Drop Dead!
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day
- 7M, 3F
- ISBN: 9780573693090
A nonstop physical comedy that turns the world of theater on its head!
Variety
Pick of the Month
L.A. Magazine
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day
- Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set, Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Cautions: Gun Shots, Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
At the dress rehearsal the set falls, props break, and the producer and an actor are murdered. During the opening night performance, the murders continue. The remaining thespians must save the show and their careers, solve the mystery and stay alive for curtain calls.
REVIEWS:
A nonstop physical comedy that turns the world of theater on its head!
Variety
Drop Dead! will make your jaw drop and your head spin almost simultaneously, but you will be laughing the whole time!
Peru Tribune
Oh, how the audience loved it!
The Augusta Chronicle
The audience laughed at everything!
Los Angeles Times
A wacky slapstick comedy that will have you laughing out loud!” - KBIG“Critic’s Choice. Totally ludicrous and heartily entertaining!” - L.A. Reader“Flatout frenzied fun! Hilarity and craziness prevail! Unabashed foolish fun!
Dramalogue
Pick of the Month
L.A. Magazine
Characters
- Casting: 7M, 3F
- Casting Attributes: Flexible casting, Cross gender casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Color blind casting
SOL WEISENHEIMER - the producer
PHILLIP - the stage manager
ALABAMA MILLER - the playwright
MONA MONET - the TV star
BRENT REYNOLDS - the method actor
CHAZ LOONEY - the apprentice
CANDY APPLES - the ex-porno-star
CONSTANCE CRAWFORD - old stage star
DICK SHALIT - Gene Shalit's brother
Available Material
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Drop Dead! Script
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A cast of has-been actors plan to revive their careers in 'Drop Dead!,' a potboiler murder mystery directed by 'Wonder Child of the Broadway Stage' Victor Le Pewe (a psychotic eye twitching megalomaniac). At the dress rehearsal the set falls, props break, and the producer and an actor are murdered. During the opening night performance, the murders continue. The remaining thespians must save the show and their careers, solve the mystery and stay alive for curtain calls. |
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