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Makeover, The

The new comedy-drama The Makeover is satisfying...and highly pleasureable...Daussat's play is quite entertaining and she earns a solid, robust share of laughs from her writing. Issues of being overweight in this country are presented...with brutal honesty, never once sounding preachy or whining, but instead with a truthful, immensely heartfelt observation...Dassat's talents are shown to be off to a great start...a solid audience pleaser...a knockout hit.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Flying, Open Flame, Smoking, Intense Adult Themes, Gun Shots, Animals, Nudity/Partial Nudity, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student
It's a typical Saturday evening, as Mike and Melanie play games with their best friends, Victor and Paula. They have been neighbors for years, and each have a son home from college for the summer. Little does Melanie know that her happy, comfortable world will soon be thrown into turmoil.

Mike has sent a letter to Facing Facts, Melanie and Paula's favorite reality television show. He believes Melanie, who has gained weight over the years, would be thrilled to have a makeover at Facing Facts' fabulous spa. After all, she and Paula rave about it. Unfortunately, every Monday night when Melanie and Paula watch the show, their husbands leave to play baseball. Poor Mike is clueless about the show's cruel, ratings-hungry hostess, Frances Montgomery, who thrives on humiliating those who are ambushed on the show.

When the Facing Facts crew descends at her door, Melanie endures a disastrous ambush. Afterward, she cannot understand why Mike would subject her to national humiliation. Melanie tells him to be out of the house when she returns from the spa. Mike is hopeful that she will change her mind, but things only get worse the evening Melanie returns. Frances not only belittles Melanie again, she sets her sights on an oblivious Mike. Melanie finally explodes, throwing the Facing Facts crew out of her house, along with Mike.

Events in the days that follow bring Melanie to realizations about herself and the important things in life.Issues of appearance, communication, relationships, and reality television are dealt with in the light comedy, The Makeover.
REVIEWS:

The new comedy

drama The Makeover

s play is quite entertaining and she earns a solid, robust share of laughs from her writing. Issues of being overweight in this country are presented...with brutal honesty, never once sounding preachy or whining, but instead with a truthful, immensely heartfelt observation...Daussat's talents are shown to be off to a great start...a solid audience pleaser...a knockout hit.

Talkin' Broadway

Daussat knows the basics of writing a situational script: She sets up the characters and action nicely, and gives the characters interesting quirks and vibrant lines to speak...(The) message about learning to love yourself (is) peppered with...comedy (and is) heartfelt...The Makeover should become a popular title in theaters...

Fort Worth Star Telegram
Premiere Production: The Makeover premiered in 2008 at Grapevine's Runway Theatre in Grapevine, Texas.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 4F, 1M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, Non-Traditional casting

  • MELANIE, MIKE, VICTOR and PAULA - typical middle-aged adults. Melanie is overweight.

  • KEITH and RICKY - college students, both over 21

  • MONICA - a young adult, attractive red-head

  • FRANCES MONTGOMERY - older, but has had her features "enhanced." Attractive

  • CAMERAPERSON - any gender

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    Makeover, The Script Order Now

    It's a typical Saturday evening, as Mike and Melanie play games with their best friends, Victor and Paula. They have been neighbors for years, and each have a son home from college for the summer. Little does Melanie know that her happy, comfortable world will soon be thrown into turmoil. Mike has sent a letter to Facing Facts, Melanie and Paula's favorite reality television show. He believes Melanie, who has gained weight over the years, would be thrilled to have a makeover at Facing Facts' fabulous spa. After all, she and Paula rave about it. Unfortunately, every Monday night when Melanie and Paula watch the show, their husbands leave to play baseball. Poor Mike is clueless about the show's cruel, ratings-hungry hostess, Frances Montgomery, who thrives on humiliating those who are ambushed on the show. When the Facing Facts crew descends at her door, Melanie endures a disastrous ambush. Afterward, she cannot understand why Mike would subject her to national humiliation. Melanie tells him to be out of the house when she returns from the spa. Mike is hopeful that she will change her mind, but things only get worse the evening Melanie returns. Frances not only belittles Melanie again, she sets her sights on an oblivious Mike. Melanie finally explodes, throwing the Facing Facts crew out of her house, along with Mike. Events in the days that follow bring Melanie to realizations about herself and the important things in life.Issues of appearance, communication, relationships, and reality television are dealt with in the light comedy, The Makeover.

    		$24.95

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