The play takes place in the loft apartment of
Arnold & Roxanne Schneider. He is a fifty something inveterate gambler and
sports fan who is wholly indifferent to his health. He doesn’t shave every day
but he never misses a meal. She is in her twenties, very attractive and
street-smart with a humor and sense of reality that are refreshingly her own.
Into their lives comes handsome Dr. Peter Wellington who has been hired to be a
live-in fitness guru of sorts. Though Schneider agreed to this method, he
rebels when he can’t have all his vices around him while he diets and
exercises. After lots of door-slamming and double-daring, Schneider becomes the
epitome of a makeover to an extreme degree. Dr. Wellington falls hopelessly in
love with Roxanne and she struggles to get her old life back. In the end she
gets her way as she straightens out both men in a style all her own. A
delicious family style luncheon (baked ham and roast turkey), is included
at Hickory Bridge Farm.
