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Production Requirements: A Costume Plot Database
Play Title: Something's Afoot

Title:  Something's Afoot
Playwright:  McDonald, Vos, Gerlach  Publisher:  Samuel French, Inc.
Year  1971  Genre:  Other
Period:  20thC1930s  Number of Acts/Scenes  2
Passage of time:  1 day--afternoon to evening
Basic Plot:  (from script jacket) Musical spoof of the whodunnit genre filled with British sterotypes
Contributor's Name:  Tollefson/M. Cobourne
Contributor's Email:  not available
Budget:  $1700
Producing Organization:  UCF Conservatory Theatre
Cast Size As Written
  Male Actors:  5
  Male Chorus Actors:  0
Total Male Actors:  5
Number of Characters as Written
  Male Characters:  6
  Male Chorus Characters:  0
Total Male Characters:  6
Costume Numbers as Written
  Male Costumes:  9
  Male Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Male Costumes:  9
Actual Cast Size (if produced)
  Male Actors:  6
  Male Chorus Actors:  0
Total Male Actors:  6
Costume Numbers (if produced)
  Male Costumes:  8
  Male Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Male Costumes:  8
  Female Actors:  5
  Female Chorus Actors:  0
Total Female Actors:  5
 
  Female Characters:  4
  Female Chorus Characters:  0
Total Female Characters:  4
 
  Female Costumes:  8
  Female Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Female Costumes:  8

  Female Actors:  4
  Female Chorus Actors:  0
Total Female Actors:  4
 
  Female Costumes:  0
  Female Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Female Costumes:  0
Notes on possible reduction/expansion of characters/costumes:  none
Quick Changes:  Hope, Grace, and Nigel quick change into dressing gowns and then
Specialty/Special effects costumes required:  Light up dress sometimes used for electricution scene, Miss Tweed strangled by scarf
Other important notes:  4 Rain Slickers/hats need and not included in costume counts

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