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Sex Please, We're Sixty: The Musical

Full-Length Musical, Comedy  /  4w, 2m

Book & Lyrics by Michael Parker & Susan Parker
Music by Robert Brader

A musical adaptation of the popular American sex farce of the same name!

Sex Please, We're Sixty: The Musical

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    105 Minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce, Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences, Adult, Senior
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Summary

Mrs. Stancliffe’s Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast has been successful for many years. Her Guests (nearly all women) return year after year. Her next door neighbor, the elderly, silver-tongued, Bud “The Stud” Davis believes they come to spend time with him in romantic liaisons. The prim and proper Mrs. Stancliffe steadfastly denies this, but really doesn’t do anything to prevent it. She reluctantly accepts the fact that “Bud the Stud” is, in fact, good for business. Her other neighbor and would-be suitor Henry Mitchell is a retired chemist who has developed a blue pill called “Venusia,” after Venus the goddess of love, to increase the libido of menopausal women. The pill has not been tested.

Add to the guest list three older women: Victoria Ambrose, a romance novelist whose personal life seems to be lacking in romance; Hillary Hudson, a friend of Henry’s who has agreed to test the Venusia; and Charmaine Beauregard, a Southern belle whose libido does not need to be increased! Bud gets his hands on some of the Venusia pills and the fun begins, as he attempts to entertain all three women. The women mix up Bud’s Viagra pills with the Venusia, and we soon discover that it has a strange effect on men: It gives them all the symptoms of menopausal women, complete with hot flashes, mood swings, weeping and irritability! When the mayhem settles down, all the women find their lives moving in new and surprising directions.

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BUD DAVIS: Male, 70+ (Range: G2-Eb4)
Next-door neighbor to Mrs. Stancliffe’s Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast; weak, frail-looking (the frailer the better), however, over the years, he has become renowned among the female guests as “Bud the Stud”; very elderly, somewhat infirm, chauvinistic, brazen but likeable

MRS. STANCLIFFE: Female, 60 +(Range G3-E5)
The owner of Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast; a severe woman both in dress and manner; pursued by her next-door neighbor, Henry; sensible, practical, punctual, business-like, menopausal, but finally radiant and sensuous

HENRY MITCHELL: Male, 60+ (Range: Bb2-A4)
A retired chemist and Mrs. Stancliffe’s “Gentleman Caller”; a mild-mannered man who has proposed to Mrs. Stancliffe every afternoon for 20 years; has developed Venusia; eventually comes out of his shell

VICTORIA AMBROSE: Female, 50+ (Range: E3-F5)
A renowned author who writes steamy romantic novels; pines for romance in her personal life, but finds none; readily joins the plot to turn “Bud the Stud” into “Bud the Dud”; pretty, serious, intelligent, menopausal

HILLARY HUDSON: Female, 50+ (Range: F3-Eb5)
Beautiful, well educated, articulate and sophisticated in both manner and dress; an old friend and co-worker of Henry’s who agrees to test the Venusia pills; elegant, charming, menopausal

CHARMAINE BEAUREGARD: Female, 50+ (Range: A3-E5)
The quintessential Southern belle; definitely here at Rose Cottage for Bud and becomes the leading light in the plot to tame him; voluptuous, outgoing, gushing, demonstrative, menopausal

  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Setting Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast, somewhere in New England. The present.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Physical Comedy
  • Duration 105 Minutes
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

“A rollicking good time, filled with laughter!” – The City Wire, Fort Smith, AK

“You'll laugh, you'll cry at this show.” – KPSP Channel 2 News, Arizona

“If you need a rollicking good time filled with laughter, this is a must-see play.” – The City Wire, Fort Smith, Arkansas

“The whole premise, the whole plot line and the physical comedy – it’s hilarious. We've been rehearsing four weeks, and every night, I just laugh constantly.” – Erie Times, Erie, Pennsylvania

Music

Song Samples

I’m Checking Out the Chicks (Bud, Mrs. Stancliffe)
Menopause is Not a Crime (Henry, Bud)
Is He the Love of My Life? (Mrs. Stancliffe)
Panache (Bud, Henry)
Budly Done Us Wrong (Charmaine, Hillary, Victoria)
Is She the Love of My Life? (Henry)
Why Do I Feel So Fat? (Bud, Henry)
  • Musical Style Classic Broadway
  • Vocal DemandsModerate
  • Orchestra Size Piano Only
  • Chorus Size No Chorus

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Authors

Michael Parker

Michael Parker

Michael Parker (1935-2019) was active in the theatre almost all his life. At age 14, in England, where he was born and raised, he won the title role in a regional production of Terence Rattigan’s play The Winslow Boy, for which he received a Best Actor of the Year award. By a ...

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Susan Parker

Susan Parker
Susan Parker, a prolific Concord Theatricals/Samuel French-published playwright, forged a remarkable theatrical legacy collaborating alongside her late husband with a portfolio of seven acclaimed plays that have graced stages both in the United States and across the globe sin ...
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Robert Brader

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