The Curious Savage
So you've never heard of it either, huh? But it's actually a really cool play. It's about this lady whose children want to put her into a sanitorium so they can get her money. The lady's name is Ethel Savage (yay Lauren!), and she inherited 10 million dollars in bonds. She plans to use the money for a memorial fund for her husband that will help people acchieve their childhood dreams. Her step children (yay Nick, James, and Sammi!) call her crazy and have her committed.She is sent to "The Cloisters," a private institution that is run by Dr. Emmett (yay Andy M.!) and Mrs. Willy (yay Elizabeth!). In the institution she meets a woman named Fairy May (yay Hillary!) who thinks she is a beauty queen and exaggerates everything to make her life exciting, a man named Hannibal (yay Andy K.!) who is a statistician and thinks he can play the violin, a man named Jeffrey (yay Zane!) who is a war veteran and pianist that believes he has scars on his face from the war, a woman named Mrs. Paddy (yay Veronica!) who only speaks to recite the things she hates and hates electricity, and a woman named Florence (yay me!) who thinks a doll is her deceased five-year-old child.
That's all I really feel like explaining. The rest of the play shows Mrs. Savage's life in the institution with the guests, Mrs. Willy, and Dr. Emmett and the conflict between her and her step-children regarding her bonds and the fact that they had her committed.
Some Greatly Loved Lines
(by the cast, at least)
"It's garden hour.""Parcheesi! The royal game of India!"
"I wish we could open a door and have a body fall out!"
all of the sexual innuendos:
"Do you light up when you are mating, Lily Belle? Lord knows you're flighty."
"She could've stuck it down her front! Heavens knows there's room."
and more. i'll get to them soon.