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PICKWICK’S HOLIDAY. A 2-Act holiday comedy/drama adapted from Charles Dickens’ Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club set in 1857 London with music. Mean old Trundle Finch covets business, privilege, quiet, a good duel, avoids holidays and the Ugliest Horse in the English Empire. [See a Sample]
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54 H A 2-Act comedy/drama set in 1953 Cathedral neighborhood with memories, paperboys, nuns, drugstores, mischief, or was it murder?
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USO CHRISTMAS. A 2-Act holiday comedy/drama with music as a tribute to the US Navy set in 1941 South Pacific when Pearl Harbor is attacked. The USO emerges from the decks of the aircraft carriers USS Yorktown and USS Lexington. -
BOOTSTRAPPERS HOLIDAY. A 2-Act romantic comedy/drama with music as a tribute to the US Air Force set in 1953 at Offutt Air Force Base and Omaha University. General Curtis LeMay and Milo Bale, the university’s President, hit it off to establish the Bootstrapper study program. A mix of football, a RAF pilot, bobbysoxers, and a pilot downed over North Korea make Cold War Rock ‘n Roll.
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PICKWICK’S DILEMMA. A 1-Act comedy set in 1857 London when Pickwick woos Widow Wardle, is mugged by his coachman, befriends a French fop, who duels a doctor over Wardle, edits a love letter that lands Pickwick in prison.
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YANK AND THE KING. A 1-Act comedy when young Connecticut Yankee beams back to June 8, 528 AD near noon in King Arthur’s Court. When Yank is about to be ransomed or toasted, Merlin asks the Oracle about it so the kid eclipses the moon over the sun, pulls Excalibur from the stone as King of Britannia and says, “Okay, here’s the deal.” To wit Merlin asks, “Okay, what meanth OK?” They save Camelot and Yank re-beams back to Hartford, CT just in time for the school bus.
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ONE-ACT CINDERELLA. A 1-Act comedy with silly sisters, blockhead boys, a lost slipper, and a prince in a pumpkin carriage with flying horses. It can be updated to a time-space adventure.