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FRANK SEMERANO
Nationality: USA
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below is a list of Frank Semerano's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Attempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater, The Kaputnik Murder Me Once Next Stop, Murder Tangled Snarl, The Thataway Jack Vampire Reflects, AAttempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater, The
Synopsis:
Banana plantation in South America there have been three attempted murders - illegitimate triplets - poisoned crumpets and upper class twits
Notes:
written by John Rustan And Frank Semerano
1st Produced:
Occidental College, Los Angeles 31 May 1981
Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York -
Music:
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 7 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageKaputnik
Synopsis:
Dr. Myles Stanton is an astronomer stationed at a lonely observatory in the desert, but his job isn't the only thing that keeps him in the dark. For Dr. Stanton is about to lose his wife, Hali, to Blaine, his lab assistant and best friend. Why Hali would find the luckless and accident prone Blaine to be preferable to Dr. Stanton bewilders this egocentric astronomer more than any mystery he has ever viewed through his telescope. It's not just that Blaine's obsession with an impending invasion from Mars makes him seem such an odd choice for the sophisticated and lovely Hali. But what is it about Blaine that has also earned the attention of three strangers in trench coats, fedoras and dark glasses? Dr. Myles Stanton, left in charge of an obsolete observatory he was sure everyone had forgotten about, takes center stage in an international game of cat and mouse. It is the evening of the launch of Sputnik. World tensions are high. Spies and sleeper cells are suspected to be everywhere. Invaders could come from anywhere.
Notes:
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1st Produced:
Grove center Theater, Burbank, CA 16 Nov 2007
Organisations:
Lost Hollywood Players
1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>, 2008 978-0873662935
Music:
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Genre:
comedy One Act
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageMurder Me Once
Synopsis:
A slime-ball named Coins Fontaine has cashed in. When his account is closed, there's evidence of foul play. Who would want to kill Coins? Everybody! the fingers of suspicion especially point to Coins' hot young widow, a woman with the kind of shape that makes two great first impressions. then there is Coins' two beautiful grown daughters, one with a Girl Scout fixation; and the other with a head for figures, perched atop a pretty good figure of her own. Watch out, Spuds, danger is everywhere! An affectionate homage to the hard-boiled private dicks who could handle guns and bodacious babes with equal aplomb.
Notes:
written by John Rustan And Frank Semerano
1st Produced:
- -
Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, NY, -
Music:
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Genre:
Murder mystery
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageNext Stop, Murder
Synopsis:
Myron Amberworth teaches paleontology at the local city college, but his job might go extinct from low enrollment. Only through what he believes is the fortuitous recruitment of two additional students, Dena and Knuckles, does he manage to keep his class. Dena and Knuckles are in fact members of a street gang known as the Scorpions. their only motivation in enrolling is to heist the contents of a museum. But Dena enjoys her new life as a student, riling her father. He throws her out of their house in a fit of temper. Dena takes up temporary residence at Myron's run down apartment, much to the dismay of Myron's jealous girlfriend. Dena's Father practically moves in himself to keep an eye on his daughter and an increasingly distraught Myron. As Dena goes 'good', Myron's colleague and department head goes 'bad', and entrusts a stolen gem to the unknowing Myron. Lilah Davenport, a journalist, is murdered while chasing down the stolen gem. Her ghost has fallen in love with Myron and searches desperately for a way to communicate the danger he now faces.
Notes:
music by Clifford J Tasner
1st Produced:
Gene Bua Acting For Life, Burbank, CA 14 Apr 2006
Organisations:
Picture Films
1st Published:
Music:
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Genre:
Comedy, Murder Mystery/Thriller
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageTangled Snarl, The
Synopsis:
To Private Detective Spuds Idaho, life in L.A. is a 24 hour race around a track made of quicksand. When the dying Legs Flamingo leaves him a package to deliver, Spuds gets curious. Why is Leslie Detweiler more interested in the package than in the death of her husband: "Excuse me, but you look pretty collected for a lady whose breadwinner just got sliced four ways." Why was Legs mixed up with mob figure Vito "Fingers" Scampi: "So Fingers had Legs under this thumb." And how did it figure in with the Krieger heist: "the Commissioner was embarrassed. His boys in blue were red in the face." With the aid of his secretary, Ginny, and a wise cracking kid, it all untangles for Spuds Idaho.
Notes:
written by John Rustan And Frank Semerano
1st Produced:
- -
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, NY, -
Music:
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: 1 boy
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Top of PageThataway Jack
Synopsis:
the authors of the Tangled Snarl and the Attempted Murder of Peggy Sweetwater turn their manic imaginations loose in the Wild West in this hilarious spoof about a banker who fears losing his mail order bride to a desperado so he impersonates the outlaw. Things really get rolling when the rhyming cowboy and his faithful friend Talking Boar arrive to capture the badman.
Notes:
written by John Rustan And Frank Semerano
1st Produced:
- -
Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, NY, -
Music:
-
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Genre:
Farce
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageVampire Reflects, A
Synopsis:
Count Zescu, a Vampire from the old country, takes up residence in the American southwest accompanied only by his coffin and Mattie, who is an all too amorous co-ed he can't seem to lose. Hot on the heels of this colorful entourage is Joyce Lyonhartt, a plucky and determined reporter who excels in disguises to get close to what seems to be a once in lifetime story. the Count settles down in dreary house near a secret army base, and witnesses a bat seemingly explode spontaneously. He stumbles upon a weapons experiment, which involves turning living bats into flying bombs, headed by old foe, Dr. Gunter. An escaped war criminal ironically hiding out in the country whose army is pursuing him, Dr. Gunter continues to wage his private little war, though now aware that his new nemesis may inform on him. On his way to challenging the commander of the Army base, however, the Count discovers he is the uncle of Mattie, and is himself looking to do in the older man his niece has run off with. New and old accounts are on their way to being settled during a late night dinner at the Count's estate.
Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ventura Court Theater, Studio City, CA 1999
Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, NY, -
Music:
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 6 Other: -
Further Reference:
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