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Tumbleweeds
Based on the comic strip created by Tom K.  Ryan


Book by Tim Kelly
Music by Arne Christiansen
Lyrics by Ole H. Kittleson


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CAST:  14M, 17F, optional chorus
SET:  Exterior Old West set
TIME:  About 120 minutes
Script:
$9.00 each (Click for more items) Director’s book:  $27.50 each
Piano score:  $30.00 each
Vocal score:  $12.50 each
Vocal/Performance music tracks:  $85.00
CD sampler M:  $4.00 each
DVD of amateur performance:  $10.00 each
Orchestral Parts [Alto sax I/flute I, Alto sax II/flute II, Tenor sax/clarinet, Trumpet I, Trumpet II, Trombone, Bass, Percussion]:  $8.00 each


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$100 First Performance
$100 Each Additional Performance

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Tumbleweeds, Tom Ryan’s cheerfully irreverent look at the ’Old West,’ is the popular comic strip in hundreds of newspapers.  Here it is adapted as a lively musical bursting with wonderful music, lively lyrics and hilarious jokes.  Tumbleweeds gets its name from the likeable cowpoke who tries his best to be an optimist.  It ain’t easy because he lives in the wretched town of Grimy Gulch which is populated by such bizarre characters as Hildegard Hamhocker, who’s always on the lookout for a husband (any husband as long as it’s Tumbleweeds), Judge Frump (who gives everyone a fair and impartial conviction), Colonel Fluster of Fort Ridiculous (he’s lost his troops) and a tribe of eccentric Indians called the Poohawks.  The Choo-Choo Railway wants to wipe the town from the map, and it sends Clementine Greedy to arrange things with the meanest man in town...  Snake-Eye McFoul.  No one is interested in Tumbleweeds’ attempt to improve the town except his former school teacher, Prudence Lovely, who arrives with a stagecoach of romantic young ladies on an educational tour.  To help out, Prudence plans to open a ’School For the Ignorant.’ Thanks to Tumbleweeds, things do return to normal (or sub-normal in the case of Grimy Gulch) in a rousing slam-bang finale.  As an added perk, we’ll help you get in contact with cartoonist Tom Ryan himself via email!


Additional products available:
Director’s book:  $27.50 each
Piano score:  $30.00 each
Vocal score:  $12.50 each
Vocal/Performance music tracks:  $85.00
CD sampler M:  $4.00 each
DVD of amateur performance:  $10.00 each
Orchestral Parts [Alto sax I/flute I, Alto sax II/flute II, Tenor sax/clarinet, Trumpet I, Trumpet II, Trombone, Bass, Percussion]:  $8.00 each

Tumbleweeds

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ANGIE LOWE
CROWN POINT, IN
DEBRA ZEPICK
PONOKA, AB  CANADA
JEWLY KRAUSE
CEDAR CITY, UT
DAVID GORENZ
PRINCETON, IL
ADAMS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
MONROE, IN
SHELBURNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
SHELBURNE, VT
SCIENCE HILL IND.  SCHOOL
SCIENCE HILL, KY
NASHELLE JACKSON
VERNAL, UT
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Grimy Gulch
Home Is Where the Heart Is
I Got Ev'rything But the Man
It Feels So Good To Be Bad
Tumbleweeds
Plenty Wagon, No Hoss
In the Wild, Wild West
New Day, New Town
Marrying Fever
Poohawk Barbeque
You Plug 'Em, We Plant 'Em
 
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