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By: Eddie McPherson When Elkin inherits huge wealth from Uncle Zeke, he enrolls his hillbilly cousins into the highbrow private school, Gold-Leaf Academy. The school wants to reject the kinfolk when their cultural gap becomes a “black hole” of hilarious miscommunication. But when the school administration discovers that super-rich Elkin may endow the academy, everything changes. Cousin Fester even wins the “Prince Charming” role in the school production of Rapunzel as his sisters become the “Evil Witches.” The country cousins have never been in a school play, so everything turns comically chaotic. Despite his ineptness, hayseed Fester wins the affection of the class beauty, Kayla, who plays the “Princess.” Kayla chooses Fester to be her date to the school dance. Then Fester decides to take all the girls to the dance in his limo. The school snobs who ridiculed them learn that homespun charm and courtesy wins the day.
By Eddie McPherson
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by Eddie McPherson
7 m, 10 w, 1 flexible, extras
Mrs. Brown has moved to Hoke’s Bluff to study rural school life. She’s used to schools equipped with state-of-the-art computer labs and up-to-date technology. At Hoke’s Bluff, however, high tech is an intercom system consisting of an aluminum can with a piece of string attached. On the first day of school, the sheriff shows up looking for leads to cow-tipping pranks. Her study of “these people” may be more than she bargained for. But as relationships are built, Mrs. Brown not only teaches her students a few lessons, but she learns a few of her own. And when Clyde, the school janitor, has eyes for her, she also discovers that there’s more on these people’s minds than just cow tipping.
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by Eddie McPherson
One of Heuer’s best-selling full length play series is now available as a one act. You’re invited to the social clash of the century as Ms Delainie, a high-end wedding planner, and her assistant, Barbie, are hired to direct a simple ceremony for two of Lickskillit’s favorite lovebirds. Grinning with confidence and guaranteed a promotion if the Margaret Hooper-Virgil Sludge wedding is a success, Ms Delanie invites her boss, Mr. Wright, to attend the simple ceremony. But it’s a wild romp before the nuptials are exchanged. The bride doubts the groom’s love, the in-laws are decorating the church with Christmas garland, the Reverend arrives late with notes for a funeral service, and the groom ends up spending the night before the wedding in his best man’s lizard trap. The morning of the wedding is a coordinator’s nightmare. It starts with a skittish bride who thinks she’s promised her love to the wrong man (her mama told her to marry “Mr. Right”), a lost groom and ungracious relatives that refuse to cooperate with fancy city ladies. Too busy with the bride to worry about the groom, Ms Delanie and Barbie work on the threshold of tragedy trying to explain the difference between Mr. Wright and “Mr. Right” to the bride before she ends up marrying the wrong “Mr. Right.”
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By Eddie McPherson
When Grandma Simms comes from the farm to visit her daughter, she finds a situation which is not to her liking. It seems that her daughter, Mrs. Abbott, has become a social climber since the death of her husband. Because of this, the three Abbott children and Sadie, the maid, are having a miserable time.
The very day Grandma arrives, Mrs. Abbott is bringing three upper-crust guests home for the weekend. One of them is rich and snobbish Arthur Carlson, who, Mrs. Abbott insists her daughter must marry although she loves Brandon, a veterinarian assistant. Another of her guests is Miss Quelch, an unlikable spinster, who runs an exclusive girls’ school, to which Mrs. Abbott intends to send Kimberly, her fifteen-year-old daughter. Willie, the thirteen-year-old son, is also suffering because his mother won’t allow him to do anything he wants. She insists that he practice on his violin so that she can impress people with her culture.
Well, Grandma is determined to put a stop to all this, so she comes up with the brilliant scheme of inviting the family black sheep, Cousin Oscar, to Mrs. Abbott’s weekend party. She thinks this ought to sufficiently disgrace her social-climbing daughter and set things straight.
This scheme doesn’t come off quite as planned. Since she has never seen Cousin Oscar, Grandma mistakes a criminal for her long-lost relative and he, needing a hideout, accepts her invitation and even brings his wife and daughter along.
Naturally, the weekend party is hardly what Mrs. Abbott had hoped for, but neither is it exactly what Grandma wanted, for the criminal “relatives” find it necessary to get rough, causing plenty of exciting complications. But when Grandma gets hold of her trusty shotgun, she emerges the heroine of the situation; the police nab the long-sought after crooks; Mrs. Abbott begins to see the light, allowing her children to follow their true inclinations; and Brandon and Grandma get handsome rewards. Plenty of twists and turns to keep the audience wondering and laughing.
By Eddie McPherson
2 acts. Approx. 1 hour.
The quiet western town of Possum Trot has been under
a gypsy spell for two hundred years; a spell that has turned the whole village into clueless nincompoops who have never grown smart enough to progress with the rest of the world. The guilty gypsy’s great grandson (seven generations later), Seymour Justice, has begun his quest looking for this town to break the spell once and for all.
His perseverance pays off when he and his best friend, Edmund, finally stumble upon the lost village. The secret to breaking the spell is buried in a metal box somewhere in Possum Trot. So the search is on and Seymour and his buddy seek the citizens’ assistance (which is a challenge within itself) to find the mystery box. If the spell isn’t broken by midnight, not only will the town remain in the dark cave of ignorance, but Seymour and Edmund will become nincompoops too and must remain in Possum Trot for the rest of their lives.
Available this fall through Eldridge Publishing Company. Contact them at www.histage.com
By Eddie McPherson
(5 MEN, 5 WOMEN)
A headline in the state newspaper reads, “Annual Fishing Tournament Expecting Record Number of Female Participants.” This news is great for women who love the sport of fishing. It’s even better news for men who love the sport of “picking up chicks.” When Brad and his buddies hear the news, they pack their backpacks and head to Weiss Lake where the tournament is being held. Because the guys know that the women at the tournament will be impressed with men who exude expert fishing knowledge, they conduct research by picking up a couple of fishing magazines at the local Seven Eleven. They figure by the time the “chicks” find out the men know nothing about fishing they have already won them over with their “charm and animal magnetism.”
But when one of the men’s inept cousin tags along and accidentally spills the beans to the women about the men’s intentions, the weekend becomes more than anyone bargained for. And then Brad’s fiancée shows up. The women have a plan to put the ego-filled fellows in their place - - and it’s not going to be pretty.
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