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All's Well in Rosewell

FARCE.  After the treasurer steals the town of Rosewell’s money, the mayor gathers the citizens together and gives them two options:  A.) Raise taxes by 10,000% or B.) Come up with another plan to raise money.  The residents overwhelmingly vote for plan B, but they have difficulty thinking up ways to raise money beyond hosting $200 carwashes or $600/plate spaghetti dinners.  For inspiration, the citizens look to their prosperous desert neighbor of Roswell, NM, and realize that the only differences between Roswell and Rosewell is that Rosewell has an extra “E” and Roswell has aliens!  Wanting to cash in on the alien craze and attract tourists to their town, the Rosewell citizens scatter pieces of a broken-down 1991 Yugo across the desert and then wait for the government to haul off the Yugo parts to a secret storage bunker and deny its existence.  But all the extraterrestrial hoopla draws some unexpected guests to the town including a UFO enthusiast, a mob boss, two dimwitted hit women, a tabloid reporter, a Texas Ranger—and a real alien (or two)! 

 Law and Disorder

COMEDY.  Eager to earn Brownie points at her law firm, Kate, an ambitious attorney, agrees to escort her boss’s nephew, Scott, around town and show him the sights.  Kate meets Scott at a fancy French restaurant and discovers, to her horror, that not only is Scott a barefooted, tobacco-spitting, unemployed hillbilly from Arkansas, but he has fallen in love with her at first sight.  Desperate to dump Scott but not wanting to offend her boss, Kate elicits the help of her friend, Mark, to pose as her ex-husband, a mob boss who looks a lot like Elvis.  But behind the scenes, Kate’s chief rival at the law firm has a scheme to force Kate out of the firm permanently by convincing Scott that he should propose marriage to Kate ASAP. 

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Career Day

FARCE.  Hilarity abounds when ten wacky guest speakers arrive at Greenwood High’s Career Day to educate students about the “thrilling” job opportunities that await them. There’s a plastic surgeon, a garbage man, an historian, a homemaker, a French dry cleaner, a philosopher, a lifeguard, an orthodontist, a hangman, and a circus worker.  And to add to the Career Day excitement, the assistant principal performs her own unusual brand of stand-up comedy, and the school’s ditzy cheer coach demonstrates with zeal her cheerleading skills.  This series of monologues is easy to produce and requires only chairs for staging. 

Case of the Missing Time

 Mystery/FARCE.  Big Tex is extremely enamored with his Fanny—his wife, that is.  So when his Fanny’s jewels and artwork go missing, Big Tex hires the great-niece of Sherlock Holmes and the great-granddaughter of Dr. Watson to solve the mystery.  Holmes’ straight-talking housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, goes undercover to collect clues from Big Tex’s monstrous children, sneering butler, timid French maid, and Gestapo-like TV-star nanny.  Meanwhile, Holmes and Watson mingle with Big Tex’s guests, who include a melodramatic has-been actress and star of “Luna Craft Pygmy Queen,” a hard-of-hearing elderly neighbor who tends to turn up disrobed from time to time, and a mysterious magician from the Far East.  Holmes and Watson have until the end of the weekend to solve the case so that Big Tex’s Fanny can once again glitter with jewels!

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