Synopsis
The comic essence of the marvelous film with all its verbal and visual humor has been captured here in an entirely practical play that is both easy and fun to stage. The world’s most unusual criminologist, Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau—a role originally created by Peter Sellers—fights for his life and for the future of all mankind in the most bizarre and dangerous caper of his brilliantly successful and utterly clumsy career. Paul Dreyfus, once his long-suffering boss, now turned into a raving lunatic, holds the world at bay with the ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine. Dreyfus is out to get Clouseau, the man whose undeserved success has driven him crazy, and he threatens to vaporize continents if the nations of the world don’t deliver Clouseau to him—alive or, if at all possible, dead! Blissfully unaware that the army of deadly assassins is gunning for him, or that the beautiful girl who seeks him out is a Russian agent, Clouseau incredibly stumbles and slips by every attack. However, the world is running out of time because the increasingly frustrated Dreyfus, doodling with the Doomsday Machine, is running out of patience. At the critical moment, it suddenly appears that Clouseau is finally running out of luck. Then he fires from the hip and hits—our funny bone!
Roles – many to be double or triple cast:
AVAILABLE ROLES:
CLOUSEAU – Chief Inspector of the Surete
FRANCOIS – Clouseau’s driver
CATO – Clouseau’s butler
DREYFUS – Former Chief Inspector; Clouseau’s arch-enemy
DR. DUVAL – Dryfus’ psychiatrist
DRUMMOND – Inspector, Scotland Yard
MCLAREN – Inspector, Scotland Yard
DR. FASSBENDER – Inventor of the Doomsday Machine
MARGOT – Dr. Fassbender’s daughter
OLGA – Russian agent; Clouseau’s love
JARVIS – Dr. Fassbender’s butler
MRS. JAPONICA – Dr. Fassbender’s maid
MRS. LEVERLILLY – Dr. Fassbender’s housekeeper
MRS. BULLOCK – Dr. Fassbender’s cook
MR. SHORK – Dr. Fassbender’s gardener
MRS. STUTTERSTUTT – Dr. Fassbender’s beekeeper
TOURNIER – a bank robber
HINDU HARRY – Dreyfus’ gangster cohort
CAIRO FRED – on of Dreyfus’ henchmen
MAFIA TYPE – another henchman / assistant
INMATE – “Indian” inhabitant of a lunatic asylum
ORDERLIES – at same asylum
WAITRESS – female assassin
ITALIAN, POLISH, JAPANESE, CHINESE,
MEXICAN, SWEDE, NIGERIAN & ARABIAN – Assassins
CHUCK – head waiter at the Mirage Club
EMCEE – at the Mirage Club
COUPLES – at the Mirage Club
FRENCH LADY. FRENCH MAN – lovers in a restaurant
WAITER – in same restaurant
TECHNICIAN – in Dreyfus’ television studio
MESSENGER – unfortunate bearer of news for Clouseau
DESK CLERKS – German, one male and one female
GERMAN GIRL – spy with a poisoned pretzel
PINK PANTHERS – Stage Hands / Actors