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Deadwood Dick, or a Game of Gold

  • Tom Taggart
  • Full Length Play, Melodrama, Wild West
  • 7M, 7F
  • ISBN: 9780573607813

Here's the dramatization of a bloodthirsty dime novel just like those Grandfather used to read in secret.

  • Full Length Play
  • Melodrama

  • Time Period: Wild West
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
Here's the dramatization of a bloodthirsty dime novel just like those Grandfather used to read in secret. The lure of the Old West of heroes, of redskins biting the dust, of lily pure maidens and black hearted gamblers, of the never ending "Game of Gold" is still with us.

In 1876 Edward L. Wheeler started turning out novels about a Robin Hood of the Black Hills whom he named Deadwood Dick. Overnight Dick became so popular that the series continued for fifteen years. Taking the most exciting situations, the more colorful characters and the most amusing dialogue from these novels, Taggart has fashioned a blood and thunder melodrama. Long lost daughters, stolen gold mines, kidnapped heroines and hairbreadth escapes abound!

  • Casting: 7M, 7F
  • Casting Attributes: Room for Extras

  • NED HARRIS - alias Deadwood Dick
    WILD BILL HICKOCK - his "heck-fur-leather" pard
    LILY BLOSSOM - a tender prairie flower
    ROSE - her resplendent sister
    BLACKMAN REDBURN - a true villain
    JUDGE NIX - all the law there is in Deadwood
    CALAMITY JANE - owner of the "Man-Trap Saloon"
    LA PALOMA - an exotic adventuress
    PONG PING - a Chinese cook
    CHET PUSSY - a bartender
    SHERIFF LOVELESS - who gets his man
    MOLLY - his wife, more sinned against than sinning
    TEETOTAL TESSIE - a Temperance Crusader
    PIANO ANNIE - who tickles everyone at the Man-Trap
    MINERS, TOUGHS, BAR MAIDS, CRUSADERS
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    Here's the dramatization of a bloodthirsty dime novel just like those Grandfather used to read in secret. The lure of the Old West of heroes, of redskins biting the dust, of lily pure maidens and black hearted gamblers, of the never ending 'Game of Gold' is still with us. In 1876 Edward L. Wheeler started turning out novels about a Robin Hood of the Black Hills whom he named Deadwood Dick. Overnight Dick became so popular that the series continued for fifteen years. Taking the most exciting situations, the more colorful characters and the most amusing dialogue from these novels, Taggart has fashioned a blood and thunder melodrama. Long lost daughters, stolen gold mines, kidnapped heroines and hairbreadth escapes abound!

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