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Be My Ghost
by TIM KELLY
A suspenseful Stephen King-style
mystery comedy spoof
Cast: 14F, 8M, flexible
Playing time: 90 minutes, 2 acts
Order #R-R156 Script: $6.25
Order #R-RP56 Royalty: $50/performance
Young George Travis, like Stephen King, writes horror
fiction, but he has “writer’s block” — hasn’t had an idea in
months! He travels to rural New Hampshire where his
eccentric Aunt Julia has willed him Black Raven Inn, a
gloomy summer hotel. Local villagers say the place is
haunted by the dangerous spirit of Mercy Appleton. When
George and his bride-to-be arrive on a dark and stormy night
(what else?), all manner of terror occurs. High school
students detoured from a Halloween celebration seek
shelter. Rootin’-Tootin’, an Egyptian mummy, is delivered
for storage, a Hollywood agent drops in, two weird sisters
collect roadkill so they can practice taxidermy. When the
housekeeper, Mrs. Shrivel, is murdered, what had started
out as fun ends up as a strange “whodunit” mystery. Like all
Kelly plays the action is nonstop, hilarious and spooky! One
set, two acts.
Buckshot and Blossoms
by TIM KELLY
A rip-roaring comedy Western
Cast: 14F, 9M, flexible plus extras
Playing time: 90 minutes, 2 acts
Order #R-R142 Script: $6.25
Order #R-RP42 Royalty: $50/performance
Hilarious characters make this wacky spoof of every
classic Western a guaranteed box office winner! Put the
“Fastest Gun in the West” against the “Meanest Gunslinger
Alive” at the old Trail Dust Hotel and you have action
aplenty! Then mix in the villainous Whip Lash Gang with
two crusading ladies who favor blossoms over bullets and
you have comedy and suspense! But the most fun comes
from the eccentric characters woven into the plot: Old
Gabby Ways, the Widder Jones, Hopalot, the Pearl of the
Pecos and many more. Action, comedy, romance! Two acts
of entertainment that never stops! And there’s a wedding,
too. Someone in the audience catches the bride’s bouquet!
Full Length Plays
Is There a
Doctor in
the House?
by TIM KELLY
A “laff riot” adaptation of the
farcical “doctor plays” of Molière
restaged for a Wild West setting
Cast: 14F, 9M, optional extras
Playing time: 90 minutes, 2 acts
Order #R-R130 Script: $6.25
Order #R-RP30 Royalty: $50/performance
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The very best moments of the greatest farces of Molière
are now all part of one easily staged modern version.
Kelly has created a real laugh sensation in this
“funsapoppin” spoof of fake doctors at work. Each quack
physician is devoted to the Grease Gulch Hippopatomus
Oath — “If you can’t convince ‘em, confuse ‘em.” And
this they do with rapid-fire jokes, sight gags and slapstick
comedy! A new kind of classic cowboy-country comedy
with a wide variety of zany Western characters. Lucy
Canary, the mayor’s daughter, loves Lester Goodbe, a
likeable cowboy. But Lucy’s father insists that she marry
Otis Lackginger, a rich, old coot with one foot in the
grave. Lucy pretends to lose her voice to stall the
marriage and everyone goes on a search to find a doctor
to cure her. And what a passel of phony medics they find!
The climax is the funniest operation scene ever witnessed
— the doctors take it all out and put it all back! Easy to
rehearse and stage with one simple set. Many small roles
— all choice. Western costumes. Two acts that build to a
roaring finish on stage and off!
(also available as a musical on page 7
and a one act musical on page 10)
Let Him Sleep ‘Til It’s
Time for His Funeral
by PEG KEHRET
A comedy in two acts
Cast: 3F, 3M
Playing time: About 1 1 ⁄2 hours, 2 acts
Order #R-R153 Script: $6.25
Order #R-RP53 Royalty: $50/performance
In this convulsingly funny comedy, everything goes
from bad to awful. It starts when a loving wife, Edna,
decides to give her depressed husband, Harold, a
funeral for his 50th birthday present. He’s feeling very
old, and she wants to do something crazy to cheer him.
It’s to be a fantastic surprise party for guests, relatives,
the undertaker, and most of all, Harold. But there’s a
mixup. Harold believes he’s to be murdered by his wife.
She thinks Harold is leaving her. Their daughter and the
neighbors all have other ideas. This delightful mess is
amazingly resolved in a second-act hurricane of hilarity.
A Broadway-style show without Broadway-type royalty
fees. A money-maker for any theatre group.