Not Now Darling by John Roy Chapman and Ray Cooney was a British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley, and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster dirt cheap for his wife, because the wife is Gilbert’s mistress and he wants to “Close the deal.” However, instead of doing his own dirty work, he gets his reluctant partner, Arnold Crouch, to do it for him. Things go awry when the mobster plans to buy it for his OWN mistress and soon the whole plan goes out the window along with women’s clothing and a few other things. Mistaken identities, scantily clad women kept hidden in closets, mobsters, suspicious wives, and misguided shoppers keep this comedy trucking along in the spirit of the Marx Brothers’ and Noises Off.

PERFORMANCE DATES: April 1 – May 1, 2004

CAST: Miss Whittington – Bonnie Gollhofer, Arnold Crouch – Kent Ross, Miss Tipdale – Amy Reinert, Mrs. Frencham – Wendy Nelson, Gilbert Bodley – Kelly Carroll, Harry mcMichael – Seth Eckelman, Janie McMichael – Jennifer Bell, Mr. Frencham – Alan Stukenholtz, Sue Lawson- Synthia Tompson, Maude Bodley – Darleen Clifton Smith, Mr. Lawson – Mark Vierthaler

CREW: Director – Joe Walker, Stage Manager – Wendy Nelson, Light Design – Seth Eckelman, SOund Design – Alan Stukenholtz, Light Board Operator/Sound Board Operator – Tanner Julian, Costume Design – Jana Ross, Set Design – Dave Wetmore, Jim Gilman, MJ Straight, Lobby Photographs – Seth Eckelman

MENU: Tossed spring salad with choice of dressing, pot roast, green beans, wax beans, and carrots, mashed potatoes wiht gravy, French roll, chocolate napoleon.  Catering provided by Linda Bethke, Andrea Bethke, Pete Bethke, Barb Duesing, Milly White, Teresa Hogan, Kathy Morgan, Mary Stukenholtz, Carol Kline, Alba Ortiz, Jacob Busch, Mary Ann Straight, Dee Dee Royle, Renee Williams

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