CLIFF GRAVEL

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CLIFF GRAVEL--STAGE PLAYS AVAILABLE 
 
 
BRIGANDS OF THE SALTY DOG or I'LL KEEP A LIGHT BURNING FOR YOU is a lively two-act classic-style melodrama for family fun. It requires 4 men, 3 women, 1 keyboardist and 1 simple set.  It plays about 1 hour excluding olios, 1  intermission, and audience participation. It premiered at the Engine House Theater in Madrid NM. Royalty rates are $25 per performance payable to Cliff Gravel within 30 days of the end of the run. No scripts to buy. Author will grant permission to copy the perusal script. Free PDF perusal script and contract available as an attachment in Word for Windows upon request that includes theater company name and location. Email copy of sheet music sent upon receipt of signed contract. All music is in public domain.
 
The story takes place in an impoverished Rhode Island tavern/lighthouse on Dec. 23, 1863. The story is a synthesis of real historic events. The dialogue is peppered with asides and nautical language but no vulgarity, profanity, or sexual innuendo.
 
The villain arrives intending to acquire the key to the tower light so he can extinguish it, and cause a ship to founder on a reef where his henchmen will kill the crew and steal a valuable cargo destined for the Smithsonian Museum. The villain pretends to be a Doctor selling a new miracle cure--Ginger Ale. The hero, a Coast Guard Ensign, prevents the crime. The tavern is saved from closing by a comically dimwitted writer named Dicky Dana who sells the rights to his novel--TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. The hero and heroine fall in love. Everyone sings a lot.
 
 
THE DAUGHTER OF THE MOON or MY BROTHER'S KEEPER is a two-act classic-style melodrama. It requires 3 men, 3 women, 1 keyboardist, and 1 simple set. Plays about 1 hour excluding olios,1 intermission and audience participation. Royalty rates are $25 per performance payable to Cliff Gravel within 30 days of the end of the run. No scripts to buy. Author will grant permission to copy the perusal script. Free PDF perusal script and contract available as an attachment in Word for Windows upon request that includes theater company name and location. Email copy of sheet music sent upon receipt of signed contract. All music is in public domain. 

The story takes place in an English countryside manor library in the mid-1800s. The dialogue is peppered with asides but no vulgarity, profanity, or sexual innuendo.
 
The villain, Doctor Major Mortimer Malmer, is after the Daughter Of The Moon, a rare coconut pearl worth a fortune. It is known to be lost in the manor house of the impoverished Allworthy family. Malmer arrives there pretending to be an Army Doctor escorting home the seriously wounded Allworthy son. The heavily bandaged son is really Nurse Nun Sister Sinestra. Everyone searches for the pearl. Eventually Malmer kills Sinestra, and takes the heroine hostage. The hero, Blaise Ardent, has a umbrella vs. sword fight with the villain, and defeats him. The pearl is found. The manor is saved from being sold. The hero and heroine fall in love. Everyone sings a lot.

THE CARROLL’S CHRISTMAS  or PLEASE DO NOT BREAK THE ORNAMENTS is a lively two-act classic-style melodrama for family holiday fun. It requires 1 simple set, 3 men, 3 women, and a keyboardist. Playing time, excluding olios, 1 intermission, and audience participation is about 80 minutes. It premiered at the SouthWest Rural Theatre Project in Albuquerque, NM. Royalty rates are $25 per performance payable to Cliff Gravel within 30 days of the end of the run. No scripts to buy. Author will grant permission to make copies of the perusal script. Free PDF perusal script and contract available as an email attachment in Word for Windows upon request that includes the theater company name and location.  Email copy of sheet music sent upon receipt of signed contract. All music is in public domain.


The story takes place in an old inn in the English countryside near Christmas day in the late 1800s.The dialogue is peppered with asides but no vulgarity, profanity, or sexual innuendo.


The impoverished Carrolls are in jeopardy of loosing the family inn. The villains arrive seeking a fabulously valuable stolen ruby hidden in one of the ornaments on the Carroll’s Christmas tree. The villains fail. The hero saves the heroine and the inn. Everyone sings and/or recites holiday poems or stories.