All Hero And Villain Melodrama Scripts are Family Friendly mildly PG-rated, but making it a G-rated play is easy since we let you customize any script to your venue and community standards.
Quick online 'script & score & more' delivery right to your computer ... so you can customize each play to tell your town's story. Or buy professionally printed perfect-bound scripts.
Affordable turnkey Melodrama packages that include everything you need for a great play (just add a cast & set). Includes printable scripts and sheet music and even cue-card graphics.
Unlike plays from those pesky other companies - You are allowed to distribute photos and videos and even sell your own DVDs to make more money. We actually encourage it!
During the day ... a mild mannered financial professional. But at night he becomes the Melodramatic Author.
For over 15 years the "Professor" has been perfecting the character that audiences love to hate.
Please know that HeroAndVillain.com Melodramas are designed to be family friendly and G-Rated so that no one is offended unless they have a problem with the standard stereotypical and sometimes simple characters that are a benchmark of Melodrama. Having said that - also know that HeroAndVillain.com melodramas allow you to customize them just about any way that you want. If an old-west late-1800’s occupation is one that you do not want in your production - not a problem - you have full permission to change it in any of our dozen plus musical melodramatic plays. It is up to you. So that means - if a reference to beer or whiskey (common in the old west) might potentially be off limits for your venue or audience - go ahead and change it to root-beer or lemonade if you want. If a play is too long - cut out what you desire. If you want to change the name of a character, or add in a local business as a shameless plug, or adjust the location - with our brand of Melodramas - you have full permission to do any of those as well and ew expect you to customize them ... that is another feature of Melodrams . Yes ... you read that right ... unlike other purveyors of plays you might find online that strictly prohibit any changes ... we encorage it. Some playhouses and schools have turned solo songs into group numbers or eliminated songs to shorten play run time or added additional cue cards for audience enjoyment. If the references to ‘swallow’ birds doesn't work for you - replace it with buzzards or any critter that loves your home town. So long as the plays remains family-friendly and serve the needs your venue - you have blanket-authority to trim, adjust, and modify the play to your heart’s content. You can thank us later.
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.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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