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san juan's speakeasy

Also known as "Stop Your Wineing"

THIS MELODRAMA WILL NOT BE AVAILBLE UNTIL THE 2024 SEASON

 A loophole in the Volstead Act (that created prohibition) allowed people to make and consume up to 200 gallons of wine per year in their homes. Vine-Glo was a grape concentrate brick product sold in the United States during Prohibition by Fruit Industries Ltd, a front for the California Vineyardist Association (CVA) back in 1929.

A uniquely Californian product was invented by Joeseph Gallo and sold as a grape concentrate to make grape juice from ... but it included a very specific warning that told people how to make sure they don't do certain things that would easily make wine from the brick. Sounds like a perfect plot for a Melodrama - don't you agree!

If you want to learn more here is a link: https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-wine-bricks-saved-the-u-s-wine-industry-during-prohibition/

Can I download a read-only PDF perusal copy of your script to review? Sure thing ... glad to provide a read-only PDF of this script for you. Simply click the following link:
READ-ONLY PERUSAL SCRIPT DOWNLOAD LINK FOR THIS MELODRAMA COMING IN 2024 

CAST: 8F / 5M plus a piano player and several optional extras if you desire

WHAT YOU GET: HeroAndVillain Melodramas are turn-key productions and include downloadable links for a printable script as a PDF and editable MS Word doc (so you can customize this play), a full musical score, sample rehearsal tracks as MP3 files, resource graphics and photos, plus printable cue-card signs. Some Schools, Playhouses, and Theatres have used the rehearal tracks for performances when they could not find a piano player. The tracks are not made for that ... and live piano is always best ... but with our plays you call the shots.

Many of those performing melodramas are community theatres, schools, churches or non-profit organizations and so our prices are purposely kept very affordable for these groups. When you consider all the flexibility to change, modify, print, and even video our Melodramas ... we think that they are the best value by far. Buy one today.

But if you have a specific production or casting question before you click that buy now button ... go ahead and send the author a message and you will get an answer in the next day or two if the stars align.