In The Spotlight
Featured new releases and most popular titles on 6/19/2013
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
VAUDEVILLE'S MY HOME
| VAUDEVILLE'S MY HOME
By Ken Bradbury
9 m, 11 w
Script: 71 pages.
Set in the 1920s, this semi-musical play (contains five piano songs) starts out with two vaudeville troupers who are fleeing New York following their robbery of a theatre box office. They become stranded in the village of Pleasant Corners, Ohio. Broke and hungry, they devise a plan to swindle the local populace by convincing them they have enough talent to prod
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| KAMP KAOS
By Stephen Murray
Large, flexible cast
Script: 67 pages
Confusion and fun are the business of the day at Kamp KAOS, a summer camp that boasts its own 12-watt radio station. It's opening day at the camp and director Wally Schneider is already in trouble: the mortgage is due, the world's wealthiest woman wants to buy the camp, the county health inspector is coming, and the mysterious weather phenomenon El Gordo has broug
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| JUST DESSERTS
By Craig Sodaro
1 m, 4 w
Script: 40 pages
Judge Reginald P. Cogsworth, a curmudgeon who hates sweets, is judging a charity bakeoff, albeit grudgingly. Countless entries have been whittled down to three: a tart submitted by Lucy "Scooter" Bright, owner of a nail salon; a Depression-era style cake by Edna Mae Carter, the local librarian; and a rich torte created by Margaret Mason, a local society lady. In the middle of
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| SCARIEST PLAY -- EVER!
By Craig Sodaro
Cast: From 5 male, 9 female,
to 14 male, 31 female.
Script: 67 pages.
Horror movies can be lots of fun! Join producer C.C. Bellows as he meets five directors whose movie pitches come alive onstage. Of course, C.C. knows that audiences only really like what they’ve seen before, so each of the directors has tweaked a famous horror film. “The Calamityville Horror” tells the story of a family who mo
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| ARE WE THERE YET?
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Stephen Murray
Large, flexible cast
Script: 60 pages
Humans are a species constantly on the move from here to there to - who knows where! This revue explores the world of transportation and asks the timeless question, "Are we there yet?" Travel way back in time to when walking was the only way to get somewhere. Then came the discovery of the wheel, and things really started rollin'! Soon mank
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES-Shakes...
-- New Release --
By Jane and Jim Jeffries
Cast: 2-3m, 6w
Script: 32 pages
Okay, these housewives may not be real, but they are desperate. Shakespeare has been manipulating and twisting their lives for six plays now, and they desperately want to escape his evil machinations. But are they desperate enough to commit murder? Shakespeare has been found dead: stabbed, poisoned, starved, choked, bitten by an asp, and even
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| RUMPLESTILTSKIN: TRUE HERO
-- New Release --
By Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston
Cast: 6 m, 7 w, 6 flexible,
extras including children
Script: 44 pages
At last, Rumpelstiltskin gets to be the hero! Based on the original Grimm fairy tale, this traditionally misunderstood character earns a well-deserved happy ending, winning the hand of Freya, the beautiful miller’s daughter. Both comic and suspenseful, and using elements of other fairy
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| DECEIVING GRANNY
-- Just Released --
Farce by Michael J. Taylor
Cast: 5 m, 7 w
Newlyweds Sam and Margaret Howard discover they are in line to inherit $3.5 million from his great-grandmother whom he has never met. But before she is willing to add them to her will she wants to meet Sam and his new wife face to face to make sure they are “worthy.” Of course, nothing goes smoothly, especially since Sam is hiding an expensive diamond n
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| FAMILY BYTES
- - JUST RELEASED - -
By Daniel O’Donnell
Cast: 4 m, 6 w, 3 flexible
Script: 60 pages.
Two inept detectives, Cagney and Lacey, have been put in charge of protecting an unusual family at a safe house until the mother, Elvira Bytes, can testify against a ruthless crime mob. The police are unaware, however, that Elvira, her husband Barnabas, and their three kids are vampires! The parents are trying to change the family w
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| SCHOOL SPIRIT
- - JUST RELEASED - -
By Scott Haan
Flexible cast. Approx. 2 m, 7 w, 2 flexible.
Script: 35 pages.
Faith and Ivy are best friends for life…and beyond. On the surface, they don’t have much in common. One is respectful, the other sarcastic. One is studious, the other a troublemaker. One is a friendly actress, the other a reclusive poet. And, oh yeah, one is alive, the other, not so much. Ivy has been dead for weeks,
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| TINY TIM'S CHRISTMAS CAROL
-- JUST RELEASED --
By Matthew Thompson
Widely flexible cast
A father tells his young daughter a story of Ebenezer Scrooge on his terrifying and exhilarating journey to discover the true meaning of Christmas. But we do not realize until the end that the characters in this adaptation are more real than ever before. The covetous old miser who finds his heart turns out to be the little girl’s Great-Uncle Scrooge, and her
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