“Yes, I’ve done it before and I can hardly wait to play it again.”
“Don’t count too much on having the same part this time,” Chuck cautioned her. “I’m not sure yet how we’re going to cast the play.”
Alison shrugged. “Well, of course, I’m doing Evelyn,” she commented blithely. “That was one of the reasons I came up here!”
“We’ll discuss it later,” Chuck said firmly. “And now, let’s get to work. By the way, does anyone have an idea on how to handle the fireworks?”
The script of You Can’t Take It with You calls for a display of fireworks onstage and an explosion offstage during the show. Michael Miller assured Chuck that he could easily take care of it.
“I have a workshop, you know, and it won’t be any trouble—be fun, in fact!”
“You’ll have to be very careful,” his father warned.
“Naturally!” Michael said indignantly.
“And don’t make it too realistic.” Peggy giggled. “Just a loud noise. We don’t want the auditorium down around our heads.”
“That Michael Miller is quite a character,” Randy commented to Peggy during a lull in rehearsal. “He seems so serious and yet sometimes I catch a gleam of sheer mischief under those horn rims. You don’t think he’ll do anything silly with the explosion, do you?”