The Happiest Millionaire June 18, 2011

Funny and extraordinarily ingratiating...Pidgeon returns to the stage after a couple of centuries in Hollywood as Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Cordelia's enthusiastic but unpredictable father. He has a fine house at 2104 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, a fortune of one million dollars--not hay in 1917 because Woodrow Wilson had barely got into power--and a great enthusiasm for lunacy. He collects alligators and prizefighters and rules his family by bluster. Whenever the butler comes in, the butler inquires deferentially, 'You yelled, sir?' Biddle's daughter wants to marry wealthy Angie Duke, but his parents are shocked by the Biddles' freewheeling lifestyle. How this play resolves itself provides an evening of laughs and fun.