Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 04, 2014

Good morning guys!

Otis is accounted for now.

There’s a reaction from A. A. Stone (aka “Martha”) that wasn’t exactly in the script. The audience probably won’t be able to identify it as not in the script, but they don’t know what we know.

I wonder why Tracy hasn’t done anything yet. He must suspect something is wrong because Sam hasn’t arrested Gruesome yet. Great story.

We don’t see anything of Tracy’s reaction. We’ll find out soon enough what happens.

Who’s in there – the janitor?

Good morning VistaBill, davidf42, Gweedo and other DT fans. What a shock for A.A. Stone. A real body? Or have we been thrown a curve in the plot? Tomorrow may tell. Y’all have a blessed day.

Eeek indeed! I suspect Aunt Martha/A.A. Stone has looked upon the face of Otis, formerly the janitor, and found him stone-cold dead. But the play must go on! The play’s the thing wherein we’ll catch the conscience of a crook!

I wonder how Sam’s doing right now?

Morning, Tracyville!Those of you who remember the plot of Arsenic and Old Lace better than the rest of us: could you please remind us what “Aunt Martha’s” reaction was supposed to be when she looked in the window seat? In other words, what does the script actually call for her to do and say?

Finally, the moment we have all been waiting for. A REAL body turns up in the windows seat where in the play it is a series of different bodies that keep appearing and disappearing from the window seat. Nice to finally reach the integration between the play and the storyline. Should be a wild ride from here, with Tracy and Sam appearing as the two cops who arrest the character Jonathan at the end of the play.

In the play, her reaction is nearly the same. She was opening the windows seat expecting to find a gentleman that she had poisoned a few minutes before and instead finds a gangster that Jonathan had murdered. Her reaction was the same gasp to find the wrong body in the window seat.

Thank you to jz27wk and to Neil Wick. However, I got two different answers to my question. I guess it doesn’t really matter in the long run.

You almost get the impression Gruesome wants a confrontation with Tracy, who’s currently powdering his nose!

Pretty good ad lib by Agate Annie.

This should bring the house down! :)

Aha! Now we get the second meaning of the word “Sweatbox”, and by the process of elimination, it cannot be Sam in the windowseat! HOWEVER, it could be Tracy in hiding!

If Aunt Martha starts talking about a body in the window seat, the others will simply think she’s gone off script, and start ad libbing. The audience will love it. —Since Jonathan’s Mr. Spinalzo and Aunt Martha’s Mr. Hoskins are supposed to be in the window box, no one will suspect that Otis is making a guest appearance.

If they’d recently put on a production of “Sweeney Todd,” someone might assume that the “window seat” was repurposed from the box in Sweeney’s barber shop that he stuffed “Pirelli” into.

I’ve performed in “A&OL” three times now, twice as Jonathan. In the last one the director bizarrely cast a live actor as the body, Mr. Spenalzo. Also oddly, it was a woman dressed in a man’s suit. Einstein and I (and Teddy) at various times had to lift and "man"handle this live person and all her live weight, through the window, out of the window seat, down into the cellar, etc. without hurting her. Unfortunately, all the lifters ended up with back sprains because of the awkward angles and the “dead” weight.

In fairness, the actress was a great sport because our hands would slip on her suit trying to get a secure grip and she got thoroughly “handled” IYKWIM while we were trying to keep her safe and actually deliver our lines! :)

@Gweedo: yes, it might be a big curve.

@Neil Wick: a very good point.

Y’all have a blessed day.

Good Day…..

NG miss grundy had “the bun” "hairstyle.. miss neazley is who i was thinking of

NG.. make that BEAZLEY not NEAZLEY.. dang typos! lol

I thought this was supposed to be LIVE theater!

…if Gruesome hid him there deliberately, then yes, it does appear he always WANTED to be caught……so why bother resisting Sam?

Here you go, JPuz: