George Washington Slept Here Acting Edition (George Washinton Slept Here, Comedy In Three Acts)

Newton Fuller fulfills a lifetime ambition: to own his very own colonial farmhouse - a home in the country. He drags his wife, Annabelle, and their daughter, Madge, out to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to set up homesteading in a wreck of a house - broken windows, falling plaster and a cow in the kitchen. But, Newton has faith - after all, George Washington slept there, so it's even a part of history

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Life in the country, however, is no bed of roses; Annabelle finds country life impossible, the local caretaker is nowhere to be found, a mechanical drill pounds mercilessly for water, Madge is having a dalliance with an actor playing at the local summer stock theater - and to top it off, the local historian reveals that it was Benedict Arnold, not George Washington who slept there!

However, Annabelle and Newton manage to make a beautiful country home and fall in love in it. Complications ensue when they discover they have spent their last penny on the house and stand in danger of defaulting on their mortgage. Enter Newton's Uncle Stanley, a rich old skinflint, who holds out the promise of a loan to save the house - or does he? Near catastrophe is averted at the last moment through a hilarious series of reversals and Newton turns into the country squire he always dreamed of becoming.

Moss Hart was an American playwright. Raised in poverty in the Bronx, Hart s interest in theatre was instigated by his aunt. His first Broadway hit, Once in a Lifetime, was written with George Kaufman, and began a partnership that produced plays such as You Can't Take It With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Hart won two Tony Awards (Best Musical and Best Director) for My Fair Lady, and earned an Oscar nomination for writing the screenplay for Gentlemen s Agreement. In 1959, Hart published his autobiography Act One, in which he created an entire alternate ending for his aunt s life. Hart died in 1961 at the age of 57.