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EDDIE COPE (1913 - 2009) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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EDDIE COPE was a Houston playwright and journalist with a playful sense of humor, and with his fondness for outrageous puns, wrote more than 30 lighthearted comedies, mysteries and melodramas for community theatre. Upon his death in 2009 at age 96, the Houston theatre community praised Cope as a local institution and an inspiration. His plays have been produced across the country and overseas. He was a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Texas Non-Profit Theatre Association and Scriptwriters/ Houston. He retired from "TV Guide Magazine" and attended and/or read more than one-hundred plays a year.
Plays by Eddie Cope
Agatha Christie Tackles Texas | ||
| 1st Produced: | Country Playhouse Black Box, Houston TX | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I.E. Clark Publishing Co., 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67004 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Police Officer Hootspah decides that writing about crime is better than dealing with it. He uses Agatha Christie as his inspiration. Then his characters take on a life of their own. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Airport 1904 | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70051 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Buster Cearley; lyrics by Eddie Cope; book by Eddie Cope | |||||
Synopsis: | 1904 and Widow Knight and her daughter Lovey open a flying school. But there are villains about who plan to take over the school and have a fate worse than death lined up for Lovey. Will handsome hero Sterling Strongwrench save the day? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bad Blood in the Bookshop, or Her Beauty Spoke Volumes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Encore Theatre, Houston TX | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67005 | |||
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Genre: | melodrama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Clarice DeLovely, a beautiful young London actress, arrives in Cactus Junction, Texas, to manage a small bookshop that she inherited from her late father. Little does she know that Sylvester Swineheart (a devious and distant relative) is planning to take over the shop and is in cahoots with crooked Sheriff Hornswoggler, who schemes to put the young mummer six feet under, along with her traveling companion, Winifred Snitwhistle, a grande dame of the British stage. Complicating matters are a charming book-publishing heiress, Fann C. Free, and the shy and studious Chester G. Whilakers, who carries a torch for the lovely DeLovely. With many plot twists and turns the "good guys" fight their way through a tangle of jokes, puns, and show-biz humor while saving the day. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Danger Lurks in Music City, or The Ditty That Saved a City | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pasadena Little Theatre, Pasadena TX | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67006 | |||
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Genre: | Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Villainous Victor Vomitus runs a music publishing company in 1899 St. Louis and keeps a songwriter chained in his basement, trying to come up with a prize-winning song for the Exposition. A rich young man meets a poor young woman searching for her long-lost father, and they become entangled with Victor, a crooked commissioner and his foolish family, a dancehall girl, and a crazy old river rat named Bessie. | |||||
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Deadlock | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Country Playhouse | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113058 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Jim Bernhard under the name Herman J. Bird, with Eddie Cope | |||||
Synopsis: | Russell, a once-rich oil heir, is found murdered on a disused oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It is rumored that he has a large sum of money hidden on the oil rig. Suspects include his handyman, Peewee; his housekeeper, Cassie; his girlfriend; Lenore; two visiting journalists, Ed and Kim, a married couple; and Dudley, a hotshot helicopter pilot. The action takes place in reverse chronological order. | |||||
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Gentlemen of the Press | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74946 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Jim Bain and Eddie Cope | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Girl in the Tutu, The - Or - The Villain Kept Her on Her Toes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Binger Oney High School, Binger, OH | 11 Dec 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Plays and Musicals | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129320 | |||
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Genre: | Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Catl l Williams and Eddie Cope | |||||
Synopsis: | Here's a fast-moving, fun-filled play that mixes melodramatics with show business. Sonny Nuggett, a young, handsome theatre student (the hero, of course!) tries to assemble a dance act to save his parents' failing restaurant in the Gold Country of Old Californy. Col. Questus Quantrell, a shady showman with hypnotic powers, appears with three clumsy dancing girls. He schemes to take over the cafe by plotting murder and cheating two old prospectors, Pa and his old partner, Fred, out of their newly re-found "lost" goldmine. Fred is the father of Cora, a beautiful and talented ballet dancer (our lovely heroine!) who gets caught up in the mayhem. The play features a wacky cast, plenty of action, and side-splitting humor. | |||||
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Hugs R Us | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74947 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Jim Bain and Eddie Cope | |||||
Synopsis: | Business is bad at the Hugs R Us company. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Inventor's Daughter, or The Villain Made a Grab for the Lab, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harbor Playhouse, Corpus Christi TX | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Pioneer Drama Service, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67007 | |||
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Genre: | melodrama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Adora Winsome, a lovelorn widow, is stuck with a cluttered workshop after the death of her husband, an unsuccessful inventor who left them nothing but a strange "talker box." She and her beautiful daughter Charmaine have sent for a patent application for the apparatus, but they don't know a thing about it. Frankie Fixitt, the lab assistant, lends a helping hand. After all, he is secretly in love with Charmaine. But what good is the patent application if the talker box is in the clutches of greedy landlord Gustav Guttermost and his flirtatious confederate, Ima Foxx? The two villains barge in to collect the rent and steal the valuable invention while they're at it. Of course, their efforts are thwarted when Cashin DeVault, the dashing banker-and Adora's old flame-arrives just in time to catch Ima and Guttermost red-handed. Love and justice prevail, as it should be! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Magician's Daughter, or The Villain Refused to Disappear, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harbor Playhouse, Corpus Christi TX | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67008 | |||
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Genre: | Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Here's a fast-moving melodrama about dastardly doings in a run-down professional theater in Sagebrush, Nevada. The evil theater owner Rance Bottomgard schemes to make ailing magician Alexander the Great disappear so he can steal both his act and his lovely daughter Loverly. He fools the magician's fading-rose assistant Carrie Meebak into helping set up a fatal stage trick. Before all is lost, heroic and love-struck young stage manager Will Powers, aided by dim-witted Nurse Krenk, rush to the rescue. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Not-So-Grand Hotel, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Country Playhouse Black Box, Houston TX | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67009 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
| When a mudslide blocks the main highway, the dilapidated Hotel Horace in the town of Swampy Corners gets an unexpected influx of guests, including a British world traveler, a high school teacher and her two students, and a female fugitive, who tries to hide from the local sheriff, who is courting the hotel's widowed owner. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rigged for Murder | ||
| 1st Produced: | Houston, Curtains Theatre | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113059 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Rewritten version of Deadlock, Written by Jim Bernhard under the name Herman J. Bird, with Eddie Cope | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Watchmaker's Daughter, or The Villain Ticked Her Off, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67010 | |||
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Genre: | melodrama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the Backdoor Theatre New Play Project and the Hill Country Playwriting Festival's People's Choice Award. Produced off-off-Broadway. | |||||
Synopsis: | The beautiful young heroine's dear mother (the watchmaker's widow and jewelry store owner) is falsely accused of participating in a human- smuggling ring, and what's more, she is accused by the stalwart young hero who is the object of her daughter's desire! The villainous import/export merchant, who keeps importing and exporting the same suspicious grandfather clock, tries to frame the widow and make time with the heroine, only to see his plans upset by his own assistant (a femme fatale with an eye for the hero) and a South American gentleman who makes a surprise appearance, along with two formidable-looking women "customers" who have been casing the store. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Well-Diggers Daughter, The or, She Found Herself In Deep Water | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58286 | |||
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Genre: | Melodrama, 30 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Caution: The humor in this play may be a bit dry. Set in Tarantula, TX at the turn of the last century, a humble well-digger, Hardrock Flint, and his soon-to-be son-in-law, Gus, have set out to strike it rich by digging wells, but all they've found so far is a lot of dirt. Meanwhile, the exceptionally evil Sly Snookerall has hatched a heartless scheme to steal the well-digger's homestead, send him to the poorhouse, and then marry his beautiful daughter, Dolly. Hardrock better find a way to dig himself out of this one, or he's going to end up at the Last Roundup Retirement Home! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Without A Clue | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pasadena, Texas, Pasadena Little Theatre | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | 2002, I. E. Clark, Schulenburg, Texas | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113060 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Rewritten version of Author! Author!, Written by Jim Bernhard under the name Herman J. Bird, with Eddie Cope | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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