[SDS] Fall 2013 Show Survey!

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Everyone!
The Fall show must be decided on by Tuesday! Please fill out this form
ASAP to indicate which show you feel the society would perform the
best. The options were narrowed down to the four listed below:
Don't Drink the Water:
A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes
place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American
tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the
embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and
picture taking. It's not much of a refuge, for the ambassador is absent
and his son, now in charge, has been expelled from a dozen countries
and the continent of Africa. Nevertheless, they carefully and
frantically plot their escape, and the ambassador's son and the
caterer's daughter even have time to fall in love. "Moved the audience
to great laughter.... Allen's imagination is daffy, his sense of the
ridiculous is keen and gags snap, crackle and pop." N.Y. Daily News "It
is filled with ... bright and hilarious dialogue." N.Y. Post.
Reference:
http://books.google.com/books/about/Don_t_Drink_the_Water.html?id=K7jBAt9iBaQC
You Can't Take it With You:
At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize
that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to
these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how
Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice
Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the
wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to
eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the
question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it
hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the
Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and
in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the
Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an
ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No mention has as
yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the
household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the printing
press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend
Donald; nor of Grandpa's interview with the tax collector when he tells
him he doesn't believe in the income tax.
Reference: http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1163
The Man Who came to Dinner:
Sheridan Whiteside, having dined at the home of the Stanleys, slips on
their doorstep, breaking his hip. A tumultuous six weeks of confinement
follow. The Stanley living room is monopolized by the irascible
invalid; ex-convicts are invited to meals; and transatlantic calls
bring a $784 phone bill. The arrival of strange gifts from his friends
further destroys domestic tranquility. It would take a stoical
housewife to harbor penguins in her library, an octopus in her cellar,
and 10,000 cockroaches in her kitchen. When Maggie, his secretary,
falls in love with the reporter, Bert Jefferson, Whiteside summons a
glamorous actress, Lorraine, to win the affections of the young man.
Knowing the girl's charms, Maggie enlists the aid of a clever
impersonator who, affecting the voice of Lord Bottomley, whom the
actress hopes to marry, asks her by phone to return to him and be
married. The ruse almost works, but Whiteside, becoming suspicious,
finds that no calls have come through from London. In revenge, Lorraine
suggests a three-week rewrite on a play of Bert's in which she feigns
great interest. Lake Placid is to furnish the quiet for his
inspiration, and she is to be his collaborator. The unexpected arrival
of a mummy case, just as the relenting Whiteside is frantically seeking
to get rid of Lorraine, furnishes a malicious idea. Tricking her into
stepping into the case, he shuts the lid and blackmails his host into
having the case carried to the airport, preparatory to a
round-the-world cruise. Whiteside departs from the Stanley's home
triumphantly, but a second later a crash is heard—he has again slipped
and fallen!
Reference: http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1848
The Brother Grimm Spectaculathon:
The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are turned on their heads in this
fast-paced, rollicking ride as two narrators and several actors attempt
to combine all 209 stories ranging from classics like Snow White,
Cinderella, andHansel and Gretel to more bizarre, obscure stories like
The Devil's Grandmother and The Girl Without Hands. A wild, free-form
comedy with lots of audience participation and madcap fun.
Reference: http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=1162
Thanks!







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