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THE BIG GUNS: or Whose Little Lily Is She (radio manuscript)

A rootin', tootin', six-shootin' wing-ding of a Western.

  • Full Length Play
  • Radio Play, Comedy
  • 80 minutes

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Appropriate for all audiences, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, High School/Secondary, Senior Theatre
With songs and smoking six-shooters, we're here to tell the adventures and misadventures of two cattle barons and, most especially, of a beautiful young lady in search of... well, not the usual kind of gold in them thar hills.

Is this a musical? Nope. But somewhat like Cat Ballou, Paint Your Wagon and a lot of John Ford westerns, it has words and music that made their way west -- songs like "Shenandoah," "Oh My Darling," "Clementine," and "Sweet Betsy From Pike."

And what's a rousing, sometimes rowdy western without a long-legged, curvaceous but vestal saloon gal? A saucy little filly known as Lily -- with a more-than-middling singing voice to boot. A comic valentine to the cowboy and cowgirl heroes of bygone screen, radio and television -- Gene, Roy, Hoppy, Coop, The Duke -- with a tip of the Stetson to Calamity, Annie O, Belle Star and Cat Ballou. A story of the Old West, but a different sort of a story. A tale with a twist. A rootin', tootin', six-shootin' wing-ding of a Western. 

  • Casting: 8M, 6F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)
  • Casting Notes: As in the good old radio days, an actor may play several parts.

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With songs and smoking six-shooters, we're here to tell the adventures and misadventures of two cattle barons and, most especially, of a beautiful young lady in search of e well, not the usual kind of gold in them thar hills. Is this a musical Nope. But somewhat like Cat Ballou, Paint Your Wagon and a lot of John Ford westerns, it has words and music that made their way westesongs like Shenandoah, Oh My Darling, Clementine, and Sweet Betsy From Pike. And what's a rousing, sometimes rowdy western without a long-legged, curvaceous but vestal saloon gal A saucy little filly known as Lilyewith a more-than-middling singing voice to boot. A comic valentine to the cowboy and cowgirl heroes of bygone screen, radio and televisioneGene, Roy, Hoppy, Coop, The Dukeewith a tip of the Stetson to Calamity, Annie O, Belle Star and Cat Ballou. A story of the Old West, but a different sort of a story. A tale with a twist. A rootin', tootin', six-shootin' wing-ding of a western. One set. Approximate running time: 80 minutes.

$19.95