LUCY & DESI vs THE KILLER SHREWS 1987

This little farce was the result of some after rehearsal drinking and gabbing. It was our custom after an evening's rehearsal at the  KIMBELL MUSEUM  to move over to  J&J'S HIDEAWAY, a watering hole on 7th Street in Fort Worth which is now sadly no more, to have a few beers and talk about whatever entered our heads. OLD TARZAN  happened this way as did  LUCY & DESI vs THE KILLER SHREWS. Much in the same way that  JOHN MURPHY and RIC SWAIN  had made the perfect  ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN in 1984, we all thought that DENA BRINKLEY and PETE TAMEZ (last seen in MIRANDOLINA '84) would be the perfect LUCY & DESI.

But in what vehicle? We hashed this around for awhile...more beer!  Somehow a discussion of
 THE KILLER SHREWS, an obscure Drive-In flick made by legendary broadcaster GORDON MCCLENDON in Dallas in 1959 caught our fancy....More BEER!

Finally I came up with the great idea of combining the two. It was stupid and simple...Somehow Lucy  accepts the delivery of a crate that turns out to contain the aforementioned SHREWS and all hell breaks loose as the cast is taken out one by one. I said that I would write it and we agreed to put it first on our schedule of shows UPSTAIRS AT THE WHITE ELEPHANT the next February, 1987.

I had TWO MONTHS to deliver...No Problem!.....MORE BEER!!!!!!