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Over the Moon

In this hilarious stage adaptation of the P.G. Wodehouse novel The Small Bachelor, a young couple enlists the help of several wacky characters to gain the approval of the would-be bride's stepmother.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1920s
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
Hapless artist George Finch is head over heels in love with the sublime Molly Waddington, who enthusiastically returns the sentiment. However, Molly's disapproving stepmother would rather marry Molly off to someone with a lot more class. With the dubious help of his know-it-all friend, Molly's would-be cowboy father, a policeman who aspires to be a poet, a reformed crook, a fortune teller and a femme-fatale pickpocket, George launches a series of hilarious schemes to make his dream of marrying Molly come true.
REVIEWS:

"A cannily crafted story of forbidden romance, class conflict, cops and robbers and hidden identities, set in Prohibition-era New York City."

 Variety

"Festive... spirited... proves that vaudeville humor is still alive and well."

 Talkin' Broadway

Premiere Production: Over the Moon made its world premiere jointly at the Arizona Theatre Company in Tucson, Arizona and at Seattle Repertory Theater in Seattle, Washington in the fall of 2003.

Characters

  • Casting: 6M, 4F

  • GEORGE FINCH – A lifelong bachelor. “He is an artist. And what is more, probably the worst artist who ever put brush to canvas.”
    HAMILTON BEAMISH – Finch’s well-known friend. “He knew everything there was to be known – or behaved as if he did – by the age of ten.”
    MRS. WADDINGTON – A wealthy woman. “I am loath to speak ill of a woman, but Mrs. Waddington is a bounder and a snob and has a soul like the underside of a stone.”
    SIGSBEE WADDINGTON – Her husband. “Many good judges considered that he had a head of concrete, but nobody had ever disparaged his heart.”
    MOLLY WADDINGTON – Their daughter. “In addition to being a nice, dutiful girl, Molly Waddington was also a persuasive, wheedling girl.”
    FERRIS – Their butler, British. “To the dramatist, the butler is indispensable.”
    MULLET – Finch’s valet, a reformed thief. “He looked like a man who had a favorite aunt in Poughkeepsie, and was always worried about her asthma.”
    FANNY WELCH – Mullet’s girlfriend, a pickpocket. “One of the great advantages of being a pickpocket is that you do have nice hands.”
    GARROWAY – A policeman and aspiring poet. “He was a long, stringy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots."
    MADAME EULALIE – A creative young woman. “She was a girl of chic and élan. One may go still further – a girl of espieglerie and je ne sais quoi.”

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    Hapless artist George Finch is head over heels in love with the sublime Molly Waddington, who enthusiastically returns the sentiment. However, Molly's disapproving stepmother would rather marry Molly off to someone with a lot more class. With the dubious help of his know-it-all friend, Molly's would-be cowboy father, a policeman who aspires to be a poet, a reformed crook, a fortune teller and a femme-fatale pickpocket, George launches a series of hilarious schemes to make his dream of marrying Molly come true.

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