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The Plight Before Christmas
A melodrama with music based on characters from Dickens' Christmas Carol


Adapted by Fred Cusick and Diane Moore


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CAST:  4M, 3F
SET:  Simple interior set
TIME:  About 60 minutes
Script:
$8.00 each

ROYALTY:
$55 First Performance
$55 Each Additional Performance

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Ebeneezer Humbug is about to "raise the dickens" by foreclosing on everyone in town...  on Christmas Day!  He hopes to force Felicity Fuzziwig to marry him, much to the dismay of his clerk, Bob Scratchit, who also wants to marry her.  Jake Marley, the partner Humbug cheated out of half a gold mine years before, appears to claim his share.  Marley reminds Humbug of a happy Christmas in the past and offers a glimpse of a foreboding future Christmas if Humbug continues his evil ways.  This hilarious delight includes five song parodies and puns galore.


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The Plight Before Christmas

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EDWARD JONES INVESTMENTS
PAVILLION, WY
DEBORAH VAN MAELE
PITTSBURGH, PA
R AUSTIN SODERQUIST
GLENDALE, UT
JENNIE HALLORAN
ORLANDO, FL
SAWDUST THEATRE
COQUILLE, OR
ANDY KING
ALBUQUERQUE, NM
EMILYANN THEATRE & GARDENS
WIMBERLEY, TX
EMILYANN THEATRE & GARDENS
WIMBERLEY, TX
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