Characters

Jane Bond (35-45) runs a summer theater. A person of obvious breeding, she is personable, well-mannered and quietly efficient.

Mitzi Bond (18-21),a college student and Jane's niece, is vivacious, ingenuous, and a bit naïve.

Miss Liz Trusedale (70s) owns the theater. She is slight of build and the perfect gentlewoman, gracious and cultured.

Ellen Drake (25-35) is an actress who's been around and knows how to take care of herself. She's attractive but a little coarse.

Sara Farnham (50s) is a former star whose looks are faded. She has a strong personality and the manners of a "Grande Dame".

Hazel Laverne (30-35), the "star", is beautiful and magnetic but very self-centered. Her manner is harsh. She thinks only of herself.

Ann Martin (25-30), Hazel's secretary, is a plain and mousy looking woman with a subdued personality.

Ollie Dunning (30-45), the director of "the play", is a poised, secure man with the personality of a leader.

Drew Pelman (30-45), the author of "the play", is cultured and precise in speech but has a querulous manner and a weak personality.

Larry Strickland (25-35), Hazel's publicist, is a "go-getter" with a brash and breezy manner, a bit of a spin doctor.

Bob Rayfield (28-35), the leading man, is handsome and suave and knows it. He gives the impression that he can master any situation and would be at ease anywhere.

Hal Rush (30-40s) is an actor usually assigned to character roles. He is not particularly attractive and has a caustic and unpleasant manner.

Sheriff Wiley (40-60) is the local police chief. He has a deadpan manner and a rather uncouth appearance but is shrewd and a dangerous adversary (think Lt. Columbo).