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The Chips Are Down
or...  Virtue Triumphant O'er the Laws of Chance


Book and lyrics by Shubert Fendrich
Music by Paul Hanselmann


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CAST:  3M, 4F
SET:  One simple set
TIME:  About 60 minutes
Script:
$8.75 each (Click for more items) Piano score:  $25.00 each


ROYALTY:
$90 First Performance
$90 Each Additional Performance

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Sharing Through Theatre Royalty Donation Program
When the villain, Dirty Dan, steals the mortgage money and forecloses on the Blueberry Ranch to build his new gambling casino, Ben and Martha find themselves “condemned to a life of poverty.”  Their lovely orphaned niece — and our heroine, Lilac Valentine — agrees to stay on with them at the ranch and work for Dirty Dan.  All turns out well when Dirty Dan is undone in the closing moments by our hero, Stainless Steel.  This is an easy-to-produce, two act musical melodrama with five simple songs.  The Chips Are Down is a constant community theatre hit!


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The Chips Are Down

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NORTHERN NEVADA ARTS COUNCIL
WINNEMUCCA, NV
TERRENA FOGLE
LEWISTOWN, MT
GILLETTE COMMUNITY THEATRE
GILLETTE, WY
TROUPE OVER THE HILL
HILLTOP LAKES, TX
EASTSIDE HIGH SCHOOL
COVINGTON, GA
SOUTH CALLAWAY R-II SCH DIST
MOKANE, MO
CHANTELLE SMALL
KILKIVAN, QLD  AUSTRALIA
EMILY RILEY
ELM CREEK, NE
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