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Navy Bean Soup

$5.00 – $35.00Price range: $5.00 through $35.00

In this hilarious comedy, inspired by a PBS show, the broadcast of the sophisticated “Madame DuJour Men’s Gourmet Cooking Show” is seriously sidetracked by the guest host, a sloppy and overweight retired Navy cook.

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SKU: 9064410 Category: Plays Tags: Comedy, Short Plays, Skits and Sketches, Television Show
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navy bean soup chef smaller

Wes Wetzel
10 minute comedy
1 man, 1 woman, 1 offstage voice
In this hilarious comedy, inspired by a PBS show, we watch the broadcast of the sophisticated Madame DuJour Men’s Gourmet Cooking Show. The program is seriously sidetracked when she inadvertently gets Cooky Boatwright, a sloppy and overweight retired Navy cook, as her guest chef. There are many belly laughs when the audience learns what’s cooking in the Navy Bean Soup!

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See other plays by Wes Wetzel: Hi Tech, Grand Moves, Murder at the Movies

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playwright

Wes Wetzel

genre

Comedy

run time

10 Minutes

men

1, 2

women

1, 2

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royalty

$15 per performance

cast-size

3

theme

Food, Theatre and Performing

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