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Another Happy Ending

Summary

Young funeral director Simona Salco flourishes in her job at Jones Funeral Home, showing unending empathy and compassion. But the job takes a toll when the living show their ugly side and the dead visit her daydreams and talk about the earthly relationships they left behind.​​

Prominent Characters

Simona Salco: Twenty-something searching for her place in the world embraces the funeral trade. Wears her emotions on her sleeve. Vulnerable and curious with an air of maturity. Occasionally edgy.

Joe Mead: Paunchy, middle-aged, scotch-drinking, cigar-smoking career embalmer who has seen the raw realities of life and death. Perennially cranky.

Jill Jones: Mortuary owner, mid-forties, focused on the bottom line, not the people.

Malinda Sher: Fragile, emotional, grieving daughter of Genevieve Sher. Mid-forties.

Genevieve Sher: Appears in Simona's dream as a feisty old woman who is disappointed in the after life.

George Scott: Appears in Simona's dream as an elderly father figure who faces the painful truth that he messed up his relationship with his son.

Rosemary Pipkin: Appears in Simona's dream as a vindictive wife and a frightening figure who is thrilled to be dead and has the common sense to know that life is just too damn hard. Age thirty.

Jeff Scott: George Scott's son. An aging rocker estranged from the family.

Griswold: Kindly old embalmer and Joe Mead's first boss. Knows from experience that "you can't make a mistake" when caring for the dead -- or the living.
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Read the play

ACT 1
Act 1, Scene 1: The First Call
Act 1, Scene 2: Morning in the Mortuary
Act 1, Scene 3: The Sher Arrangement
Act 1, Scene 4: Coroner's Cases
ACT 2
Act 2, Scene 1: Everyone Needs a Funeral Director, But No One Likes a Funeral Director
Act 2, Scene 2: Estranged Family Members
​Act 2, Scene 3: The Dead They Get in Your Head
ACT 3
Act 3, Scene 1: Skin and Bones and a Handful of Hair
Act 3, Scene 2: I'm So Sorry for All I Didn't Do
Act 3, Scene 3: Do You Think She Can Hear Us?
Act 3, Scene 4: Confidence is God
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