancée Nicki into pretending to be the invalid. Other impostors appear: friend Poopsie Magruder who initially refused shows up anyhow and Vonga the Jungle Girl was pressed into service by the helpful housekeeper. The cure involves a two inch needle in the armpit and it develops that the disease is contagious, which only complicates the hilarity.

-      From Samuel French website   

The Cast for

One Toe in the Grave

Jason Kingsley - Zach Guzman

Monica/Nicki Channing - Linda Siegwald

Naomi Schuyler - Rosa Leigh Sullivan

Thornton Murdock - Max Allen

Douglas Procter - Jeff Strickman

Poopsie Magruder - Madeleine Miller

Vonga - Marilou McIntyre

Director: Jim Hyte

Tickets on sale at Westbrook Village's Vistas and Lakes Recreation Centers and online at www.WestbrookVillagePlayers.org

Annual 10-Minute

Playwriting Competition Winners

The Westbrook Village Players sponsored an annual 10-minute playwriting competition in the spring and encouraged local talent to submit plays for consideration for production.

Here are our finalists:

• Patsy Dewire - "Play on Words"

• Robert Marks - "The Examination"

• Greg Pizzolato - "Respite"

• Sylvia Plank - "Reflections"

• Lindy Schneider - "Drawing From Life"

• Dan Webster - "Odd Man Out"

Congratulations to all our finalists!

Your plays will be performed during one of upcoming performances - either our Fall 2012 or the Spring 2013 plays.

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