Archives - March 1995
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Produced by Mary Frost
THE PLAY
Modern-day comedy, set in the Murchinson home.
Alison Murchinson, pretty but a little overweight, is convinced she is too fat
to ever find a husband, which is why her uncle Frank enters her for the local
Wedding of the Year competition and sets about finding a suitable husband. His
choice of eccentric young inventor Melvyn, who lives next door, is not entirely
a sensible one - apart from being terribly accident-prone, Melvyn's inventions
tend to fail in spectacularly dangerous ways.
Nonetheless, Frank sets about quietly bringing the two of them together in time
for the competition, while Alison's family humour him for making arrangements
for a wedding when Alison isn't even engaged!
That changes the night Melvyn accidentally demolishes
the local pub following a particularly
unlucky series of accidents. recovering from his injuries, he confesses that
he's always been in love with Alison and she agrees to marry him. Both families
-except Frank - are a little surprised by this, but throw themselves behind it.
Melvyn's dad Walter and Alison's mother Betty are particularly disappointed, as
they both harbour an attraction for each other.
Luckily, everyone comes to their senses before a dreadful mistake is made.
Melvyn gets a large insurance payout and admits that he was only trying to cheer
Alison up; Alison has fallen in love with her wedding dress designer anyway and
Walter and Betty end up free to have an engagement of their own.
FROM THE GROUP
I thought this was a charming little play: a family comedy with likeable
characters involving an overweight girl who thinks she will never find Mr. Right
because she is fat... (or I suppose to be politically correct one should say
size challenged). Encouraged by her playboy uncle, she eventually gets engaged
to the reluctant boy next door. Neither are really happy with the relationship
but get carried along by their families.
However, all is resolved in a satisfactory way when romance is kindled in the
older generation as her widowed mother finds love with the boy next door's
father and the girl falls in love with the male wedding dress designer, leaving
the reluctant groom to go back to his first love - inventing useless products!
Many misunderstandings and funny situations are encountered on the way to the
happy solution.
The play was a little long and maybe in hindsight we should have trimmed it a
bit but everyone seemed to enjoy it.
Mary - Producer
DEDICATION
Sadly, Terry Hill, husband of Cheree and one of our original and most enthusiastic members died unexpectedly in hospital in January. It was a shock to everyone and we missed his endless good humour terribly. It was particularly difficult for those who had known him longest and best to carry on with the production and especially hard for poor Cheree. Nonetheless, we decided as a group that Terry would have liked us to continue as best we could and elected to put the show on, with profits and a collection going to St Thomas's hospital Cardiac Unit, who did their very best for Terry.
Press Photo L-R Back: Mary Bailey (Priscilla Edwards),
Bob Wakelin (Frank Edwards), Ann Burfoot (Betty Murchinson), Ken Frost (Walter
Thornton), Judith Greenfield (Peggy Ramskill), Lee Warman (Matilda Murchinson)
and Linda Cooper (Honoria Murchinson)
Front: Mike Liassides (Melvyn Thornton) and Lyndsey Kite (Alison Murchinson)
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Previews from the Worthing Herald, March
1995
Review from the Worthing Herald, 31st March 1995
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