Adrift In New York
Cast: 5M, 8F, chorus and extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 90 minutes
The villainous Curtis Waring, who hopes to inherit a family fortune, has kidnapped his uncle's son. More...
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Adventures of the Clutching Claw
or... What's the Mater Alma?
Cast: 5M, 4F (doubling possible)
Set/Time: Several simple sets /About 1 hour
Dick has been give permission to court, Genevieve. But now her guardian has changed his mind. Could his strange behavior have anything to do with the arrival of his evil identical twin? More...
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Alas! Alack! Zorro's Back!
Cast: 4M, 6F, optional chorus
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 75 minutes
Buck Badum who owns the Hotel Cucaracha, the bank and the sheriff, also cheats the townspeople. However, Henry's hero is Zorro, and he decides to impersonate the legend to protect the downtrodden. More...
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Alaska
or... The Secret of Yonder Mountain
Cast: Flexible cast of 7 or more, plus extras
Set/Time: One interior set /About 1 hour
Persephone is in search of Cyril who she fears has passed away in the mountains. Our hero, who has struck gold and has not perished, returns, only to fall into the clutches of Rhinestone Fred. More...
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Alias Smedley Pewtree
or... The Villain of Glitter Gulch
Cast: 4M, 5F
Set/Time: One interior set /About 30 minutes
Smedley Pewtree is forcing families out of Glitter Gulch. During a fierce blizzard, the town's populace crowds into a former gambling palace reputedly haunted by the spirits of long-departed miners. More...
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The Ballad of Gopher Gap
or... Sticky Fingers Won't Wash
Cast: 5M, 6F, optional extras
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 1 hour
Bunco DeSneer is salting a mine with fake minerals in hopes of snaring rich Easterners. This Melodrama will have your sides splitting with laughter. More...
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Belle of Bisbee
or... Expel All Wicked Ways
Cast: 4M, 7F, extras
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 1 hour
Belle, the schoolmarm, is losing her home. Our hero, Tom Good, plans to win the rock-drilling contest and rescue Belle. The prize is thirty dollars and a washtub of guacamole. More...
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Best in the West
Cast: 16M, 12F, optional extras
Set/Time: Simple set /About 90 minutes
A misbegotten troupe of performers are stranded in the last place that would appreciate a wild west show. More...
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Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch
or... The Perfumed Badge
Cast: 4M, 5F
Set/Time: One interior set /About 1 hour
Our hero, Harry Heartstone, is in hot pursuit of the villain, Snipe Vermin. Here the story takes an unusual turn because the villain and hero are twin brothers (played by the same actor.) More...
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The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky
Cast: 9M, 4F
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 20 minutes
When Jack Potter comes to town with his new bride, he discovers that Scratchy Wilson has been "eating bear meat" and is terrorizing the town. More...
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The Brothers O'Toole
Cast: 7M, 10F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 90 minutes
Terence and Ginger O'Toole, two charming con men, come to Aspiration, a dying mining community and proceed to liven it up! More...
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Bulldog Saves the Day
or… I was the Teacher's Pitt
Cast: Flexible cast of 21 (roughly 10M, 11F)
Set/Time: One simple set /About 1 hour
Lullaby leaves the stage to become a teacher. The last teacher, an actress, was run out of town. Big Harry Deal shows up and proposes to her, threatening to blow her cover if she doesn't accept. More...
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Cactus Pass
Cast: Flexible cast of 25 (roughly 10M, 15F)
Set/Time: Single exterior set /About 75 minutes
Trevor Barrington wants nothing more than for his snooty, rich family to see the "real America." More...
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The Chips Are Down
or... Virtue Trimphant O'er the Laws of Chance
Cast: 3M, 4F
Set/Time: One simple set /About 1 hour
Dirty Dan steals the mortgage money, forecloses on the ranch and pursues Lilac Valentine, only to be undone in the closing moments by Stainless Steel. More...
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Christmas Crisis at Mistletoe Mesa
A Holiday Melodrama
Cast: 6M, 4F, doubling possible
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 40 minutes
Imagine two people so mean they would ban Christmas, rip down all the decorations and outlaw Christmas wrapping. This More...
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A Cowhand's Christmas Carol
or... T'was Plum Tired of Pudding
Cast: Flexible cast of 6 (roughly 3M, 3F) optional extras
Set/Time: Simple set /About 30 minutes
When the villain plots to take deadly and drastic action with an explosive plum pudding, Silverado Sterling overcomes a blizzard, wolves and a bomb to save the day. More...
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Curse You, Otis Crummy
or... A Rip in Old Calico
Cast: Flexible cast of 12 (roughly 5M, 7F)
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
The mines of Calico have gone dry and the little town has fallen on hard times. Our villain pretends he is giving shelter to the unfortunate. Actually, he's running a gang of burglars. More...
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D.K. Molar - The Devious Dentist
or... There's Gold in Them Thar Teeth!
Cast: 2M, 4F
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 1 hour
A depraved dentist has crafted a dastardly scam: after putting his patients to sleep with nitrous oxide, he removes the gold crowns and replace them with fakes made of fool's gold. More...
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The Dastardly Doctor Devereaux
Cast: Flexible cast of 16 (about 4M, 6F plus 6 that can be either), chorus, extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 90 minutes
Our villain plots to wed and do away with a wealthy widow so he can inherit her fortune and her late husband's clinic. This musical melodrama will leave your audience in stitches. More...
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The Diligent Daughter
or... Lips That Touch Wine
Cast: 3M, 3F, extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 45 minutes
Peter With the aid of Peter Princely, Nellie and Naomi Nice find their father and the villain is foiled. Peter and Nellie fall in love and Naomi miraculously regains her sight. More...
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Dirty Work on the Trail
or... Go Slow With the Pony Express
Cast: 4M, 8F, plus extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
The Widow Mentary and her daughter, Ella, operate the Pony Express relay station. Ella loves Ned Sterling. Alas, things take a mysterious turn when a stagecoach rumbles into town. More...
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Dogsbreath Devereaux -- The Dastardly Doctor
or... Nurses! Foiled Again
Cast: Flexible cast of 16 (about 4M, 6F plus 6 that can be either)
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
Our villain plots to wed and do away with a wealthy widow so he can inherit her fortune and her late husband's clinic. This melodrama will leave your audience in stitches. More...
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Double Take at Beatrice's Boardin' House
or... Things Ain't Always What They Seem
Cast: 3M, 4F, optional extras
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 45 minutes
A young, beautiful owner of a boarding house is in distress. If business doesn't pick up soon, the honorable establishment will have to close its doors forever. More...
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The Drunkard
or... The Fallen Saved
Cast: 3M, 2F
Set/Time: Simple melodrama drops /About 2 hours
Here is a hilarious version of the most famous melodrama ever written. Your audiences will be captivated as love battles liquor for the life and soul of the upstanding hero. More...
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The Drunkard's Revenge
Cast: 3M, 2F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 90 minutes
Stanley is working at a hotel, but decides to take his inheritance, (the entire $85) and venture forth to the gold fields in order to make his fortune and propose to lovely Prudence. More...
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East Lynne
Cast: 5M, 10F
Set/Time: One basic set /About 2 hours
The villainous Captain Levison tempts Lady Isabel into leaving Archibald, her husband, and their children. Years later she returns to her family home, East Lynne, disguised as a governess. More...
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Fairest Flower of the South
or... To Know Her Is To Love Her
Cast: 3M, 6F
Set/Time: One interior set /About 45 minutes
The disoriented Col. Culpepper fights on for the Confederacy. Meanwhile, the colonel's daughter, Aura Lee, must come up with the cash to replant the cotton crop. More...
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Fast Train to the Poorhouse
or... Villains Have Loco Motives
Cast: 4M, 9F, plus extras
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 45 minutes
If only there was a way Pansy could help her friends. Our hero just may be able to save the day and win Pansy's heart... until he is found giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Candy Samples. More...
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The Fiendish Firebug Strikes Again
or... There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (roughly 7M, 6F, plus one dog that can be either), optional extras
Set/Time: Simple set /About 1 hour
Villainous, greedy Neville Ashe buys the Uneeda Shirt Factory with intentions of burning it to the ground for insurance money. However, Mr. Ashe underestimates our hero, Fire Chief Pat O'Hara. More...
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Flora, the Fur Trader's Daughter
or... She Had Nothing to Hide
Cast: 4M, 4F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 45 minutes
Flora Walker helps her father, Jake, who operates a fur trading post in the Great Plains. All is going well until the villainous Quigley Quagmire turns up. More...
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Girl of the Frozen North
or... Condemned To Dead Man's Glacier
Cast: 4M, 5F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
Dainty and her mother get lost in a snowstorm while searching for a missing family member. When things look darkest, in dashes a dynamic, but naive, red-coated Canadian Mountie. More...
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Gold Fever
Cast: 4M, 3F, extras
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 90 minutes
When a mysterious map falls into their hands, everyone develops a case of "Gold Fever." But the greedy villain, Barnie Blackstone, and his accomplice are thinking big, too. Who will get the map? More...
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A Golden Fleecing
or... The Undermining of Sarah Sweetflowers
Cast: 3M, 5F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
Sarah has inherited Cactus Bob's Saloon in a ghost town and plans to open Sarah Sweetflower's Sarsaparilla Saloon and Bridal Shoppe with the help of Stanley Stoutheart. More...
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The Great Denver Railroad Scam
or... If Aunt May Leaves, Who'll Weed the 'Tunias?
Cast: Flexible cast of 11
Set/Time: Two simple interior sets /About 1 hour
Horace Horsefat attempts to play out an evil scam to steal away Mary's House of Widows, which stands on a valuable strip of land wanted by a wealthy railroad company. More...
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The Great Ice Cream Scheme
or... Robin Baskins to the Rescue
Cast: 6M, 5F, optional extras
Set/Time: Simple sets /About 1 hour
Everyone knows Pop Sicle's Ice Cream Parlor serves the best ice cream in town. When that cold-hearted villain, I.C. Custard, decides to steal Pop's recipe, things get a little sticky. More...
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He Lured Her To The Primrose Path
(But He Was Nipped in the Bud)
Cast: 4M, 3F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 30 minutes
Wiley Sidney Shift uses profits from fraudulent dealings with the cavalry to live grandly at the White Hotel in Muddy Gap where he pursues the heroine, Alice White. More...
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Headed South from the Great White North
or… Get Out of Toronto Pronto!
Cast: 9M, 11F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 70 minutes
Barbara Seville has only three days before wily Lynden Renege and his two henchmen throw her and her staff out in the street! This rollicking, pun-filled show doesn't know which way to turn! More...
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Heaven Help the Po' Taters
or... I'd-a-hoe The Potatoes But They Just Won't Grow
Cast: Flexible cast of 22 (roughly 9M, 12F, plus 1 non-speaking role), optional extras
Set/Time: Several simple sets /About 1 hour
There's trouble in Tatertown! The Idaho community is desperate for rain lest their potato crops dry up in the fields. Especially hard hit are Irish Tater, his wife Etta Tater and the Tater tots. More...
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Her Heart Belongs To Heartburn
or... Unsteady Times at the Stagger Inn
Cast: 2M, 4F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 15 minutes
Our heroine has inherited a valuable inn. Just as the evil sheriff is preparing to force her into an unwanted marriage, she is saved by the timely arrival of Harry Heartburn. More...
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Here Come the Cows
or... Never Say "Moo" In Mesa
Cast: Flexible cast of 11 or 12 (4 or 5M, 7F), optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
Here comes a genuine cattle stampede live on stage! Villain Mandrake Mothdust is stranded in a dusty town. In fact, it's so hot, the cows are producing evaporated milk. More...
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Holder Posey
or... Step Into My Darkroom and We'll See What Develops
Cast: Flexible cast of 21 (roughly 9M, 12F), plus optional extras
Set/Time: Simple area staging /About 90 minutes
When our heroine rebuffs Holder Posey's advances, he attempts to blow her up with dynamite! Never fear! Our hero saves the day and soundly thrashes Holder in a slow-motion fight. More...
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How the West Was Dun
or... Left High and Dry in Low Humidity Chasm
Cast: Flexible cast of 23 (about 8M, 10F plus 5 that can be either)
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 90 minutes
Slick and wealthy Richard Coldheart must marry Polly Wanda Cracker to control the Cracker property. Meanwhile, our hero, Sheriff Wayne John, has his hands full surviving the antics of Deputy Doowrong. More...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame Goes West
or... 'Oh, Bury Me Not In Old Paree'
Cast: Extremely flexible cast of 21 (about 6M, 15F), optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 30 minutes
A drama contest is coming up and a director plans to win with his adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. More...
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Inspector Incognito and the Kansas City Kid
Cast: Flexible cast of 20 (roughly 8M, 12F), optional chorus
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 90 minutes
Suggested by Nikolai Gogol's More...
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The Inventor's Daughter
Or… The Villain Made a Grab for the Lab
Cast: 3M, 3F
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 30 minutes
A lovelorn widow is stuck with a cluttered workshop after the death of her husband, an unsuccessful inventor who left her nothing but a “talker box”—later to become the profitable walkie-talkie. More...
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Jenny the Mail-Order Bride
A Musical Melodrama
Cast: 3M, 3F
Set/Time: Several simple sets /About 2 hours
Based on the Mail Order Brides phenomena of the Old West, Jenny arrives from the east. Alonzo T. Flicks threatens to reveal the real truth about Jenny to her beloved Lt. Straytontall. More...
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Keep the Home Fires Burning
Cast: 5M, 5F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 30 minutes
It's a Christmas melodrama! Santa saves the day as he gives an elderly woman needed mortgage money, and the villain winds up enveloped in Reynolds Wrap... More...
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Lumberjacks and Weddingbelles
Cast: 10M, 14F, chorus, extras
Set/Time: Simple area set /About 2 hours
Washington Territory is shy on marriageable females, so an enterprising lawyer sails to Boston and fetches a group of prospective brides. More...
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Males Order Brides
or... Big Harry Deal's Scandalous Scheme!
Cast: 5M, 4F, plus extras
Set/Time: Several simple sets /About 90 minutes
An unscrupulous lawyer has hired Starr Billings to impersonate four fiancés to lure the bridegrooms into a mine shaft and blow them up, leaving Starr a wealthy widow to all four. More...
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The Masked Canary
Cast: 6M, 6F, chorus, extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 90 minutes
Amanda Goodsort, once a Boston society belle, finds employment on the stage of the Birdcage Theatre. In order that her true identity never is revealed, Amanda sings in disguise. More...
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The Miner's Daughter
or... Evil Reaps Its Just Reward
Cast: 3M, 3F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 20 minutes
Sheriff Harold Strongheart is called to a gold mine to investigate a crime. With our heroine, the miner's daughter, they unearth the evidence that pins the crime on the villain. More...
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Mischief in the Magnolias
or... Weed 'Em and Reap
Cast: Flexible cast of 6 (4M, 2F or 3M, 3F), optional extras
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 45 minutes
The ownership of a magnolia-shrouded domicile is in danger unless regularly monthly mortgage payments are resumed within twenty-four hours. This melodrama is truly a Southern (sigh)t for sore eyes! More...
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Never Trust a City Slicker
or... Two Skunks and a Trunk
Cast: 6M, 8F
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 1 hour
Slicker Pinsetter knows the lovely Mary Delightful has a trunk containing some of her late father's plays. Unbeknownst to her, a revival of one of her father's plays is a current hit in London. More...
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The Old Cookie Shop
Cast: 3M, 4F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 30 minutes
Sweet Nellie is about to lose her cookie shop to the evil banker. It's love at first sight when Harry first casts his eyes on the lovely Nellie. The cookie shop is saved and love triumphs over evil. More...
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Oregon Country
Cast: 4M, 5F, plus extras
Set/Time: Several simple sets /About 1 hour
The Widow White and her daughter, Nell, come to Oregon Country to invest their savings. Nathaniel Blackside, the villain, has an eye for both their money and lovely Nell. More...
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An Orphan Betrayed
Cast: 2M, 3F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 30 minutes
Alan Regent, assistant manager of a hotel (and a psychology student), sees through a fraud and rescues Mary Morrison from life in an institution and places her within his heart. More...
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Orphans in Candyland
A Musical Melodrama
Cast: 1M, 8F, optional chorus
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
Samuel Pure has passed on. His daughter, Priscilla, is running his mansion, now an orphanage. But his chocolate factory was willed to Priscilla's evil sister who is producing inferior candy. More...
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The Paper Bag Bandit Rides Again
or... Behind the Cheap Mask
Cast: Flexible cast of 20 (roughly 6M, 14F or 5M, 15F), optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 30 minutes
What seems to be the question on everyone's lips in the desert town of Cooked Goose? Is it, "Who is that 'Masked Man?'" Well... uh... no. It's "Who in the world is in that paper bag?! More...
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Payment For Billy Travers
Cast: 7M, 2F
Set/Time: Unit set /About 45 minutes
The twist of fate that brought the son of a riverboat captain to assume the name of a notorious outlaw makes this play a chilling and unique experience. More...
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Pecos Bill & Slue-Foot Sue Meet The Dirty Dan Gang
Cast: 7M, 8F
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 1 hour
Get on the wagon rollin' West with this saga of Pecos Bill, who was raised by coyotes, and Slue-Foot Sue, who likes to ride down the Rio Grande River on a catfish. More...
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Peril at Pumpernickle Pass
or... To Heir Is Human
Cast: 4M, 8F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
Waldo Weasel shows up with a phony gold map. When the gold strike doesn't pan out, Waldo discovers our heroine has a paper where the heir will own California! More...
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Peril on the High Seas
or... Let's Get Together And Do Launch
Cast: 5M, 9F, plus two offstage voices, optional extras
Set/Time: Simple sets /About 90 minutes
All aboard the H.M.S. Majestic for a riotous adventure set in the Roaring Twenties! Little does heiress Merry Ann Sweet, know that she is the intended victim of Snively Swine's kidnapping plot. More...
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The Perils of Priscilla
or... The Schoolmarm's Dilemma
Cast: 3M, 4F, plus extras
Set/Time: One interior set /About 30 minutes
The heroine, a new teacher, has come to teach in the school. Our hero would like to be sheriff, but finds it difficult since he can't read enough to know who's wanted on the "Wanted" posters. More...
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Phantom of the Op'ry
Cast: 7M, 14F, optional extras, chorus
Set/Time: Simple area set /About 2 hours
The flaky Op'ry House is located in Skunk Creek, Nevada! There's fun aplenty as the phantom laughingly makes a star of "too good to be true" Christine Swansong. More...
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Plantation Malady
or... Is There a Doctor in the South?
Cast: 3M, 4F
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 20 minutes
It's just after the Civil War. Uriah Creep (the cad) plans to take over the Follingsbee Plantation with juice from the deadly Voodoo Berry added to the Colonel's daily morning Julep. More...
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The Plight Before Christmas
A Melodrama With Music Based on Characters from Dickens' Christmas Carol
Cast: 4M, 3F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
This Christmas Melodrama based on the Dickens' classic story will have your audience rolling with laughter. More...
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Pony Expresso
Or... The Villain Came to a Grinding Halt
Cast: 4M, 7F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 45 minutes
The Pony Expresso, a friendly establishment run by Star Bright and Aunt Dee Caff, is struggling. Their customers are buying their coffee at a lower price from the scheming Mo Cabana. More...
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Rascals Under the Big Top
or... The Ring's Around Miss Rosie
Cast: Flexible cast of 22 (roughly 6M, 16F), optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 30 minutes
Thanks to that unscrupulous villain, ringmaster Conrad Mooch, the circus is stranded. Not content to be just the ringmaster, Mooch has a dastardly plan. The circus will belong to him. More...
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The Ratcatcher's Daughter
or... Death Valley Daze
Cast: 5M, 7F, optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
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. More...
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Rogue of the Railway
or... Should He Free Her or Knot?
Cast: 10M, 12F, optional chorus and extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
Your audiences will be hitched to their seats as they watch a speeding train race towards our heroine, bound to a railway track. Only Sheriff Billy Bold, our hero, can rescue her. More...
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Run to the Roundhouse, Nellie
Cast: 2M, 3F
Set/Time: One exterior set /About 30 minutes
Just as a train comes thundering down on helpless Nellie, Sterling Worth appears, defeats the villain and saves the day. Our hero and Nellie then join in a warm embrace. More...
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The Saga of the Golden Horseshoe
or... That was No Lady, That was My Filly
Cast: 10M, 12F, plus extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 75 minutes
Clem Chowder of Skunk County wants to catch some horse thieves. His plan? Dress up two of his co-workers as a horse. This farce can either be done as a melodrama or a western spoof. More...
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Saved by the Serendipity Circus
or... She Was Trapped with Ease
Cast: Flexible cast of 12, optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 30 minutes
Miss Priscilla Purity, owner of a wee orphanage, has become entangled within the wrongdoings of the evil Victor Vornado. The land the orphanage is on has a layer of black gunk on it. More...
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The Shagwood Secret
or... Double Deal at the Dirty Dog Saloon
Cast: 3M, 2F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 45 minutes
Snake Diamond and his greedy cohort, Delores Divine, are setting a trap for Ethelburt Shagwood. When they realize he owns a mountain of gold, Delores lavishes her attention upon him. More...
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Shakespeare Comes to Calamity Creek
Cast: Flexible cast of 30 (roughly 10M, 20F), extras, doubling possible
Set/Time: Simple set /About 90 minutes
Sunny Day, determined to bring culture to the locals, arrives in Gravel Gulch with a troupe of actors. Unfortunately, the actors, headed by the shady Noble Hart, could make a playwright cry. More...
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Shakespeare Goes to Gravel Gulch
Cast: Flexible cast of 30 (about 8M, 18F, plus 4), extras, optional doubling
Set/Time: Simple set /About 1 hour
Sunny Day, determined to bring culture to the locals, arrives in Gravel Gulch with a troupe of actors. Unfortunately, the actors, headed by the shady Noble Hart, could make a playwright cry. More...
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The Shame of Tombstone
or... Dirty Work in the Lucky Cuss
Cast: 6M, 6F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
Amanda Goodsort, once a Boston society belle, finds employment on the stage of the Birdcage Theatre. In order that her true identity never is revealed, Amanda sings in disguise. More...
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Shoot-Out at Hole-in-the-Wall
or... Thou Shalt Aim for Honesty
Cast: 5M, 5F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 60 minutes
Ma and Pa Fritter set up shop in the midst of a den of rustlers and outlaws. In the end, Horace, our brave good guy, and Slick Mason, the scoundrel, meet in a hilarious showdown and shoot-out. More...
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Showtime on the Showboat
or... Don't Throw Garbage in the River
Cast: Flexible cast of 11 (roughly 5M, 6F)
Set/Time: One simple set /About 45 minutes
Rufus Bilge is angry for not being cast as Romeo on a showboat. He plots to sabotage the show. Luckily, Alex wins the lead, as well as the heroine's heart. More...
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The Snake in the Grass
or... He Rattled the Rails
Cast: 10M, 16F, optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 75 minutes
Your audiences will be hitched to their seats as they watch a speeding train race towards our heroine, bound to a railway track. Only Sheriff Billy Bold, our hero, can rescue her. More...
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Someone Save My Baby, Ruth!
or… Foil That Villain!
Cast: 5M, 8F, optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
When lovely young widow Penny Candy and her baby, Ruth, are taken in by her Aunt Praline, owner of The Sweet Shoppe candy store, little does Penny know both love and danger lie ahead. More...
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Song of the Mounties
or... Sour Notes in the Snow
Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (5M, 8F, plus one dog that can be male or female)
Set/Time: One simple set /About 1 hour
Dirty Jake drags Claudette to a lumber mill where she either talks or gets turned into a split personality by a whirling buzz saw. Dirty Jake is brought to justice, thanks to Bob Sledd. More...
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Stop That Villain!
or... Have You No Shame, Rip Roquefort?
Cast: 5M, 7F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
Rip Roquefort's uncle has left him a fortune "if" he marries Little Jane within twenty-four hours. Little Jane knows nothing of all this. Complications build to a hilarious slow motion finale! More...
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Stop the Presses!
or... She's Not My Type
Cast: Flexible cast of about 12 (roughly 5M, 7F), optional extras
Set/Time: Interior set /About 1 hour
Aspen Print is a crusading young newspaper editor. Sleazy Tab Lloyd is running for mayor, but Miss Print won't endorse him. Instead, she writes articles supporting Edward Torial. More...
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Sundown Alley
Cast: Flexible cast of 18 (roughly 7M, 11F), optional extras
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 90 minutes
Norma Desperate of Sundown Alley, out west in the tiny town of Lizard Gulch, retired from the stage because the audiences diminished. She plans a comeback once her version of "Cindrella" is complete. More...
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Sunset Trail
or... Norma's Desperate to Get Back to the Boulevard
Cast: Flexible cast of 18 (roughly 7M, 11F), optional chorus and extras
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 90 minutes
Out west in the tiny town of Lizard Gulch, an actress plans a sensational comeback once her version of More...
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Sweeney Todd
or... The Demon Barber of Fleet Street!
Cast: 3M, 3F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 45 minutes
A meat pie vendor strikes a diabolical business arrangement with Sweeney Todd. Todd "dispatches" customers in his barber chair, never to be seen again except as ingredients in meat pies. More...
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Switched at the Crossroads
or... Truth Will Oust
Cast: 4M, 5F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 35 minutes
The hero turns out to be the villain and the villain is the hero after the story of their being "Switched at the Crossroads" as babies is revealed. More...
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Taming the Wild, Wild West in a Dress
Or... Let's Give the Villain the Slip
Cast: 11M, 10F
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 90 minutes
A man heads west where he discovers that he has inherited a "salon" instead of a "saloon." The Old West was never any wilder or more fun. More...
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There Goes The Old Ball Game
A Musical Melodrama
Cast: 3M, 6F
Set/Time: One interior set /About 2 hours
When Joey comes into an empty theatre, he accidentally is hit on the head by a falling sandbag. He awakens to find himself embroiled within the plot and performance of an old-style melodrama. More...
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Those Wedding Bells Shall Not Ring Out
or... The Bride Wore Green Chili Peppers
Cast: 5M, 9F
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 1 hour
Snicklefritz Grubb hopes to ensnare a young heiress or rich widow. One day a miner gives our heroine a huge gold nugget and Snicklefritz decides he must have it. More...
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Tied to the Tracks
Cast: 10M, 16F, optional chorus and extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 90 minutes
Your audiences will be hitched to their seats as they watch a speeding train race towards our heroine, bound to a railway track. Only Sheriff Billy Bold, our hero, can rescue her. More...
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Tillie the Teller
or... The Great Bank Robbery
Cast: 4M, 5F
Set/Time: Simple set /About 25 minutes
Tillie, the teller, loves Peter Strongvault, stalwart guard at the Fidelity National Bank. But Oliver Wheedle, black-hearted president of the bank, has plans for Tillie. More...
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Trapped in a Villain's Web
or... Weave Me A Loan
Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (4M, 10F or 5M, 9F), optional female extras
Set/Time: Several simple sets /About 1 hour
When Beau Weevil is to manage Victoria's business affairs, she is trapped in this villain's web. Enter "The Arizona Kid" who believes in three things: Law and order and he can't remember the third. More...
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Treachery at Cartilage Creek
or... Bogus Had A Bone to Pick
Cast: Flexible cast of 10 or 11 (approximately 2M, 8F to 4M, 7F), optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
When Johnny comes to Cartilage Creek, love beckons with the lovely schoolmarm and Mother Goose enthusiast, Crystal Clear. Alas, the unscrupulous Bogus Rancidview also has his eyes on our heroine. More...
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Trouble in Tumbleweed
Suggested by Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General
Cast: Flexible cast of 20 (roughly 8M, 12F), optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 90 minutes
Suggested by one of the greates farces ever written, this cockeyed version of The Inspector General takes us to Arizona Territory in the 1880s. More...
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Tumbleweeds
Based on the comic strip created by Tom K. Ryan
Cast: 14M, 17F, optional extras and chorus
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 2 hours
Adapted from the popular comic strip, a likeable cowpoke tries his best to be an optimist. It isn't easy, though, when you live in the wretched town of Grimy Gulch. More...
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Unhand Her, You Villain
or... Stop Thou Evil Presses
Cast: 2M, 3F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 30 minutes
Our hero, an idealistic young reporter, takes on the villainous editor of a weekly newspaper. More...
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The Veggie Villain
Or… He Had a Steak in It
Cast: 5M, 11F, optional extras
Set/Time: Single exterior set /About 1 hour
With all the usual elements, a villain, a hero and a heroine in distress, this Melodrama will have your audience laughing in the aisles. More...
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The Vile Veterinarian
Or... How Much is That Doggie with the Widow?
Cast: Flexible cast of 15 (approximately 11F, 4M)
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
Just when it seems that Polly Purina and her grandma, Kay Nein, will be forced into the streets, the devious duo, Ray Beeze and Kitty Litter, arrive, posing as a veterinarian and his assistant. More...
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The Villain Wore a Dirty Shirt
or... Always Wash Your Longjohns 'Cause It Makes A Lotta Cents
Cast: 4M, 7F, optional extras
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 1 hour
Phineas Flatworm discovers Olympia Klenz has become rich rinsing gold flecks from miners' laundry. The highlight is a laundry fight where the evildoer is brought to the soap-bar of justice. More...
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Wagon Wheels a-Rollin'
Cast: Extremely flexible cast of 29 (roughly 10M, 19F) plus extras
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 75 minutes
Woe falls upon Chuck Wagon's wagon train, stranded outside the tiny town of Vinegar Bottle, famed for its "I'm O.K. You're O.K. Corral" and crawling with villains and bandits! More...
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Wagon Wheels West
Cast: Extremely flexible cast of 29 (roughly 10M, 19F), optional chorus, extras
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 90 minutes
Woe falls upon Chuck Wagon's wagon train, stranded outside the tiny town of Vinegar Bottle, famed for its I'm O.K. You're O.K. Corral. More...
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Wash Your Troubles Away
or... Dirty Deeds Come Clean
Cast: Flexible cast of 12 or more (roughly 4M, 8F), optional chorus and extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 75 minutes
Phineas Flatworm discovers Olympia Klenz has become rich rinsing gold flecks from miners' laundry. The highlight is a laundry fight where the evildoer is brought to the soap-bar of justice. More...
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Way Out West in a Dress
or... Life's a Hurdle When You're Wearing a Girdle
Cast: 11M, 10F, plus chorus
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 2 hours
A man heads west where he discovers that he has inherited a hair salon instead of a profitable saloon. More...
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Wedded To a Villain
or... Locked In a Living Tomb
Cast: 3M, 3F
Set/Time: Two simple interior sets /About 40 minutes
Sweet, innocent Bonnie Hartwell loves upstanding hero Jack Manley, but her harsh stepmother marries her off to Murgatroyd Flashington. Shame! Wedded to a villain! More...
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Westward, Whoa!
Cast: Flexible cast of about 29 (roughly 9M, 20F), chorus, extras (doubling possible)
Set/Time: Simple exterior set /About 1 hour
Woe falls upon Chuck Wagon's wagon train, stranded outside the tiny town of Vinegar Bottle, famed for its "I'm O.K. You're O.K. Corral" and crawling with villains and bandits! More...
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Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?
or... You Are What You Eat
Cast: Flexible cast of 15 (roughly 6M, 9F), optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
When a false will is procured naming the villain as the heir, Mrs. Murphy discovers the original covenant in a pair of overalls in a kettle of fish chowder, which also serves as the laundry tub. More...
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Who's Mining the Mercantile?
or... If It's Counterfeit, Ware It
Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (roughly 7M, 7F)
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 45 minutes
Gasp! Ebeneezer Weed, a counterfeiting criminal, purchases the mercantile where Sybil Bliss is forced to work because her mother is suffering from chronic crow's feet. More...
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The Widow's Might
Cast: 3M, 3F
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 30 minutes
The task of investigating a crime falls to Oliver Upright who is also in love with a widow's daughter, Demura. But in the end, Demura's mother steps in and proves she is the real heroine of the story. More...
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The Wild, Wild, Wildest West
or... How the West Was Dun
Cast: Flexible cast of 23 (About 8M, 10F plus 5 that can be either), chorus, extras
Set/Time: Area staging /About 2 hours
Slick and wealthy Richard Coldheart must marry Polly Wanda Cracker to control the Cracker property. Meanwhile, our hero, Sheriff Wayne John, has his hands full surviving the antics of Deputy Doowrong. More...
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Wildcat Katie Brown
or... Oil's Well That Ends Well
Cast: Flexible cast of 20 (roughly 10M, 10F), optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior sets /About 1 hour
When Wildcat Katie Brown's luckless father loses all of their property to shyster lawyer Thomas T. Tremaine in a crooked card game, Katie must fight for their land. More...
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The Wizard of Oz in the Wild West
Cast: Flexible cast of 15
Set/Time: Several simple sets /About 1 hour
A spell cast by the wicked witch sends Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tim Man back through time and into the western frontier of the 1880s. More...
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Wrangler Ranch
Cast: Flexible cast of 27 (9M, 18F) optional chorus and extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 90 minutes
A wealthy woman has located her long lost grandson working in a New Jersey pizza parlor. To expose him to a healthy environment, she enrolls him in Wrangler Ranch School. More...
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Wynn Fairly, Champeen Rassler
or... Get a Grip on Yourself
Cast: Flexible cast of 16 (roughly 6M, 10F), optional extras
Set/Time: Simple area staging /About 1 hour
Wrestling fans are thrilled when Wynn wins the regional tournament and is set to compete for the state title. However, Wynn's opponent has a greedy manager who will stop at nothing to ensure victory! More...
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You Can't Stamp Out Love
or... Oh, My Darling, Val Ann Tyne
Cast: 4M, 8F
Set/Time: Single interior set /About 45 minutes
When Evil Eye Egbert shows up in the dying town of Loveland, his craftiness takes a lovesick turn. He decides this romantically named locale is the ideal place to operate a matchmaking scheme. More...
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Zorro's Back in Town
or... The Curse of Buck Badum
Cast: 4M, 6F, optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set /About 1 hour
Buck Badum who owns the Hotel Cucaracha, the bank and the sheriff, also cheats the townspeople. However, Henry's hero is Zorro, and he decides to impersonate the legend to protect the downtrodden. More...
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