Location, Location, Location,

by Michael DiGaetano

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Location Location Location

“I think I know the problem. That wasn’t an aspirin. It was a tranquilizer for my great dane”.

Charlie Evans, a very successful Wall Street investment counselor, is being investigated by the S.E.C. for recommending a stock that cost his clients billions of dollars. He’s been suspended by his firm and his assets frozen. He’s positive he will be cleared, hopefully before an angry investor who lost his life savings drives up from Alabama to kill him. But in the meantime Charlie needs cash. Then, a miracle! Charlie overhears a woman on her phone desperate for help. She’s a location manager who just lost the use of a place they were filming in the next day. When she says what she’s looking for is EXACTLY what the Evans family lives in and is paying $50,000, Charlie pounces on it like a lion on a zebra covered in gravy. Now all he has to do is convince his family it’s a good idea to have a film crew of seventy people invade their pristine home. What could possibly go wrong? The answer is, of course, Everything. Location, Location Location, is a big, broad farce in the style of ‘Noises Off’ and “The Play That Goes Wrong” with slamming doors, broken antique vases, mistaken identities, sexual peccadillos, identity crises, a dead goose, a townhouse full of secrets and potential disaster at every turn all leading to the message that sometimes when life gives you a second chance to do things differently, pounce on it like a lion on a zebra covered in gravy.