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Opal's Million Dollar Duck

Opal's Million Dollar Duck
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: John Patrick
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 58
Pub. Date: 1980
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0822208601
ISBN-13: 9780822208600
Cast Size: 3 female, 1 male

About the Play:

Opal's Million Dollar Duck is a full-length comedy by John Patrick. Part of this author's ever popular "Opal" series about the lovable and irrepressible Opal Kronkie – a colourful, naive middle-aged woman with a bit of a hoarding problem. Two actors, looking for costumes and other items become convinced Opal has found a missing masterpiece worth a million dollars and are set on obtaining the painting for themselves. Hilarity ensues as the duo ends up resorting to everything from outrageous flattery to using "knock-out drops" trying to get their hands on the treasure.

Opal's Million Dollar Duck revolves around the Opal Kronkie, the zany and lovable heroine who lives in a tumbled-down home at the edge of the city dump, and is a collector of trash, treasures and people. Searching for costumes for their next production, Desmond and Queenie, the "stars" of the local summer-stock company, drop by "Opal's Antique Junque Shop." While rooting through Opal's treasures they spot a nondescript oil paintinga still life of a mallard duck and an appleand recalling an item in the morning newspaper about an old master who has disappeared from the local art museum, suddenly realize that this may be the missing canvas, for which the insurance company is offering a sizable reward. Summoning up all their acting skills, they try to charm Opal into selling the painting for a pittance, but she explains that she plans to give it to her friend, Rosie, as a birthday present, whereupon the plot thickens hilariously. Desmond and Queenie resort to everything from outrageous flattery to knock-out drops trying to get their hands on the picture. Rosie, however, rejects it on the grounds that it reminds her of her pet duck (which was run over by a truck); and the plotters, much to their glee, march off triumphantly with their prizeunaware that a later edition of the paper carries a new item: The old master has been found, and the canvas that disappeared was a worthless copy that the museum had thrown out with the garbage!

Opal's Million Dollar Duck premiered in 1979 at the School of Performing Arts in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and has been delighting audiences ever since. An entertaining and fanciful comedy, and one of the most successful plays for regional, high school, and community theatres.

Cast: 3 female, 1 male

What people say:

"There's gems of humor in comedy about junk." — Toronto Star

"The irrepressible Opal Kronkie once again triumphs hilariously over the forces of evil-while remaining blissfully ignorant of what her antagonists are up to." — The Virgin Islands Daily News

About the Playwright:

John Patrick (1905-1995) was a prolific American playwright and screenwriter, writing more than a dozen screenplays and some 30 plays. He had several Broadway successes, most notably Teahouse of the August Moon (which was awarded a Pulitzer, a Tony and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award) and The Hasty Heart. His movie scripts are impressive with Three Coins in a Fountain, The Shoes of the Fisherman and The World of Suzie Wong as well as adaptations of the two plays mentioned above. His "Opal" series of plays remain popular with high schools and community theatres.

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