But Not Forgotten

This month, MST will start off the holiday season with the family comedy "But Not Goodbye". Written in the 1930s, Samuel French, a major publisher of play scripts, no longer publishes the script, but instead has a photocopy on file to copy and send to you.

Unfortunately, the copy is not the best, having had holes punched for its binding that went through the text itself.

When David Parker, leading character Sam Griggs, first did the show in 1950, he and fellow actors had to fill in the literal holes based on the surrounding text in a way that made sense.

So, imagine our surprise when Alison Coriell, playing Jennifer Griggs in our production, found a copy of the script in the MST library! Complete with actor notes and pictures from the original production, we can now fill in the proper words lost so long ago in the Sam French photostat room.

Come see "But Not Goodbye" as George Seaton intended. With all the words!

And that's the word on the street!