In a run down Buffalo Theater in the 1950s, George and Charlotte Hay, an aging pair of married actors lead a ne're-do-well theater company playing summer stock. As if that was not enough, they face a serious personal crisis. Theater is dying and they may be dying with it, for they apparently just missed their last shot at movie stardom when not cast for Frank Capra's film on the Scarlet Pimpernel. Or did they? Word arrives that the male lead in the Pimpernel broke his leg and his co-star quit, and that Capra himself is coming to the matinee to check out the Hays. Or is he? Things rapidly get a bit murky and out of control for our heroes, especially since their lives are also threatened by some philandering, an unwanted pregnancy, a daughter quitting the business to marry a colorless, too-serious weatherman, a rebelious theater company which has not been paid in weeks and, of course, George is now drunk and missing.

This show is a classic farce comedy of errors in the same vein as Noises Off. It is filled with chaos and wit, and moves at a light-speed pace through the world of theater and personal pain, with sword fights, pratfalls, mistaken identities, true love lost and gained, and even a bit with a dog. Ok, not really true about the dog, but everything else is in this crazy play.