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(make reference to singing)

Ricardo! Where are you Ricardo?!!

Why are you shouting?

My Ricardo! My love! The world’s greatest Latin singer! He’s run away to Branson! Some say he wears a disguise! But I must find him!

Pajamas . . Act I ends with them in sleeping positions End of Act I. . .all asleep, Hank gets on bus, starts it up…roar…They wake. . blackout

Pull into a rest stop.

Hank has stopped bus to make a drug pickup… .he’s been smuggling marijuana into the senior citizen hotels in Branson. Verna is an undercover FBI agent, posing as a dementia patient. She pulls a gun on Hank to arrest him. Floyd pulls a gun on her. He’s in cahoots with Hank. . .pretends to be hard hearing and to have prostate problems so he can get away from his wife at frequent intervals and work with Hank in his drug business. Just when it looks like this is the way things will go, Ellie pulls a gun. She’s also an FBI agent. . . a midget.

Ginger and Hank. . .a team. . that’s why she’s taken so many trips.

Jim’s ideas:

-Happy Hank does what John did in that pet shop show…says nothing until right at the end.  For some reason, I was thinking Ginger finally blurts-out that she cares for him, and that prompts a reaction.

-Thinking there’s something with Verna & Ellie…a backstory that starts to come out, maybe in the next scene after the breakdown…was thinking we do something that sort of plays on stereotyping older folks (maybe making the audience believe Verna has an ailment when it’s actually Ellie).

-Richard and Carol?…I just don’t think you can have enough of the hard-of-hearing-have-to-pee stuff…but I can be sophomoric.  Thinking they and Loretta keep the comedic flow going (forgive the “flow” pun).

Act II . . a series of fantasies. . are each trying to find the criminal? Whatever. . they doze off and one character comes to life, summoning up the other characterizations. . spies, film noir, etc. Some real comic acting opportunities in Act II.