Written for kids age 6-12, and 8 adults. The author is not concerned with gender or race with these characters, Casting can be flexible.

9 girls
7 boys
4 women
4 men

“Friday Night at the Dream Cafe” takes place in an isolated town called “Sleepyville.” Rose’s cousin from Hollywood, Pitou Girard, is coming to town to spend the summer. Pitou’s father is a film director, and Pitou has been in a few movies. Longing for acceptance, the young girl tells the kids that her Dad is looking for new talent. This inspires them to make an audition tape of their own, and beg Harry to let them use his Dream Cafe to film the tape and to make some money to get to Hollywood.

Pitou however, has been harboring a secret. The movies that she made were done a few years ago, and her father has been terribly ill. Without work, they have become homeless, and her trip to Sleepyville is really to find a home with her cousin's family.

Feeling betrayed, Rose and the kids of the town are really angry at first, but begin to sympathize with her plight. “I wanted all of you to like me,” Pitou laments. “I was scared. No home. No friends. Who can like somebody like that? But everybody likes a movie star.”

A surprise ending adds another layer to the story, as the starry eyed town, including the adults, fantasize about what life would be like in the exciting world of cinema.