The Michael Parker bedroom farce, "Who's in Bed wit the Butler?" runs Friday, Feb. 5 through Feb. 27 at the Anacortes Community Theatre. The story is a domestic farce that includes an elderly deaf housekeeper with a pet rat and an accident prone detective.
William Olden, a California billionaire, has died leaving almost all his assets to his only child, Constance. The exceptions are a $22 million yacht bequeathed to an English woman, Josephine Sykes, a $25 million art collection to a French woman, Renee LaFleur, and an antique car collection to a California girl, Marjorie Merivale.
Constance arrives at the mansion with her lawyer, Roy Vance, determined to find out who these women are and to contest the will. Clifton, the butler, seems to hold the key. She learns from him that they were, each in turn, her father's mistresses in the years immediately prior to his death. They have been contacted by Vance, who has arranged for them to meet at the mansion so he can attempt to "buy them off."
Vance and Constance quickly discover that the yacht is missing, there is no art left in the mansion, and the car collection has been sold. Everything is now owned by "The Bimbo Corporation." Who owns The Bimbo Corporation? Could it be the butler, and is he having simultaneous affairs with each of these three women?
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