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  1. Evil Dead The Musical E91000

    Evil Dead The Musical

    Book and lyrics by George Reinblatt. Music by Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond, Melissa Morris and George Reinblatt. Music supervision by Frank Cipolla. Additional lyrics by Christopher Bond. Additional music by Rob Daleman.

    Product Code: E91000

    • Comedy
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 3w., 1 either gender. May be expanded.

      No Livestream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    This hilarious show takes all the elements of the cult classic films The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness and combines them into one of the craziest theatrical experiences of all time. Five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. Blood flies. Limbs are dismembered. Demons tell bad jokes ... and all to music. Learn More
    $12.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $135/perf

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  2. The Wacky Horror Cyber Show WK7000

    The Wacky Horror Cyber Show

    By Finn Kobler.

    Product Code: WK7000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 2 to 8m., 2 to 16w., 4 to 13 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    A collection of surreal, occasionally morbid and definitively wacky (go figure) vignettes all showcasing the absurdity, spookiness and love that comes from the Halloween season. From Edgar Allan Poe having to face rewrites to existentially depressed pumpkins, this play has something for everybody—from silly to sweet to thought provoking. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. The War of the Worlds

    The War of the Worlds

    Product Code: WK5000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 2w., 6 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 40 min.
    During the morning video announcements at Grover's Mill High, something not of this Earth crash lands in the football stadium. Inspired by Orson Wells’ radio broadcast, this modern adaptation is designed to be rehearsed and performed live online. Through a series of Zoom calls, our morning-show hosts find themselves covering the biggest story in human history. Martians have landed and are taking over the Earth. Can our group of scrappy high-schoolers survive the invasion? This show can be performed virtually or onstage. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  4. Dead and Buried

    Dead and Buried

    By James McLindon.

    Product Code: DG9000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 2w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Perdue gets a job at the local graveyard, claiming to live with her aunt while searching for her missing mother. But her story begins to fall apart. She is actually living in the homeless shelter; her mother died shortly before she arrived and is buried in the cemetery. Perdue confides that she doesn’t remember her mother’s face and hopes that a photo will prove that she is the woman in Perdue’s oldest memory. But there are no photos, and Perdue must decide how far she’ll go to learn the truth about her mother. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Something Wicked This Way Comes

    Something Wicked This Way Comes

    By Ray Bradbury.

    Product Code: S2B000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 6 to 9m., 2 to 5w.

      No Livestream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    James Nightshade and William Halloway leave their beds to watch the carnival train pull in, but there is no one manning the locomotive and no one in the cars behind. First lured by its promises, the two boys will soon discover the diabolical truth about the carnival. Only the boys and Will's father can save the town from the sinister carnival that threatens to destroy it and them. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  6. Sorority House of the Dead

    Sorority House of the Dead

    By Mitch Brian.

    Product Code: ST2000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 3m. (2 with doubling), 7w., plus extra women as desired.
    • 60 min.
    It's 1987 and the sorority sisters of Delta Pi Sigma are looking for new blood. When Tonya, Deb and Janet enter the rush party, they soon discover that the sisters are vampires under the command of the eternally youthful house mother, Mrs. B. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    By Mary and Andrew Arnault. Adapted from the story by Washington Irving.

    Product Code: LB6000

    • Comedy | Melodrama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 8m., 7w. (may be expanded by adding women's chorus members and townsfolk.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 85 min.
    The villagers of Sleepy Hollow are either greatly impressed with or totally dislike the new schoolmaster named Ichabod. Matters come to a head when Ichabod is accosted by a fiendish apparition, the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Things turn for the worst when Ichabod disappears, leaving only behind a song in the wind, and a new legend is born. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  8. The Turn of the Screw

    The Turn of the Screw

    By Douglas Jones. Based on the novella by Henry James.

    Product Code: TC6000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 3w. (includes 1 boy, 1 girl.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Genuine chills are provided in this tale of a governess, left in charge of a boy and a girl at a lonely estate, who begins to suspect that the ghosts of two former servants have hideous designs upon the children. If she is right, the children are in terrible peril, but if she's wrong, she herself might be driving them mad. With every twist in the plot (or turn of the screw) the tension increases until something—or someone—must snap. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  9. The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

    The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

    By Max Bush. Based on a story by the Brothers Grimm.

    Product Code: BF5000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4m., 3w., with doubling, or up to 17 (8m., 3w., 6 either gender).

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    Boy, an innocent teen unable to know fear, accepts the challenge to stay three nights in the haunted castle. The ghostly inhabitants are unable to scare the boy and the castle is restored ghost-free to the king. As a reward, he is to marry the princess, yet he still seeks an answer to the mystery of his life. It takes the wits of the chamber maid and the help of the princess to teach Boy the shivers when he least expects it. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  10. Honeymoon at Graveside Manor

    Honeymoon at Graveside Manor

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: H64000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 3m., 6w. (1m. or w.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Marian Thorncraft is looking forward to her honeymoon until she realizes her love nest is really a one-time mortuary! Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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