They are full-length melodramas. This enables them to fit into your regular season's schedule. But if you want a shorter version for schools, churches, or community events ... you can customize them to your venue. Other providers of Melodramas prohibit you from making modifications to published scripts. We encourage it. In the past ... Villain names have been changed, local establishment "shameless plugs" have been added, casts were shrunk for smaller venues, casts were expanded so more actors could have fun. No permission is needed to change our Melodramas around to fit your town's history of personalize the play. They are PG-rated, but if you need to change 'beer' to 'root beer' for a G-rating ... no problem.

Yes ... you get to print out copies of as many scripts you might need. Other publishers seriously frown on this and prohibit even the thought of it. Perhaps you have lots of paper, a free copier and lots of time on your hands ... When you pay royalties you get access to a downloadable and printable version of the script and music score. So, if you need to print out another copy when someone misplaces their script ... no problem ... you can stay in the "Hero" category and make extra copies to your heart's content. You are very welcome..

While Hero and Villain plays are available for Theatres and Playhouses, they also work great as fund raisers for civic organizations, clubs, church groups, community centers, mountain retreats or even dinner theaters. These family-oriented melodramas are now provided for a flat royalty fee based upon whether you want to perform a play for a whole year or if you will only be having 5 or less performances. These plays have been produced successfully and are designed to help you have a production that your town will be talking about all year.

Many of those performing melodramas are community theatres, schools, churches or non-profit organizations and so our prices are purposely kept affordable for these groups. When you consider all of the flexibility to change, modify, print, and video our Melodramas ... we think that they are a great value. By paying appropriate royalties you help support this great American theatre art ... and we thank you from the bottom of our Heroic hearts.

PLEASE NOTE: Melodrama royalty payments are determined by how many times a play is performed in front of a audience, whether or not admission is charged. Click on any Melodrama and pay royalties simply through PayPal.

Piano players are the unsung heroes of your melodrama by providing constant underscoring. In case you had forgotten ... underscoring is simply the playing of music quietly under spoken dialogue or a visual scene. It is done to establish a mood or theme, to recall and/or foreshadow a character or plot point in your Melodrama ... which adds so much to tie the entire play together. In the score ... musical vamps precede many of the songs which can be used as character theme music. Some plays have an overture included that helps with underscoring.

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Click this link for the Official National Melodrama Directory: http://heroandvillain.com/directory.html Then email us to get your playhouse or theatre added to the list.