The Overview of      Lucifer and Associates Promo

This promo is a humorous skit to be performed prior to the actual Lucifer and Associates play. It is meant to create interest and anticipation within the congregation for the auditioning, rehearsing, and presentation of the play.

This short promo skit has 4 characters. Three senior citizens and one teen boy.

Props: 3 rocking chairs; a magazine; a church bulletin; crochet for one of the ladies.

(Chester and his wife Rose are rocking on their porch. Their friend Nadine is rocking in a chair between them. All three are senior citizens. Rose is reading the church bulletin, Nadine is crocheting and Chester has a magazine in his lap).

ROSE:       Nadine, have you heard of the foolishness those young people at the church are into?

NADINE: What foolishness is that, Rose?

ROSE:       Says here (Holds up the bulletin she is reading) they are going to do another one of those dramas. Mmmmmm Mmmmm (Shakes her head). Might as well turn that place into a movie house.

NADINE:   I declare. I had heard they was. (Pause) Seems it was some unholy thing that goes by the name of “Business with the Devil” or some such as that.

ROSE:        (Reading from the bulletin). Says right here in the church bulletin that the Understudies of First Baptist Church of Leeville will present the drama “Lucifer and Associates”.

NADINE:    I declare (Pause) Now, Rose, wasn’t your Chester a deacon down there for forty-five years?

ROSE:         Forty-seven.

NADINE:    Can’t he do nothin’ about this? (Turns to Chester. He is still looking down at the magazine in his lap).
Chester, did you hear about this devilish drama?

CHESTER:  (He is hard of hearing but looks up from hi magazine) HUH?

NADINE:     I said, “Did you know about this play”?
(No response from Chester as he just stares at her, not knowing what she had said). Did anyone ask you, Chester?

CHESTER:  HUH?

NADINE:    (Louder) ASK YOU. Did anyone ASK YOU?

CHESTER:  God bless you, Nadine. (He reaches for his handkerchief to offer it)

NADINE:     Not ACHOO…ASK YOU.

CHESTER:  Bless you twice more. You ought to see the doctor before that cold sets up. (Looks back down at his lap).

ROSE:          Forget it, Nadine. Chester is deaf in one ear and he can’t hear out of the other.