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Context Theatre / TooManyCooks

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1	A farce by Douglas E. Hughes and Marcia Kash, ''Too Many Cooks'' is set in 1932 at "Chateau Bubbalowe", a restaurant opening in Niagara Falls, Canada. Irving Bubbalowe and his daughter, Honey, have put all of their savings into this restaurant, including hiring the famous singing chef, François [=LaPloufe=] for their opening night. Except François never shows up. And it turns out that a local supplier, Mickey, had double-crossed Alfonse Feghetti, a Chicago mobster, and is using Chateau Bubbalowe to store his stolen shipment of whiskey. Add in a replacement chef with too many accents, an overzealous Mountie, and an immigrations investigator, and it's becomes clear that this is a recipe for trouble.
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3	Has nothing to do with the short film ''Film/TooManyCooks''.
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5	!!This show exhibits the following tropes:
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7	* AshFace: The oven blows up partway through the show. Irving uses this to claim that Honey is actually, "Fatima", a Sufi Muslim from... Saskatchewan.
8	* ChekhovsSkill: Mickey is introduced singing along with a record of an opera aria. François [=LaPloufe=] is the famous "singing chef". [[spoiler:When [=LaPloufe=] is a no-show, they instead bill Mickey as the "singing chef" that they've been advertising]].
9	* ClothingDamage: While drunk, Effing rips Snook's dress off.
10	* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Played with. Alfonse is definitely on the top of his world, but he's also lonely, having put all of his efforts into work.
11	* EasyAmnesia: Largely averted. [[spoiler:Mickey]] suffers from amnesia throughout the second act. Not only can't he [[IdentityAmnesia remember who he is]], but he's repeatedly told his name and to go to Niagara Falls to hide and each time, he's surprised and responds, "[[RunningJoke Huh... I always wanted to go there]]."
12	* EvenEvilHasStandards: When it's revealed that François [=LaPloufe=] is sought by immigration because he's a filthy Bolshevik who's tried to start unions in the past, the two gangsters spit in disgust.
13	* TheGreatDepression: One of the reasons Irving feels his restaurant has a chance is that so many places have closed up over the Crash.
14	* OfCorpseHesAlive: Done by the two gangsters with [[spoiler:Mickey's seeming]] corpse when Olivia Snook finds them coming out of the closet.
15	* TheLivingDead: At the end of the first act, the dead [[spoiler:Mickey]] gets up and walks off stage before the lights go down. [[spoiler:It's because he's not actually dead]].
16	* PocketProtector: [[spoiler:Mickey]] is saved by the cigarette case in his breast pocket.
17	--> '''Multiple characters''' in regards to the case, including [[spoiler:Mickey]]: ''"Those things will kill you..."''
18	* StopOrIShootMyself: [[spoiler:Ultimately used by Irving to get the gangsters to give up on shooting him, Frank, and Honey]].
19	* TuttiFruttiHat: One of the disguises Honey dons involves putting a fruit basket on her head and pretending to be an entertainer à la Carmen Miranda.

Context Theatre / TooManyCooks