Musical Melodramas

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	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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	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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	The Chips Are Down or... Virtue Triumphant 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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	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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	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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	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...
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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 A Boston businessman has hired a pompous fool to develop a town. Instead of spending the businessman's money wisely, however, the man and his family have been pocketing it! 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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	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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	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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	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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	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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	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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	Rogue of the Railway or... Should He Free Her or Knot? Cast: 10M, 10F, 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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	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...
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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 "Cinderella" is complete. 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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	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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	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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	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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	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 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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	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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