Too Many Cooks

It’s 1932 in Niagara Falls, Canada, where the rum-running business is at its peak

In the aftermath of the Crash, Irving Bubbalowe and his daughter, Honey, have risked everything they have to open a new gourmet restaurant

When their star - the renowned singing chef François LaPlouffe - fails to appear, the Grand Opening is suddenly in jeopardy

Then unemployed chef Frank Plunkett wanders in looking for work, and Honey persuades him to masquerade as the missing LaPlouffe

Bubbalowe, meanwhile, has to contend with Chicago gangster Alfonse Feghetti and his sidekick who have come looking for an illegal shipment of booze that - unbeknownst to Bubbalowe - has found its way into his basement

On top of that, Bubbalowe has to keep at bay the hot-blooded Immigration officer Veronica Snook, on the trail of the vanished chef

And also a suspicious teetotalling Mountie who is ready to arrest Bubbalowe for both murder and bootlegging

Madness ensues and Bubbalowe and the others create a hornet’s nest of fabricated stories and identities as they try valiantly to save the restaurant - and themselves - from both the gangsters and the law

"Too Many Cooks is the most entertaining play I have ever seen! I've never laughed so hard at a play ... brilliantly written and performed" ~ CHCD Radio, Ontario

"Too Many Cooks is an hilarious comedy ... a huge success" ~ Simcoe Reformer

"Those who enjoy comedic farce will giggle non-stop" ~ Port Dover Maple Leaf

Characters

IRVING BUBBALOWE - affable fellow in his mid-forties to mid-fifties, proprietor of “Château Bubbalowe”

MICKEY MCCALL - scruffy-looking man in his forties, delivery man for Dominion Warehouse

HONEY BUBBALOWE - attractive woman in her late twenties, Irving’s daughter

FRANK PLUNKETT - pleasant-looking man in his thirties, unemployed chef

ALFONSE “NOODLES” FEGHETTI - Chicago mob boss, à la Al Capone, mid-to-late forties

SHIRLEY - large, imposing mob enforcer type, mid-to-late thirties, Al’s right-hand man

VERONICA SNOOK - officious-looking woman in her forties, investigator for Canadian Immigration

HAMILTON X. EFFING - Dudley Do-Right type, in his mid-thirties to forties, Constable for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police