George M. Cohan is best remembered as a song-and-dance man, but he also authored several plays - including this fast-moving whodunit. Cohan's mix of mystery, farce and intrigue is an especially fine example of the American stage thriller. Novelist, Billy Magee makes a wager with his wealthy friend that he can write a novel in 24 hours given the proper circumstances. He is given a key to the Baldpate Inn, and is told that it is the only one. But he soon learns that he is one of seven different people who claim ownership of the only key! At the Inn, he foils a plot to pay off a group of criminals, and just before midnight, he learns that .… oh no, that would be telling, wouldn’t it?
March 8th, 2007 (7:30 p.m.), March 9th & 10th, 2007 (8:00 p.m.)
March 11th, 2007 (2:00 p.m.)
Margaret L. Jackson Performing Arts Center
SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE
Melodramatic Farce Written by George M. Cohan
Based on the Novel, “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” by Earl Derr Biggers,
published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company
Produced by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.