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  1. Ghosts in the Machine GD8000

    Ghosts in the Machine

    By Eric Coble.

    Product Code: GD8000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 8 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.
    It begins after lunch on Melissa’s phone. Someone she doesn’t know is texting her looking for a drug hook-up. Soon, eight very different high-school kids are getting bizarre texts from numbers they don’t recognize—budding romances, bitter rivalries, even violent threats. What’s going on? And what if it’s not people connecting with other people via their phones … but phones trying to connect with other phones via their people? A digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter. Learn More
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  2. Mr. Chickee's Funny Money

    Mr. Chickee's Funny Money

    Music and lyrics by Lamont Dozier and Paris Dozier. Book by David Ingber. Based on the novel Mr. Chickee's Funny Money by Christopher Paul Curtis. Orchestrations and arrangements by Brian Usifer.

    Product Code: MP3000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 5 to 6m., 2 to 4w., 1 either gender.

      No Livestream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    Ten-year-old Steven, a self-proclaimed spy and president of the Flint Future Detectives Club, is asked to unlock the secret behind a mysterious bill. With his pals, Steven discovers family, friends, imagination and determination are the true keys to success. This rhythm and blues musical grooves to original songs by Motown legend Lamont Dozier and his son Paris. Learn More
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  3. Waste Mismanagement

    Waste Mismanagement

    By Dan Doyle.

    Product Code: WG8000

    • Comedy
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 7 to 9m., 3 to 4w., 1 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 110 min.
    J.B. Hornsby, a marginally successful defense attorney, takes on a new client who is arrested for the murder of her husband, whose body was found in a local landfill by Beulah, a wildly eccentric psychic. Hornsby tries to pin the crime on a ruthless mob loan shark, but is shocked when the belligerent judge suddenly drops all charges against his client. In a startling twist, Beulah employs her mystical powers to bring about an astonishing conclusion! Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. The Night I Died at the Palace Theatre

    The Night I Died at the Palace Theatre

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: N59000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community
    • 6m., 6w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    The Palace Theatre actors are just getting ready to rehearse their final scene, when the director who wrote the play is found dead onstage. Clues intermingle with unveiled threats as cast member turns against cast member in this comedy-filled mystery. Learn More
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  5. Hamlet or Does Father Reeeeeeally Know Best?

    Hamlet or Does Father Reeeeeeally Know Best?

    By Nancy Linehan Charles. Based on the play by William Shakespeare.

    Product Code: H94000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | Community | TYA
    • 2m., 2w., 11 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    William Shakespeare believed strongly in the fact that there will always be consequences when you make the wrong move. Hamlet listens to a ghost, who makes all of the decisions, and everyone ends up dead. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. Tom Sawyer

    Tom Sawyer

    By Ric Averill. Adapted from Mark Twain.

    Product Code: TH6000

    • Comedy | Satire
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 13m., 9w., 21 either gender. Doubling possible.

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    • 90 min.
    Telling the coming-of-age story of the community's most mischievous boy, this adaptation really brings to life Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer. A delightful introduction into the world of classic American characters. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. If It's Monday, This Must Be Christmas!

    If It's Monday, This Must Be Christmas!

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: I94000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 5m., 6w., 1 boy, 1 girl.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    In this comedic mystery, Harry Monday solves the mysteries of a department store's stolen payroll and the kidnapping of the store's Santa Claus, just in time for Christmas Eve. Learn More
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  8. Monday Always Leads to Murder

    Monday Always Leads to Murder

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: MC9000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community
    • 9m., 5w. (with doubling, 6m, 4w.)

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    • 90 min.
    As usual, Harry finds himself way in over his head as he tries to solve a 20-year-old murder mystery and write a play about his career at the same time. Learn More
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  9. You Have the Right to Remain Dead

    You Have the Right to Remain Dead

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: Y23000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    In this audience-participation murder mystery, not only are you questioning the cast, but they are questioning you! As the show starts and you meet Fat Daddy, a rich but vindictive southern gentleman with an equally conniving and scheming family. So you know who's going to die, right? But who will the murderer be? This frantic mystery-comedy will have you guessing until the last clue is dropped and the last ham overacts. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  10. Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other Current Events

    Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other Current Events

    Adapted by Nancy Linehan Charles. From Shakespeare.

    Product Code: MB8000

    • Comedy | Drama | Melodrama | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | TYA
    • 15+ either gender, expandable to include all.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 45 min.
    This dramatic adaptation, sprinkled with comedic commentary, is a winner for elementary, middle, and early high school. Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy is told within a lively and humorous story-theatre frame. Macbeth and his Lady covet the crown while witches, ghosts, kings and soldiers sweep across the landscape, carving out the battle between good and evil. Shakespeare characters speak the Bard's words, while storytellers fill in plot and comment wryly on the escalating action. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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