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ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center ArtAge helps older adults fulfill their theatrical dreams. 2012 Catalog SHOW TONIGHT starring YOU! 45 new plays 21 new Authors SUPERIOR SERVICE ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center Well, here it is, our latest catalog! Discover over 350 plays, books, and TipSheets in our expanded collection. Whatever you need, whatever your level of experience, we have something for you. Our customers enjoy performing short plays so we added many more to the collection. Several of them have been translated and are now available in Spanish or French. Most of the shows, from skits to longer plays, are comedies with a majority of wonderful roles for older women. You’ll have a great time performing the new musicals and interactive plays. If your goal is to improve your skills, you’ll appreciate our many instructional books and TipSheets Look for our newest format, Readers Theatre KaraokeTM. It brings a whole new dimension to readers theatre! There’s a lot here. If you need help making selections, visit our website for more information and where you can read FreeViews of the plays. For personal assistance, don’t hesitate to contact us by phone or email. We appreciate our loyal customers who make our work such a pleasure. Around the world, the Senior Theatre Resource Center helps thousands of older adults, just like you, fulfill their theatrical dreams! Bonnie L. Vorenberg Founder/ President We have several ways to help you connect to the Senior Theatre movement: • Our website at www.seniortheatre.com is filled with news, trends, and events. You’ll also find expanded play descriptions, photos, and more details about our books, plays, and materials. Ordering online is easy with convenient e-commerce. • Our monthly e-newsletter, “Senior Theatre Online,” is packed with timely information and updates. See past issues and sign up at www.seniortheatre.com. 2 That’s not all we do. We also can help you with: • Becoming a member • Marketing campaigns • Talent and casting of films & commercials • Speaking engagements • Consultations to help you with any of your Senior Theatre concerns More information about the books and plays plus script excerpts are online at www.seniortheatre.com Play Collections................................ 2 Plays........................................................ 6 Men’s Plays.......................................... 8 Improvisation..................................13 Interactive Plays.............................14 Issue Plays..........................................15 Readers Theatre.............................16 Skits & Sketches.............................18 Holiday Plays . ................................21 Musicals.............................................22 How-to................................................24 Funding..............................................27 Theatre from Memories and Intergenerational Theatre ......28 Bringing the Arts to less Active.........................................30 Movement........................................31 Order Form......................................31 Monologues.................. Back cover www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center “Senior Moments” was in the Region 7 finals of the American Association of Community Theater competition in Fort Collins, Colorado. The play was given a special award for Playwriting, and the lead actor won the Best Actor award for the entire festival. NEW! Senior Moments 5 funny, touching short plays By Donald Fried | 9-14 minute comedies; Total 75 minutes 1 man, 1 woman to 5 men, 5 women Senior Moments is made up of five short plays which can be presented singly or in groups. The play is extremely portable, requiring only one small table and four chairs. In the 13 months A hit after its premier, Senior Moments every time it’s been staged! was performed 22 times to rave reviews at six venues in the U.S. and Canada – at theaters, retirement homes, and senior centers. It includes: • The Code. Two seniors, Rose and Charlie, meet at a café on a blind date set up over the Internet. 13 minutes. • The Gamblers. Colonel William and Mother Angie have a chance encounter at a casino. Colonel William is forced to change the habits of a lifetime. 14 minutes. • First Love. Rose and Oscar, both in their 80’s, meet to renew their interrupted romance. 14 minutes. • On the RAC(K). The members of the Resident’s Advisory Committee have huge troubles trying to accomplish anything at all. 13 minutes. • Growing – Old. The sequel to The Code, Rose and Charlie meet again. Charlie is once more on the prowl for older women, but Rose has had an “unexpected dose of reality.” 9 minutes. Senior Moments won first prize at the Front Range Playwrights Showcase and third place at the Colorado Community Theater Coalition Festival in the Best Production category. E-SCRIPT $20.00 HARD COPY $24.95 Performances | Play Collections NEW! Chatterton Country Club By Annette Tringham | Three 15 minute comedies; 45 minute show 2 men, 7 women Chatterton Country Club, a 55+ retirement community, is the setting for these three 15-minute comedies. The intertwining stories explore the crazy cast of characters and themes that make senior communal living so…“Entertaining!” The plays can be performed individually or together. If performed together, they should be done sequentially, as each piece builds upon characters and references from the previous. • It’s Your Move – Bob and Joe, friends and next-door neighbors for 23 years, share more than a game of checkers. It’s all guy talk until Bob reveals a secret about Joe’s wife. • With Friends Like You – At their weekly Annette Tringham “Stretch-ercize” class, Margaret nailed the over and Arlene show 55 humor we all us what happens when adults love to discuss. play post office — Audrey Nathan, Sun Lakes in a close-knit Life newspaper community. • If You Can’t Beat ‘Em – Kicked out of her book club, Judy Crayton has decided to form her own group called Civilian Rules Administration Police (C.R.A.P.) because she is tired of people who get away with breaking the association covenants. She has invited three of her misfit neighbors to join her in an anonymous letter writing campaign to bust the villains. Their boozy potluck luncheon is filled with twists, turns, and revelations, ultimately changing the course of their mission. Chatterton Country Club has received both audience and critical acclaim. It’s a sure-fire hit for you! E-SCRIPT $20.00 HARD COPY $24.95 Play collections work well because they bring several plays together, all under one cover. They’re cost effective, useful, and a must have on your bookshelf for that un-anticipated emergency. Take a look at the new collections we’ve created. We think you’ll really enjoy them! The cast had such fun performing both of these plays. The audiences were in stitches. I highly recommend them… with The Pie Ladies, you never know what will happen next!” — Melody Welty, Senior Recreation Coordinator, Oregon Park District/Rock River Center NEW! The Pie Ladies NEW! The Pie Ladies Make Bail By Sherry Piros | 25 minute comedy 6 women, 3 either The Pie Ladies pick up their rolling pins to make dozens of pies for the church supper. But as they busily bake pies, they decide to create their own country! Unfortunately this happens in front of the pastor, a potential choir director, and a newspaper reporter. It’s treason, isn’t it? And who’ll make the pies? Humor abounds as the situation unfolds. The Pie Ladies has been a hit with church, civic, and senior groups. Each time audiences chuckled, laughed, and asked for more. By Sherry Piros | 35 minute comedy 1 man, 9 women The Pie Ladies have landed in jail because they didn’t take kindly to their neighbors trying to take down the flag of their new country. They are bailed out but now they owe a lot of money. They decide to sell a cookbook to pay back the funds. Their good intentions don’t save them from a disastrous turn of events. Lots of action, practical jokes, and misunderstandings keep audiences on their toes, laughing all the way! E-SCRIPT E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 Some theatre basics: • You can’t edit scripts without permission. If you need to adjust the show to meet community sensibilities for language use, sensuality, or gender roles, contact us. •W hen you perform music in a show, you must get permission to use it. Contact us for help. •B uying a script does not give you permission to perform it, unless it’s a non-royalty piece. Royalties are due when you perform for any audience, paying or non-paying. You may be liable for a penalty of over $300. Use the Performance Checklist, page 30 as your guide. ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 3 Performances | play collections Seniors Acting Up Edited by Ted Fuller Includes ten amusing one act plays, six skits and additional information such as how to cope with stage fright. Plots range from the bittersweet final chapter of a caring waitress’ life to the zany carryings-on of a mountain clan obviously affected by excessive inbreeding! Most of the playwrights and characters are seniors. All are funny. $19.95 Consider the Possibilities: Ten Minute Plays for Mature Actors By Ann McDonough and Douglas Hill This compilation of seven frequently staged short plays offers a smorgasbord of challenging and enticing theatre that features dynamic, humorous, and touching older characters. $13.95 Summer Dreams/ Winter Wishes Edited by Ann McDonough and Douglas Hill You’ll want to perform every single play in this book! All ten scripts feature older characters who are dynamic and romantic! Compiled by the folks at UNLV, the collection includes monologues, ten-minute scripts, and one act plays. You’ll find 130 pages of stimulating theatre that’s sure to please your audiences. $18.95 Short Stuff: Ten to Twenty Minute Plays for Mature Actors By Ann McDonough These short plays are popular in class, in performance, or as readers theatre and can be performed for many different kinds of audiences. A delightful collection of comedies and dramas filled with roles that today’s older performers and audiences enjoy. $19.95 “It is such a pleasure to have an unique theatre experience with humor and fun that beckons back to the days of radio, the audience filling in the spaces with their imaginations.” — Wynne Weiss, Vista, California Public Library The Quibbles Radio Shows NEW! By Karen Riehl | 5 minutes per sketch Casts from 4 to 40 The Quibbles is a collection of comedy sketches, reminiscent of radio shows of the ‘40s and ‘50’s, featuring a delightfully quarrelsome couple, Carol and Quentin Quibble, in the hilarious skirmishes of everyday life. Carol is a well-meaning helpmate, eager to improve herself and her husband. Quentin is mostly interested in golf. Their next door neighbor, Madge, is the town busybody. Sketches from The Quibbles Radio Shows are easy to perform with well-drawn characters. Can be fully mounted plays, used in classes, or included in variety shows. Such fun! E-SCRIPT 4 $20.00 HARD COPY $24.95 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center New Plays for Mature Actors Edited by Bonnie L. Vorenberg This prized collection features 10 plays and sketches selected from 300 in two nationwide searches. Their plots and characters present modern, positive See updated images of maturity with “The Day They primarily female roles. kidnapped Can be used for readers Blanche,” on p. 6 theatre or staged for any audience. “Useful and entertaining…”—Booklist, American Library Association. $24.95 Women Are Funny By May Kramer This collection features monologues, skits, one-act plays for auditions, women’s clubs, community theatre, and solo performance. It has 14 scripts, mainly for women. They are easy to do, with very clear characters, and all of them are funny. They were a hit every time they have been performed. Includes the popular play, How to Marry the Minister. $17.50 Great for drama ministry! “Blanton’s well-written [sketches] are filled with humor and will be useful in any senior acting group.” — Stage Directions Seniors Centerstage: Sketches Designed for Seniors By Gail Blanton | 5-10 minutes each Bring seniors onstage with these humorous and thought-provoking Features the sketches for use in drama crowd-pleasing War of the Roses! ministry. They work well in performance, as an activity at weekly meetings, or for eye-opening presentations on issues of aging. All promote empathy, understanding, and unity. $18.99 Performances | Play Collections ArtAge The Age On Stage® Series Age on Stage®: Comedies for Readers Theatre, Volume 1 VOLUME I Age on Stage ® By Drena Heizer Ten 10-minute comedies BEST From chuckles to SELLER! guffaws, this is a laugh fest all the way. Sparked with Comedies funny characters and humorous For Readers situations, lively dialogue, sudden Theatre surprises, and just the right touch of charming goofiness, these plays are great fun for audiences and Large Print performers alike. This collection is an invitation to laughter! Written for and performed by a Senior Theatre company. $24.95 Drena Heizer Age on Stage: Table of Contents 10 Minute lays Terri Ryburn Age on Table of Contents Stage on Stage: ® The Age on Stage® series has been a huge hit with shows all over the US and around the world. Take a look and you’ll see why they are so popular! Age on Stage®: Comedies for Readers Theatre, Volume 2 NEW! volume II Age on Stage ® By Drena Heizer Ten 10-minute comedies Here it is—Book Two from the author of the #1 bestComedies selling Age on Stage®: Comedies For Readers for Readers Theatre, Volume Theatre 1. Open to any page in this book and you will find quirky characters in humorous Large Print situations, and that’s why these short comedies are so much fun for both actors and audiences. Drena Heizer Age on Stage®: Ten Minute Plays By Terri Ryburn BEST This collection of six SELLER! 10 -15 minute plays is an affectionate and frequently funny look at every day relationships with 10 Minute family, friends, and strangers. Plays It includes: 10 • Ten Years Younger, a hilarious Minute makeup makeover. Plays • Cross Words, a clever look at those idiosyncrasies we all love in our Terri Ryburn spouses. • Let’s Go to the Movies, a humorous take on the memory tricks seniors use to recapture a ‘lost’ fact. • The Edge of Forever, a touching play that explores the depth of affection that develops after 50 years of marriage. • They Also Serve, a poignant story about true love and the sacrifices that war brings to those left behind. • High Heels, where two friends “strut their stuff” during a shoe shopping trip. Written for and produced by a Senior Theatre Company. $16.95 Terri Ryburn 1 1 Read detailed descriptions about the plays online at www.seniortheatre.com. For example, we’ve all “What’s on TV was had annoying restaurant experiences but none quite the greatest hit! like the one Marge encounters in Lunch With Eddie. TV The audience laughed judges are lampooned in the and laughed!” ludicrous Courtroom Capers, and Mother Goose characters — Lynn Arizzi turn up in ridiculous roles in Law And Disorder. An amateur theatre group stumbles through a mystery play, airline passengers experience a strangely unusual journey, and a department store Santa Claus gets an unwelcome surprise. These funny adventures and many others are included in this intriguing collection. $24.95 ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 5 Performances | Plays What is an E-SCRIPT? Plays with E-SCRIPT are available electronically, as a PDF, Microsoft Word format, or in hard copy for $5 extra. The plays will be emailed to you promptly. Call us if it’s a rush order and we’ll send it immediately. Copying privilege With e-scripts, you don’t have to buy individual scripts from us, unlike so many other sources. Purchase of an e-script allows you to make copies of the play for your cast. The Last Day at W.O.R.K. By Brandon Daughtry Slocum and JP Schuffman 40 minute comedy radio play Gender flexible roles for 12-16 actors BEST A radio station in a SELLER! small southern town, W.O.R.K., is signing off the air after 50 years. The station owners, a couple in their 70’s, have invited back their old favorite acts for one last nostalgic show. Actors can read their lines, no memorization needed. Premiered at a Senior Theatre to rave reviews. Easy to insert additional acts. This is comedy at its best! E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 So flexible! The Day They Kidnapped Blanche: The Revival By Ann Barham Pugh and Katy Dacus | 30 minute comedy 2 men, 3 women, 1 either After a recent professional cast production, this classic Senior Theatre play has been updated. Blanche, an energetic and youngish seventy year-old retired teacher, is Very having a blast starring in a community theatre Popular! comedy. Both she and Mel, her protective pal, and the theatre director are unaware of a stalker attending every performance. He is, in fact Devon, an FBI Agent, who recruits her to tackle an offstage role. Blanche goes undercover. How can she and her buddies, without weapons, try to outsmart a tough criminal and her money-hungry but dim-witted assistant? Longer version in New Plays for Mature Actors on page 4. E-SCRIPT $15.00 6 HIT! Under a Magical Moon By Patrick Gaffney | 20-25 minute romance 1 man, 1 woman; can be staged with 3 men, 3 women Since Ancient Times, the magic of the night sky has held sway over Love and Lovers. Whether in Verona, Italy between the young Romeo and Juliet; or in Muncie, Indiana between the...not so young...Gavin and Kathleen. In three short scenes over a minimalist set of a backyard table and chairs in the height of midsummer, we visit the past and present of two old friends who have not seen each other for 30 years... who just may have some sort of future together. A charming play that will blow a breath of a fresh summer breeze across the stage, and maybe even bring a tear to the corner of the eye at the end. The play has now won five national awards. Works well as Readers Theatre. E-SCRIPT NEW! $15.00 Stolen Flowers By Lora Lee Ecobelli | 20 minute drama “Hats off to Ms. 2 women Ecobelli for creating a Two middle-aged sisters find the strength to leave their troubled powerfully moving piece pasts behind with the help of some about both sisterhood flower seeds and a fertile plan. Azalea Jackson lives on a rural dairy farm in and the choices we upstate New York. Her greatest joy is make as women.” to someday plant a flower garden, but — Gayle Hudson her controlling husband Chuck thinks flowers are decadent and a waste of time. For many years Azalea has been the victim of his alcoholism and lives in constant fear of his violent outbursts. When her older sister Cora Tompkins, a hard working free spirit, brings an innocent gift of potted flowers, it sparks a chain of events that alters both of their lives forever. Together, the sisters face the repressed tragedies of their past. By confronting their fears, the sisters find a creative way to end the cycle of abuse and find the courage to begin a new life. Touching on themes of domestic violence, poverty and the plight of older women who are forced to become the primary caretakers of their grandchildren, Stolen Flowers is a powerful and inspirational drama. E-SCRIPT $15.00 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center Performances | Plays Volunteering Has its Moments By Ann Barham Pugh | 20 minute comedy 5 women or 4 women/1 man The play is set on the A special play for volunteer “Opal” show, a nationally televised tribute to recognition! volunteers moderated by the popular TV personality. Her guests are stellar volunteers who present funny and quirky adventures, “moments,” that have been submitted to the TV show. The well defined characters clash during the production but in the end, are brought together by the warm spirit of volunteerism. The show can be easily performed as readers theatre or staged as a fully mounted production. The fast paced comedy is a fitting tribute to volunteers. E-SCRIPT $15.00 Bowling with Dixie By Ann Barham Pugh | 20 minute comedy 4 women Four middle-aged women, former high school classmates, are avid bowling enthusiasts who meet in vacant store to plan converting it into a bowling alley. To have their ‘Queenpin Alley’ they must outsmart a cagey county Sheriff who wants the store for a men-only pool hall. During the ladies’ meeting, Sandy triggers their action plan. You’ll love the surprise ending! Written by prize-winning playwright, Ann Barham Pugh, who knows how to use simple staging and strong characters to make fun theatre. Check out Pugh’s other plays, The Day They Kidnapped Blanche,The Christmas Coffee and Volunteering has its Moments. E-SCRIPT $15.00 Short plays are the mainstay of Senior Theatre. Use one at a time or combine them to create a thematic program. With short plays, it’s easy to cast your unique number of men and women. Plus, short pieces are great for touring to performances—if someone is unable to appear, just use a different play. Flexible, easy, and fun, customers love our short plays! NEW! Love and Other Investments John Hayes | 25 minute comedy 2 men, 2 women Wry-witted, with rapid fire screwball comedy dialogue, Love and Other Investments centers on Agnes as she tries to finish her taxes. Her meddlesome neighbor, demanding mother, and ex-husband all interfere with a peaceful night to remind Agnes that there’s more to life than doubleblind investments and paperwork. E-SCRIPT $15.00 Sunny Room in Charming House By Marcia Savin | 25 minute comedy 2 women Life becomes challenging, comic, and life changing for Lydia, a widow, when she rents a room to Connie, a divorcee free spirit. Lydia’s quiet evenings with a book and wine get unhinged with Connie’s sprawl, spontaneity, and frank wit. They learn to laugh and connect. Great characters, quick script, easy costuming & staging. E-SCRIPT $15.00 The Perfect Groom by May Kramer | 25 minute comedy 5 men, 7 women This play is the perfect little comedy. It is very easy to stage, with lots of action as the characters enter and exit frequently, airing their views and participating in what ought to be Jane’s perfect wedding. The players interact in small groups until the climax. Will Jane tie the knot at last? Will the best man learn the answer to a puzzle? Which, if any, of the bridesmaids will find romance? When you see the script excerpt, you’ll know why we added this play! Great fun! E-SCRIPT $15.00 Bitsy and Her Friends By Ludmilla Bollow | 30 minute comedy 6 women Bitsy and her friends recycle trash for their ‘art faire’ to be held in the Wyndham Mansion Gardens only to meet opposition from the neighbors. The offbeat characters thwart their detractors with a surprise ending. Semi-finalist Winner in the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition. E-SCRIPT $15.00 All is Fair in Show Business By Barry M. Putt, Jr. | 20 minute comedy 4 women, 2 either men and/or women A fun-loving retiree is elated when she lands her first acting job, a juicy role as a TV commercial spokeswoman for a popular, fast food restaurant. All goes awry though when the director decides to recast the part with the retiree’s adversary. Demoted to an extra in the commercial, the retiree must struggle to be recognized by the director as the best spokeswoman for the job. This delightful, fast-paced comedy is loads of fun and can easily be adapted to any theatre setting. “A terrific show—All is Fair in Show Business was a great success!” — Harry (Sonny) Lerner, director Theater Guild E-SCRIPT $15.00 RADIO PLAY E-SCRIPT $15.00 ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 7 Performances | Plays NEW! New Car Shopping By Arthur S. Keyser | 20 minute comedy 2 women Honey, a middle-aged married woman is shopping for a new car. The salesmen send her to Cardelia, the agency’s only saleswoman. The story is a humorous and exaggerated tale of what Men’s happens when Cardelia uses the version is also hard sell to get Honey into a new available auto. Over the last fifty years, and probably before that, scriptwriters and stand-up comedians have poked fun at salespeople. In this satirical piece, the script takes aim at the auto sales industry. Buying a car has never been this funny! E-SCRIPT $15.00 (indicate women’s or men’s version) The Men’s Club NEW! Plays just for men! Grown-Up Games By Arthur S. Keyser | 10 minute comedy 2 men Anthony, a ninety-two year old white man, and Charles, a black man in his late eighties, wait on a bench in the passenger area of a train station. Anthony is wearing a backpack and Charles has a piece of luggage, next to him. We think they’re taking the next train but… The dialogue is humorous but, at the same time, poignant. The two men use their capacity for imagination to do more than just survive. Lovely play! E-SCRIPT $15.00 The Gold Standard By George Freek | 20 minute comedy 2 men “Cantankerous, caring, funny…”—that’s how readers describe the relationship between Max and Leonard, a retired real estate agent and retired teacher, who meet over a game of checkers to discuss, grouse, and enjoy life. When it comes to meaty older men’s roles in short plays, there are few that are as deep and charming as these two well drawn, complete characters in a well written play with plenty of life. E-SCRIPT $15.00 Combover By Micheal Bettencourt | 15 minute comedy 2 men Men fret about the state of their hair. So do Dual McKenzie and his barber. Dual is worried that his wife will not like the “thinning thatch” on his head, especially since she seems to be pursuing life with an unnerving gusto. This is a solid play with characters that really talk to each other. You’ll like performing this one! E-SCRIPT $15.00 See also: It’s Your Move in Chatterton Country Club, page 3. It’s Hell Getting Old, page 20 New Car Shopping, this page. 8 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center NEW! A Profusion of Roses By Marcus Steinour | 10-15 minute mystery 2 women Vivian takes care of Anna, who she refers to as “Sister.” When Vivian asks if Anna remembers Patricia, Anna berates her for mentioning the daughter who ran away to get married and broke her heart. Outside, the flower garden Patricia planted is a constant reminder. Sound confusing? That’s the point of this mysterious, alluring play. Well drawn characters in a tight show, this will be a favorite that your audience will remember. E-SCRIPT $15.00 NEW! Stanley’s Choice By Millie Ackley | 30 minute comedy 2 men, 3 women Sally’s birthday is a month away. Her husband Stanley has planned a surprise birthday trip that includes an annual vacation they always take with their very conservative, best friends, Peter and Penelope Page. Everyone is excited about the trip. Sally learns by accident that they are going to Plain & Simple, a nudist colony where she and her husband were members fifteen years ago! It’s a trip--the audience will anticipate the ending, but the actors will surprise them. A funny, well written show that flows well and…there’s no nudity! E-SCRIPT $15.00 NEW! Maisie and Grover Go to the Theatre By Tony Vellela | 10 minute comedy 1 man, 1 woman Maisie and Grover have come to the theatre using anniversary-present tickets from their children. She loves the idea; he hates it. As the colorful couple enters from the rear of the theatre, they bicker and jostle, break up, and make up. This quick, fun, easy show is designed to stand alone or be combined in a program with other plays. Such fun! E-SCRIPT $15.00 Performances | Plays NEW! Special Screening Today By Marcia Savin | 10 minute comedy 1 man, 4 women, 2 either, plus extras Who knows what will happen when you’re waiting in line for a movie? Janice and several others are looking forward to seeing an advance movie screening. Everyone is friendly and cordial until someone cuts in line. They are outraged! Janice discovers that waiting in line can be more exciting than watching a movie! There are plenty of characters and lots of action in this short show. You’re going to love it! E-SCRIPT NEW! $15.00 Sylvia and Myrna By Bob Rinfret | 10 minute comedy 1 man, 2 women Myrna Howard is a retired starlet. Sylvia Goldstein is a retired housewife. What they share in common is that they both live at a retirement village in Florida. Sylvia, however, thinks they are sharing something else. Is it a case of jumping to conclusions or does Myrna’s confession reveal ulterior motives? The surprise ending will tickle your funny bone and open your eyes. E-SCRIPT The Vagabond Players in “Ladies of the Mop.” Ladies of the Mop $15.00 Shoes By Judd Lear Silverman | 15 minute comedy 1 man, 2 women When someone offers you a lightly-used pair of black wingtip shoes, you’d better check out the previous owner! This is a comedy about family obligations, unresolved relationships, and possessions, in all forms. Voted Best Play and Audience Favorite in NYC’s famed 15-Minute Play Festival, this award-winning comedy has received acclaimed productions from California to Connecticut and recently was made into a short independent film. E-SCRIPT NEW! All I Want Is the Recipe By Georgia Tuxbury | 10 minute comedy 2 women In this humorous phone conversation, the Also caller only wants to find out how to make a available in casserole. Instead she finds herself embroiled in Spanish and a conversation that takes off in all directions… French! everywhere, except in the direction of the recipe! This delightful comedy is simple to produce, with a format that allows you to hide scripts, if necessary. The play is easy, light, fun and sure to be a hit with your audiences! E-SCRIPT NEW! No royalty fees! $15.00 $15.00 Starting Over By Arthur S. Keyser | 15 minute comedy 1 man, 2 women Solly, a ninety-one year old widower, sits in a shady spot in an urban park near May who reads a newspaper. Their chat reveals secrets known only to each other. The conversation and relationship is both funny and touching. Easy to perform and sure to make you laugh, theirs is a feel-good story! E-SCRIPT $15.00 NEW! By Aurand Harris | 20 minute comedy 4 women; extras if needed Annie is a faded woman who has not lost her dream of the stage; Mattie, an unimaginative soul; Hallie, loud, energetic; and Bessie, tall and dignified. Annie proposes they entertain themselves while they eat and rest from their scrubbing on the stage. Bessie sings, Hallie dances, Mattie plays a piano number, and Annie gives a melodramatic reading. When, after a disagreement, all four perform simultaneously…it’s hilarious. Non-royalty. $10.00 Clyde, is that You? Jerry Bailey | 10 minute comedy 1 man, 3 women Clyde is a hard-core womanizer and three-time loser in the marital sweepstakes. His journey takes him to Las Vegas for some R & R and perhaps a new conquest because he is still on the prowl. He is delighted to discover that the Red Hatters are holding their annual convention in the hotel where he’s staying and the pickings look prime. What Clyde doesn’t know is that all of his three ex-wives are in town for the convention. None of them know or have even heard of each other, just one of several details of his life that Clyde neglected to mention. It changes during the course of a few hectic moments and Clyde is suddenly up to his ogling eye-balls in angry ex-spouses. This unexpected “family reunion” is a lot of laughs as Clyde uses all of his charms to try to explain the unexplainable. Very funny! E-SCRIPT $15.00 ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 9 Performances | PLAYS At Half Time Winner One Act Play Contest at Canada’s BC Senior Games! By Art Shulman 20 minute very popular comedy 1 man, 5 women, The team in the Over 60 Women’s Park Basketball league has had a terrible first half. They’re losing to Little Sisters of Mercy, a silent order of nuns who play in long skirts. It’s half time and the Coach is beside himself because his team of slow moving, slow reacting ladies is losing 59-6. His efforts to motivate his team don’t seem to work. Then he thinks of a way to neutralize the competition. This fast moving play has plenty of action from the well drawn characters. Lots of standing ovations! E-SCRIPT $15.00 Making a Move By Carl Williams | 20 minute comedy 1 man, 2 women Harvey wants to enjoy his retirement sitting in front of the TV, eating potato chips. His athletic wife, Vera, wants to move into a bungalow at Silverwood Estates. Even their daughter can’t convince Harvey to Award move. Vera conspires to make him winner! jealous of their neighbor, Teddy, an energetic senior who accompanies Vera when she runs. They flirt in front of Harvey. He gets worried and is forced to take action. First place winner in the Stormy Weathers Players’ New Play Festival and winner of the Spotlight Award in the New Voice Play Festival at The Old Opera House Theatre. Williams’ plays have won numerous national competitions, with productions from California to off-offBroadway. E-SCRIPT $15.00 Dinner Plans By Vicki Bartholomew 20 minute comedy 5 women Retired sisters, Maryln and Betty, get together with their three friends, Cora, Peggy, and Alice for coffee and a recipe exchange. They discover, to their amazement and chagrin, that they have all been cooking for the same lovely man! The resolution to the dilemma is clever and charming. $10.00 A HUGE HIT! The Committee By Charles Alverson | 20 minute comedy 3 men, 4 women When Keith enters Sunset Villas retirement home, he has yet another hurdle to clear. He finds himself facing a self-appointed Committee of four who have some pertinent—and impertinent—questions for him. One by one, The Committee quizzes Keith on his cooking skills, dancing ability, attitude toward romance, his golf game and poker skills, at the same time damning Oscar, a former resident, with not-so-faint criticism. To everyone’s surprise, Oscar rises from the audience, comes on stage, and vigorously defends himself, proving to everyone what we all have come to know about The Committee. The show is funny, easy to stage, and moves quickly. E-SCRIPT $15.00 Roses to Plan By Robin Rice Lichtig | 10 minute comedy 1 man, 1 woman An older married couple gives us a sweet and funny look at love in a long-standing marriage. They need each other to keep their lives under control. The limits of their love are tested. They pass with flying colors and more than a few laughs. Winner of many awards. E-SCRIPT $15.00 10 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center Hi Tech By Wes Wetzel | 17 minute comedy 1 man, 1 woman (who plays 7 different voices) plus an off stage woman An action driven comedy about modem life and the frustrations associated with it. A man trying to get his television to work calls Tomorrow’s Electronics and receives the usual, but Very unusual, telephone merryPopular! go-round from the female operator. The man is on one side of the stage in an overstuffed chair. The telephone operator is on the other side with a table and rolling chair. She changes props and costumes for each voice, making a hilarious scurry between phone calling and frantically changes clothes, with wigs and clothes flying in all directions. Great fun! E-SCRIPT $15.00 How to Marry the Minister By May Kramer | 20 minute comedy 4 women Included in the Women are Funny book on page 5, this short play shows the many ways these women connive to get the minister to marry them. It’s easy, fun and can be pulled off with a minimum of rehearsal. E-SCRIPT $15.00 More information about the books and plays plus script excerpts are online at www.seniortheatre.com Performances | Plays Truth in Advertising By Judd Lear Silverman 15 minute comedy 1 man, 1 woman “You learn so much about a person when you vacation with them.” Sid and Marsha have learned much about the world and each other in their long marriage, but were they prepared for this disastrous trip to Bermuda? A funny cautionary tale, based on a real situation, about the things people buy into and the surprises and discoveries that may result! With short lines of dialogue, this script moves along at a clip, great as readers theatre. A real winner! E-SCRIPT $15.00 Boy Toy By Kim Kelly 15 minute comedy 1 man, 2 women Aunt Boo can’t resist a charming telemarketer and she orders a robot to help her with housework. But when “Boy Toy” is brought into her home, all kinds of chaos breaks out and she and her niece, Faye, soon learn that he was more than they bargained for. This short play is lots of fun. With minimal scenery and props, it is easy for the actors to perform and a hit with audiences! E-SCRIPT $15.00 Visit our website to see a complete listing of programs. Waiting for Dr. Hamlett By Doug Stewart 15 minute comedy 6 men, 3 women This delightful romp takes you through the medical morass of Dr. Hamlett’s Padua City waiting room, as ten zany characters collect and distribute Shakespearian quotes as though picking daffodils on a bright Spring morning. This imaginative short comedy is fun for casts and audiences of all ages, giving everyone involved a wonderful opportunity to “Brush up your Shakespeare, start quoting him now!” E-SCRIPT $15.00 Plays by John Clifford A CLASSIC, BEST OF THE BEST! Gin and Tonic By John Clifford | 10 minute comedy 1 man, 1 woman This laugh-out-loud comedy offers a fresh look at the Also Available in problems of senior Spanish & dating. Olive is having a bad day when she is French! interrupted by Stanley, a brash fellow who seems to have mistaken her office for the nearby Senior Dating Service. The verbal duel becomes increasingly hilarious. E-SCRIPT $15.00 The Wild Sister Laura Pfizenmayer is my favorite playwright! I love directing Laura’s work because her plays are so much fun, for actors and audiences alike. — Annie Laurie Wheat, Professor of Theatre, Winthrop University NEW! Forget Me Not New Southern comedy! By Laura Pfizenmayer | 10 minute comedy 1 man, 2 women Edearl is a good husband but sometimes his wife Merle could just wring his neck especially when uptight church lady Maevelyn comes to call. Can love triumph over a broken toilet flapper, a lost cell phone, and a bloody nose or is Merle really just an “enabler” of her sweet husband’s incompetence? This fun, physical comedy is a southern fried delight. Easy to stage and a pleasure to perform, this play won the Down Home Play Festival in Rock Hill, SC and was performed as part of the 9 X 9 series at Theatre Charlotte in Charlotte, SC. It was voted “Audience Favorite” and was performed to sold out audiences. E-SCRIPT $15.00 By John Clifford | 10 minute comedy 3 women Kate and Joanie arrive Great in Competitions! at their sister Marilyn’s house after her husband’s betrayal and abandonment. They are not prepared to find that Marilyn is coping just fine on her own. This funny and touching play explores how sibling rivalries can last far into adulthood. E-SCRIPT $15.00 HIT! Coconut Crème Pie By John Clifford | 10 minute comedy 1 man, 1 woman John Clifford is one of our most popular playwrights. Here’s another easy, delightful script for his many fans. As the play opens, Very Popular! the main character, ‘him,’ is at his first day of work delivering pies for his ungrateful son-in-law’s business. Everything goes wrong. He has the wrong address, he drops the pie, and tries to clean up the mess with a sock. But as a result, he finds a sympathetic woman who understands him. Humorous. Good characters. Another winner! E-SCRIPT $15.00 ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 11 Performances | plays “A great ensemble play with many comic moments!” Eureka Times Standard. Make Mine Metamucil By Dave Silverbrand | Two act, 90 minute comedy 4 men, 5 women, 1 either We read this play and immediately knew it would be a hit in our collection. It’s the story about Gladys who dreams of celebrity in Hollywood and on Broadway. To fulfill her fantasy, she decides to write a play and enter it in a national contest. She is encouraged by an old actor friend who dreams of a comeback and her exercise instructor who sees this as a chance to fulfill his own show business fantasies. The competition turns out to be a scam. This play captures the heart and humor of growing older. It combines laughter, sentiment, and intrigue to make a great theatre experience. It’s been called, “A great ensemble play with many comic moments” by the Eureka Times Standard. The play was written for and produced by a Senior Theatre Company and enjoyed a successful run at a Community Theatre. E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 For longer plays, contact us for reduced-cost cast copies. Reunion at Mt. Sanguine: Class of 1950 — Go Warriors! In The Rest Room at Rosenblooms By Ludmilla Bollow | 90 minute comedy 4 women, plus many non-speaking roles This contemporary two-act comedy reveals the hopes, dreams, and fears of three older ladies who spark their lonely lives by meeting daily in the rest room lounge of an outdated department store and the crazy and touching events that happen when one of them is supposedly threatened. Written by an internationally recognized playwright, it has received raves everywhere it’s been produced. $11.95 At the Border By Bob Wilkins |35 minute comedy 3 men, 3 women, 3 either The Pettiburg Town Hall spans the Canadian-US border and has two mayors in an ongoing feud. Things get worse with the news of pending changes to the border crossing’s administration. The US mayor sees this as an opportunity to assure his re-election; the Canadian mayor is sure that his American counterpart is plotting to take full control of the crossing. The situation is intensified by a meddling janitor, a persistent reporter, and a couple of over-the-hill hippies. International relations are rarely this hilarious. E-SCRIPT $15.00 By Doug Stewart | 90 minutes 4 men, 6 women This is a warm and humorous script of a 50th high school reunion. The colorful group returns to a small Midwestern farm town along with their pasts and their futures. The play comes in large print. It makes for quite an evening! E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 Grand Moves 3rd Place Oklahoma Community Theatre Association New Play Contest By Wes Wetzel | 40 minute comedy 2 men, 6 women Our realtor heroine, who is hosting an open house, is visited by a succession of zany house hunters. First is a group of three women who while they are “just looking,” we learn far too much about them! The next prospective customer is an Eskimo from the far north whose wives told him to find a place in the sun after he received money from Exxon for oil rights. Next comes Cash-Only Katie, a recently retired madam. Finally, we meet the Walters and you won’t believe their surprise! Simple staging, the show was a hit at the Senior Theatre where it’s been staged. E-SCRIPT $15.00 12 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center Performances | plays And Improvisation Improvisation “A Few Good Years”…combines a modern show with mimes that begin and end the acts, it was just like done in classic theatre. Excellent, don’t miss it” — Clyde Morrison, Pinewood News, AZ NEW! A Few Good Years By Penny Petersen | 95 minute romantic comedy 4 men, 4 women, 4-6 non-speaking gender flexible roles A Few Good Years is a romantic comedy in the style of The Fantasticks. Two middle-aged daughters fix Also available as up their reluctant, widowed parents. To give a musical! Libbi and Larry happiness, the daughters See page 22. make a terrible mess of everything. A fake robbery, an actress in a clown suit, a guy’s night out bowling, and a fantasy nightmare add to the hilarity. Mimes, who represent ‘Fate,’ intervene to clear the confusion. The play combines charm and wit with a warm understanding of human nature. Best of all, love triumphs in the end. A hit every time it’s been staged! Simple scenic needs. 2 Acts. E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 Contact us for reduced-cost cast copies. NEW! Old Hams By Robert Rinfret | 2 hour comedy 4 men, 6 women plus extras The Ophelia L. Davis Home for Actors, Musicians and Singers is a 1920’s manor in 21st century Burbank California. Its residents, who have called it home for over 40 years, all worked in film, radio, or TV. They include two sisters, a leading man who could never remember his lines, a man of 999 faces, and a mystic who hasn’t had a correct vision in years! Their friend and former owner of the home, Ophelia Davis, died leaving the older performers in a terrible predicament. The taxes are due and if they can’t be raised, the son of Ophelia’s attorney, Ben, will sell the house so he can make millions when the land is used for a shopping mall. At wit’s end, the performers turn to Ophelia’s Granddaughter and a nephew for help. Using all their acting skills, some clever disguises, and a missing lottery ticket, they manage to turn a garage sale into a hilarious showdown. It makes for a fun filled and unexpected ending. The strong characters and plot makes this show memorable for both actors and audiences! E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 The Improv Game By Bonnie L. Vorenberg BEST This game has been so popular in classes and workshops that we now offer it to you. It makes improvisation quick, easy and fun. The deck of sixty plus who, what, when, where, and why cards provide jumping off points to stimulate creativity, imagination, and spontaneity. There are unlimited combinations for hours of enjoyment in drama class, at parties, or wherever you want to have some fun! Successful with people of all ages and abilities. $15.00 SELLER! Creative Dramatics for Senior Adults By Ann McDonough McDonough teaches you how creative drama can be fun while promoting creativity and imagination. This basic manual helps you structure workshops and classes into a progression, develop and dramatize stories, and guide your program with a 12-week lesson plan. $18.75 NEW! Improv Starters Bonnie L. Vorenberg Now you can liven up your Improv improvisations with these Improv Starters Starters. The deck of 35 expression cards, 8½ X 11” on bright cover stock, can be used as starters for storytelling, in drama class to work on vocal expression, or as a way to stimulate improvisations. The flash card deck will become a treasured tool, especially when you run low on ideas! $15.00 By Bonnie L. Vorenberg A Treasured Teaching Tool for Drama Class, Storytelling, Improvisation… whenever your imagination runs low! See more improvisation on p. 24, “Drama Activities with Older Adults.” ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 13 Performances | Interactive PLAYS Gen. Bingo: A Comedy about Life, Patriotism, Bingo and a Chance to win a Frozen Turkey MR. E’s RADIO SPIRITZ SHOW By Jonathan M. Zaley | 75 plus minutes. 11 roles plus 3 commercial announcers An old-fashioned radio murder mystery suspense comedy, where the audience takes control of the sound effects. A 5-episode cliffhanger. It’s an old-time radio murder mystery variation of a spoof of the murder of Julius Caesar. The station manager of WMOO assigns members of the audience to handle the sound effects for the upcoming live radio performance which turns into one hilarious laugh fest as the audience tries to keep up with their sound effects duties. From horses galloping to creepy footsteps, gunshots, and a whole host of other spooky sounds which were part of what made mystery radio so special. It is fantastically funny and mysteriously murderous...basically, JUST PLAIN FUN! E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 Memories of a Wonderful Life By Jonathan M. Zaley 80 plus minute comedy 3 men, 1 woman, offstage voice You may be familiar with the annual television classic, It’s A Wonderful Life, but this LIVE theatrical version has a little twist! Red-hatted Clarence and George lead the audience on a journey where the audience gets to play the characters of Bedford Falls, New York. Narrated by an older woman and with the help of the cast, they guide the audience through the story using props and feeding them lines. It turns into one hilarious show. E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 By Jonathan M. Zaley & Mary A. Zaley 90 plus minutes 1 man, 2 women, plus audience participants A comedy about life, patriotism, bingo...and a chance to win a frozen turkey. Set in the local VFW hall for Wednesday Night Bingo, audience members are made to feel like one of the regulars out to win some extra money or the grand prize...a frozen turkey! Greeted by Major Payne, a Vietnam veteran and lodge president, the audience is put through their paces to keep Bingo Night in line. They’ll laugh and sing and play some wild and wacky audience games. It has a great comic bit with three male veterans chosen from the audience, so it makes for a fantastic patriotic show, whether for Memorial Day, Flag Day, 4th of July or Veterans’ Day. E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 When Irish Cows are Smiling: The Hilarious MOO-morial Tribute to O’Leary’s Cow By Jonathan M. Zaley | 80 plus minutes 2 men, 1 woman, plus audience participants “A wacky Irish comedy built around Mrs. O’Leary and her famous cow, the zany show returns with all of its wit, charm and laughter,” says The Daily Herald. “A knee-slapping performance filled with friendly jabs at the Irish and cheap cow jokes, “ says The Courier News. Set in March 1872, five months since the Great Chicago Fire, this MOO-morial service, held at the Diggum, Deepe & Dye Funeral Parlour, pays tribute to Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, Daniella Joy, the infamous firebug. E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 The Glass Slipper still Fits: A Senior Cinderella Story By Natalina DePhillips | 70 plus minute comedy 1 man, 4 women, plus audience participants This wonderful and touching story is sure to tug at every audience member’s heartstrings, no matter how old. A widow lives in the attic of her own house because she is mistreated and ignored by her own family. Cynthia Rella ventures out to find that her later years are more fulfilling and exciting than she could have ever expected. This story will most definitely fill your audience’s souls with laughter, adventure, love, and lastbut-not-least...a happy ending! E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 Spare Nothing: A Comedy That Will Bowl You Over! By Jonathan M. Zaley | 90 plus minutes 2 men, 2 women, plus audience participants As they say in bowling centers around the globe, “Split Happens,” and this audience-interactive comedy will have you rolling in the alleys with laughter while you watch one of the league semi-finalists, St. Mary’s of the Alley’s Mixed Nuts bowling team, as they prepare for their big championship game.This show is sure to “strike” a nerve for anyone who has ever bowled or had to live with someone that did! Audience plays some of the characters of the bowling center. E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 14 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center Performances | Interactive & ISSUE ORIENTED plays NEW! You’re The Jury: The State vs Max Cooper By Steve and Susan Shear | 1 ½ to 2 hour courtroom drama 3 men, 2 women, 16 gender flexible roles Peter Lambert moved into a tranquil community and soon began terrorizing the neighbors including Max, an upstanding member of the town. Soon, they were in a feud that escalated on one fateful night when Max shot Peter in the shoulder, causing Dean Palan to veer off the road and die. Get the audience involved with the action. These tested winners have all been hits! Arrested for the attempted murder of Peter Lambert, and the death of poor Dean Palan, Max contends that he “didn’t know the gun was loaded with real bullets” and that his wife, Savannah, switched the blanks for the real thing. Savannah was outraged by the accusation even though she had a flirtatious reputation and was rumored to have been ‘involved’ with Peter. The State argues that rage and revenge were involved in this exciting courtroom drama, laced with humor, in which the audience, as the Jury, must deliver the verdict. Three different endings are provided depending on the jury’s outcome. Unique, interactive and engaging. Comes with the jury ballot, reporter’s questions and more--everything to make this a suspenseful, fun, theatrical event! E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 The audience is the jury! We voted to acquit the defendant, but my wife held her ground and so did three others at our table who found him guilty. The defendant’s wife, with her long legs and big red hat, swayed the rest of us! Issue Oriented Plays NEW! Silence By Brandon Daughtry Slocum | 20 minute comedy 2 women This surprisingly funny short play features roles for two strong senior actresses. The recently widowed Jennie is taken under the wing of her somewhat eccentric and opinionated neighbor, Bettie, a veteran widow who explains the tangled maze of learning to live without your spouse. Filled with sound advice about what to do and what not to do when your loved one dies, this play affects audiences strongly, most often leaving them laughing through tears. E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 Standing Ovation See Also: Stolen Flowers, page 6. By Ross Gray and Christina Standing A Senior Theatre company shows you how to create plays based on issues. Their phenomenon, Handle With Care had over 200 performances across Canada and in the U.S., and was the subject of a documentary film. Trace the project from the first meeting to the touring of a hit. Includes book and video. $34.95 Some Senior Theatres use plays to educate their audiences about issues on a wide range of topics like avoiding falls, nutrition, death and dying, dementia, etc. Issue Oriented Plays spark questions. Host an expert to follow with answers. Very fundable! NEW! ElderSpeak By Jeanette Mathewes Stevens | 20-25 minutes 3 men, 7 women The lead character, after experiencing age discrimination in her work place and seeing how her mother is affected by ‘ElderSpeak’ at the health care facility, comes up with a plan. With the help of her Mom and other residents of Shadyview Meadows, they create a hilarious change of attitude for staff members. The play refers to ‘ElderSpeak,’ belittling forms of speech directed towards older people. Without thinking, many of us talk down to seniors, using and accepting ‘ElderSpeak.’ Here the topic is addressed with sensitivity and humor without finger pointing or judgment. Performances have been well received at retirement homes, senior centers, and conferences for health care professionals. E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 15 eatre K ar s Th r a e eT ok M Rea d Performances | READERS THEATRE KaraokeTM Readers Theatre Like You’ve Never Seen... Or HEARD... It Before! Introducing Readers Theatre KaraokeTM Readers Theatre Has Just Taken A Giant Step Forward! Imagine Readers Theatre performed in a dimly lit room with just the right background music creating a mood for the story. Imagine having sound effects like thunder or pounding hooves to bring realism to the reading. Imagine turning your Readers Theatre performance into mesmerizing “Theatre of the Mind” like those magic old time dramas back in the Golden Age of Radio. That’s Exactly What Readers Theatre KaraokeTM does... And It’s All On A DVD. Your Readers Theatre KaraokeTM DVD has the stage, orchestra, and all the sound effects to make your Readers Theatre performance something really special. Visit our website to see a complete listing of programs. NEW! Roxie McCoy...Private Eye By Jim Gustafson | 15 minute mystery comedy 4 men, 9-12 women Roxie McCoy kicks off ArtAge’s new Readers Theatre KaraokeTM. Roxie is a street-smart, no-nonsense private eye. In this comic sketch, Roxie comes to the aid of an English Baroness with a secret. When a sleazy con artist threatens to expose her highness, she calls on Roxie to save the day. With some unexpected twists and a few surprise revelations, Roxie turns the tables on the blackmailer. Once the dust settles the Baroness’ reputation remains intact and the weasel winds up behind bars. Features several fun commercials to accommodate additional actors, if needed. The Roxie MeCoy... Private Eye Readers Theatre KaraokeTM DVD has the script, background music, and sound effects built in, cued, and ready to perform. $24.95 Comes with the script, music and sound effects on a DVD. Just insert the disc and in a standard DVD player and you’re ready to perform. Here’s How It Works The text of the script appears on a TV screen so your actors can watch the screen and read along. Background music and sound effects are on the disc and timed to the script so they come in right on cue as the actors deliver their lines. The result is a total theatrical experience. No Special Equipment Required Readers Theatre Karaoke uses a standard home DVD player and TV. Just insert the disc and “Raise The Curtain!” DVD’s also include a script to print out and use for rehearsals or in performance. TM A Growing List of Programs Our expanding collection of Readers Theatre KaraokeTM plays include Comedy, Drama, Action, and Mystery. These are all original scripts especially written to take advantage of the new format. The programs feature plenty of roles so everyone in your troupe gets a chance to step into the spotlight. NEW! Love Conquers the Wild West By Jim Gustafson | 15 minute melodrama 3 men, 6 women, double casting possible The melodrama is set in the 1870’s when Daisy Fountaine, a young and beautiful New York socialite is engaged to marry the man of her dreams. However, as the wedding approaches she gets news that her brother, an early settler in the Wild West, has lost his wife to the fever. Faced with raising his three small children alone, Daisy leaves New York, her wealth, and the man she loves to help the family. As the years go by Daisy never loves again and settles in to the hard life of a frontier woman. Eventually an unusual turn of events reunites Daisy with the man she left behind and discovers that true love can tame the Wild West. Features the normal good guys and bad guys that make a melodrama fun! $24.95 16 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center Performances | READERS THEATRE Return Engagement Plays for Seniors, Volume I By Jules Abrams This popular anthology includes ten short upbeat plays for readers theatre. All have been successfully produced at senior residences, senior centers, and drama clubs. It features dynamic senior characters in relevant plots sure to interest many older performers. Easy to use and in large print. $23.95 Many Senior Theatres use readers theatre or script-in-hand performance styles. Characterization is easy, the pace is fast, and actors don’t have to memorize lines. Only a few readers theatre materials are listed here, but you’ll find that most of the plays in collections and single shows can be performed in readers theatre or script-in-hand format. By Jules Abrams Jules returns with another collection of ten short, upbeat plays for readers theatre in large print. Volume I has been so popular that we’re sure your actors and audiences will love these also. $23.95 Readers Theatre Anthology By Melvin R. White Melvin R. White, a nationally recognized authority, brings you 28 stories from the pens of classical and contemporary writers, journalists and playwrights, formatted for Readers Theatre performance. Includes The Taming of the Shrew, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Wind in the Willows, Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, and much more! $19.95 Introduction to Readers Theatre By Gerald Lee Ratliff The basic guide that makes Readers Theatre come alive! Learn how to can produce Readers Theatre in class or on stage by easily adapting poetry, stories, and plays with simple theatrical staging. $19.95 Plays for Readers Theatre By Albert & Bertha Johnson So many senior theatre directors recommended this book that we knew you’d want it in the collection. It includes Macbeth, Tartuffe, Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard, Importance of Being Ernest and Lysistrata. One director told us, “it’s an excellent collection of plays specifically adapted for readers theatre. They vary in length and our audiences love them.” $10.25 Roger Bargainnier Return Engagement Plays for Seniors, Volume II volume II Age on Stage ® Comedies For Readers Theatre Drena Heizer Large Print NEW! Age on Stage®: Comedies for Readers Theatre, Volume 2 By Drena Heizer | Ten 10-minute comedies Here it is—Book Two from the author of the first bestselling Age on Stage®: Comedies for Readers Theatre, Volume 1. Open to any page in this book and you will find quirky characters in humorous situations, and that’s why these short comedies are so much fun for both actors and audiences. “What’s on TV” was For example, we’ve all had annoying restaurant experiences the greatest hit! The but none quite like the one Marge encounters in Lunch With audience laughed Eddie. TV judges are lampooned in the ludicrous Courtroom and laughed! Capers, and Mother Goose characters turn up in ridiculous Lynn Arizzi roles in Law And Disorder. An amateur theatre group stumbles through a mystery play, airline passengers experience a strangely unusual journey, and a department store Santa Claus gets an unwelcome surprise. These funny adventures and many others are included in this intriguing collection of ten 10-minute comedies. $24.95 Age on Stage®: Comedies for Readers Theatre, Volume 1 By Drena Heizer VOLUME I Age on Stage ® Comedies For Readers Theatre Drena Heizer Large Print BEST From chuckles to guffaws, this collection of ten SELLER! 10-minute comedies is a laugh fest all the way. Sparked with funny characters and humorous situations, lively dialogue, sudden surprises, and just the right touch of charming goofiness, these plays are great fun for audiences and performers alike. This collection is an invitation to laughter! Written for and performed by a Senior Theatre company. Read detailed descriptions about the plays online at www.seniortheatre.com. $24.95 ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 17 Performances | SKITS & SKETCHES Lust ‘n Digestion A Laugh and a Half By Marcia Savin | 10 minute sketch 2 men, 4 women or 1 man, 5 women Great play with strong characters and a fun story. It seems like everybody is calling Agnes at the same time—a friend, neighbor, sister, and a repairman. She has only one choice—put people on hold! The show is lively, fresh, and can be used with beginning to advanced actors. By William J. Doody | 7 minute comedy 1 man, 1 woman, a brief appearance by a waiter An older gentleman is all dressed up for dinner and excitedly telling his best friend on the phone about the “blind date” he’s taking out to dinner that night. The doorbell rings. The gentleman’s friend reminds him to bring a package of Alka Seltzer. He opens the door as he is tucking the Alka Seltzer packet into his wallet. But his date only sees the last corner of the blue foil packet disappear into his wallet, and she naturally assumes it is a condom. Sheepish about his indigestion, he simply pockets his wallet and smiles, “Just in case.” Their misunderstanding comically sustains itself to the end of their date in this “romantic comedy of manners.” It’s been a hit at many Senior Theatres. E-SCRIPT E-SCRIPT By Lynne Martin Erickson Have fun with these 45 short skits in large-print, all designed to prompt memories, discussion and fun. You’ll find production notes for the scenery, props, and presentation techniques. They are short, humorous and perfect for those who really will do almost anything for a laugh! Easy-to-use in a three-ring binder. Non-royalty. $29.95 NEW! Can I Put You on Hold? $10.00 Dory’s skits are funny show-stoppers! NEW! $10.00 “No Frills Airline” ...A wild ride! No Frills Airline By Dory Kaiser | 5 minute skit 1 man, 5 women Flying isn’t what it used to be. Take it from these passengers, their flight attendants, and captain. What a flight! Dory Kaiser is back with another one of her short and easy skits that are so very popular. Add 4 chairs and get ready for the laughs to take off! E-SCRIPT $10.00 Now Hear This By Dory Kaiser | 5 minute comedy 2 men, 3 wommen, 1 either BEST This is a fast-paced comedy in which 6 SELLER! characters on a cruise ship continuously misinterpret passed messages, similar to the old telephone game. There’s a ship captain, a brash, aggressive cigar-smoking Senator who always gets his way, a cowering senator’s aide, an attractive lady, and two waitresses. Each hears something differently and passes it on. The results are disastrous as they become increasingly involved in the exchange of messages filled with mistaken information. The play always gets lots of laughs. “Now Hear This is funny, funny, funny. We loved every minute of it.” says one audience member. E-SCRIPT $10.00 “What a delightful By Dory Kaiser | 10 minute comedy time! Your opening 2 women jogging number is BEST Joggin’ Along is a series of five SELLER! comedy sketches involving two always great -it never single, older women. Dressed in exercise fails to bring down gear, they jog to center stage, where they stop long enough to talk the house.” Also Joggin’ Along about what’s going on in their — Audience member. Available in Spanish & lives. Nothing is sacred as they discuss exercise, weight problems, boyfriends, other women, French! and much more. These often outlandish skits produce enthusiastic and prolonged laughter from audiences, and have an upbeat message that seniors can relate to and enjoy. In fact, audiences often applaud as soon as they see the joggers enter. E-SCRIPT $10.00 18 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center Performances | skits & SKETCHES 21 New, Humorous Short Plays & Scripts for Performing Grandparents By Robert O. Redd National Mature Media Awards™ Winner • Easy to Stage • No Royalty Charge • Performance Tested 21 Humorous, New, Short Plays and Skits for Performing Grandparents By Robert O. Redd Winner of a National Mature Media Award, this collection of skits has been used successfully with senior actors in retirement homes and senior centers. Non-royalty and easy to perform. No royalty fees for anything on this page! Use these very short plays in class or on stage in variety shows or revues. Their humor is quick, bright, and lively; the characters are easy to exaggerate; the result is audience applause! $24.95 23 New, Humorous Skit & Play Scripts for Performing Grandparents By Robert O. Redd national Mature Media awards™ winner • 17 Play Scripts • 6 Improv Scripts • No Royalty Charge • Performance Tested • Senior Theatre Themes 25 New, Humorous Skits & Comedy Scenes for Performing Grandparents By Robert O. Redd National Mature Media Awards™ Winner • Easy to Stage • No Royalty Charge • Performance Tested 23 New, Humorous, Short Play Scripts for Performing Grandparents By Robert O. Redd National Contains fun scripts Mature Media with relevant senior Awards™ themes. Winner of Winner a National Mature Media Award, it is being used in senior centers, retirement residences, and therapy centers with great success. Nonroyalty. $24.95 Skits for Get all three for Seniors only $40! Skits for Seniors: Reminiscing Plays By Jean Vetter 1-7 actors BEST Give everyone in your group a SELLER! moment in the spotlight and a chance to be a star! This volume gives you short, light-hearted plays written specially for older adults. Each skit requires no props or costumes. Printed in large-print type, with alternating bold print for ease of reading. Reminiscing Plays contains 14 witty skits with dialogue that will evoke memories of the past – wash day, World War II letters, fashions, fire flies, ice cream, television, Elvis, favorite foods, and much more! $12.95 25 Humorous New Skits and Comedy Scenes for Performing Grandparents By Robert O. Redd Robert is back with another volume of skits and scenes useful for anyone who wants to have fun with drama. Also includes how to perform his “Wall of Wisdom” concept and several quick blackout sketches. Non-royalty. BEST Skits for Seniors: SELLER! Humorous Plays $24.95 31 New, Humorous Skits & Comedy Scenes for Performing Grandparents By Robert O. Redd • Easy to Stage • No Royalty Charge • Performance Tested More information about the books and plays plus script excerpts are online 31 Humorous, New Skits and Comedy Scenes By Robert O. Redd Here is Bob Redd’s latest book of easy scripts for older actors. He’s written 31 short 1 man, 1 woman plays that bring to life a middle class couple, Jack and Irma. They’ll tickle your funny bone as they struggle with the ups, downs and transitions of retirement living. The dialogue is based on the format used by performers like George Burns and Gracie Allen, a married couple who grew up on the vaudeville stage and then graduated into radio. You’re going to enjoy their unique look at retirement life! Like all of Bob’s other plays, the plays are easy to stage and non-royalty. $24.95 5 Buy both Holiday and Humorous for $29.95 6 By Jean Vetter Contains 20 short plays, each with 1-4 characters. Requires no props or costumes and is written in large print. Includes spoof of Dragnet, a cowboy adventure, a zany game show, a visit to an unhelpful doctor, and more. Easy to perform, excellent for retirement communities and in activity programs. They are easy to stage and lots of fun! Includes the very popular short sketch, Oh Doctor! Non-royalty. $13.95 Skits for Seniors: Holiday Plays By Jean Vetter Contains 34 skits for 27 different special days and seasons throughout the year. Written in large print, great for holiday celebrations of any kind. Excellent addition to activity programs. Very popular collection! Non-royalty. $16.95 ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 19 Performances | SKITS & SKETCHES NEW! Navy Bean Soup By Wes Wetzel 15 minute comedy 1 man, 1 woman, 1 offstage voice In this hilarious comedy, inspired by a PBS show, we watch the broadcast of the sophisticated Madame DuJour Men’s Gourmet Cooking Show. The program is seriously sidetracked when she inadvertently gets Cooky Boatwright, a sloppy and overweight retired Navy cook, as her guest chef. There are many belly laughs when the audience learns what’s cooking in the Navy Bean Soup! E-SCRIPT GET ALL OF OLGA’S SKITS for less than $25! Olga Sanderson fills her sketches with unique characters in funny situations. The shows are quick and easy to produce. Like many other directors and audiences, you’re going to love Olga’s sense of humor! tuff Funny Sits 10 Sk by Olga $10.00 • Large Print • Easy to Perform ance • Great for reading or perform By Olga Sanderson It’s Hell Gettin’ Old Carol Burnett Show Sketches: The Old Folks By Carol Burnett 2 characters: 1 man, 1 woman in 8 sketches BEST Here are the original SELLER! sketches just like you saw them on the revered CBS “Carol Burnett Show.” We compiled the “Old Folks” sketches into one collection. They’re the same scripts that Carol and her crew used. Now you can stage them and get the same great laughs! Use them to produce your own comedy show, feature them in a variety show or radio play, or pull out the sketches to practice comedy techniques in your drama class. A donation is made to the Navajo Indian Children’s Scholarship Trust with each purchase. Each is 3-5 minutes long. Comes with 8 cast copies $27.95 By Harry Stutt | 7-8 minutes 3 men Three old codgers sit in the park and soak up the sun while An they reminiscence about audience the past and their youth. favorite! Hilarious sketch! It’s been very popular in variety shows. E-SCRIPT $10.00 NEW! The Further Adventures of Super Hero and Doris Drive By Eddie Ed O’Brien 7 minute comedy skit 1 man, 1 woman Everyone gets older, even the one everybody has depended upon for years to save them! Yes, “Super Hero” is getting older, but he can always depend upon his loyal mate, “Doris Drive,” to see through his problems and get him up and “flying” right! The staging is minimal: She’s upset because he’s not picking up after himself or taking out the trash. He’s got other things on his mind. How they resolve their problems is revealed in a manner that will amuse and delight. E-SCRIPT $10.00 20 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center • Lot of fun! Plays are also available individually by e-script NEW! Funny Stuff: 10 Skits by Olga By Olga Sanderson Now you can get all ten of Olga’s funny skits in one volume. Each skit is 10 minutes long. Comes in large print so the plays are easy to read. Includes: • Th e Wrong Captive 2 men, 3 women • NEW! Those Dog Gone Wrinkles 2 men, 3 women • NEW! Substitute Sitters 3 men, 3 women • Prejudice Meets its Waterloo 1 man, 4 women • Strange UFO 1 man, 4 women • NEW! Mother is Losing It 2 men , 3 women • NEW! Skunked by a Dog 1 man, 2 women • NEW! Singing Drips 2 men, 2 women • The Bug Hunters 2 men, 3 women • NEW! Close Call 2 men, 2 women HARD COPY $24.95 for all 10 SINGLE E-SCRIPTS: $5.00 each Performances | Holiday Plays “We staged “Santa Flunks Retirement” at a reception for residents, prospective residents, and visitors. It was a rousing success! We had as much laughter from the costumes as we did from the dialogue. We got laughs and praise for days!” — Herbert Stevens Some are short, some are longer, all have the spirit of the holidays for you and your audience’s pleasure! Frank’s 75th Christmas See Age on Stage: Comedies for Readers Theatre, Volume 1” page 5 Scrooge with a Twist By Martha McMillen | 40 minute musical plus carols 1 man, 6 women, 12 either in flexible size cast Scrooge with a Twist is a delightful retelling of the beloved Christmas story. The funny, unexpected turns in the story make it a fresh and entertaining piece for any audience. The play revolves around an actor who comes to auditions to play the part of a really “bad guy.” He finds out that he isn’t that type at all and though the narrator prods him to be “bad,” it’s just not possible. What makes this show unique is that it is performed in readers theatre style with some audience participation. The format combines familiar Christmas carols, a Greek chorus, and the usual “Scrooge” characters. E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 The Christmas Coffee By Ann Pugh | 20 minute comedy 3 women, 1 special walk-on role The social committee of a senior center prepares for their annual Christmas Coffee. As bossy Customer chairwoman Ruby fusses, Sandra, an easily Favorite! intimidated worker and Lucy, a fashionable snob, hastily prepare for a special performance by a madrigal choir. To everyone’s surprise, a hip-hop rapper appears onstage, secretly hired by a vindictive employee. A light, lively, fun holiday script that’s easy to produce. E-SCRIPT $15.00 We have many more Holiday plays. Visit www.seniortheatre.com for a complete list. By Brandon Doughtry Slocum | 15-20 minute comedy Gender-flexible cast of eleven seniors BEST Your audience will laugh their way through this SELLER! short holiday play about a Scrooge-type character that gets a special visit on Christmas Eve that changes his bad attitude and his listless life. Set in a Florida retirement community, the play features great small character parts We that require little memorization and present performed “Frank’s seniors as vital members of society making 75 Christmas” a difference in their community. Simple eleven times and staging, modern costuming, and easy-toI can tell you, this follow stage directions make this a low-cost show is a WINNER!” and stress-free production for your holiday Marjorie Black celebration. E-SCRIPT $15.00 “The show, “Frank’s 75th Christmas,” premiered to a standingroom only crowd. Brandon writes in a voice seniors recognize and relate to...the play gets across an important message without being preachy...and those Swann sisters are the funniest thing I have seen in a long time.” Bettie Wilkie, Executive Director, The John. T. O’Connor Senior Center Dance of the Sugar Plump Fairies By Ludmilla Bollow | 15 minute comedy 1 man’s voice, 2 women Two cleaning women arrive on stage to tidy up after a Nutcracker performance and end up discovering a vision of their future. Their mops and brooms transform, a spotlight shines, and they celebrate with singing, dancing, and castoff costumes. This is a fun, upbeat show that’s easy to stage and a perfect way to create holiday magic! E-SCRIPT $15.00 Merry Christmas Caper By D.K. Oklahoma | 60 minute mystery comedy 4 men, 5 women Someone has broken into the senior center and stolen all the food for the holiday Meals on Wheels, including 23 canned hams. Two homeless runaways are discovered hiding in the Center’s attic and the Sewing Circle ladies are drawn into a potentially dangerous plan to shelter them over the holiday. Can they do all this and still finish their teddy bear project on time? What if the Center’s nasty director discovers the fugitives? This is a holiday play that’s filled with typical characters. Some are caring and loving while others are pretentious and snippy. They all come together making the holiday season good for everyone. It’s a perfect holiday show. E-SCRIPT $15.00 HARD COPY $20.00 ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 21 Performances | musicals NEW! Sometimes A Rainbow Story, Lyrics, and Music by Tom Northam 1:45 hour musical comedy including intermissions Music Arranged and Orchestrated by Dick Wooley 10 to whoever wants to be in the show! A 3-act musical comedy centering on the life of Cordy Shelburne, an abused elderly widow, who discovers the meaning of life and the joys of living while surviving on the streets of Washington, DC. By applying the wise and sage advice of a bag lady named Duchess, she enriches her own life and that of others who she meets along the way. Sometimes a rainbow Tom Northam Some people are fortunate; others are not. Some plan Tom Northam is known for his very popular musical comedy, A Bag Full of Miracles. Like all of Tom’s shows, Sometimes a Rainbow is full of toe-tapping tunes sung by dynamic characters in an action-filled plot. When you bring together Tom’s great sense of theatre and combine it with his heartfelt themes, you get award-winning shows that bring in the crowds. When they leave the theatre, they’ve been both entertained and inspired! Contact us for a free perusal of the script and music. ahead; others do not. However, not all gold glitters, for there are people, regardless of their station in life, who can somehow find love, happiness, and peace of mind. There is…Sometimes A Rainbow. — Tom Northam “The musical was an absolute delight. It was charming, witty, and captured so many senior moments, all to great tunes. What a wonderful night of theatre!” — Chuck Miller, Sun Lakes AZ Also available as a non-musical play, see page 13. NEW! NEW! A Few Good Years By Penny Petersen | 95 minute romantic comedy 4 men, 4 women, 4-6 non-speaking gender flexible roles Using the same plot as the longer play on page 13, the musical version of A Few Good Years is a delight. The 12 original songs are uncomplicated melodies which are easily sung, reflecting the feelings of older people. You’ll find soulful tunes, charming waltzes, and hysterical comedic romps. You’ll especially enjoy She Makes Me Feel So Young, I Never Thought I’d Feel This Way Again, and Is It All Right with You? Listen to the music, read the script, and you’ll discover that this is the perfect show for both your cast and your audience! HARD COPY OF THE SCRIPT AND MUSIC …a fun theatrical revue that perfect for senior actors and entertaining for audiences of all ages! $19.95 Contact us for reduced-cost cast copies. SS Shipenshore By Marian Ellis & John Gutberlet | 75 minute variety show/musical 9 men, 15 women in cast from 25 to 40 Just what you’ve been waiting for…a structure for a variety show. You just add the acts! SS Shipenshore is a fun-filled, colorful and happy play about a six-day cruise to Havana in 1955. The ship has a stalwart captain and his excellent crew who serve many passengers, some ordinary, some not so ordinary. There are shipboard romances, a mysterious jewelry theft, singing pirates, dancing girls, and comedians. Costuming the well-defined characters is fun to do and a treat to watch. The revue is an audience-pleaser, even for the grandkids! HARD COPY 22 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center $19.95 Performances | musicals Musicals bring out a wide variety of skills from talented older performers. You’ll like all of these! A Bag Full of Miracles Stories, lyrics, and music by Tom Northam Musical arrangement by Ron Pronk Flexible size cast | Full-length musical Roger Bargainnier production kit “This musical was just perfect for us, with great roles, toe tapping tunes, and a gutsy spirit.” — Mary Sawyer This River is Gold Script, Music and Lyrics by Alvin H. Reiss | 90 minute Musical Comedy 5 men, 4 women, 1 either, plus chorus When residents of the Twin Hills Retirement Community think that gold has been discovered on their property, all hell breaks out. The conflict divides those who live on the North Hill from those who live on the South Hill. Greed and power threaten the peaceful lifestyle that makes the location so popular. The seniors’ spirit and love of life rises above the conflict. What emerges is a new, rambunctious two act musical. Twelve characters take you through the adventure using fourteen songs…some are romantic and wistful, others are humorous and boisterous. The musical is skillfully crafted by Alvin H. ‘Skip’ Reiss, a well-known arts writer, educator, consultant, and lecturer. His humor has appeared in Esquire, New York Times, Family Health, Playbill, and Diversion. Reiss has written other musicals including Tall Paul, A Tall Tale: The Legend of Paul Bunyan. $19.95 National Mature Media Awards™ Winner BEST SELLER! You are going to love this contemporary musical comedy for Senior Theatre. Three song-filled, action-packed acts with mostly senior performers. The story centers on Maggie Hill, an unmarried, newly retired school teacher with a meager pension, and Lady Anne Windesmeer, a recent widow who has been swindled out of most of her funds by an unscrupulous lawyer. Brought together by their common financial straits, the two seniors convert Lady Anne’s home into a bed and breakfast, which becomes the setting for a cast of characters that bring with them hilarity, intrigue, romance, warmth and a twisting chain of events that will shake up your audience in more ways than one. They’re also sure to leave the theatre humming the memorable songs woven throughout this funny yet sensitive look at senior life. Comes in a “Production-in-a-Packet,” so it’s easier than ever to produce a fulllength musical at a fraction of the usual cost. Contact us for a free perusal script and performance rates. Also available with traditional royalties. Call for more information, 800.858.4998. THE KIT INCLUDES • Fully orchestrated recordings of all songs, segues, and underscore music on CD’s • Reproducible script • Sound effects • Set design • Marketing and promotional materials • And much more! “A Bag Full of Miracles is witty and filled with great roles for mature actors. Many of the performers said that this was the best character they had ever played!” — Lisa Manos, Director Produced throughout the US and Canada to full houses, standing ovations, and production companies that made money every time it’s been staged! ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 23 Instructional | how to Senior Theatre Connections: The First Directory of Senior Theatre Performing Groups, Professionals, and Resources By Bonnie L. Vorenberg National A top seller! The winner of a National Mature Media Mature Media Award for Excellence in Awards™ Educational Materials for Older Adults, Winner this comprehensive and well illustrated source book brings all aspects of Senior Theatre together NEW! Makeup for Older Actors— in one volume. Discover funding sources, scripts, books, articles, videos and ideas to create theatre magic with older Defining Your Character By Patti Schulte performers. A must-have! $19.95 This TipSheet shows Senior Theatre performers how to use makeup to NEW! Barrier-Free Theatre: Including Everyone bring their characters to life! Learn in Theatre Arts — in Schools, Recreation, and Arts new techniques, products, and tools Programs — Regardless of (Dis)Ability for a flawless application. Discover By Sally Bailey how to adapt your makeup to Barrier-Free Theatre is a nuts-and-bolts, hands-on, accommodate older skin, wrinkles, comprehensive guide for making drama accessible balding heads, and other ‘joys’ of to people of all ages. Written for drama teachers and aging! You’ll discover how makeup, if applied well, can directors, recreation leaders, therapists, and other group give your acting a whole new sense of strength and leaders, this book explains in simple, non-technical clarity. It makes a huge difference! language how to make accommodations for successful E-DOCUMENT $10.00 participation in creative drama, improvisation, puppetry, traditional plays, and new plays. Sally shows you tips and NEW! Directing Older Actors tricks that help actors gain self-confidence, find new ways By Bonnie L. Vorenberg to express themselves, and work effectively and creatively Directing older actors can be an with others. Easy to read and full of great ideas! $36.00 extremely rewarding experience, especially if you learn some basic techniques and adaptations. Drama Activities with Older Adults: Using the Directing Survey A Handbook for Leaders and the author’s experience as BEST By Anne H. Thurman & Carol Ann Piggins SELLER! a guide, this TipSheet covers Drama comes alive with this practical tips and tricks to help you be handbook. Directing creative drama, improvisation more successful. It includes organization, staging, and basic acting becomes easy with step-by-step memorization, choosing scripts, casting, and more. instructions. Includes 50 activities to stimulate senses, It will help you leap over the barriers so your awaken imagination, encourage interaction, and improve directing experience is exhilarating! verbal communication. Great for use in the classroom E-DOCUMENT $15.00 or for actor training. A wonderful tool for directors. Roger Bargainnier Great, useful book! Learn from the experts! Whether you are a beginner or seasoned professional, these books will help you improve your skills. Our favorite “How to” Book $45.95 Notes On Directing By Frank Hauser and Russell Reich More than a how-to book, this is a tool of immense value to actors, writers, students, and teachers. Here is what all directors need to know, and what every actor and audience member wants them to know. Winner Book of the Year in Foreward Magazine, Winner IPPY for Best Performing Arts Book in Independent Publisher. $19.95 “Notes on Directing” was the best directing book I ever read. I love it and use it frequently.” —Prosper Egan 24 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center The Golden Stage: Dramatic Activities for Older Adults By Ann McDonough Make an entrance on stage! This book introduces you to the art and craft of acting. Includes theatre games and exercises in concentration, relaxation, memorization, and managing stage fright. Learn how to prepare for auditions, analyze characters, and perform scenes. Includes practical suggestions for crafting both musical and oral history reviews, plus six popular scripts. $19.95 Instructional | How To How to Start a Senior Theatre All in One Package, Including Support! Getting Started in Senior Theatre Package This package has the basics to help you start a successful Senior Theatre program. It features the books, TipSheets, and materials that will help you down the path of success. In addition, you get 3 hours of phone consultation with Bonnie L. Vorenberg, ArtAge President with 30+ years of experience in the field. She’ll help you leap over your Senior Theatre concerns. SPECIAL VALUE • Save over 90! • $200 Enrichi ng an O lder Per throug son’s L h Seni ife or The at re Bo nnie Book T L. Vor enberg itle Author T IP SHEET Contains: • Senior Theatre Connections • Seasoned Theatre • Drama Activities with Older Adults • Enriching an Older Person’s Life Through Senior Theatre • TipSheet: How to Start a Senior Theatre • TipSheet: How to Name a Senior Theatre • TipSheet: Senior Theatre Course Outline • 3 hours of consulting regularly priced at $50 per hour. Must be used in one year. Seasoned Theatre: A Guide to Creating and Maintaining a Senior Theatre By Martha Haarbauer After many years of work with senior actors, Haarbauer has written a road map for how to establish and maintain a Senior Theatre. Discover information on how to organize, recruit, and direct older actors, choose appropriate materials, make technical decisions, locate a space, attract audiences, generate funds, and more. $13.95 Enriching an Older Person’s Life through Senior Theatre Bonnie L. Vorenberg Book Title Author Enriching an Older Person’s Life Through Senior Theatre By Bonnie L. Vorenberg A basic handbook and practical guide to creating a Senior Theatre program. Using a step-by-step approach, the book teaches you how to create a program, select materials, and present performances. Includes helpful hints and a valuable appendix to make your efforts successful. $18.95 Aging Artfully By Amy Gorman Amy profiles 12 visual and performing artists from age 85-105. This rich collection of photos and recollections demonstrate the value of creativity during any age of our lives. Includes 7 Songs of Women’s Lives, a CD by Frances Kandl, based on the womens’ stories. A lovely book, inspiring...a joy to read and share. $20.00 Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit By Johanna Misey Boyer Success assured for every arts and aging project you create! From the leaders in the arts and aging movement, this book provides detailed information, examples, and suggestions about how to create an arts and aging program. The 10 chapters, 235 pages cover everything: how the arts benefit older adults, the arts and aging services, program design and implementation, evaluation, public awareness, and more. With an appendix rich with resources, you’ll have plenty of advice and examples to enhance your own successful arts and aging program. $35.00 ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 25 Instructional | TIP SHEETS Course Plan for Senior Theatre Classes These e-documents will answer your most specific questions. Their up-to-date information will help you find success in Senior Theatre. By Bonnie L. Vorenberg Do you teach Senior Theatre in the community? Are you guiding the next generation of college students studying how to do Senior Theatre? This TipSheet is for you. Part One is for classes taught for older performers in adult education, lifelong learning, senior center, retirement living, learning-in-retirement, or related settings. Learn how to take actors from simple theatrical skills to performing on stage. Part Two is a sample syllabus to be used for teaching Senior Theatre in a college or university. Part three is a 6-week plan for sessions in retirement housing. The syllabus has been approved by Senior Theatre experts who work in the field. “Very helpful! It taught me how to teach the class, and saved me a lot of time and effort.” — Alicia Penn E-DOCUMENT $15.00 Writing Plays for Senior Theatre NEW! Acting in Television Commercials By Buddy Powell Across the country, seniors and baby boomer performers are discovering that local advertising companies are looking for bright, charming, and friendly actors to appear in TV, radio, and print media promotions. Learn the skills necessary to pursue this fun (& profitable!) hobby. E-DOCUMENT $15.00 How to Start a Senior Theatre By Bonnie L. Vorenberg When you begin a Senior Theatre, you might feel like you’re out on a limb, working to create a magical company with no road map. Don’t fret. Use this step-by-step guide to help you get started. It includes ideas about how to find a sponsor, how to locate a director and how to select the form of Senior Theatre that fits your mission. Feel secure with advice on how start a company and have fun! E-DOCUMENT $10.00 How to Name a Senior Theatre By Bonnie L. Vorenberg The name you choose for your Senior Theatre company is very important. It shows what kind of work you do and can tie you to a sponsor or a geographic region. Whatever you choose, make it YOU! The TipSheet was developed from an analysis of the 700+ companies in the ArtAge Publications database, the largest in the field. Use this TipSheet to explore the many names being used for Senior Theatres. Then evaluate which ones work for you. Use the handy combination chart to help you select a name that reflects your company. Read about over-used names, favorites, and advice about how the name you choose can affect fund raising. E-DOCUMENT $10.00 By Bonnie L. Vorenberg Playwrights need to understand that Senior Theatre is a unique art form with special requirements. You can’t just set a play in a retirement center! This TipSheet teaches how to craft dialogue, build characters, and develop plots in scripts that are challenging yet fun for seasoned performers. This is an essential tool for playwrights wanting to create works for this burgeoning form of the performing arts. E-DOCUMENT $10.00 Connecting Baby Boomers to Your Community Theatre By Bonnie L. Vorenberg Learn how to attract baby boomers to your theatre. Give them a voice on your stage and you will be richly rewarded. The new generation of older performers is a unique breed. Plan your program right and some of the 77 million Baby Boomers will become active participants in your company. Learn how to meet their needs. Discover directing and programming hints. Start planning now for Senior Theatre! E-DOCUMENT $10.00 Bibliography for Senior Theatre By Bonnie L. Vorenberg As Senior Theatre expands, the number of sources for information grows quickly. Use this complete listing to find the books, dissertations, magazine, journal, and newspaper articles in the field. You will be amazed at the many resources available to help you find success in Senior Theatre. This bibliography will help you save time when searching for information in Senior Theatre, arts, aging, gerontology, and related areas. It’s indispensable! E-DOCUMENT $15.00 New Trends in Senior Theatre By Bonnie L. Vorenberg As Senior Theatre grows, new programs give it vitality while on-going companies demonstrate the strength of the many different kinds of theatre that are successful with older adults. Use this TipSheet to understand the breadth and depth of the field. Discover what’s in it for you. The TipSheet includes the latest research along with statistics, fundable ideas, and facts that give you an up-to-date snapshot of Senior Theatre. E-DOCUMENT $10.00 26 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center Instructional | Funding All around the country, Senior Theatres are hearing “Yes!” Use these up-to-the-minute resources for the best information to guide your fundraising efforts and to help you write winning proposals. Contact us at 800.858.4998 if you need additional help. Make Money Producing Weekday Luncheon Theatre By Jonathan M. Zaley This easy-to-read manual guides you through every step of establishing your own weekday luncheon theatre business. Learn how to use banquet halls and restaurants to entertain senior clubs, tour operators, red-hat clubs, park districts, church organizations, bank clubs and others. Rely on Jon Zaley’s 20+ years of experience to help you: • Find the perfect facility, dates and themes • Offer a variety of performance types • Discover the most successful show ideas • Select mouth-watering menus • Price for maximum profit • Find your audience, market and promote • Make reservations and ticket systems easy • Use minimal staging, lighting, and sound for maximum effect • How to keep ‘em coming back for more! Use the interactive shows on page 14 & 15 for scripts designed for Weekday Luncheon Theatre. $74.95 Storytelling for Grantseekers: The Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising Don’t Just Applaud—Send Money! The Most Successful Strategies for Funding and Marketing the Arts By Cheryl A. Clarke By Alvin H. Reiss This fresh and creative guide contains the Noted arts management consultant, Alvin H. resources needed to help you craft a persuasive Reiss, brings his best 100 money raising ideas synopsis, package a compelling narrative, and into a book that’s sure to inspire. His marketing create a short story approach for proposals. and fund raising challenges, plans, and results Using these suggestions, new and seasoned combine humor with examples of flyers, grantseekers will discover how to channel their brochures, posters, and letters. Learn how to use passion to tell their organization’s tale and creativity, persistence, and resourcefulness to create winning proposals. $29.95 make your program more financially stable and successful. $15.95 IP TSHEET Fundraising for Senior Theatre By Bonnie L. Vorenberg Use this TipSheet to write grants that are funded! It will help validate your project. It features statistics that prove the value of arts and aging, an analysis of the field of Senior Theatre, benefits of participation, and more. Learn how to put a ‘face’ on your proposal. Also includes how to do other fundraising appeals plus pages of resources—online, books, directories, writing guides, and more. Indispensable! E-DOCUMENT $15.00 How to Write Successful Fundraising Letters 2nd Edition By Mal Warwick Transform your grant writing by learning how to make your letters more successful. Warwick’s step-by-step model, with an extensive collection of sample letters, style tips, useful hints and real world examples, has helped thousands of fundraisers win grants. $36.95 Our favorite fund raising book ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 27 Instructional | Create Theatre from memories This excellent book helped me find the dialogue and narrative in the participants’ memories. It made my Life Story class into a great experience! — Wrenn Goodrum Scripting Our Lives: Oral History Theatre A collection of practical methods and script shell foundations By Mark Steven Jensen and Ann McDonough This book will help you create an oral history theatre revue. Here’s all the information to help you start. This groundbreaking work provides a wonderful range of basic script outlines or ‘shells’ for you and your group to insert personal stories, creative works, and reminiscences. With themes like “Dancing Through Life,” “High School Daze” and “Military Memories,” you will be both inspired and delighted. Create wonderful theatre based on memories! $24.95 The Theatre of Memories: Creating Oral History Revues Also includes several very popular scripts By Ann McDonough This practical guide will lead you and your group stepby-step through the process of developing and creating an oral history theatre revue. From selecting a theme, to inspiring stories, to editing your script, this exciting book helps you capture and preserve special memories, stories, and insights from a variety of age groups! $24.95 A Stage for Memory: A Guide to the Living History Theatre Program of Elders Share the Arts By Renya T. H. Larson Share your life stories on the stage! This practical guide combines reminiscence and theatre to help you start and sustain a Living History Theatre program. Learn from this step-by-step guide and create powerful, fun performances. $18.95 Telling the Stories of Life Through Guided Autobiography Groups A customer favorite! By James E. Birren and Kathryn N. Cochran A great guide for creating theatre based on life stories. Learn from expert, James Birren, who has conducted autobiography groups for 25 years. Helps you organize, record, and share life experiences through a proven and effective technique. Perfect for developing scripts from life stories. $20.95 For more plays based on memories, see “A Laugh and a Half” on page 18 and “Skits for Seniors: Reminiscing Plays” on page 19. 28 www.seniortheatre.com ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center The life story adventures that older adults carry with them make excellent theatre! Use these materials to help you transform their stories into dramatic pieces. This very popular format is successful with both beginning to advanced performers—and audiences love it! Legacy Works: Transforming Memory into Visual Art By Susan Golden with Susan Perlstein Use reminiscence and storytelling to learn how to transform recollections into visual art. Great ideas for oral history interviews in a step-by-step program that excites and inspires! $18.00 Reminiscence Theatre: Making Theatre from Memories By Pam Schweitzer Written by a renowned leader in theatre created from oral history, Pam Schweitzer’s book is a comprehensive guide to the nature, practice, and therapeutic effects of theatre created from memories. Drawing on examples from a range of real-life case studies, Pam Schweitzer provides practical advice on how to draw out oral histories, create a script, and develop the material into a dramatic production from your life experience. Excellent, thorough book! $36.95 Age on Stage: Lifewriting Your Monologue By Joy Reilly Learn how to transform your life experience into theatre. Joy Reilly takes you through the writing process as you create monologues that reflect your own story. Use her A very company, Howling at the Moon, as popular book! your model. Their monologues, from funny to deeply personal, will inspire you. They can be used in class or in readings. The second part includes 38 monologues arranged so that they are ready to be performed…making a show that’s easy to put together, with strong impact. $19.95 Theatre with all ages | intergenerational Pass It On! A Guide to Starting Your Own Senior Storytelling in the Schools Program By Nina Serrano The popular intergenerational Stagebridge program is the basis for this practical guide that teaches you how to recruit, train and place older adults as storytellers in schools. $20.00 When you bring youth and seniors together, magic happens! Use these excellent materials to help you learn the secrets to creating successful intergenerational theatre. Roots&Branches: Creating intergenerational Theater NEW! By Arthur Strimling Internationally recognized for its rare combination of community outreach and artistic excellence, Roots&Branches inspires participants and audiences, mining the wisdom, experience, and passion of elder and younger actors to create shows that speak to all generations. Beyond the extraordinary story of the theater, this book is filled with practical advice, including exercises, warm-ups, storytelling techniques, plus insights into physical, cultural, and other differences between young and old and how to bridge the generations. $18.95 Crash By Brian Farish | 1 hour Flexible cast with any number of men, women, adults, young people Created by the well-known intergenerational company, Roots&Branches, this show turns economic crisis into an unprecedented opportunity to bring the generations together. The wisdom, stories and strength of the elders, the ‘roots,’ have never been so relevant, as the young ‘branches’ try to cope with the sudden changes in their economic prospects. How do we live with fear? What gives us security? Can I actually give up bottled water? With its singular brand of theatrical humor, poignancy, drama and style, Roots&Branches uniquely provides audiences with hope, insight, and joy in hardening times. The play fosters spirited dialogue with the audience in a post-show discussion as it opens new avenues of intergenerational understanding. E-SCRIPT $15.00 or HARD COPY $20.00 Mimi and Me “Crash” brings the Roots&Branches together in the best of intergenerational theatre! By Kitty Dubin | 15 minutes 2 women: Mimi (age 90) & Tindy (age 20) We read a lot of plays that are easy to forget, but this one is a show that stays with you! It’s the story of a perky young volunteer who tries to cheer up an outspoken ninety-year old woman who has lost her courage. What begins as a test of wills, ends up as a loving relationship between the two of them. The show was performed in the national tour of “Six Women at Sixty.” The Miami Herald writes, “Mimi and Me celebrates! It’s clever, filled with mystery, revelation, and a surprise ending.” E-SCRIPT $15.00 Generating Community: Intergenerational Partnerships through the Expressive Arts By Susan Perlstein and Jeff Bliss Learn how to create low budget living history plays with kids and seniors. Place storytelling on center stage as you discover the rich and powerful process. Start one of your own and pull it off with success. $15.00 ArtAge Senior Theatre Resource Center 800.858.4998 29 Instructional | bringing the arts to less active Adults NEW! Less active adults respond well to music, movement, and drama. Use these materials to help you stimulate and inspire creativity. NEW! These three ideas work well together! Connecting Through Music with People with Dementia: A Guide for Caregivers By Robin Rio This user-friendly book demonstrates how to use simple music and movements to engage people with dementia, promoting relaxation and enjoyment. Take the authors’ practical advice, add a love of music and you’ll be able to develop a program that prompts more communication for meaningful interactions. The practical advice and list of useful songs will help you stimulate and entertain less active adults. $22.95 122 Best Loved Songs for Older Singers Edited by Bonnie L. Vorenberg These 122 tunes are the most memorable, fun and easy songs used in classes at senior centers, retirement housing and other sites. They are favorites that many older adults will easily recall. Use the large print lyrics in sing-alongs, in Stimu-Drama, or in any music and drama program. Spiral bound. 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Part 2 includes 38 monologues that are ready to be performed…making a show that’s easy to put together, with strong impact. $19.95 Describing Life: Monologs for Women By Jolene Goldenthal The 50 monologues were created to give the actor a way to tell tales, confide secrets, and share laughter with the audience. The age-appropriate pieces can be used for audition, for performance, or in class. Several of the monologues have won awards. $13.99 A Grand Entrance By Ann McDonough & Kent R. Brown You’ll enjoy the 100 comic and serious roles for mature actors in this anthology of monologues plus duet and trio scenes. For advanced and beginning actors, it also includes tips on how to interpret scenes and monologues, discover motivation, portray characters, and more. $18.95 New Monologues for Mature Actors Edited by Ann McDonough This anthology of comic and serious monologues has characters who are a fresh reflection on mature adults. It’s a convenient source book for auditions or acting classes. Also features suggestions and exercises, plus lists of previously published classical, comic, and serious monologues. $19.95 Monologues can be used in class or in performance. As a training tool, they build acting skills. In performance, use monologues to fill that unique spot in your show or to give roles to more actors. They are a real treat! Housecleaning By Arthur Strimling, author of Roots&Branches This delightful, comedic monologue is a hit Great wherever it’s performed! Follow the frustrated monologue! homemaker, Ida, as she swears off housework for more enlightening tasks. It’s short, easy to perform, and a real audience-pleaser! E-SCRIPT $5.00 NEW! The Oldest Living Graduation Speaker By Sandra Fenichel Asher | 4 minute comedy 1 woman Sandra Fenichel High School seniors have invited a senior adult Asher’s awardto speak at their graduation. Sarah Goldfarb winning plays have doesn’t present a long, boring speech. Instead been produced it’s a wise and witty one, filled with stories of across the U.S. and two neighbors who see life quite differently. Of abroad. course, there’s plenty of advice for the young adults but the comedy gives punch to her insights. Such a lovely piece! E-SCRIPT $5.00 NEW! I’m Stayin’ Alive By Sandra Weintraub | 7 minute comedy 1 woman – can also be played by 1 man An older woman finds her life so boring that she voraciously consumes cigarettes and alcohol and ingests as many transfats as possible. When she discovers the pleasures of surfing the web, especially spam, it gives her life a whole new meaning. Now she looks forward to a life of adventure, excitement and sex, all provided courtesy of spam. E-SCRIPT $7.50 NEW! Coming of Age By Nikki Harmon | 7 minute comedy 1 woman, 1 voice over Edna’s gone native! After 51 years of marriage to Max, she took a vacation all by herself – to Indonesia, no less! Back now, sitting on her luggage at LAX, and swamped in layers of batik, the question is, does she really want to go home? E-SCRIPT $7.50