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ALAN SHEARMAN
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Alan Shearman's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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below is a list of Alan Shearman's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Bullshot Crummond El Grande De Coca-Cola Footlight Frenzy Scandalous Adventures of Sir Toby Trollope, TheBullshot Crummond
Synopsis:
This parody of low budget 30s detective movies typifies British heroism. Teutonic villain Otto von Brunno and his evil mistress crash their plane in the English countryside and kidnap Professor Fenton who has discovered a formula for making synthetic diamonds. Bullshot Crummond is called to the rescue. Otto paralyzes Crummond with a fiendish ray. He rams a stick of dynamite in Crummond's mouth which will explode when the next person enters the room. Rosemary enters, but the static electricity in her fur wrap averts the detonation. they pursue in a hair raising car chase, but plunge over a cliff. they sneak into the dungeons where the professor is being tortured, but Crummond hopelessly loses the ensuing saber duel. Unperturbed, Crummond finally triumphs by shooting the rest of the cast.
Notes:
written by Ron House, Diz White, Alan Shearman, John Neville Andrews And Derek Cunningham. Original sound cues Available for rental from www.lowmoan.com
1st Produced:
Greenwich Theatre London 1972
Organisations:
Low Moan Spectacular
1st Published:
Music:
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageEl Grande De Coca-Cola
Synopsis:
A simple show that is laugh-a-minute and ridiculously wonderful! the action takes place in a terrible part of Trujillo, in a nightclub, which isn't too far from terrible itself. A local impresario, Senor Don Pepe Hernandez, has announced in the local newspapers that he is going to bring international cabaret to Trujillo. Eventually he succeeds, and we see the cabaret within the cabaret as it unfolds. A company known as the "Low Moan Spectacular' causes all the laughs, as conjuring tricks don't work, people trip up, a blind American folk singer falls off the stage, chorus girls collide, etc.
Notes:
written by Ron House, Diz White, Alan Shearman And John Neville-Andrews. Musical Arrangements by Alan Shearman And John Neville Andrews. Original sound cues Available for rental from www.lowmoan.com
1st Produced:
Organisations:
Low Moan Spectacular
1st Published:
Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Musical
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageFootlight Frenzy
Synopsis:
In a desperate attempt to save their bankrupt "School for Unusual Children", an inexperienced PTA group valiantly mounts an ambitious benefit play, written by a has been Broadway director. His near hystErical direction and the group's questionable talent turn the production into a shambles. the scenes shift back and forth from the real tribulations of the performers to the play they are "performing", and it is hard to tell which is sillier. This is fast and furious theatrical fun of the first order, with us watching the fun from the "back" of the stage!
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written by Ron House, Diz White, Alan Shearman And Bud Slocomb, Based on "Fleeting Moment' by House, White, Shearman, Mark Blankfield, Brandis Kemp And Mitchell Kreindel. Original sound cues Available for rental from www.lowmoan.com
1st Produced:
Marines Memorial Theatre San Francisco 1981
Organisations:
Low Moan Spectacular
1st Published:
Music:
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageScandalous Adventures of Sir Toby Trollope, The
Synopsis:
the setting is England, 1784. Sir Toby Trollope is to be hanged by King George III for tax evasion. Toby conspires to save his neck by marrying his imbecilic son Bartholomew to a rich young woman so he can live off her father's wealth. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty! they meet, and quickly offend, England's richest man, Sir Alex Hardegristle who destroys anything he doesn't understand and his beautiful but hallucinatory daughter, Fanny. the Hardegristle madness stems from 600 years of inbreeding. In fear of their lives, the Trollopes flee England on the HMS Bounty. In the ensuing mutiny, they are thrown overboard and into the middle of the Boston Tea Party. they now meet and are quickly swindled by John Hancock, a sleazy insurance salesman; Paul Revere, a fast talking pots and pans vendor hawking his latest invention, Reverware; and George Washington with his spring loaded wooden teeth. Events escalate to Lexington Green, where the Trollopes accidently spark off the American Revolution. But for these buffoons, American might have remained a peace loving British colony.
Notes:
written by Ron House And Alan Shearman. Original sound cues Available for rental from www.lowmoan.com
1st Produced:
San Diego Repertory theatre 1987
Organisations:
Low Moan Spectacular
1st Published:
Music:
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 2 Other: to play 25 roles may be done with as many as 25 actors
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