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Booze and Kisses

  • Tom Frye
  • Short Play, Melodrama, 19th Century
  • 4M, 2F, 2M or F
  • ISBN: 9780573697197

With a hero named John Wilkes Booth, this story is bound to take off like a shot.

  • Short Play
  • Melodrama
  • 60 minutes

  • Time Period: 19th Century
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Flying, Open Flame, Drugs, Smoking, Intense Adult Themes, Animals, Nudity/Partial Nudity, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Church / Religious Groups, Senior Theatre
With a hero named John Wilkes Booth, this story is bound to take off like a shot. This actor who falls into the depth of degredation with the help of the evil villian, Lawyer Cribbs, manages to ford along with the help of his darling wife Lucy. Along the way we meet his daughter Little Orphan Annie, who tried to save her father from the evils of “drink.”

Published in Mosley Street Melodrama, Vol. 3.

Premiere Production: Mosley Street Melodramas, March 1998.
  • Casting: 4M, 2F, 2M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Drag performance, Flexible casting, Non-Traditional casting