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| Dracula - A Pain in the Neck | Author | Daniel Krueger & Elwood Johnson | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 23. Chorus. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | Sheet music for 18 original songs plus incidental music is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. | ||||||
| Style | Musical Gothic horror Melodrama! | ||||||
| Synopsis | A faithful translation of Bram Stoker's vampire classic to the musical stage, rendered in a melodramatic style! | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
| Plus | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** Conductor's score and band parts (Perc., Bass, Cello, Violin, Reeds 1 & 2, Trumpet, Trombone, Piano & Synth) for Dracula - A Pain in the Neck. Music by Elwood Jay Johnson, orchestrated by Wade Clark. |
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| Dracula - the Final Countdown | Author | Geoff Bamber | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. Very flexible cast, with a mixture of speaking and non-speaking parts, opportunities for doubling and opportunities for changing the gender of some of the characters. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | A comic and melodramatic retelling of Bram Stoker's story as a full-length play for kids. Sets can be relatively simple, but a fair number of props are required - coffins, that sort of thing. | ||||||
| Synopsis | Solicitor Jonathan Harker finds himself despatched to Transylvania to sort out a property deal for a mysterious Dr. Acula. On arrival, Harker realises that that he has been the victim of a misprint, but he is so charmed by his welcome that he fails to realise that he has become something of a prisoner. Harker's plight is made more acute by the attentions of the Brides of Dracula, a voracious trio, who appear to have less than honourable intentions. With the improbable assistance of Dracula's servant, Igoretta, Harker escapes and returns to England, where, shortly afterwards, his fianc? finds herself in the company of a mysterious foreign gentleman. Little does she realise what is at stake... | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Faith, Hope and Bertha | Author | Daniel Krueger | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. One character is deliberately doubled - playing twin brothers. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | A temperance melodrama, complete with perfect heroines, mustachioed villain, exaggerated gestures and asides. A lot of comedy to be had from playing this straight! Two interior sets, plus front-of-cloth scenes. | ||||||
| Synopsis | In the wilds of the Yukon, dastardly villain, Ivan Mean has designs on the estate of Ben Upright - and he intends to get them by hook or by crook. That includes marrying Ben's daughter, Faith - but first he has to be rid of her intended, Ernest Noble... | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Moving With The Times | Author | Jennifer Garthwright | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. If all the scripted Music Hall Turns are performed by separate groups, then at least 38 actors would be required. The characters are mainly adults (with two roles for children in the Music Hall Turns), but the show could be performed by children. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 105 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | Sheet music for one song (suggested for one of the Music Hall Turns) is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. | ||||||
| Style | Large cast family comedy play, set backstage in a 1900 Music Hall, alternating with the Turns on the Music Hall stage. The script includes seven optional Turns, including a short one-act Melodrama. (Other Turns can be substituted by the producer.) | ||||||
| Synopsis | Back stage at Mr. Harding's Music Hall all is in turmoil - ticket receipts are down as the company is threatened by the popularity of the Moving Picture House next door, Madam Harding, the star of the show, has lost her nerve, someone has blocked the chimney, causing the wings to fill with smoke, and the lowly stage hand is definitely not what he seems to be. Even so, the show must go on, and the back stage drama alternates with the Music Hall turns on the stage. | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| Thar's Gold in Them Hills | Author | Gerald P. Murphy | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 16. No chorus. Characters are adults plus one child (to be played either by teenagers or a mixture of adults and one or more children). Whilst there isn't a chorus specified, there is scope for extras. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 80 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | The clash of innocence and villainy and the 19th century setting bring this close to melodrama, from where it is diverted by a large volume of preposterous jokes! Single (California gold rush saloon) setting. Simple props include a cougar's ear! | ||||||
| Synopsis | Howard Huff and Betty Bristle are the villainous owners of the Shotgun Saloon in Sonora, California. Their ambition is to get rich fleecing the miners in the late days of the California gold rush, but it doesn't seem to be working. Into the bar walk Mary Ann and her daughter, Goldie, looking for work. Goldie immediately displays comic talent and the villains set about disposing of the mother and exploiting the innocent Goldie… Corny jokes and a happy ending ensue! | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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| The Ghosts of Marvin Grange | Author | Richard Coleman | |||||
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Principal characters nominally adults but could be played by teenagers or a mixed group of teenagers and adults. | ||||||
| Run time | Around 65 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.] | ||||||
| Music | None. | ||||||
| Style | Melodrama - with the playwright's tongue firmly in his cheek. (Two acts - but relatively short.) | ||||||
| Synopsis | Christopher Sinclair receives a strange summons and returns to Marvin Grange, a remote estate on a lonely more to unravel the mystery of a haunting that is driving his cousin's wife mad... | ||||||
| Price | Please click on the Price link to find the cost. | ||||||
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