Lo and Behold Play

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Lo and Behold
a comedy by John Patrick

performed in 2004

This comedy has to do with a Nobel Prize Winner who has lived for many years on a meager diet to favor an ailing heart. This lack of much heart has made his books coldly cynical. He signs a will leaving a third of his estate to his young doctor ...he eats a sumptuous meal and dies happily. He comes back to live, as a ghost in his house and is beset by the spirits of an Indian girl, a Southern belle and a Barry Manilow groupie. The author eventually finds peace in furthering a romance between the doctor and a young girl, Daisy.

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Hilary Flanery acting in "Lo, and behold" a comedy by John Patrick

Milo: "Robert, you're a doctor. Analyze what is happening to you. You've watched it a thousand times in guinea pigs."

Honey: "Excuse me?!"

Honey: "The city turned the house I was haunting into a new hotel called the Yimca."

Indian: "The Yimca? I never heard of the Yimca Hotel. How do you spell it?"

Honey: "Y-M-C-A."

Daisy sits on Honey (me) the ghost. She's all hands. Notice the Irish flags on Honey's shoes. The world's Irish or wants to be ...Catholic or should be! (that's just the kind of hair-pin I am!)

Young Doctor: "There isn't a minute of the living day that we are not influenced by the dead. But that is all that continues after death."

Milo: "I see dead people."

3 ghosts dance to Harry Belafonte's Calypso song "THAT'S RIGHT, THE WOMAN IS SMARTER".