"This play is an absolute riot on stage! It is certainly a crowd pleaser. Review by Jeannie Henry, Reed-Custer Unit Dist. There are 22 scenes! We started our tech rehearsals a week early to accommodate all the learning of the timing." The comedy is very physical, too, which appeals to even the youngest of audiences.
"This is a very funny script and remains quite true to the movie version.
Review by Katherine Bacon, Broome Community College, Binghamton, N.Y. Actors played numerous roles except for the five leads and had the audiences roaring." "The actors' skills in comedy were greatly improved by playing the straight action and lines of this brilliantly created comedy. Review by Lori Talley, Fayetteville Middle School, Fayetteville, Ohio The physical comedy in this play makes us all laugh at every practice. " The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the funniest play I've directed. Review by Michael Strawderman, Thomas Harrison Middle School, Harrisonburg, VA It was a real crowd-pleaser too - lots of humor for adults and enough slapstick and pratfalls for younger kids to enjoy as well!" "This was fun to produce! A well-written script that kept my students challenged and engaged throughout rehearsal. Review by Frank Porter, Heritage Academy High School, Columbus, MS "Simply hilarious! Inspector Clouseau steals the show! Perfect for every age group!"
Then he fires from the hip and hits-our funny bone! Notes No livestream rights are available for this title. At the critical moment, it suddenly appears that Clouseau is finally running out of luck. However, the world is running out of time because the increasingly frustrated Dreyfus, doodling with the Doomsday Machine, is running out of patience. 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. 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. 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.
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 cast may be expanded by having different actors, male or female, play many additional small roles.