Pioneer Drama Service is pleased to offer 118 melodramas.
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Trouble in Tumbleweed
Suggested by Nikolai Gogol’s The Inspector General
Cast: Flexible cast of 20 (about 8M, 12F), optional extras
Set/Time: Interior hotel lobby set / About 90 minutes Suggested by one of the greatest farces ever written, this cockeyed version of The Inspector General takes us to Arizona Territory in the 1880s. More... |
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Bulldog Saves the Day
or... I Was the Teacher’s Pitt
Cast: Flexible cast of 21 (about 10M, 11F)
Set/Time: Interior classroom set / About 60 minutes Lullaby leaves the stage to become a teacher. The last teacher, an actress, was run out of town. Big Harry Deal shows up and proposes to her, threatening to blow her cover if she doesn’t accept. More... |
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The Shame of Tombstone
or... Dirty Work in the Lucky Cuss
Cast: 6M, 6F
Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 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 Snake in the Grass
or... He Rattled the Rails
Cast: 10M, 16F, optional extras
Set/Time: Interior hotel lobby set / About 75 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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Peril on the High Seas
or... Let’s Get Together and Do Launch
Cast: 5M, 9F, plus 2 offstage voices, optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior and exterior sets / About 90 minutes All aboard the H.M.S. Majestic for a riotous adventure set in the Roaring Twenties! Little does heiress Merry Ann Sweet, know that she is the intended victim of Snively Swine’s kidnapping plot. More... |
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Wait ’Til the Sun Shines, Nellie
Or... So Long, Snivelheart
Cast: 6M, 7F, optional doubling
Set/Time: Interior Western hotel lobby set / About 20 minutes Here are all the elements of a classic melodrama packed into an easy-to-produce 20 minutes! More... |
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The Perils of Priscilla
or... The Schoolmarm's Dilemma
Cast: 3M, 4F, plus extras
Set/Time: One interior set / About 30 minutes Three students help the hero solve the murder and foil the villain. More... |
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Alias Smedley Pewtree
or... The Villain of Glitter Gulch
Cast: 4M, 5F
Set/Time: One interior set / About 30 minutes Smedley Pewtree is forcing families out of Glitter Gulch. During a fierce blizzard, the town’s populace crowds into a former gambling palace reputedly haunted by the spirits of long-departed miners. More... |
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Rascals Under the Big Top
or... The Ring’s Around Miss Rosie
Cast: Flexible cast of 22 (about 6M, 16F), optional extras
Set/Time: Interior circus tent set / About 30 minutes Thanks to that unscrupulous villain, ringmaster Conrad Mooch, the circus is stranded. Not content to be just the ringmaster, Mooch has a dastardly plan. The circus will belong to him. More... |
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The Ballad of Gopher Gap
or... Sticky Fingers Won’t Wash
Cast: 5M, 6F, optional extras
Set/Time: Interior office set / About 60 minutes Bunco DeSneer is salting a mine with fake minerals in hopes of snaring rich Easterners. This Melodrama will have your sides splitting with laughter. More... |
