Spoon Millionaires In Search of a New Home
Prefereably a well-furnished home with many Patrick Nagel paintings.
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Jim's Got a Brand New Blog!
It's true. While the Kirk half toils away on the screen version of Spoon Millionaires, the Jim half is busy explaining while he's right about baseball, beavers and some third thing that starts with a B. Check it out. Learn something. |
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We're moving on since the Lima Civic Center bid a tearful fairwell to the mighty Spoon Millionaires, the first play to run all six nights of the Lima Play Fair. What's showing this year? Something that's not Spoon Millionaires, no matter how hard it tries.
But panic not, Spoon Faithful. Having been rewritten, now with more and chunkier jokes, Spoon Millionaires is ready for its new home, wherever that may be. We, the authors are actively shopping it around. Should any of you with a large building and deep pockets be interested in filling said building and pockets, feel free to contact us. We're always happy to talk about our play. We're happy to talk about other things, too. For instance, Jim is always ready to offer his opinions on the American Railway Union led Pullman strike from the end of the 19th century, whereas Kirk is fond of filet of sole.
And is that a screenplay I hear a rumblin' in the distance. Maybe. Let's listen harder and see if we can make it out...
Top Row: FM Jason Upthegrove, Mike Mullen, Joel Frazee, Tom Martin, George Frazee III
Bottom Row: Charlie Diefenbacher, Mike Bumbaugh, Jon Hodges, Peg Gordon, Ali Ferda, Mary Blanche Hengstler
Set at the end of the 80s (which was 1986, not 1989 as previously believed), Spoon Millionaires—a new comedy by Kirk Hiner and Jim Jividen—is inspired by the prime time soaps of the era. The once mighty Spoon Records is approaching financial ruin, and the founder/president, the Archduke Witherspoon, is well aware of this. The company hasn't produced a chart topping record since the rise of the music video (and the subsequent fall of yacht rock, which was unwittingly popularized by camera unfriendly white dudes), and the Archduke is about to lose his position with the record company he built on his family's fortune.
Facing financial ruin, the Archduke hatches a desperate scheme involving a stolen tape and a Paul McCartney look-alike. Wackiness ensues, right? Well, if your definition of wackiness is murder, infidelity, drug deals, Chex Mix and Satan himself, then yeah, wackiness ensues. Prepare yourselves mentally and physically.
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