Pouf! By Lou Cylde

THE STORY: What happens when you mix hair spray, head lice, and a little dab of Elvis? Hairlarity. The year is 1958 and Betty finds herself unfulfilled as a housewife. She and her husband have been unsuccessful in starting a family and her husband will not “permit” her to get a job. With the encouragement of her sister, Betty secretly sets up an in-home salon, leveraging her prowess with hair spray and bobby pins. Betty begins to change the lives of neighborhood women by “poufing” their hair. POUF! is an “uplifting” comedy with big hair and even bigger laughs.

CHARACTERS BETTY MILLER—28, housewife, married to John
JOHN MILLER—29, works at phone company
MARY COLLINS—32, Betty’s sister, mother of 4 kids
TERESA McCABE—60, widowed mother of Mary and Betty
RAY CINDRICK—60s, widower and mailman
MARGO GURSKI—Late 30s, mother of 6 kids

PLACE The apartment of Betty and John in Brooklyn, New York. TIME 195