Pioneer Drama Service is pleased to offer 117 melodramas.
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The Old Cookie Shop
Cast: 3M, 4F
Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes Sweet Nellie is about to lose her cookie shop to the evil banker. It's love at first sight when Harry first casts his eyes on the lovely Nellie. The cookie shop is saved and love triumphs over evil. 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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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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How the West Was Worn
Or... Black Hat Optional
Cast: 8M, 6F
Set/Time: Exterior Old West street set / About 55 minutes Things aren’t as black and white as you’d think in this hysterical spoof of melodrama caricatures. More... |
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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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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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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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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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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... |
