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The Ratcatcher’s Daughter
or...  Death Valley Daze


By Tim Kelly


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CAST:  5M, 7F, optional extras
SET:  Simple interior set
TIME:  About 60 minutes
Script:  $6.00 (More items available) E-view script also available

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Auntie Hush, famous for her "Hush Mush," runs an orphanage in an abandoned stagecoach stop but is soon to be tossed out by the unscrupulous Whiplash Snivel, a city slicker.  His arrival has been preceded by the entrance of lovely Sweet Lotta Bliss from London (she’s a foggy type).  She plans to open a school.  Seeking her is the infamous Lady Pilfer (driven out of San Francisco for stealing ponies from the Pony Express).  She brings news that Lotta’s father, a ratcatcher, has been left a fortune by his deceased parent, a Russian nobleman (Lotta didn’t know she was a lady).  Read more...Since Lotta refuses Whiplash’s oily offer of wedlock, he decides to get her money by hastening her marriage to her one true love, Jack Sunshine, a salesman of wash-and-wear furs.  Alas, Jack owes his allegiance to the bottle.  Only Lotta’s love can save him, but not if Whiplash can help it.  The cast includes everything from the scruffy orphans to a lady sheriff, Death Valley Nell.  These, plus temperance leaders, Indians and assorted desert rats keep the laughs coming in a never-ending shower of hilarious situations.

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LYNN HAWKINS
BAKERSFIELD, CA
HELEN SMOOT
LAKE ISABELLA, CA
THE LANDING
LINCOLN, NE
SOROPTIMIST INTL OF HAYS
HAYS, KS
CITY OF MARLETTE
MARLETTE, MI
EDGE OF THE SEATERS
BLANDING, UT
BLACKFOOT HIGH SCHOOL
BLACKFOOT, ID
BICKLETON SD #203/HS
BICKLETON, WA
MANTORVILLE THEATRE COMPANY
PINE ISLAND, MN
FONTANA HIGH SCHOOL
FONTANA, CA
EARLHAM HIGH SCHOOL
EARLHAM, IA
SHORTGRASS THEATRE/PLAYHOUSE
HOBART, OK
CIDER HOUSE THEATRE
NEBRASKA CITY, NE
FORT SCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE
FORT SCOTT, KS
STARBUCK UNITED CHURCH PLAYERS
STARBUCK, MB, CANADA
SKYVIEW HIGH SCHOOL
THORNTON, CO
INDIAN VALLEY THEATRE
SANDWICH, IL
GULFPORT LITTLE THEATRE
GULFPORT, MS
CLOUDCROFT LIGHT OPERA CO
CLOUDCROFT, NM
FOREST HILLS UNITED CHURCH
DARTMOUTH, NS, CANADA
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