Although written in 1931, director Steven Williford sets the play a few years earlier, as the script makes no mention of The Great Depression. Marge (Christine Albright) and Elsie (Amanda Jones) are 20-year-old best friends from Marble Falls, Ohio who jumped at the chance to move to New York when secretarial work became available, ready for romance and adventure. But after 8 months of sharing lonely nights in their small rooming house apartment on the Upper West Side, the two of them decide to overcome their shyness and do what other young single girls looking for boyfriends did in the days before internet dating; they put on pretty dresses and walked up and down Broadway, trying to catch the eyes of cute boys. When the play begins they’ve just arrived home for some innocent socializing (the door must stay open) with the two young lads they met that evening.
Elsie is ready to party all night ("I’d rather fall asleep at my typewriter every day at 2PM from too much whoopee.") and snappy fella Dewey (Ben Roberts) is happy to oblige. When former Follies Girl, Eva (Carol Halstead) emerges from the shared bathroom that connects their apartments, the boys are intrigued by this older woman (30!!) they’ve seen in print ads, and she invites the crew to come to her room for drinks and dancing to the radio music, but Marge and Chick (Denis Butkus) would rather spend some quiet time talking and getting to know each other. The ensuing pair of romances the girls experience cause them to lose their innocence in more ways than one.
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Bollywood is finally serenading the older couple. But have societal yardsticks changed? "Yes, we've come a long way from where we were," says novelist Shobhaa De. "Today, it's okay for a woman or man in her/his 40s or even 60s to seek happiness. Everybody deserves a second and even third chance at love and, finally, society has come to accept this. For Bollywood to be showing this shows the coming of age of Bollywood."
Ad man Alyque Padamsee believes that Bollywood follows societal trends. "Age was always a fixation, but just as we have got rid of many other fixations,
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