This Old House


Book by Tim Kelly
Music and lyrics by Stephen Murray

Cast:  Flexible cast of 30 (roughly 10M, 20F), optional chorus and extras
Set:  Simple interior set
Time:  About 2 hours

Script:  $6.25           Move your mouse here to see additional items Piano score:  $20.00
Vocal score:  $8.00
Production/rehearsal CD set:  $65.00
CD sampler O:  $4.00

Royalty:  $90 First performance/$80 Each additional performance

Mona Babbington's old Victorian mansion, once a beauty, is now a rooming house for rambunctious college students.  With the help of her scatterbrain nephew and devoted niece, Mona struggles to hold off the wrecker's ball.  It's not easy, considering Silias Price, the town octopus, is eager to turn the property into a parking lot.  To raise money, the students decide to sell all the junk in the old house at a yard sale, but little do they know what complications they face!  For example, young scientist Calvin Gregg has invented a weird gas that causes victims to revert to childhood, and the government is very interested!  Judy Linseed dresses in battle gear because she's convinced space aliens are plotting to seize the nearby university.  Toss in hostile neighbors, a frustrated cab driver and a pack of eager shoppers and you have a hilarious mixture of tasty characters and knockabout craziness. 


Song samples
This Old House

The Aliens Are Coming

Babbington Mansion

A Little Treasure

I Can't Help It

A Gentleman Like Me

The Cloakroom

Yard Sale

Happy Gas

Greed, Deceit and Evil Business

Different versions of the same or similar story:
Yard Sale


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