Musical Melodramas

Pioneer Drama Service has an incredible selection of musical melodramas!  These shows are not only ideal for schools, community theaters and churches, but professional theatres, as well.  Your audiences will love the comedy and toe-tapping tunes.  Your audiences will not only be cheering the hero, but they will also be applauding your choice of one of these musicals!

To assure the success of your production, we offer a broad range of production aids, including high quality production/rehearsal CD sets, videos of many of our shows and CD Samplers that give you the opportunity to hear a portion of every single song in a musical.

Don’t forget to check out our unique Musical Perusal Program, which provides you a cost-effective way to preview several different shows before purchasing.  Take advantage of our Build Your Own Musical Package and save 10% on scripts, scores and CD sets!  (Minimum purchase required.)

Pioneer Drama Service is pleased to offer 18 musical melodramas.
It's a musical! 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...

It's a musical! The Chips Are Down
or...  Virtue Triumphant O'er the Laws of Chance
Cast: 3M, 4F
Set/Time: One simple set / About 60 minutes
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...
It's a musical! The Dastardly Doctor Devereaux
Cast: Flexible cast of 16 (4M, 6F, plus 6 roles that can be either), chorus, optional doubling
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...
It's a musical! East Lynne
Cast: 5M, 10F
Set/Time: One basic set / About 120 minutes
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...
It's a musical! Gold Fever
Cast: 4M, 3F, extras
Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 90 minutes
When a medicine show pitchman has just set up his medicine cart, a flood washes it away, stranding him in a new “gold rush” town.  More...
It's a musical! Jenny the Mail-Order Bride
A Musical Melodrama
Cast: 3M, 3F
Set/Time: Several simple sets / About 120 minutes
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...
It's a musical! 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...
It's a musical! Oregon Country
Cast: 4M, 5F, plus extras
Set/Time: Several simple sets / About 60 minutes
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...
It's a musical! Orphans in Candyland
A Musical Melodrama
Cast: 1M, 8F, optional chorus
Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes
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...
It's a musical! Rogue of the Railway
or...  Should He Free Her or Knot? 
Cast: 10M, 10F, optional chorus and extras
Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 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...
It's a musical! Shakespeare Comes to Calamity Creek
Cast: Flexible cast of 30 (roughly 7M, 17F, plus 6 that can be either),
extras, doubling possible
Set/Time: Simple set / About 90 minutes
Nobel Hart, determined to bring culture to the locals, arrives in Gravel Gulch with a troupe of actors.  Unfortunately, the actors could make a playwright cry.   More...
It's a musical! There Goes the Old Ball Game
A Musical Melodrama
Cast: 3M, 6F
Set/Time: One interior set / About 120 minutes
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...
It's a musical! Tied to the Tracks
Cast: 10M, 16F, optional chorus
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...
It's a musical! Tumbleweeds
Based on the comic strip created by Tom K.  Ryan
Cast: 14M, 17F, optional extras and chorus
Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 120 minutes
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...
It's a musical! Wagon Wheels West
Cast: Flexible cast of 29 (about 10M, 19F), optional chorus
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...
It's a musical! Wash Your Troubles Away
or...  Dirty Deeds Come Clean
Cast: Flexible cast of 12 (about 4M, 8F), optional chorus
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...
It's a musical! Westward, Whoa! 
Cast: Flexible cast of about 29 (about 9M, 20F), chorus, optional doubling
Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 60 minutes
This fast-paced musical comedy is filled with fun roles and a spry music score.  More...
It's a musical! The Wild, Wild, Wildest West
or...  How the West Was Dun
Cast: Flexible cast of 23 (8M, 10F, plus 5 roles that can be either), chorus
Set/Time: Area staging / About 120 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...