Christine doesn't appear until late in the first act, but she is the crux of the story-- which one of the con men will win her? And can either of them win her before the picture of sweet midwestern innocence and beauty that she presents softens them too much to go through with their con?
She is sweet, naive, and nice, but not ditzy or dumb. She is rather dangerously clumsy. In many ways, she is the straight man for not one, but two, comics. But at the end of the day, if people come back to watch the show a second time, it will be because they want to watch her.
Christine is perhaps thirty-ish. She has six musical numbers, and her vocal parts rest comfortably in the mezzo range. No soprano warbling for her, and it wouldn't hurt if she could belt. She has a bit of dancing to do.
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