Huffington Hound Heads to Broadway

Lost Scurry is widely circulated on Facebook

Thank you to those of you who have inquired about and sent us good wishes for the return of Scurry, Ann’s peripatetic gallery dog, who spent a few hours last Thursday on an exciting escapade around Buckhead while several people went crazy trying to find her.   Based on the dramatic adventures of Scurry, we have decided to produce a Broadway play, with an all-star cast in an artistic setting:

Huff Harrington Fine Art

The setting:  Huff Harrington Fine Art, a charming little cottage in Buckhead, filled to the brim with a mix of contemporary art, an oasis of peace and tranquility except for this fateful, sunny October afternoon, when the door was left open to let the fresh air in, and a little white dog happened to wander outside, looking for her boyfriend, Johnny.
The characters:

Scurry

Scurry  -- sometimes known as Scruffy, but for this show will be the impeccably groomed, perfectly behaved and deliciously adventurous bichon frisee, who hates to wear her collar and loves to wander out of the gallery, particularly after she is visited by:

Sam and her beloved charge, Queen Scurry

Sam – a wonder-woman jack of all trades, who, in addition to being Huff Harrington’s queen of design and merchandising, has been known to take care of Scurry when her owners are out of town, and whose only mistake on that Thursday afternoon, was driving her husband Johnny’s car to the gallery, which misled the intelligent puppy to deducing that her boyfriend was somewhere in the parking lot …

Scurry and le boyfriend

Johnny – Scurry’s all-time favorite person, married to Sam, who begs Ann to go out of town so that he and Sam can watch Scurry.  This sweet and thoughtful man will in no way be portrayed as a villain because his only flaw is that he loves Scurry very much (and is sometimes prone to spoiling her just a little … which only partly explains Scurry’s strong attachment to him, the rest being his sweet and loving personality …)

Rachel, The Guardian Angel

The Angel Rachel – An innocent by-stander who happened to be in the Publix parking lot on that sparkling October afternoon, and found Scurry wandering around, looking for Johnny’s car.   Immediately recognizing that this was not a stray dog but a beautifully groomed Buckhead Bichon , and not knowing that Scurry was on the hunt for her man Johnny, the Angel swooped her up and took her to the manicure salon where she assumed Scurry’s owner was having her nails done.

Ann, spinning in circles, calling "Scurry!"

Ann – Scurry’s harried and highly stressed  owner, whose only role in the play is to run around the parking lot frantically calling “Scurry!” at the top of her lungs, spinning in circles and scaring shop owners and patrons into thinking she is the obsessed and crazy shop owner that she is.

Sarah, aka Wonderwoman

Sarah, aka Wonder-woman.  She is played by a tall, beautiful Botticelli-like actress, who is calm under duress, has the presence of mind to take her crazy boss Ann’s cell phone and download a picture of Scurry from a screen shot, simultaneously posting it on Facebook and pasting it in a word document , printing 30 copies, which she calmly distributes around the Publix parking lot, learning from several shop owners that the Angel has taken Scurry to a local vet to have her claimed by an owner.

"Lost Dog" flyers appeared on every door and window within minutes

Drama unfolds as Scurry continues her adventure in the front seat of a white SUV, happily driving around Buckhead with the Angel, visiting different Veterinary offices, and blissfully oblivious that the microchip she is wearing is, for some reason, unregistered, and that nobody can identify her while Sarah and Ann have divided up the yellow pages  and are frantically calling every veterinarian in the Atlanta area hoping that one of them has recently seen their anonymous little fluff ball.

Scurry, riding around Buckhead

The scene ends happily a few hours later (we have a few more adventures to fill in …) with a positive identification at one of the vet’s offices, and the Angel kindly returning the princess to her castle, refusing any financial reward and happily contributing to the tearful reunion.

The happy, tearful reunion

 The final act brandishes one more important character:

The benefactress (with her prized possession)

 Melissa – the beautiful benefactress (also known as one of Huff Harrington’s tremendously talented artists), who,  realizing that  Scurry wasn’t wearing her collar because it wasn’t pretty enough for her, produces a magnificent, diamond studded collar that is befitting of a princess and personalized with the unique and highly distinguished  dog tag that says it all: “Scurry.  #1 Huffington.”

The evil owner, trying to steal Scurry's new necklace

 The plot thickens a little when Ann, the evil owner, thinks that she may want to keep the beautiful collar for herself, modeling it as both a choker and bracelet.  But in the end, bowing to peer pressure and under Melissa’s magical sweet spell, gives the collar to Scurry and promises to keep a better eye on her wandering puppy happily ever after.

Facebook Friends – The final characters are the dozens of Facebook friends who followed Scurry’s scurrilous adventures and will hopefully help us come up with an appropriate name for our Broadway debut.  Will it be a clever, fast paced, high drama filled with double ententes and innuendos, called  “The Importance of Being Scurry”?  Or a theatrical version of the classic, “The adventures of Huffleberry Hound”?  Or an upbeat musical called, “Hello Scurry!”  Or, in the spirit of the new trend for single-word Broadway shows like “Rent” and “Once,” be a powerful, one-word hit called, “Scurry”?



Thank  you, Facebook friends for your friendship during duress.  And remember, we are actually fading out our old Huff Harrington Facebook page, so if you haven’t done so already, please LIKE our new business page for Huff Harrington Fine Art.

Otherwise, you may not follow the continued adventures of our Scurrilous Scruffy Scourge, aka the adorable little fluff ball, Miss Scurry!

Scurry and friend, plotting another performance

Woof woof!

HH