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 melodrama musicals!Pioneer Drama Service is proud to bring you a vast array of original musicals that your audiences have not already seen. Think of the freedom you’ll experience when your audience doesn’t come with any pre-conceived notions of what the show should look and sound like. Think of the growth your actors will experience as they develop original characters. Think of the fun your stage crew will have designing unique costumes, sets, backdrops, and lighting to showcase their creativity. We invite you to read this article to learn more about our philosophy behind publishing unique musicals and plays.
To assure the success of your production, we offer a broad range of production aids, including full music tracks both with and without lyrics and our one-of-a-kind Lyric Learners, PowerPoint slide shows timed to the pre-recorded music to make teaching lyrics to your visual learners a breeze!
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.
Pioneer Drama Service is pleased to offer 17 musical melodramas.
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Wagon Wheels West
Cast: Flexible cast of 29 (about 10M, 19F), optional chorus
Set/Time: Exterior Old West 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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Tied to the Tracks
Cast: 10M, 16F, optional chorus
Set/Time: Interior hotel lobby 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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Westward, Whoa!
Cast: Flexible cast of about 29 (about 9M, 20F), chorus, optional doubling
Set/Time: Exterior Old West set / About 60 minutes This fast-paced musical comedy is filled with fun roles and a spry music score. More... |
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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 any), chorus
Set/Time: Simple interior and exterior sets / 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... |
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The Dastardly Doctor Devereaux
Cast: Flexible cast of 16 (4M, 6F, plus 6 roles that can be any), chorus, optional doubling
Set/Time: Interior hospital 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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Wash Your Troubles Away
or... Dirty Deeds Come Clean
Cast: Flexible cast of 12 (about 4M, 8F), optional chorus
Set/Time: Interior Old West laundromat 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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Shakespeare Comes to Calamity Creek
Cast: Flexible cast of 30 (7M, 17F, plus 6 roles that can be any), chorus, optional doubling
Set/Time: Exterior Old West 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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Rogue of the Railway
or... Should He Free Her or Knot?
Cast: 10M, 10F, optional chorus
Set/Time: Interior hotel lobby 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... |
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The Masked Canary
Cast: 6M, 6F, chorus
Set/Time: Simple interior sets / 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 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... |
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