Jukebox Diner, The

Full-Lengths

By: Eddie McPherson
Cast: 5 M, 10 F, 2 flexible, opt. ext. (With doubling: 5 M, 9 F)
Performance Time: Approximately 90-120 minutes, 75 pgs.

COMEDY. The one-liners and puns never end in this hilarious comedy! Everyone in town is eager for Shelby, a big-time country-music star, to arrive from Nashville to attend Uncle Roy’s memorial service. Hoping to convince Shelby to move home, get married, and have a family, Shelby’s mother sets her up on a blind date with Luke Duncan, a thrice-divorced ex-con who works at the local hardware store. Meanwhile, Shelby’s brother makes plans to leave the diner to pursue a singing career in Nashville, but no one has the heart to tell him he can’t sing including his friends, a Mr. Potato Head model and a mountain man/aspiring stand-up comedian. Then on the day of the memorial service, everyone discovers Uncle Roy was a bit of a womanizer when all his girlfriends show up wearing identical dresses, Uncle Roy’s secret son is revealed, and Uncle Roy arrives at his own memorial service in the form of a cake!

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Playwright Eddie McPherson loves everything theatre. He has published more than 70 plays in the educational, community theatre, and Christian markets. He enjoys hiking in the mountains and spending time with his dad in the house he grew up in.