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Creative Sides of Tom:
Stories for the Stage and Poetry for the Time being. . .
As Tom Prin has said, "Music and writing are both very hands-on things. When
the melody or the muse gets me, I hope I can get my hands on a keyboard."
So, another side of Tom has found its way into stories intended for the musical
stage and in poetry which captures a moment of life - for the time being. . .
Plays
Yips! A musical
comedy.
Yikes! The dreaded “Yips” – ssh: golfer's flinch – has
the Braeburn Club in its twitchy grasp. Chuck Nelson, a grizzled,
roguish, water ball retriever guy, is on a mission. His plan: secretly
give the club’s good golfers the yips and “get ‘em
off the course and back to work!” Why? Our country is in
trouble and needs us all to contribute.
Maggie, the local golf pro; Zoe, a field representative for the Center for
Disease Control; Dr. Evan Parr, head of the Yips studies at the Mayo Clinic
and Zeal, an eighteen year old boy from a remote Caribbean island on his
vision quest have all descended upon the scene.
Chuck, with his vocal trickery, has given the yips to Braeburn’s top
golfer: Robert Farley. Farley, working with the convoluted looking “Twisted
claw” grip, continues to mechanically grind on his short shot dilemma.
Maggie, who secretly loves Mister Farley, does what she can to get close to
him as we see him go through his tormented practice. Chuck, feeling the noose
tighten, needs to move on to other courses and other conquests before he gets
caught.
Will Chuck succeed in avoiding the romantic advances of Zoe? (Women are his
Achilles heel.) Will Zoe’s quarantine hold Chuck in place? Can Chuck
avoid the temptation to stay and give the Yips to the arrogant Dr. Parr?
Or is Parr, with his aggravating "PsychoNeuralMuscular Disorder" theory,
too great an opportunity for Chuck to pass up? And will Zeal find his life’s
purpose in this abyss that is golf? Will he merely be an annoying footnote?
Or will he be the hero helping Chuck escape in the story of Chuck Nelson
and his Quixotic quest?
Set on the Braeburn Club practice green, all these questions will be answered
to the beat of funky, swinging grooves. Let the intrigue, music and romance
lead all who dare to an evening of light-hearted, toe-tapping, good fun .
Script
Review of Bridge Theater Performance
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