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ROYALTIES
Our royalty system is quite reasonable and simple. We are not concerned with how large your house is. Fees are charged per performance and are $75 for a musical or interactive murder mystery, $50 for a full length or children's play, and $30 for a one act.
If you see something that interests you, but you are unsure, please inquire by email, text, or call and we will be happy to send you a sample.
E-Publishing Catalogue
Title:BILL W. AND FRIENDS
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Full Length Play
Cast: M-5+ & F-5+
Synopsis: Riveting drama about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous and some of their “friends”. This multi-media play includes the personal stories of Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith and spans over 70 years of AA history. Each of the six stories of addiction and recovery start at an AA meeting. The member starts telling their story as the lights fade. Film clips and voiceovers fill in the gaps as the major scenes of the characters' lives are enacted onstage. Meaningful and inspirational for anyone in a twelve-step program or anyone who loves someone who is, this show sells a lot of tickets!
Title: DRIVING MISS CRAZY
Author: Annette Curran
Style/Type: One-act
Cast: F-2
Synopsis: Hilarious one-act about a pair of sisters driving to an event from their adult community homes. Along the way a variety of topics are touched upon, including life in adult communities, religion, driving skills of others (or the lack thereof), and more !
Title:FAMILY'S JOURNEY
Author: Kevin Walsh
Style/Type: Full Length Play
Cast: M-2 & F-6
Synopsis: An absorbing, sensitive drama about one family's journey through the nightmare of breast cancer. It is an inspiring and empowering must see for current patients, survivors, and those who love them. Following the drama's family through diagnosis, treatment and survival is both informative and uplifting! While the story and message is true year round, it is an especially effective presentation during Breast Cancer Awareness month.
Title: HARRY
Author: Pat Pattan
Style/Type: Full Length Play in 2 acts
Cast: M-9;1b & F-3;1g
Synopsis: HARRY is about a man who is living in a homeless camp. He is discovered by his nephew when the camp appears on TV. The nephew, who is now a doctor, brings his long-lost uncle home to live with his high-society wife, ten-year-old son, seven-year-old daughter and housekeeper. A misfit right from the start, Harry manages to turn the whole house upside down. Things build until the climax when Harry is arrested. Redemption comes from an unexpected source.
Title:HOME FRONT: BETWEEN THE LINES
Author: Pam Munson Steadman
Style/Type: Full Length Play
Cast: M-3 & F-5
Synopsis: A collection of old letters (from WWII through Vietnam) is shockingly discovered by the daughter of a deceased war veteran.
While piecing through the remnants of the letters with her grown son one afternoon, various passions (love, loss, jealousy, resentment, and regret) are exposed. Before long, a dark secret seems to loom on being unhinged. Is there more to finding answers than the remaining letters suggest? Or, are some fading memories better left to the past?
Title: OTTO'S FORTUNE
Author: Ed Lataro
Style/Type: Full Length Play
Cast: M-2 & F-1
Synopsis: Dark comedy about a chronic gambler who draws a friend into the habit and nearly loses the wife he adores over his gambling obsession and debts. Will Otto wake up in time to avoid losing it all ? Two simple sets.
Title:POWER OF HORNS
Author: Ed Lataro
Style/Type: Full Length Play
Cast: M-3 & F-2
Synopsis: Dark comedy about addiction to the creative process. Milo, a once successful playwright, is falling into poverty because he's unable to write and because he can't hold normal jobs. Horns, the muse, appears and uses magic to unleash Milo’s writing skills, but at a price. The playwright alienates his girlfriend and begins losing his grip on reality. All scenes appear on a void or theatrical stage. The props include a desk, a high power flashlight, theater scripts and a black curtain. An important focus is on the evolution of Horns. The muse is seen as a face, but then gains body parts as the play progresses.
Title: WHOLLY GHOSTS
Author: Pam Munson Steadman
Style/Type: Full Length Play
Cast: M-2 & F-4
Synopsis: Playwright Miranda Iverson has inherited a shabby brownstone from an eccentric great aunt. Very soon, her aunt’s old haunt does just that… through the appearance of three unusual apparitions: A flaming gay song-and-dance man from the 1930’s, a ditzy stars-in-her-eyes understudy to Marilyn Monroe, and a cranky German nanny from the 1940’s.
Title:1-800-HOT-CTOT
Author: Annette Curran & Jade Greene
Style/Type: One Act
Cast: M-4 & F-3
Synopsis: 1-800-HOT-CTOT hilariously tells the tale of how a couple of down-on-their-luck community theatre divas go into the phone sex industry to keep the theatre afloat and even the score when a conniving playwright steals one of their ideas for a play. Great fun with lots of backstage intrigue!
Title:PAMALOT (OLIO OF SHORT WORKS)
Author: Pam Munson Steadman
Style/Type: One Acts/Monologues
Cast: M-1 & F-2
Includes:
OBITS AND PIECES – (1 minute monologue) Through this monologue, a middle-age man tries to explain a deceased friend’s transgender to his thoroughly confused mother over the phone.
THE SAGA OF THIS BEAT POET! – (1 minute monologue) A short poetic spoof concerning the trials of being a beat poet and a parent (in every sense of the word) in the 1950’s jazz coffee houses. Emulating the great beat poets Ginsberg and Kerouac.
GOING TO THE DOGS – (10 minutes) An older sassy and brassy elitist and an aging bohemian Vegan try to come to grips with life in a 55+ retirement Mecca of Discontent. Reincarnation turns a husband into the family dog in this dark yet ridiculous comedy of lost desires and regrets.
FLOUR POWER – (10 minutes) Fairy tales do come true and nursery rhymes are slightly twisted in a small town that is trying to adjust to a truckers’ strike that has lasted for weeks. Ms. Henrietta Lofe, the only bread maker in town, refuses to make any more bread due to the fact that she’s more than fed up with family and friends who have refused to help her in her bakery. Summoned, she appears in court and soon finds Judge Mental losing his patience!
Title: SPEED DATE
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: One Act
Cast: M-5 & F-4
Synopsis: A speed dating event in a gay nightclub reveals the desperation, deception, and lies common in dating amongst people from all walks of life, living all sorts of lifestyles. Lots of laughs!
Title: THE COLOR OF BLINDNESS
Author: Cole DeNardo
Style/Type: One Act/Short
Cast: M-1 & F-1
Synopsis: Luke, a blind painter, has a unique philosophy on life. He refuses to take the common path that his childhood friend, Maddie, has taken, going to college. He feels that society teaches people what and how to “see” and Luke would rather stay ignorant or “blind.” This short scene shows what happens the day before Maddie leaves for college.
Title: THE CANDYLAND MURDERS"
Author:
Style/Type: Interactive JR. Murder Mystery, for ages 8 - 12
Synopsis: All are celebrating at an industry party for the Candyland CO. When detectives Sam and Samantha announce the murder of company manager, Reese Kupp!!!
Title: "A DANCE TO DIE FOR"
Author:
Style/Type: Interactive JR. Murder Mystery, for ages 13 - 18
Synopsis: The students are having a blast at the Dawson Hight School dance when Principal Dr. Dread discovers a student's body in the locker room. DJ/ Detective Donna Daring helps solve the crime.
Title: "MILES TO GO BEFORE WE SLEEP"
Author:
Style/Type: Interactive JR. Murder Mystery, for ages 10 - 14.
Synopsis: It's Hannah Hardy's slumber party, but the guest of honor and her best friend are kidnapped on their way to the store for more party snacks! The race is on for Hannah's parents, Joe and Nancy Drew Hardy, to find them before it's too late.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: ASSISTED MURDER
Author: Paige Stevenson
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: M-2-3 & F-2-4
Synopsis: It's Family Day at Shady Dells Nursing Home where residents, family, and staff are whining and dining. Several perform in a vaudeville show to the delight of the rest of the residents until one of the show's stars, Tess Casey, is found dead, NOT from natural causes! Her husband, world famous detective Dick Casey, now retired and in his 80's works feverishly to find her killer. As for the vaudeville...the show must go on!
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: DEGENERATE HOUSEWIVES"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: M-2-4 & F-2-4
Synopsis: The neighbors of Wisteria Lane are enjoying a co-op home shopping party when Lynette's husband, Tom Scabo, stumbles through, dying of gunshot wounds. This "opera" needs lots of soap to clean up all the "dirt" that's being flung. Interactive and audience participatory, several members of the audience become actors for the duration and all get to play detective!
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Criminal MIND, Dead BODY, Evil SPIRIT"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (4): Cindy Lou Hoo, Michelle Jillian, Jackie Horner, Tammy/Teddi Twerky
Synopsis: A Fitness Forum of famed fitness gurus is underway when one of the originators of BOOMBA !, Trademark, the international fitness dance craze, dies under mysterious circumstances. The question becomes not only who, but how ? Guests are treated to mini workouts in yoga, body sculpting, and BOOMBA !, trademark.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "BABA BING, BADA BANG! "
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (8) Tony "Smith", Carmela "Smith", Meadow "Smith", A.J. "Smith" Janice "Smith", Paulie "Allnuts", Silvio Daunting, Dr. Madfee
Synopsis: Tony "Smith", head of the NJ mob, is going into witness protection and a successor is to be named after a series of contests like pizza-flipping, garroting and pole dancing determine who will be the new Godfather (or mother). The list of candidates narrows when a killer starts eliminating the competition.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Coffeehouse Blues"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (3) Lorena Andropod/Crystal Ball, Nick Wetears, Rich Callous (most audience characters-13)
Synopsis: Taking place in the spring of 1958 at Coffeehouse Blue, a hangout for artsy beatniks, the trampy, married, drunken artist currently showing her work, is murdered in full view of the audience by her much younger poet boyfriend. But did he really do it ? Gypsy psychic, Crystal Ball, is called in to investigate. Wear your beatnik best and be prepared to snap your fingers like the cool cats and chicks you are, while you help catch a killer !
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Corpus Delectable"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (7) Dr. Lillith Sternum-Cranium, Dr. Frazier Cranium, Gomez Atoms, Morticia Atoms, Ralph Crampden, Ed Morton,Bart Simpleton
Synopsis: Join Lillith and Frasier Cranium at their Center for Aid for Multiple Personalities (C.A.M.P.)who are down to two; one TV character and their true selves. Help them solve the mystery surrounding several missing patients.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: ”Cruisin' for a Deadly Bruisin' ”
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (7) Rose Lawson/Rose Thorne, Jack Lawson/Leo DeCapitated, Bill Fences, Captain Smith, Gilligan, Dolly Drown, Calista Hackney
Synopsis: Climb on board the Titanic II,a faithful reproduction of the original, financed by Microhard CEO, Bill Fences. Its maiden voyage is delayed when Rose, the last survivor of Titanic I's sinking, is murdered and the famed Heart of the Sea diamond is stolen. The ship's social director, the Unsinkable Dolly
Drown(Double D), with the aid of ghosts Rose and Jack, is on the case !
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "C.S.I. : Asbury Park"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (6) Horatio "H" Cane, Stella Bonerstarer/AllisonSteal (The Nightowl), Mac Tailher, Catherine Willshe, Mayor Bradley Beach/Big Steven, Bruce Fallsteen/Chief Deafe
Synopsis: The new Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame is holding a grand opening when His Honor, the Mayor, turns up murdered ! Asbury Park's ancient police chief calls in the C.S.I. Teams from Las Vegas, New York, and Miami, in town for a forensics convention, to investigate.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: “Degenerate Housewives”
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (4) Mike Definedo/John Rolling, Orson Podge/Carlos Soulless, Susan Maybe/Gabrielle Soulless, Bree Podge/Lynette Scabo/Tom Scabo
Synopsis: The neighbors of Wisteria Lane are enjoying a co-op home shopping party when one of the neighbors stumbles through, dying of gunshot wounds. This "opera" needs lots of soap to clean up all the "dirt" that's being flung.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Die Laughing"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (7) Lance Laffsalot, Len Aveers/Kenny Krakup, Gwen Aveers, Art King, Whoopi Golddigger, Merlin Whizzard, Morgana Whizzard
Synopsis: Open Mic night at the famed Castle Comedy Club boasts many big-name comedy stars including the broken down Borscht Belt relic, Len Aveers. The laughter dies along with Len when he emerges from a fracas he caused covered in blood ! A mysterious French detective couple seek the truth.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Fashionably Late"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (7) John Skelly, Andy Slipowits, Gianni Viceversa/Dontell Viceversa, Isaac Miserable/Naomi Cantell, Anne Whine/Calvin Whine, Cindy Crowsfeet/Tommy Hellfinger, Gogo Chanel.
Synopsis: It's the NY fashion world's big show, "7th on 6th" and both major designers and supermodels are dropping like flies, when the NYPD Blue is called in to sew up the case.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (7) Sal Gigundo/Tony Gigundo, Theresa Gigundo, Sable Coates-Tramp, Donald Tramp, Joe "Poo" Palooka, Lillian Hustle, Nancy "Drew" Drucillo
Synopsis: The Gigundo Vending Corp.'s holiday bash hits a sour note when the boss, "Big Sal" Gigundo, turns up with a slashed throat and no tongue. Nancy "Drew" Drucillo, mob P.I., is called in to find the assassin.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "The Hillbilly Wedding Massacre"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (8) Preacher Creecher/Sheriff Billy Bob Hatfield-McCoy, Mammy McCoy/Granny McCoy, Pappy Hatfield, Jethro McCoy, Ellie Mae Hatfield, Jed "Moonshine" McCoy, Daisy Mae Hatfield/Dolly Farton, Revenuer Tex Taxem/Buck Jones.
Synopsis: The Hatfields and McCoys are at it again, this time at the wedding of the very pregnant Ellie Mae Hatfield and Jethro McCoy. Sheriff Billy Bob does his best to keep the peace and stop a killer. Cast
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: ”LOST AT THE JERSEY SHORE"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (5) Man In Black/John Lox, DJ Sauly D/Jacob, Moke”The Situation”/Hurling, Snoopi/Sun Moon, BoWoww/Kate Houston
Synopsis: What happens when the casts of TV's LOST and JERSEY SURE go down on a plane off the coast of New Jersey and meld personalities ? Bigger drama ! Bigger laughs ! Bigger hair ! AND the mystery surrounding the death of one of the cast members. Cast
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "The Medieval Murders at Castle Cill"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (7) Charlie Walsh, Julia Walsh, Patricia Walsh, Danny Walsh, Geraldine Walsh, Colin Collins, Colleen Collins
Synopsis: A NJ police detective and his family visit his ancestral Irish castle for a visit with relatives both living and dead and help to solve a centuries old mystery that spans both time and distance to the shores of NJ.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Murder at (name of performance venue)"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (7) "Big" Ed S., Jade Greene, Clark Hate, Mag "the Knife" Cate, Roseanne/Anna Rose, Marty Masterego, Virginia Goodheart
Synopsis: Jade and Big Ed, partners in an interactive murder mystery company, really have to go to work when the writer they hired, Manny Peeples, is found murdered at a rehearsal for the show the audience was supposed to see tonight !
Title:THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Murder by Trial"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (6) Judge Judy, Moe Justice, Sue M. Moore, Joe Provolone, Flo Provolone/Heidi Floss, Elliot Mess
Synopsis: Professional hitman, Joe Provolone, is on trial for the murder of Peter "Pizzaface" Pizzel. Joe caught "Pizzaface" in a compromising position with his Nevada madam wife, Flo...but did he do it ?
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "One Last Time"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (7) Jim O'Malley/Jim O'Malley Jr., Laura Barnes, Dana Napolitano, Ned Flava, Don Vogel, Paul Allen, Helene Youngman
Synopsis: A college theatre department alumni reunion show is interrupted by the murder of the retiring head of the department, but the show must go on. These quadruple threats sing, dance, act AND solve the crime !
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Oy ! A Murder !"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (8) Seth O'Toole, Larry/"Poppy" Gherkin, Lauren O'Toole, Michael O'Toole, Nanette Gherkin, John O'Toole, Cousin Simon Shalom, Rabbi Shulman
Synopsis: At 18, it has been a long road to his bar mitzvah for Seth O'Toole. He has Hebrew dyslexia : reads it from left to right. This joyous occasion quickly turns into the Bar Mitzvah from Hell when a member of the tribe is murdered. Rabbi Shulman trades his yarmulke for a deerstalker in this whodunnit.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Queen Mum's the Word"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (3) Victoria Secrette, Elizabeth Towne, Kingsly Court/Mal S. Court
Synopsis: The Red Hat Society is scandalized when Queen Mother of the Crimson Cuties, Elizabeth Towne's, new lover, Kingsly Court is murdered. Designed for Red Hat groups.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Six Feet Over"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (6) Nathaniel Hunter, Ruth Hunter, Claire Hunter, Nate Hunter, David Hunter, Brenda Chainowitz/Moanie Croney
Synopsis: A ruthless business rival is murdered at Hunter Funeral Home on the occasion of owner Nathaniel Hunter's funeral, and the corpse has plenty
to say about that !
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Speakeasy, Die Hard"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (8) The Professor, Sammy "the Geek"Farrell, Max/Tommy Farrell, Sonny, Babyface Nelson, Silk Nelson, Frenchie, Birdie
Synopsis: The Roaring 20's is the backdrop for the Poet Gang's bungled Vandermeer Diamond heist. Was the bungle intentional ? Who killed
The Poet, and why is he haunting this regional meeting of Hitmen, Inc.?
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Sting of the Killer B"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (7) Semi Less/Maura Less, Steven Heelberg, Bugsy Bunni, Boris Lugosi, Lefty Palma, Bibi Bullitt, Crystal Ball (Also four person version)
Synopsis: At the Hollywood wrap party for "Day of the Dead Living", Maura Less, sister of star Semi Less makes her grand entrance with her
throat ripped out ! The gangster studio boss brings in a psychic to help search for Maura's killer.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Talk Ain't Cheap, It's Deadly"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (7) Montel Rivera, Roseanne O'Donnell, Regis Springer, Cally Jessy Winfree, Miles Geltman, Phil Black, The Hitman
Synopsis: An activist known as The Hitman takes the hosts and audience of "Talkathon", the mother of all talk shows, hostage
demanding the President end all aid to Saddem Insane of Irap. When the hosts turn up dead, The Hitman denies responsibility. Who is ?
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "We Killed 'Em on American Ideal"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (5) Ryan Seacrud/Constant Teen, Simon Cruell/David Hustleoff, Paula Abadabba/Fantasy Burrito, Dandy Jackson/Reuben Stutter, Nina Nubile/Kelly
Quirkson
Synopsis: Somebody is killing contestants and judges, one by one during the broadcast. I don't mean to be rude, but would somebody please find out who it is before we start auditions for next season ?
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "Witches' Brew"
Author: Jade Greene
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (8) Sarah Good, Martha Cory, Rebecca Nurse, Tituba Indian, John Indian, Elizabeth Proctor, Reverend Samuel Parris, Bob Zombie
Synopsis: The witches of Salem are hosting this year's presidential selection meeting of the Witches of America. When their High Priestess is murdered, as she is every presidential election year, the coven travels back in time to find her killer.
Title: THE HITMAN MURDER MYSTERIES: "I Love You to Death"
Author: Jade Greene Original Song: Ed Schilter
Style/Type: Interactive Murder Mystery
Cast: (2) Sharon Airbourne/Kelly Airbourne, Ozzy Airbourne/Jack Airbourne
Synopsis: Rock's Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Airbourne and his wife, TV's Queen of Talk, Sharon, are surprised by the 40th wedding anniversary party thrown for them by their adult offspring, Jack and Kelly. When one of them dies right after singing Ozzy's new song, the rest of the family goes to work finding the killer.
Title: CYNDIRELLA
Author: Book & Lyrics by Jade Greene, Music by Ed Schilter
Style/Type: Children’s Play – Interactive Rock N’ Roll Fairytale
Cast: M-3 & F-4
Synopsis: Our unique version of the classic fairytale takes the bullied Cyndi to the ball via The Godfather's Cadillac where she meets Prince Elvis. Kids in the audience participate in games and contests, winning prizes as they become a part of the action!
Title: KINGDOM
Author: Pam Munson Steadman
Style/Type: Children’s Play – Full Length
Cast: M-4 & F-3
Synopsis: A shy dragon seeks only friendship and loyalty from his kingdom. He loses its fire after a torrential rain storm while sleeping with his mouth open. Hurt and disappointment set in when his best friend, the Knight, abandons him, fearing that his shining armor will rust. After an encounter with Flame Swallower and Wise Woman, Dragon decides to set out on a quest of his very own. An interactive musical for children and childish adults!
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