Musical Melodramas
We have 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.
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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
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, keep your patrons rollin’... in the aisles with laughter, that is! Yup, pardners, here’s a hilarious musical spoof of many of Hollywood’s Westerns featuring a toe-tappin’, heel-clickin’ score by Bill Francoeur! More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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