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Leading Ladies (Ludwig)
Leading Ladies (Ludwig)
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Author: Ken Ludwig Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 124 Pub. Date: 2010 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 057363288X ISBN-13: 9780573632884 Cast Size: 3 female, 5 male
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About the Play:
Leading Ladies is a full-length comedy by Ken
Ludwig. When two struggling actors hear that an old lady is about to die and leave her fortune
to her two long lost English nephews, they hatch a plot to pass themselves off as her relatives. Leading Ladies has been described as a cross between Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," and Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot." Especially recommended for
school and contest use.
Leading Ladies is about two English Shakespearean actors, Jack
and Leo, who find themselves so down on their luck that they are
performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge
circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an
old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two
long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her
beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, when they get to
York, they find out that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces!
Romantic entanglements abound, especially when Leo falls
head-over-petticoat in love with the old lady's vivacious niece, Meg,
who's engaged to the local minister. Meg knows that there's a wide
world out there, but it's not until she meets "Maxine and
Stephanie" that she finally gets a taste of it.
Leading Ladies premiered in 2004 at the Alley
Theatre in Houston, Texas. The
play was a co-production of The Cleveland Playhouse where it also
played an engagement in 2004. Since
then the play had regional premieres at professional theatres across
the US and has been mounted by high schools, colleges, and community
theatres.
Cast: 3 female, 5 male
What people say:
"Leading Ladies
is consistently funny – indeed, increasingly hilarious as it
progresses." — The Houston Chronicle
"Leading Ladies
is a highly combustible and continuously hilarious new comedy by Ken
Ludwig, Broadway's reigning comic writer." —
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Look for Leading
Ladies to become a staple of summer stock and community
theatres. And, mind you, I mean that as a compliment." —
Variety
"Ken Ludwig's
Leading Ladies is a laugh riot! ...One heck of a
lot of fun." — The Ottawa Citizen
"This is a crowd-pleaser if
there ever was one...the comedy is ferocious." — Vancouver
Province
About the Playwright:
Ken Ludwig is an internationally acclaimed American
playwright whose work is performed throughout the world in more than
thirty countries in over twenty languages. He has written twenty-five
plays and musicals, with six Broadway productions and seven in
London's West End. He has also won two Laurence Olivier Awards and
the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
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Ken Ludwig from the Alexandre Dumas novel
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