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  1. TEA FOR THREE: Lady Bird, Pat & Betty

    TEA FOR THREE: Lady Bird, Pat & Betty

    By Eric H. Weinberger and Elaine Bromka.

    Product Code: TU7000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 1 to 3w.

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    • 75 min.
    What is it like for a woman when her husband becomes the president of the United States—and she is suddenly thrust into the spotlight? This witty, sly and deeply moving script explores the hopes, fears and loves of Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon and Betty Ford. Secrets are spilled about their early years, their husbands' rise to power, their romances with the men, their unique paths as wives in the White House, and their feelings about imminent retirement. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

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  2. Radium Girls

    Radium Girls

    By D.W. Gregory.

    Product Code: R72000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4 to 5m., 5w., with doubling. May be expanded to 30 or more.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 130 min.
    In 1926, radium was a miracle cure and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to mysteriously fall ill. Inspired by a true story, this play traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. This story offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth and the commercialization of science. Learn More
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  3. Zack Hill and the Rocket Blaster Man Adventure Z18000

    Zack Hill and the Rocket Blaster Man Adventure

    Book by Werner Trieschmann. Music and lyrics by Thomas Tierney. Based on the comic strip by John Deering and John Newcombe.

    Product Code: Z18000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4m., 4w., 1 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 110 min.
    This musical follows the struggles of Zack, a 9-year-old boy who yearns for a normal home while living in the boarding house full of eccentric characters that’s run by his widowed and single mother, Jan. When confronted with a financial crisis that may force them to give up their boarding house and move to Florida, Zack begins to see things differently. He is determined to save the day and finds that his dream of home was closer than he thought. Learn More
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  4. The Reclamation of Madison Hemings RF3000

    The Reclamation of Madison Hemings

    By Charles Smith.

    Product Code: RF3000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2 m.
    • 120 min.
    One year after the end of the Civil War, Madison Hemings and Israel Jefferson return to Monticello. Madison attempts to claim the pieces of the house he helped build, while Israel advises him to consider the memories of the other families who were enslaved at Monticello. Both men are confronted with their conflicting feelings about Thomas Jefferson, and they are forced to consider—what do we need to keep with us, and what should we leave behind? Learn More
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  5. Trial in the Delta: The Murder of Emmett Till TY3000

    Trial in the Delta: The Murder of Emmett Till

    Conceived and created by G. Riley Mills, Anthony Moseley and Prince Roc. Adapted from the court transcripts by G. Riley Mills and Prince Roc.

    Product Code: TY3000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 12m., 2w.

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    • 95 min.
    In 1955, Emmett Till, a young Black boy, traveled to Mississippi to visit relatives where he was kidnapped and murdered in one of the most horrific crimes in American history. The trial became a catalyst for the modern Civil Rights Movement. Every word of testimony presented in the play was taken directly from the original transcripts, allowing viewers to hear these voices from our past and bear witness to this tragedy as it unfolded. Learn More
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  6. Boswell BN2000

    Boswell

    By Marie Kohler.

    Product Code: BN2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 3w., 1 to 14 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 80 min.
    Joan, an American graduate student, journeys to a Scottish noblewoman’s estate to research iconic literary giant, Samuel Johnson. Instead, she discovers the chatty, bawdy journals of James Boswell, long hidden in the estate’s attic. Coaxed by her new friend, Joan pours over his wild adventures in the Scottish Hebrides with Johnson. Heart and mind spar wittily in this two-period dramatic comedy about friendship, travel and the written word. Learn More
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  7. Midnight and Moll Flanders MS800

    Midnight and Moll Flanders

    By Marie Kohler. Adapted from the novel Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.

    Product Code: MS8000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 6w., with doubling. Expandable ensemble.

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    • 120 min.
    Moll Flanders’ drive for love and survival led her on many adventures—flings, marriages and a career as an infamous thief. The play begins on the eve of Moll’s hanging at Newgate Prison as she tells her story to the minister, who is determined to offer her a last chance at salvation. Midnight and Moll Flanders follows a transformation journey for both Moll and the minister, exploring the influence of gender, class, free will and luck in an era as wildly entrepreneurial as our own. Learn More
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  8. Mother, Mother: The Many Mothers of Maude MS9000

    Mother, Mother: The Many Mothers of Maude

    By Julie Jensen.

    Product Code: MS9000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 4w.

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    • 85 min.
    Mother, Mother: The Many Mothers of Maude follows Maude Adams, the most celebrated American actress of the 19th century, and her mother, Annie Adams, an actress who never found celebrity. This is a play about one who never got what she wanted and another who never wanted what she got. Using 19th-century theatre techniques, Mother, Mother examines a complicated mother/daughter relationship and covers the volatile lives of performers at the time. Learn More
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  9. Miss Fancy: Elephant Queen of the Zoo MT4000

    Miss Fancy: Elephant Queen of the Zoo

    By G. Riley Mills.

    Product Code: MT4000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | TYA
    • 3 to 6m., 3 to 5w.

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    • 70 min.
    Travel back in time to the 1930s, when the once-popular Avondale Zoo has fallen into disrepair. With the Birmingham Parks Board threatening to close the zoo and sell off its remaining animals to the highest bidder, the legendary Miss Fancy must devise a plan to save the zoo before it's too late! Filled with music, magic, comedy and dancing to entertain people of all ages, Miss Fancy: Elephant Queen of the Zoo will have audiences' toes tapping and their imaginations shining! Learn More
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  10. Beauty and the Beast BN3000

    Beauty and the Beast

    By Max Bush.

    Product Code: BN3000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | TYA
    • 5 to 9m., 7 to 11w., 4 any gender.

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    • 90 min.
    In this version of Beauty and the Beast, young Prince Beaumont is turned into a beast when he rebuffs the advances of an older fairy and is to remain cursed until a young woman consents to marry him of her own free will. After trespassing on palace grounds, Beauty’s father reluctantly trades Beauty’s freedom for his own life at the Beast’s behest. As Beauty and the Beast struggle to understand each other, their journey is fraught with difficulty, doubt and danger. Learn More
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