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2 act Farce
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Ashton Towers: Yeah Baby!
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Looking for a shameless takeoff on the popular austin Powers movie series? Look no further! Dr. Nogood and his right-hand person, Number Three, are on the loose, stealing the world's hula hoops to aid in the creation of a Doomsday Machine. In the presence of a wacky collection of cabinet members, our very own international man of intrigue, ashton Towers, is brought in coffin-like and covered in foil. When he is finally revitalized, he sits up stiffly and says, "I feel like the world's biggest Hostess Ding Dong! Yeah, baby!" Dr. Nogood's hilarious satellite discussion with the cabinet and ashton Towers reveals that he is building-horrors!-a time machine. and guess who he's got to protect it? Mini-you-a clever creation using one actor as the legs and another as the body! The play climaxes as ashton and Nogood face-off in the Time Machine, transforming from a cowboy showdown to knights in armor to cavemen. We even get a tasteful but hilarious takeoff on the movie compilation scenes of words we can't say. Easy to produce, with simple settings and flexible casting, ashton Towers is sure to have your audience leaving saying, "Yeah, baby!"
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Comedy/Parody Comedy
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Blind Raftery And The Seven Nights Of A Wake
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On his deathbed, fiddler Kevin Columcille Raftery - better known as Blind Raftery - commands his housekeeper Maudie to hold a wake in his memory for seven days. afraid of his mysterious past dealings with the faeries, she agrees. and with that, Raftery breathes his last. We flash forward to the seven-year anniversary of his wake. Four characters of unknown background are mysteriously summoned to a field at midnight, committed to the retelling of the stories told at Raftery's wake. They are frightened to learn they will be doing so in the presence of his fiddle. . . the very fiddle that was buried with him seven years earlier. as they tell the stories, one takes on the primary storyteller role-as if at the wake itself-while the others take on the various roles in the stories. Through the stories of the wake, we are introduced to a host of characters-each one channeled through our four reluctant orators. From mismatched lovers brought together by the fiddler, to the unfortunate goose herder to whom Raftery bestows an ever-full magical seed bag, to the town gossip, the lascivious Brian the Barreler, and others - all serve to shape and share the life of this extraordinary and magical man.
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Irish Comedy-Drama Comedy
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Camp Paradise
Synopsis:
It's called Camp Paradise and no wonder - it's a fine arts, a computer, and a nature camp all rolled into one! Join the artistic, the scientific, and the plain ol' back-to-nature types for a unique summer in the deep woods. Custom-design this play to your specific needs and tastes with the 21 different scenes ranging from campfire ghost stories to a first summer love. all the feelings that camp can generate - from homesickness to hilarity - can be found here. The play ends with a feeling of camaraderie as the cast sings the beautiful, almost bittersweet guitar song, "Flying away."
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2 act Comedy
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Dear Santa
Synopsis:
Dear Santa is composed of a number of short scenes that range from the hilarious to the touching. Many views of Santa are seen - from the point of view of the child who alphabetizes her Christmas list and sends it out in August as well as that of children at various stages of belief - and disbelief! Santa and his helpers shed light on many of the mysteries surrounding him, including why you don't always get the gift you ask for, how Santa delivers all those gifts in one night, how he finds children spending Christmas away from home, and how his power transcends the boundaries of race, gender and religion. Of course, sometimes being Santa isn't all that great - your helpers fight over which one is best and occasionally you get arrested for shoplifting by those of little faith. But in the end, it is the faith of the many that sustains Santa.
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2 act Comedy
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Male: 6 Female: - Other: Flexible casting
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Decade Club, The
Synopsis:
To the Decade Club! and with that toast, a group of graduating teenagers vow to reunite every ten years. Starting at age eighteen, the characters take your audience on a journey that spans four decades of laughter, tears and memories. Like the party with the "mystery" punch that wasn't so mysterious after all. Or Bert and Ernie, the school nitwits, whom everybody is convinced are destined for Sesame Street! and what would growing up be without falling in love? Shy Lizzie has always loved Steve, and Steve may just love her too, if he can find a way to deal with his troubled past. But wait! Miss Popularity, Robin, also has a crush on Steve, and Doug, an easy-going guy, loves Lizzie. angela Crane, the class president, would rather be in the Senate than in love. Chris is happily married. Or so he says. No one's ever seen his wife! By the time we reach our last reunion, there's a whimsical and heart-warming matching of souls. While your audience enjoys this funny, tender tour of growing up, your actors will be challenged by the opportunity to depict their characters as they mature from the age of 18 to 58.
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2 act Comedy
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Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: 1 extra
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Doctor Will See You Now, The
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a collection of vignettes, poems, and insight into life at the Mayo Clinic.
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Play/Drama
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Dogman, The
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The recounting of a man's inadvertent encounter with a gypsy's dog, and the curse she puts on him.
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Comedy/Monologue Comedy
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Family Album
Synopsis:
Picture yourself in your own family album with this incredibly funny, sometimes touching, always entertaining play. Pick and choose from some 20 different scenes about family life to design a play that makes your Drama family unique. The scenes are in four groups, "Getting along," "Bustin' Loose," "Problems and Opportunities," and "Life and Death." Some of the scenes are just plain fun, like "TV Wars" and "Name That Stress." Other scenes capture the heart, as "The Funeral" and "Senior Split." Rap numbers bridge your acts while an opening and closing family "photo" ties your play neatly together. Scenery can be as simple as three boxes or as elaborate as a downtown city block. all adult roles can be played offstage, if desired.
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First In Line
Synopsis:
Remember your first day of high school, your first zit, your first blind date? Relive them all with this collection of 15 scenes ranging from the sadness of encountering one's first taste of prejudice to that wonderfully primal feeling of being first in line! and to glue the scenes together is the ultimate high-brow poet. This play will provide your cast and audience with many chances to reflect on their own experiences, from the warm and fuzzy, to the downright embarrassing, to the poignant and touching. Casting, sets, and costumes are very flexible.
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Comedy/Musical Comedy
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Football Theatre: First Down And Frankenstein To Go
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When millionaire Peter Graham dies, he leaves most of his estate to his daughter, Popper; something for his two sisters and brother, and a whopping $5 million endowment to the football program run by his old friend, Coach Cougher. There's a catch, though: Coach must successfully steward Peter's beloved Blue Skies Community Theatre for one year in order to earn the money! Coach's first job is to direct the first play, "Frankenstein." and what would you do when the locals don't turn out for tryouts, er, auditions? That's right, Coach brings in football players to help him! and Popper brings in her friend, Bonnie, another football coach, who brings with her an all-female team of players, er, actors. Coach also hires a third-rate writer and friend of his, Raspberry Bailey, to "spruce up" the script! add Peter's siblings who are scheming to sabotage the play to inherit even more money, and the stage is set for the most fractured version of "Frankenstein" you'll ever see!
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2 act Comedy
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Games People Play, The
Synopsis:
If Drama has always taken a back seat to athletics at your school, it's time to bring all those sports nuts into your theatre. From baseball to football to tennis to chess and beyond, you'll find scenes about every aspect of sports -and life - the good, the bad, the ugly, and the funny! Pick and choose from 18 scenes to create a show that's just right for your team. You'll laugh at scenes like "Competition," "Coaching School," and the hysterical new game show, "Face Off." You'll be taken by scenes as "Teamwork," "Finding Time," and the offbeat "adult Games," where two parents square off. You'll be touched by other scenes like "Winning and Losing," where two football teams come to grips with a serious injury. Cheerleaders help scenes flow together no matter what your starting lineup is.
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Comedy/Drama Comedy
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Heroes' Couch, The
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See Dr. Jack. See Dr. Jack's new Time Elevator. See his elevator bring back abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, William Shakespeare and others to the twenty-first century. Now see Dr. Jill the psychiatrist. See Dr. Jill as these very same characters have trouble adjusting to their new surroundings. See the result-and insane group therapy session that sends the patients on a rampage into the modern world. If you want to know what Shakespeare's first poem sounded like, or the only two things that these heroes like about our century, or if you'd just like to ensure your audience has a good time and your theatre troupe makes a buck, this play is sure to be the highlight of your season.
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2 act Comedy
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Ho Hum High
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at Hollister Hummelforth High, better known as Ho Hum High, the geeky trigonometry teacher carries around a rubber chicken, the science teacher talks to her pet shrimp, and the principal is straight from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. No wonder the kids only show signs of life when they're placing bets on who will fall asleep first. So when Hal, the slowest, most naive student in school, assumes Pete's flat 7-UP is really "smart juice," Pete plays along. When the principal sees the "effects" of the juice on Hal and other students, he thinks the spark of learning has been lit and enters them in the National High School Wits competition. Meanwhile, the overly ambitious assistant principal wants HHH to look as bad as possible to be named the neediest school in America and get $5 million from Princess acranium visiting from Mongootia. Laughs come faster than answers in an explosive ending as the kids match wits on TV against two other schools.
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Comedy
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Invisible Boy, The
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Larry Herman reads this ad in a rock music magazine and decides that he's been an outcast from his school long enough. He is tired of feeling awkward and definitely tired of being embarrassed by Morry the Maniac every day! Despite his annoying little sister's skepticism, he orders Chen's potion. It arrives with ominous instructions informing him that with one drink "INVISIBLE YOU BECOME, BUT THE SECOND IS FOREVER DONE." and with one swig, it works, he's invisible! Larry enjoys his invisibility for awhile, but when he turns visible in gym class, Morry is there to embarrass him again! Larry, feeling more humiliated than ever, takes a second swallow, and ends the first act "INVISIBLE FOREVER!" after a soul-searching conversation with his best friend, Larry finally decides that he should come back to the real world. But how? Enter Mrs. Omnicker, a zany "spiritual medium" that eventually conjures up the supreme spirit, Zorn, who convinces Larry that self-confidence is all it takes to return to the real world.
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Comedy
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Jurrasic Park And Wreck
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Dina Saur, the widowed owner of a tottering auto parts business and fee parking lot, is in dire straits until the foreign Princess Halfagallon Latte arrives at Jurassic Park and Wreck. She is mistakenly taken there by an air-head cab driver who is hard of hearing (and hardly alert!). Luckily for Dina Saur, a refined and expressive art instructor who had the same unreliable cab driver discovers the hidden artist in the princess and commences an art exhibit at Jurassic Park and Wreck in honor of Latte's artwork. This gives Latte a chance to hide from her would-be suitor, Prince Shower, who seems to care more about cars than about love. The plot thickens quickly when both the princess and the prince become targets for two separate crimes! First, thick-headed criminals Bad Billy and Weird Willy step onto the scene with a plan to dupe the prince into purchasing "the fastest engine in the world" (really a hunk of junk). You can imagine the chaos when art thieves Marlene and Rene attempt a parallel heist of Latte's "art." The mystery and fun rev into high gear for a crazy, happily-ever-after surprise finale! Your audiences will roar with laughter for eons with this timeless comedy!
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Comedy
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Mother Nature's Revenge
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Mark Polluter is an environmental disaster, and Mother Nature's overseer, a former school teacher, plans a little revenge. With a smile on her face, she turns him into a tree, then a fish, and finally a bird. In each transformation, Mark is visited by a few of the species, like Sally Starfish, an actress, and St. Louee Cardinal, a baseball-playing bird. as one of them, Mark learns firsthand the nasty effects of his human carelessness. Easy, fun costuming and lots of comedy makes this topical play perfect for touring.
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One Of Our Clowns Is Missing
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Meet Sandy, a nervous, shy girl who has taken a job as a travel agent. Meet Lucy and her husband Carlson, the owners of the travel agency who happen to have a penchant for robbing museums. Enter the mysterious Samuel Hahmberger, an accented gentleman who claims that Sandy is really a super-spy with a case of amnesia and is desperately needed to help him smuggle a few circus stars to the island of Sorbay. Thus, Sandy arranges the covert travel plans the same day as Lucy and Carlson plan their heist the same day the police show up searching for escapees from the local sanitarium.
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Separate Lives
Synopsis:
Divorce. a difficult subject, but one so prevalent that schools and theaters often look for ways to help further the discussion and help children cope. Separate Lives takes a touching one-act look at the lives of the children of divorce. Without being maudlin, it uses a narrator to walk through the lives of eight different teens impacted by divorce. The whole gamut of emotions is explored, from anger to anxiety, denial to innocence, blame to acceptance. We smile as innocent younger sister Sarah has a birthday party with her dolls and eventually draws her sullen brother, Matthew, into her loving circle. We are moved when the stern coach talks angry Natalia into finding comfort in perseverance, in finding solace with her teammates. and we even laugh at the discussion of the language of divorce. In the end, Separate Lives will leave your audience with a better understanding of divorce - and a feeling of hopefulness in the resilience of children.
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Play/Drama
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Stepford Students
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Teachers, listen up! Wouldn't it be great to have your students behave like model citizens? To always get your way? To get competing requests for more homework? Well, it's not a dream -- just join us at Stepford University. Like its movie namesake, "The Stepford Wives," things aren't exactly as rosy as they appear. You see, resident know-it-all Greg has created a de-agitator, a handy gizmo that zaps students into line. In exchange for cushy semesters, he's given it to Ms. Holcroft, the feisty econ teacher; Ms. Graham, as old as the dinosaurs; and Ms. Yearling, who is a bit wet under the collar. When other students discover the gizmo - it looks an awful lot like a TV remote - the battle for control is on! In a hysterical climax, we witness a cowboy showdown at the OK Student Lounge and the futuristic de-agitators blazing away!
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Comedy/Parody Comedy
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Strange Happenings
Synopsis:
Twilight Zone. "Goosebumps." "The X-Files." There's no doubt that chills and thrills are "in," and now your audience can sit and squirm with shivery delight. The Stargazer takes you on this unique journey through four scenes. First stop-a small town in the middle of nowhere. These places don't like murders, and they like murderers even less. We call it "Framed," but your audience will call it suspenseful, right up to the last twist. In "The Experiment," college students are putting together a science project, but new language creeps into their conversation. By the end we know why. These students are from another planet. "Lila Mae" begins act Two with the question: How do you preserve innocence? The answer comes in an old abandoned house once owned by the Thorpes, whose young daughter disappeared this day many years ago. Finally, "Deep Sleep" teaches us that we are not really in control, as Franklin relives a dinner scene with his family over and over again. Strange Happenings is the perfect show for any group wanting something different. While it skirts the fringe of terror, it remains perfectly appropriate for school casts and audiences. Unless, of course, they frighten easily!
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Drama, 2 act Suspense
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Virtual Soap
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Several years ago, Professor Flitcraft, a band of his college students, and his nephew Charlie discovered how to make holographic characters appear lifelike. They began using them in a local TV soap opera but now the college is getting set to close his lab down unless the Professor can come up with something new -- and soon. The pressure builds when his wife aunt Tilde, (well, not really his wife but that's another soap opera) has been seen doing weird things and a social worker wants to declare her crazy. Charlie and the other students hit upon their newest computer program, IMPROV, which allows the holographic characters to improvise their own scripts. So lights . . . camera . . . who knows what's going to come out of their mouths, especially at the all-important demo for the faculty! and the trouble doubles when aunt Tilde and a schizophrenic jewel thief manage to sneak in with the computer characters with the police right on their tails. The result is a sidesplitting, scene-shifting, fast-action comedy. Your actors will love the opportunity to play multiple, wild computer/real characters in this soap opera within a soap opera.
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2 act Comedy
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Whodunit And To Whom
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Looking for the "Whodunit" to end all "Whodunits"? Then look no further! This hilarious spoof of the classic "gumshoe story" has more twists than a loop of licorice. Henpecked paint salesman Harold Finnegan is trying to pound out his umpteenth third-rate detective story on his typewriter. as he writes, we see the actions played out by actors on stage. and as he corrects his writing, we see the actors forced to revise their actions! Harold's story introduces us to the beautiful Russian painter nicknamed anytime, and our hero, Detective Grip. as the Russian spins her tale, she faints, and when the "pizza guy" shows up, he believes that Grip has killed her, though he does pause long enough to accept a generous tip. From there, our tale really goes wild-from policeman wielding rubber bands (Harold doesn't like violence in his plays) to a villain modeled after Harold's arch-enemy at work to Grip's vengeful, genius daughter.. Strange characters keep cropping up. . . characters with the power to stop the play and freeze the other characters. Who really is writing this play anyway?
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Whodunit - Who's The Big Idea Anyway?
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Harold Finnegan, paint salesman and plodding detective writer, is creating another third-rate mystery. Like its popular sister play, WhoDunit. . . and to Whom?, this is a wildly funny, fast-paced spoof of the classic gumshoe story. You see, as Harold pounds out his bad plays, we see the actions played out by thought-forms on stage. and as he corrects his writing, we see the actors forced to revise their actions! In this caper, our hero, Grip, finds himself captured by the Evil Siamese Triplets in search of the identity of the "You've got mail" voice. When Harold is called away by his demanding wife Tessie, the thought-forms take their "rehearsal break" and play cards with a Shakespearean thought-form and a gunslinger. Harold returns and-lo and behold-writes them into his mediocre script! But this is just the beginning. You see, Harold's not really the writer here. The true "valley dude" authors decide that Harold will develop a splitting headache which will result in he and his kids switching places with the thought-forms. Macho Grip becomes the hen-pecked husband while Gunslinger and Shakespeare turn into obnoxious children!
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Genre:
Comedy/Spoof Comedy
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 8 Other: 5
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