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SCOTT CHERNEY
(1955 - )Nationality: USA
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"After landing on Earth in Stockton, California, Scott Cherney, born 29 Jan 1955, wore a lot of hats in his life and times, among them, a cowboy hat as a weekend gunslinger at the Pollardville Ghost Town, a western amusement park that housed sets from the William Wyler film The Big Country. He then moved over to the Palace Showboat Dinner Theater becoming a triple threat actor/writer/director of several melodrama/vaudeville stage productions. Cherney was also an award-winning stage actor with has appeared in such films as Omega Cop and Under Arrest. In 1987, Scott was the winner of the one and only Stockton Stand-Up Comedy Competition. Scott is the author of the road rage novel Red Asphalt, a movie memoir called In the Dark: A Life and Times in a Movie Theater, the true travel tome known as Please Hold Thumbs: A Not So Round Trip to South Africa, a collection of comedy sketches entitled Now THAT'S Funny and the western comedy romance Song of the Canyon Kid. His plays include Song of the Lone Prairie, La Rue's Return (w/Edward Thorpe), The Legend of the Rogue and The Perils of Francois."
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below is a list of Scott Cherney's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
La Rue's Return, or, How's a Bayou? Legend of the Rogue, The, or, Mask Me No Questions Song of the Lone Prairie, or, Poem on the RangeLa Rue's Return, or, How's a Bayou?
Synopsis:
Evil always returns. . .and this time, it has a bad French accent! The deliciously wicked criminal Jacques La Rue arrives in New Orleans to exact his vengeance on those who sent him to prison...especially frail Southern belle Polly Montclair, proprietress of the French Quarter bistro Chez What. Standing in his path are the courageous, yet dim U.S. Cavalry officer Lt. Alan Wexstad and the whacked out witch known as the Swamp Crone. LA RUE'S RETURN is a hilarious riff on the classic melodrama filled with outrageous characters, breakneck slapstick action and a swashbuckling sword fight in the swamp thrown in for good measure. Let the good times roll!
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written by Edward Thorpe and Scott Cherney
1st Produced:
Palace Showboat Theater at Pollardville Stockton, CA 1978
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1st Published:
Two Nickels and a Button (2014) 978-1312783911
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Genre:
Comedy Melodrama
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Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageLegend of the Rogue, The, or, Mask Me No Questions
Synopsis:
Brian Ryan, the mild-mannered sheriff of Parched Throat, Arizona adopts the guise of a masked avenger known as The Rogue to rescue the Clayfoot Indian tribe from the clutches of Randolph Hitlear, an ex-Confederate general out to steal their gold in order to finance another Civil War. A western comedy melodrama filled with laughs, romance and more fun than a barrel full of lizards on a tequila bender.
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1st Produced:
Palace Showboat Theater at Pollardville Stockton, CA Feb 1981
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Lulu (2015) -
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Genre:
Western Comedy Melodrama
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Male: 6 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageSong of the Lone Prairie, or, Poem on the Range
Synopsis:
When a straight shooting, and guitar strumming singing cowboy known as The Canyon Kid returns to Dirt Clod, Missouri, he finds his hometown in the grips of a tyrannical albino "hanging judge" named Basil Kadaver and his evil co-horts, including the slinky gypsy seductress Nastassia Kinky and her half-witted brother, Two Gun Boris. To make matters worse for The Kid, he also discovers that his childhood sweetheart, Darla Darling, is engaged to a known desperado who is now the town sheriff. This fast paced story culminates in a knockdown, drag out slug-fest on the streets of Dirt Clod when justice at last triumphs and The Canyon Kid saves the day.
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1st Produced:
Palace Showboat Theater at Pollardville Stockton ,CA 06 Nov 1987
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1st Published:
Lulu (2009) 978-0557083916
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Genre:
Western Comedy Melodrama
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 4 Other: -
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