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TOM SHELTON (1955 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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TOM SHELTON is an accomplished writer, composer, musical director, teacher and actor. In addition to his work with long-time collaborator Susan Hunter, he has written a series of successful murder mysteries produced by The Gourmet Detective throughout Southern California, including "Darling, You Slay Me!" and "Stay Tuned For Murder". Other original works include "The Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Jesse James", "The Disciples Undoing", "Speak Easy", and a long string of classic fairy tales musically adapted for the Barnsdall Theater in Hollywood.
Plays by Tom Shelton
Caddie Woodlawn | ||
| 1st Produced: | Missouri Arts Council, Landers Theatre | 26 Mar 1992 | ||||
Company: | Sleep Till Noon Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69857-6 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #110397 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | 18 children | |||||
Notes: | written by Tom Shelton and Susan Hunter. In 1935 Carol Ryrie Brink wrote the Newberry- award winning novel, CADDIE WOODLAWN, based on the childhood of her grandmother. She had collected the stories that her grandmother had often recounted of her adventures as a pioneer child settling the wilderness of Wisconsin in the mid 1800's.More than seventy years later, CADDIE WOODLAWN has been brought to the stage in an exuberant musical written by Susan C. Hunter and Tom Shelton. This adaptation had its world premiere at the Landers Theatre in Springfield, Missouri, having been selected from over fifty submissions as the winner of a nationwide playwriting contest. It opened to critical acclaim and was enthusiastically received by Springfield audiences. The musical has gone on to be produced all over the country, most recently in Caddies home town of Menomonie, Wisconsin at the Historic Mabel Tainter Theatre.At the core of CADDIE WOODLAWN's success is a plot that emphasizes the high spirited antics of three pioneer children, but never forgets the strong family values that link one generation to another. This sense of connection to the past gives CADDIE WOODLAWN universal appeal.. | |||||
| Carol Ryrie Brink's Newberry Award-winning novel Caddie Woodlawn is brought to exuberant life as a musical. Caddie (the iconic, high-spirited Wisconsin pioneer girl beloved by generations of readers) leads her willing siblings in a series of thrilling adventures, not always with the approval of her traditional Bostonian mother. Her father, however, encourages her antics, that she might thrive amidst the new, tougher ways of the West. In a dramatic climax, Caddie single-handedly diffuses a potentially deadly clash between the terrified settlers and the local Dakota tribe through a daring and dangerous act. But her action only deepens her conflict with her mother. Ultimately, Caddie learns invaluable lessons about reconciling the head-strong child she's been, and the responsible adult she is soon to be. Through it all, the sacredness of tradition passed from one generation to the next is powerfully dramatized. As one wise friend tells Caddie: Families they're our link to forever, lass. | |||||
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Darling You Slay Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gourmet Detective | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Sleep Till Noon Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heuer, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #110398 | |||
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Genre: | Murder Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Tom Shelton and Alyssa Cannan | |||||
Synopsis: | Darling You Slay Me! is a comic murder mystery written for the interactive dinner theater genre. The time is 1928, the place is New York City. It is the opening night party at a swank Times Square restaurant for a particularly dreadful new Broadway musical. With each new review comes a mysterious death, and so it falls to Anthony Badger, food critic and amateur sleuth -- along with the audience, to sort out the patterns and find the killer. | |||||
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Stay Tuned For Murder | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gourmet Detective | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Sleep Till Noon Productions | |||||
| 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 | #110399 | |||
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Genre: | Murder Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | written by Tom Shelton and Alyssa Cannan | |||||
Synopsis: | The year is 1940 and you are in the Hollywood broadcasting studio of KPUT.The "Buck Tinney Hour" is due to be broadcast in just a few minutes, but there is a problem. Join us for dinner, mayhem . . . and murder! | |||||
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