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All Over Town

All Over Town
Your Price: $18.99 CDN
Author: Murray Schisgal
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 83
Pub. Date: 1975
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0822200171
ISBN-13: 9780822200178
Cast Size: 6 female, 12 male

About the Play:

All Over Town is a full-length comedy by Murray Schisgal. This absurdist comedy concerns a psychiatrist going crazy. Amidst his chaotic household he tries to restore sanity to himself and his world by curing an oversexed ladies man who has fathered nine welfare-supported children with five different mothers. The cure will put you in stitches!

All Over Town is an hilarious modern farce about mistaken identity that makes outrageous fun of present day society and its assorted ills. Increasingly disenchanted by the myriad disasters in the world around him, Dr. Lionel Morris, an eminent Manhattan psychiatrist, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and toying with turning to a life of Buddhist contemplation. However, egged on by his intense daughter and her social worker fiancé, he is drawn into dealing with a very special welfare department case: a young man named Louie who has fathered nine children by five different women, all out of wedlock and all now on public assistance. The absent‐minded doctor's plan is to have Louie move into the family's luxurious Fifth Avenue duplex while he analyzes him, but, as luck would have it, a young black deliveryman, Lewis, strays by and is mistaken for Louie – a most outrageous "trading places" of characters with which the clever opportunist readily goes along. When the real Louie shows up Lewis conceals him in a guest room and gives him reams of the doctor's questionnaires to fill out, while he pursues his own scheme of hustling the good doctor into putting up the money for a tap-dancing school in Harlem. Adding to the general confusion are, among others, the doctor's scatterbrained wife, who is carrying on an affair with a military man friend of the family; a lascivious Swedish maid who can't keep her hands off Lewis; a bogus "French" cook and maid; a near-sighted burglar; and the military man's opera-loving wife – all of whom make their individual, and very funny contributions both to the increasing merriment of the play and to the trenchant, underlying observations which liven and illuminate it.

All Over Town premiered in 1974 at the Booth Theatre in New York City with Dustin Hoffman making his debut as a director on Broadway. The play ran the full season, was heralded as one of the ten best plays of the year, and earned a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding New Play.

Cast: 6 female, 12 male

What people say:

"…a world of sane, zany comedy to cheer us up when we need it most." — New York Post

"…a zany, Feydeau‐style farce ... All Over Town is the funniest (play) Mr. Schisgal has given us since LUV." — New York Times

"…a gloriously tuned merry-go-round of laughter." — Village Voice

About the Playwright:

Murray Schisgal (1926-2020) was a Tony and Academy Award nominated American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplay for Tootsie. He attended Brooklyn Law School from which he graduated in 1953. He practised law until 1956 and then taught English for three years. He had an extensive career spanning writing plays, novels, anthologies, science fiction, and play producing. He has a star on the Playwrights Sidewalk for Off-Broadway Achievement in New York. He has also produced several films and television programs.

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