Scripts by Title
O-R
Odalisque
by Jason McCarty
A painter, a poet, and a sculptor share a flat that defies the physics of space and time in a delightful farce that pokes fun at artists of all sorts while still honoring and respecting the need to create in each and every one of us.
Cast: 3 M, 2 F
Of Thee I Sing
by George S. Kaufman
The story follows John P. Wintergreen's campaign for President until his triumphant election on the slogan "Put Love In The White House." As the chairman explains. "What you need for an issue is something that everybody can get excited about and yet something that does not really make any difference." It is decided the candidate shall marry the winner of a beauty contest after proposing to her in every state. Wintergreen, however, falls in love with pretty and demure Mary Turner instead.
Cast: 18 M, 5 F
On Golden Pond
by Ernest Thompson
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer.
Cast: 3 M, 2 F, 1 boy
Once a Catholic
​
by Mary O'Malley
All the girls in Class 5A are called Mary (apart from one Maria). One, an innocent who has not yet learned the gentle art of deception, finds herself the perpetual scapegoat. The author concentrates principally on the amusing ways the girls deal with the dogma constantly pumped into them. Hilarious moments have a more serious underlying theme: how true does much of this remain today?
Cast: 4 M, 10 F
Ondine
by Jean Giraudoux
An ethereal sea nymph falls in love with a handsome nobleman only to lose true love to the harsh realities of the outside world.
Cast: 17 M, 11 F
Othello
by William Shakespeare
Iago, a Venetian soldier and ensign, is passed over for promotion by Othello, a Moorish nobleman who has reached the pinnacle of his career: he is general of the Venetian army and has secretly married Desdemona, daughter of an important statesman in Venice. Partly to be avenged for this slight and partly because of his dark nature, Iago has determined to destroy Othello’s happiness.
Cast: 10M, 3 F
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
The story follows the small town of Grover’s Corners through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually – in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre – die.
Cast: 17M, 7 F
Out of Gas on Lovers Leap
​
by Mark St. Germain
It is the night of their high-school graduation and Myst and Grouper, two bright, well-to-do teenagers, have driven to the local lovers leap for a private celebration. As they drink beer, smoke pot and engage in sharply amusing, yet disheartening, interplay, it becomes increasingly evident that they are very lost young souls whose ideals have been sadly eroded by the shoddy, self-centered example of their elders.
Cast: 1 M, 1 F
Outrageous Fortune
by Douglas Lieberman
Bert Harris is a wealthy Jewish man, a good provider, and devoted to his family and his wife Madeline. Bert is conservative, proud of his race. His searching, rebellious and unhappy wife is in love with a young violinist. His younger brother, though engaged to an attractive girl, is gay. Into this disturbed household comes Crystal Grainger, a glamorous and notorious woman. In the course of three acts the playwright shows the influence of this strange, wise and understanding woman upon the lives of these people.
Cast: 4 M, 7 F
Pericles
by William Shakespeare
Pericles, the Prince of Tyre flees Antioch and goes back to Tyre because he knows that Antiochus, the King of Antioch, is having an incestuous affair with his daughter. Antiochus is determined to kill him and pursues him. Pericles flees again, first to Tyre and then to Pentopolis. He leaves Tyre in the care of his counsellor, Helicanus. En route the ship is wrecked and Pericles is the only survivor.
Cast: 20 M, 7 F
Peter Pan
by J.M. Barrie
Peter and his mischievous fairy sidekick, Tinkerbell, visit the nursery of the Darling children late one night and, with a sprinkle of pixie dust, begin a magical journey across the stars that none of them will ever forget. In the adventure of a lifetime, the travelers come face to face with a ticking crocodile, a fierce Indian tribe, a band of bungling pirates and, of course, the villainous Captain Hook.
Based on J.M. Barrie's classic tale and featuring an unforgettable score by Morris "Moose" Charlap and Jule Styne with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh and Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
Cast: 6 M, 3 F, + ensemble
Phaedra
​
by Jean Racine
Hippolytus, son of Theseus and stepson of Phaedra, sets off on a hunt. He prefers the woods to the palace, and invokes Diana, goddess of the hunt, to help his luck. After his departure, Phaedra appears, racked with despair. Phaedra confesses that she is in love with Hippolytus, and recalls her own mother Pasiphae’s lust for a bull – a lust that gave birth to the infamous Minotaur, which Theseus himself slew. She claims she is cursed by Venus, who is angry against Apollo, Phaedra’s ancestor, for having exposed Venus’ love for Mars.
Cast: 3 M, 5 F
Phantom
by Arthur Kopit
This mesmerizing Phantom is traditional musical theatre in the finest sense. The Tony award winning authors of Nine have transformed Gaston Leroux' The Phantom of the Opera into a sensation that enraptures audiences and critics with beautiful songs and an expertly crafted book. It is constructed around characters more richly developed than in any other version, including the original novel.
Cast: 30 M, 7 F
Picasso at the
Lapin Agile
by Steve Martin
This absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. These two geniuses muse on the century’s achievements and prospects, as well as other fanciful topics, with infectious dizziness.
Cast: 7M, 4 F
Play it Again, Sam
by Woody Allen
Allan Felix has this thing about Humphrey Bogart. If only he had some of Bogart’s technique… Bookish and insecure with women, Allan’s hero, Bogey, comes to the rescue with a fantastic bevy of beauties played out in hilarious fantasy sequences. Fixed up by friends with gorgeous women, he’s so awkward that even Bogey’s patience is tried. Allan mostly resembles a disheveled, friendly dog, and this is what ultimately charms his best friend’s wife, Linda, into bed. It’s a tough life, making it in the world of beautiful people, but if you can’t be a hero, it helps to have one…
Cast: 3 M, 8 F
Poor Aubrey
​
by George Kelly
When Amy Piper receives a visit from an old girl friend her husband, Aubrey, tries desperately to impress the visitor. This is his usual way. He is flattered by her compliments on his masculine beauty, but not until she has gone does he realize that he has lost his toupee in the course of the conversation. He tells impressive tales of his wealth, his home, his car-- only to have his mother in law burst his balloon in comic fashion.
Cast: 1 M, 3 F
Preppies
by David Taylor
If Parker Richardson Endicott III dies without leaving an heir, the Endicott Trust (which contains Central Park among other things) will pass to his villainous cousins. Endicott draws his lawyer and trusted servants, Joe and Marie Pantry, into a plot. He persuades the Pantrys to raise their infant son, Paul, as Parker Richardson Endicott IV, to be known as Cotty. If he has not been unmasked by his twenty first birthday, he may claim the trust. The musical follows Cotty as he makes his way through the schools and social rituals that make a Pantry into a preppy.
Cast: 7 M, 5 F
Present Laughter
by Noel Coward
At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line in harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanours is discovered. And all hell breaks loose. Noel Coward's Present Laughter premiered in the early years of the Second World War just as such privileged lives were threatened with fundamental social change.
Cast: 5 M, 6 F
Pump Boys
and Dinettes
by John Foley and more
The 'Pump Boys' sell high octane on Highway 57 in Grand Ole Opry country and the 'Dinettes', Prudie and Rhetta Cupp, run the Double Cupp diner next door. Together they fashion an evening of country western songs that received unanimous raves on and off-Broadway. With heartbreak and hilarity, they perform on guitars, piano, bass and, yes, kitchen utensils.
Cast: 4 M, 2 F
Purlie
​
by Davis-Rose-Udell
Purlie Victorious, that strutting, new fangled preacher man is back home and he wants a church and he wants freedom. Witty, memorable music and a whole lotta of fun unfold as Purlie outmaneuvers ol' Colonel and gets his girl Lutiebelle (or she gets him!). From the composers of Shenandoah.
Cast: 4 M, 4 F
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
Two old gentlemen meet in the rain one night at Covent Garden. Professor Higgins is a scientist of phonetics, and Colonel Pickering is a linguist of Indian dialects. The first bets the other that he can, with his knowledge of phonetics, convince high London society that, in a matter of months, he will be able to transform the cockney speaking Covent Garden flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a woman as poised and well-spoken as a duchess.
Cast: 4 M, 2 F
Raisin
by Robert Nemiroff
and Charlotte Zaltzberg
Lorraine Hansberry's classic is transformed into a soulful, inspiring musical as a proud Black family's quest for a better life explodes in song, dance, and incisive human drama.
Cast: 9 M, 6 F
Red Peppers
by Noel Coward
Doing a song and dance act in a vaudeville theatre are George Pepper and his wife, Lily. They also have a genius for picking quarrels and insulting co workers. When the house musical director, Bert, comes to the dressing room to bum a cigarette and a beer, they chide him for accompanying them in the wrong tempo, call him a drunk, and oust him. Mr. Edwards, house manager, comes to defend Bert, and he is insulted. At the following show Bert had his revenge when he plays the accompaniment so fast the Peppers get frantic and finally fall down. Lily stalks off the stage after heaving her hat at Bert.
Cast: 4 M, 2 F
Remember My Name
​
by Joanna Halpert Kraus
This prize-winning drama tells of a young girl’s survival in wartime France, and the courage of those who protect her from the Nazis. Apart from her parents, her heritage, and her name, the young Jewish girl matures from a sheltered child to a determined adolescent who fights for her country and her life. She is befriended by a priest, a widow, and a teacher who is a member of the underground resistance. Inspired by historical accounts.
Cast: 5 M, 4 F, 1 girl
Rent
by Jonathan Larson
Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The physical and emotional complications of the disease pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom and Angel. Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble. Benny has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income. Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general.
Cast: 5 M, 3 F + ensemble
Ring Round
the Moon
by Jean Anouilh
This is a fable about twin brothers—Frederic, who is shy and sensitive, and Hugo, who is heartless and aggressive. Frederic is in love with a hussy who is in love with Hugo. To save Frederic from an unhappy marriage, Hugo tries to distract him by bringing to a ball a beautiful dancer who masquerades as a mysterious personage and becomes the triumph of the occasion.
Cast: 6M, 6 F
Room for One More
by William Davidson
No matter how hard is was to make ends meet, Poppy and Mother Rose could never say "no" to a homeless child, and in the Pumpkin Shell, their tiny summer cottage by the ocean, it was often hard to tell their own children from the strangers they took under their wing. But Janey, their latest acquisition, was somewhat of a problem. They had promised the Home to keep her for two weeks—and here it was the day before she was to go back, and still she acted like a stranger—afraid to go into the water with the others—almost scared of her own shadow. It wasn't that Janey didn't want to belong—she just didn't know how.
Cast: 4 M, 8 F
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
​
by Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.
Cast: 14 M, 2 F
Route 66
by Roger Bean
Take a dollop of Grease, mix in some Pump Boys and Dinettes, and add a generous dose of Forever Plaid and you've got the high-octane fun of Route 66! Beginning with the sounds of 1950s Chicago and traveling along the ‘Main Street of America’ to the California coast with the surf music of the 1960s, this exciting musical revue features 34 of the greatest ‘Rock ‘n’ Road’ hits of the 20th century.
Cast: 4 M (flexible)