The Wilton Playshop ends its 71st season with a fabulously funny farce opening on Friday, May 29.

What would happen if you crossed the madcap comedy of “Some Like It Hot” with the cast of “Twelfth Night” and add the pace of a Marx Brothers movie? You’d wind up with “Leading Ladies,” Ken Ludwig’s sidesplitting comedy of mistaken identity and harebrained schemes.

Leo Clark and Jack Gable are two hapless actors who are so down on their luck that they’re playing “Scenes from Shakespeare” on the Pennsylvania Moose Lodge Circuit. When they read about an elderly woman who is about to die and leave her fortune to two long-lost relatives, “Max and Steve,” whom no one has seen since birth, they hatch a plot and decide to impersonate them. Leo and Jack soon discover that “Max and Steve” are in fact nieces, and that they must appear as “Maxine” and “Stephanie” if they’re to collect the loot. Gender bending is a piece of cake for a couple of Shakespearean actors. Romantic entanglements abound, truth isn’t what it seems, and dreams may just be realized.

The Playshop cast features Al Recchia of Milford as Leo, Richard Cummings of Norwalk as Jack, Kate Castel of Ridgefield as Meg, the vivacious niece who is engaged to the local minister; Rachel Rothman-Cohen of Milford as Meg’s voluptuous friend Audrey, Bobbie Herman of Fairfield as Aunt Florence, Larry Greeley of Norwalk as Doc Meyers, and Larry Schneider of Greenwich as Duncan, Meg’s betrothed. Also appearing is Aubrey Kyburz of Stratford as Doc’’s son, Butch. Tom Rushen directs.

Leading Ladies performances are at Playshop theater on Lovers Lane, on May 29, 30, June 5, 6, 12 and 13 at 8 p.m. and May 31 and June 7 at 2.

Tickets are available through Playshop box office at 762-7629 and online at wiltonplayshop.org. For adults, tickets are $20 and for students and seniors (62+) $15.