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Jeff Goode

JEFF GOODE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jeff Goode is a director, actor and author of over 50 plays, musicals and children's shows, including the dark Christmas comedy the eIGHT: Reindeer Monologues. Born on a naval base in Maryland and raised between cornfields in rural Iowa, he currently resides in Los Angeles, where he continues to write for stage, screen and television. You can find him on the internet at www.jeffgoode.com

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Anger Box         Dead Poets         Dick Piston, Hotel Detective In 'Cosmetic Perjury'         Dick Piston, Hotel Detective In 'larry And the Werewolf'         Dick Piston, Hotel Detective In 'murder By Midnight'         Dick Piston, Hotel Detective In 'Prague-Nosis'         Don Quixote and the Black Knight         Dracula Rides Again         Eight, The: Reindeer Monlogues         Elephans         Elf, The         Escape From Eldorado         Fisher & the Wishes, The         Ham/thello         In Real Life         Larry And the Werewolf         Lear's Labour's Lost         Lesbian's Last Pizza, The         Limerix         Love Loves A Pornographer         Marley's Ghost         Murder By Midnight         Narcissus & Echo         Poona the Fuckdog And Other Plays For Children         Portrait Of the Virgin Mary Feeding the Dinosaurs         Princess Gray And the Black/White Knight         Ring Cycle! the Musical         Romeo & Julius [Caesar]         Rumpelstiltskin         Savin' Up For Saturday Night: the Honky-Tonk Musical         Seven Santas         Ubu In America         Ubu: A Play For Children         Unxmas Story, The         Where's Ubu?         Who Killed Cock Robin         Witch Slap!         Your Swash Is Unbuckled         Your Swash Is Unbuckled, Book 2
Anger Box

Synopsis:
anger Box, a collection of new monologues by Jeff Goode, takes a fucked-up, funny look at the Big Question -- you know, the God Question -- and the bizarre conclusions people sometimes draw. Does anyone believe in God . . .really? Do we get a last meal after death row? How did God think to call himself God? Why do arab chicks wear all those tarps? Does anyone understand why homosexuals are homosexual? Is it wrong to love Satan? Is it wrong to love Santa? Is it wrong to want to fuck the pope? and what is up with Carol-ann, anyway?!!!

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Cherry Red Productions, Washington Dc; Green Thursday Theatre Project, Tucson     2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
anger Box Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1-10 any gender

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Dead Poets

Synopsis:
On the mystical Road of Life, Walt Whitman, emily Dickinson and Edgar allan Poe wrestle with Fate and with each other through their poetry (set to music by award-winning composer Jonathan Price).

Notes:
Music by Jonathan Price; Book by Jeff Goode; Lyrics by Walt Whitman, emily Dickinson And edgar Allan Poe

1st Produced:
The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor Me     1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dick Piston, Hotel Detective In 'Cosmetic Perjury'

Synopsis:
Hotel detective Dick Piston goes after killer clones and topless co-eds run amuck at a genetics symposium.

Notes:
a murder-mystery serial-comedy with gratuitous sex And violence And A cliffhanger ending every 10 minutes

1st Produced:
Grande Prairie Live Theatre, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada     2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "the Messy adventures of Dick Piston, Hotel Detective" Baker's Plays, New York, 2001   

Music:
-

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Genre:
film noir Spoof

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dick Piston, Hotel Detective In 'larry And the Werewolf'

Synopsis:
the investigation of a routine hotel suicide puts detective Dick Piston on the trail of a werewolf, a night nurse, and a 2000 year old Roman Centurion.

Notes:
a murder-mystery serial-comedy with gratuitous sex And violence And A cliffhanger ending every 10 minutes

1st Produced:
Pantechnicon Artworks / Bailwick Repertory, Chicago     1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2006   

Music:
-

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Genre:
film noir Spoof

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Dick Piston, Hotel Detective In 'murder By Midnight'

Synopsis:
Hotel detective Dick Piston has less than ten minutes to solve a brutal murder for a nude widow, or risk losing her case to the day shift. a ten-minute mystery.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Reality Aside Theatre, New York     2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Film noir spoof Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dick Piston, Hotel Detective In 'Prague-Nosis'

Synopsis:
Bungling hotel detective Dick Piston returns in a case that finds him caught between a beautiful international jewel thief, and a sexy multi-national porn star. . . .Which is probably not the worst place to be caught.

Notes:
a murder-mystery serial-comedy with gratuitous sex And violence And A cliffhanger ending every 10 minutes

1st Produced:
Theatre Conspiracy, Fort Myers Fl     2001

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "the Messy adventures of Dick Piston, Hotel Detective" Baker's Plays, New York, 2001   

Music:
-

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Genre:
film noir Spoof

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Don Quixote and the Black Knight

Synopsis:
Quixote and Pancho ride out to battle the Black Knight but don't get any further than the village fountain

Notes:
Based on the book "Don Quixote" by Miguel Cervantes

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contemporary Drama Service 2002   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dracula Rides Again

Dracula Rides Again
When Doc Frankenstein and the Count fall for the same showgirl, you're in for an evening of showdowns and hoedowns that could turn Tombstone into a ghost town. Family entertainment in two acts. and the Mummy dances.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre Of The American West, Republican City Ne     1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2005   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Halloween Western

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  8-12 any gender

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Eight, The: Reindeer Monlogues

Eight, The: Reindeer Monlogues
a dark, dark Christmas comedy. Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa's eight tiny reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment. as mass media descends upon the event, the other members of the sleigh team demand to share their perspectives, and a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges, which seems to implicate everyone from the littlest elf to the tainted Saint himself. With each deer's confession, the truth behind the shocking allegations becomes clearer and clearer . . . and murkier and murkier.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Dolphinbac K Theatre Company, Chicago     1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Bakers Plays,New York, 1997   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dark comic monologues, (Christmas). - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Elephans

Elephans
On the lonely planet of eleph, where language was never invented, the mango-loving elephans learn to communicate without words.

Notes:
Book And Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music by Larrance Fingerhut

1st Produced:
Southwest Harbour: Summer Festival Of Arts, Maine, Me     1995

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
encore Performance Publishing, 2004   

Music:
-

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Genre:
young audiences Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  10-50 any gender

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Elf, The

Synopsis:
Raymond Roberts is a typical American husband with a job and a mortgage, a wife and three kids. Raymond is also an elf. and when his old responsibility of saving the world comes calling, can he find time to save his own family?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Iowa City     1987

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  10-20, depends on doubling

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Escape From Eldorado

Synopsis:
Claudette and her bungling partner-in-espionage Claude are assigned to dispose of an obsolete germ warfare virus. But their infectious charge escapes from its test tube and goes on a killing spree - taking the lives of countless men, women, children, and people-who-aren't-even-in-the-play. and if finding a cure for an incurable disease seems tough, Claudette's biggest challenge will be defeating the sadistic Narrator who unleashed the killer germ on humanity.

Notes:
Book by Jeff Goode; music by Jonathan Price; lyrics by Jonathan Price & Jeff Goode

1st Produced:
The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor Me     1990

Organisations:
the Unusual Cabaret

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Fisher & the Wishes, The

Synopsis:
When Dame Fortune grants a fisherman three wishes, he must choose wishes that can benefit both his daughters, which turns out to be more difficult than he imagined.

Notes:
Music by Jonathan Price; libretto by Jeff Goode, inspired by the Aesop fable "the Father & his Two Daughters"

1st Produced:
Historic Blinn House, Pasadena, Ca     2011

Organisations:
Social Arts

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
mini-opera

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Ham/thello

Ham/thello
Shakespeare's greatest villain, Iago, has his hands full when he tries to convince Prince Hamlet to murder his new step father. . . the Moor Othello.

Notes:
a new play by William Shakespeare (& Jeff Goode)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Washington Shakespeare Company

1st Published:
Baker's Plays, New York, 2008   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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In Real Life

Synopsis:
a musical about children living in a fantasy world of samurai and wizards created by their parents to protect them from the "real" world. . .and what happens when they find themselves in Chicago.

Notes:
Book And Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music by Larrance Fingerhut

1st Produced:
Southwest Harbour: Summer Festival Of Arts, Maine, Me     1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
young audiences Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  10-50 any gender

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Larry And the Werewolf

Larry And the Werewolf
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Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Lear's Labour's Lost

Lear's Labour's Lost
Shakespeare's bloodiest comedy, a romantic tale of parricide and sibling treachery. King Lear divides his kingdom and swears off women in hopes of spending more time with his books - but when the untimely visit of the Princess of France allows Lear's fellow scholars to fall in love with his three beauteous daughters, the courtly romance that ensues could tear the nation apart.

Notes:
a new play by William Shakespeare (& Jeff Goode)

1st Produced:
Attic Theatre Center, Los Angeles     2008

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Lesbian's Last Pizza, The

Lesbian's Last Pizza, The
a young woman, dying of AIDS, tries to order takeout from a homophobic pizzeria.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
C'Est Destine / Bailiwick Repertory, Chicago     1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Original Works Publishing, Los Angeles, 2006   

Music:
-

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Genre:
One-woman show. - - Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Limerix

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Wishes, Kisses, Booze & Brawls: Tales from the SkyPilot Pub

1st Produced:
Sportsmen's Lodge, 12833 Ventura Blvd, Studio City, Ca     12 Mar 2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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Love Loves A Pornographer

Love Loves A Pornographer
Lord Loveworthy has a problem. His only daughter is soon to be married. and the only way to pay for her wedding is to blackmail the priest who's seducing his wife.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Circle X Theatre Company, Los Angeles     2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2008   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy of Manners

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  1 butler

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Marley's Ghost

Marley's Ghost
Before ebenezer Scrooge learned the true meaning of Christmas, another old miser was haunted by the ghosts of his past, present and future. What could have happened to Jacob Marley, in the seven years since his untimely death, that would convince him to sacrifice everything to save the one man he despises most of all?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Circle X Theatre, Los Angeles; Rogue Theatrics, Columbus Oh [Concurrent]     2003

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 2005   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama (Christmas) Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  9            Other:  3 ghosts, 1 child

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Murder By Midnight

Murder By Midnight
film noirish farce

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Ten 10-Minute Plays: Volume III, Black Box Press (July 13, 2010)   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Narcissus & Echo

Synopsis:
a romping, risque musical version of the Greek and Roman myths. the story of the ill-fated love of Narcissus and echo takes an unusual twist when Narcissus is duped by the devilish love-god Cupid into believing he is a Lesbian. In the fiercely heterosexual world of the philandering Zeus and his nymphs, Narcissus is forced to struggle with the thorny questions of his own sexuality, even as he fends off the amorous advances of the lusty Hera, the nymphomaniac Daphne, his true love echo and the insatiable shape-shifting Zeus himself. . . .But is Narcissus man enough to resist the feminine wiles of his own seductive reflection?

Notes:
Book & Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music by Larrance Fingerhut

1st Produced:
The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor Me     1992

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Original Works Publishing, Los Angeles, 2006   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Poona the Fuckdog And Other Plays For Children

Poona the Fuckdog And Other Plays For Children
these outrageous 'Fairy tales for Grown-ups' are not for the easily offended! Poona, our ingenuous heroine, meets up with aliens, talking shrubs, and mealy-mouthed salesmen in her quest to find someone to play in her big pink box. Nothing is sacred in this raucous assault on the power of language.

Notes:
NOT A play for children

1st Produced:
Trap Door Theatre, Chicago; Open Circle Theatre, Seattle     1999

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Portrait Of the Virgin Mary Feeding the Dinosaurs

Synopsis:
Visual, intellectual and emotional roller-coaster which deals with sexual, religious and artistic exploitation. a tour of the Louvre leads to telling the story of Leonardo DaVinci's sexual assault on the Mona Lisa and how it led him to paint an encounter between the Messiah's mom and the Elvis of dinosaurs. (Plus tap-dancing Jesus, cappucino-swilling tyrannosaurs . . .and the the devil himself leads us into temptation.)

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Dolphinbac K Theatre Company, Chicago     1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  2 other

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Princess Gray And the Black/White Knight

Princess Gray And the Black/White Knight
the White Knight and the Black Knight go to war for the love of Princess Gray. But will the hapless peasants of three war-torn nations survive their fairy tale romance?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Southwest Harbour: Summer Festival Of Arts, Maine, Me     1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
as "Don Quixote and the Black Knight" Meriwether Publishing, Colorado Springs CO, 2003   

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy Young audiences

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  10-40 any gender

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Ring Cycle! the Musical

Synopsis:
Four actors & a feisty sock puppet attempt to perform Wagner's entire 15 hour opus in 90 minutes. But can this quarrelsome quartet destroy the universe before they destroy each other?

Notes:
Book & Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music by Larrance Fingerhut

1st Produced:
The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor Me     1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Romeo & Julius [Caesar]

Synopsis:
Shakespeare's newest tragedy of love and hate crimes. Controversy reigns in ancient Rome when a popular openly-gay emperor takes as his lover the son of a homophobic arch-rival. Hate begets hate as a very public bashing/assassination leads to civil war and murder-suicide.

Notes:
a new play by William Shakespeare (& Jeff Goode)

1st Produced:
Washington Shakespeare Company, Washington Dc     2004

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Baker's Plays, New York, 2007   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin
Greedy humans exploit the kindness of a magical gnome in this fractured fairy tale based on the Brother's Grimm. an ambitious peasant will say anything to convince the cash-strapped king to marry her lowly daughter, even if it means pretending the girl knows how to spin ordinary straw into priceless gold. Forced to spin or die, the hapless girl begs a lovelorn gnome to save her with his magic. and when her newfound talent leads to a royal marriage proposal, the aspiring princess will promise the gnome anything to keep up the deception. even her firstborn child! Too late, she realizes the only way to break her promise is to guess the identity of the mysterious gnome before her time runs out and her subterfuge catches up with her.

Notes:
Book & Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music And lyrics by Jonathan Price

1st Produced:
The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor Me     1990

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Musical

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Savin' Up For Saturday Night: the Honky-Tonk Musical

Savin' Up For Saturday Night: the Honky-Tonk Musical
Lovin' ain't easy in this one-honky-tonk town, so when the bartender and the bandleader fall for the same dance hall girl, you're in for an evening of showstoppers and toe-tappers, cat fights, and love quadrangles that'll keep any joint jumpin' till way past last call.

Notes:
Book by Jeff Goode, Songs by Richard Levinson

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Full Length Musical

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Seven Santas

Seven Santas
Scandal erupts at the North Pole when the most powerful man on earth is sentenced to rehab for a minor traffic violation. But when he finds himself in a detox program run by the estranged Mrs. Claus, Santa's desperate struggle to conceal the truth about his arrest, uncovers another sordid secret that could mean the end of Christmas-as-we-know-it.

Notes:
Companion piece to "the eight: Reindeer Monologues"

1st Produced:
Unknown Theater, Los Angeles; Andhow! Theater Company, New York; Houses On The Moon, New York     2006

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1st Published:
Samuel French   

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Genre:
Dark comedy (Christmas)

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Ubu In America

Synopsis:
To escape his sequel, Ubu moves to America to become the opposite of a King. . . and ends up underthrowing the government!

Notes:
the Ubu Plays Are A trilogy of raucous children's plays based loosely on characters in Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi"

1st Produced:
Southwest Harbour: Summer Festival Of Arts, Maine, Me     1995

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in "the Ubu Plays" Baker's Plays, New York, 1997   

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comedy Young audiences

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Ubu: A Play For Children

Synopsis:
the stupidest person in the Kingdom accidentally becomes the King. a wacko revolution ripped from today's headlines. (Whoops, I mean yesterday's cartoons!)

Notes:
the Ubu Plays Are A trilogy of raucous children's plays based loosely on characters in Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi"

1st Produced:
Southwest Harbour: Summer Festival Of Arts, Maine, Me     1994

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1st Published:
in "the Ubu Plays" Baker's Plays, New York, 1997   

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Genre:
comedy Young audiences

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Unxmas Story, The

Synopsis:
On a not-so-silent night, in a little town called Bethlehem, a greedy King and an irritable Shepherd, come to know the true meaning of UnXmas.

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1st Produced:
C'Est Destine, Chicago     2001

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Genre:
Christmas Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Where's Ubu?

Synopsis:
When Ubu doesn't show up for the rebellion, his fans are forced to destroy the world without him.

Notes:
the Ubu Plays Are A trilogy of raucous children's plays based loosely on characters in Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi"

1st Produced:
Wang Center For The Performing Arts, Boston; Summer Festival Of The Arts, Southwest Harbor Me     1997

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1st Published:
in "the Ubu Plays" Baker's Plays, New York, 1997   

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Genre:
comedy Young audiences

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  10-50 any gender

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Who Killed Cock Robin

Synopsis:
at the funeral of Cock Robin, a fight breaks out among the mourners about the handling of Cock's murder investigation. at the urging of nearby audience members they decide to reenact Cock Robin's last days to uncover the truth.

Notes:
Book & Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music by Jonathan Price

1st Produced:
The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor Me     1991

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Witch Slap!

Synopsis:
Mass hysteria in Medieval England sets brother against brother. When the witches come together to combat what is happening it sets sister against sister

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1st Produced:
Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark St.. Chicago, Il60660     16 Aug 2014

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Genre:
Historical play

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Your Swash Is Unbuckled

Your Swash Is Unbuckled
Short plays about piracy, brigandry, and heartrobbery combine tongue-in-cheek wordplay with swashbuckling swordplay and daring-dont's in stories revolving around pirates, maidens and rascals of all shapes and sizes.

Notes:
This unique collection of playlets can be used to create A full night of entertainment, As well As in the classroom for teaching stage combat techniques. Of special note is that these combat scenes contain roles for both male And female Actors.

1st Produced:
Rage Theatrics, Iowa City     2007

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1st Published:
Baker's Plays, New York, 2008   

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Stage Combat

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  each fight: 2-4 combatants

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Your Swash Is Unbuckled, Book 2

Your Swash Is Unbuckled, Book 2
these 11 short stage-combat plays about piracy, brigandry, and heartrobbery combine tongue-in-cheek word-play with swashbuckling swordplay in stories revolving around buccaneers, mutineers, damsels, fops, conquistadors, gladiatrixes and rapscallions of all shapes and sizes. This unique collection of playlets can be used to create a full night of entertainment, as well as in the classroom for teaching stage combat techniques. Of special note is that these combat scenes contain roles for both male and female actors.

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Contents: the Legends of Robin Hood and Little John; Mutiny on the Booty; the Trojan Diplomat; Don Juan's Wantons; the Harlot and the Hypocrite; Monsieur Latoit's Lesson; Arc's Angels; Flouncy's Fancy; Gladiatrix Gossip; ;the Prince in the Poppies My Conquistador

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Stage Combat, Collection / Anthology, Comedy

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Male:  12            Female:  14            Other:  -

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