Description

It’s New Year’s Eve at the Drake Hotel. A massive snowstorm has paralyzed Chicago. Thirty-five-year-old librarian Terry Adams has just reserved the last room at the Drakeethe presidential suiteefor her and Jonathon, her long-distance boyfriend who’s flying in from Boston. She’s hoping after three years he’ll finally ask her to marry him. Meanwhile, not far away in his swank Lincoln Park condo, Dr. Terry Adams, a 35-year-old milquetoast radiologist, has just (reluctantly) gotten engaged to his girlfriend of three years, Penny Parker. When a medical emergency summons Dr. Adams to the Drake Hotel, he has no idea what’s in store for him. Or for the beautiful woman who shares the same name. No one is quite whom he or she seems to be in this romantic comedy of hate-at-first-sight. Before the old year ends, Terry and Terry undergo a life-changing epiphanyewith the help of a missing chest x-ray, a champagne bucket, and the poet Keats. The locale can be changed for flexibility. Unit set. Approximate running time: 1 hour, 50 minutes.