OVERVIEW: I am a professional radio drama playwright and performer--having done over 2500 shows (on-air, on-stage, in-studio) since the late 1990s. This page lists my radio and stage-plays that troupes can license for production--for stage, broadcast, classrooms, recordings, churches, workshops, and fundraisers. I charge a traditional royalty-per-performance.
My RuyaSonic radio plays and stage-plays have been produced by Hollywood stars, professional actors, and troupes at community theaters, colleges, high-schools, middle-schools, grade schools, churches, and even family productions. Radio dramas are especially well-suited to fundraisers--as they don't require memorization, extensive rehearsals, props or costumes. The scripts are appropriate for all ages--nothing too "cutesy" or too racy. Think: Mark Twain or H.G. Wells.
Below, you'll find play descriptions, cast size, royalty rates and sample scripts.
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Scripts are delivered as PDF files via e-mail.
NO script-booklets to buy. You print out the PDF and can make as many copies as you need for cast & crew.
(Other play-publishers charge a royalty of $80-$150 per performance PLUS $10 per script-booklet/PDF for each cast-member.) I offer professionally recorded music and sound effects tracks--MP3s you download and trigger during the show.
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Each radio script appendix has a Sound Effects "cookbook" section: How to buy/make the manual SFX called for in the script.
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Royalty fees vary by the particular play, the venue (theater/broadcast/zoomcast/download/classroom/church), and the number of performances.
If you must switch from live-on-stage show to on-demand download, we can apply the royalty-already-paid towards the download fee. I accept credit cards via the free and secure Paypal.com service. Institutional checks and school PO's are OK.
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com and explain about your troupe, venue, and how many performances of whichever play you are interested in. I will reply with full details, including how to pay. You can have RuyaSonic scripts, music, and sound effects tracks within hours.
Tony Palermo's Radio-play Scripts - (several also have stage-play versions)
My scripts employ from 6 to 18 actors and from 2-4 sound effects artists. Radio drama roles can easily be doubled, so they are well-suited for small troupes and educational uses. My plays are written to distribute the dialogue between many characters, because it's not much fun to be "spear carrier" on radio. These shows are suitable for audiences and actors aged 9 to 90, but the dialogue and situations have not been "dumbed down" for children. Check out my script sample PDFs below to see for yourself.
My scripts, musical underscore tracks, and sound design collections have been used by the Museum of Television & Radio, the United Nations FPA program around the world, by Hollywood stars, touring companies, community troupes, college, high school, and grammar students, senior-citizens, and church groups.
NOTE: Fundraiser events are ideal for radio-style productions. There's no need for memorization or extensive rehearsals. I offer shows of varying lengths, to accommodate such programs and single-class-period rehearsals.
A Christmas Carol [radio-play | stage-play | one-man-show ]
A very faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge's redemption - by Anthony E. Palermo
DETAILS/SCRIPT SAMPLES/ORDER INFO: 'Christmas Carol' play as radio drama | stage-play | one-man-show
- Run time: THREE versions available (60-minutes, 40-minutes, 30-minutes)
- Cast size: 8-14 actors (many non-gendered roles)
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $100/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks (MP3): (contact us for price - NOTE: Christmas Carol music tracks available separately
- Pre-recorded sound effects tracks (MP3): (contact us for
price) - NOTE: Christmas Carol sound effects tracks available separately
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $250 for unlimited streaming.
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- Demo audio clip: Scrooge & Marley scene (4 minutes)
Christmas Carol thematic approach notes from 42-page appendix in the full Christmas Carol script
- ABOUT: Charles Dickens’ classic story of Christmas, memory, and redemption. The dialogue is nearly verbatim Dickens. This adaptation has seen hundreds of productions since 1998. It has been performed and recorded by Hollywood professionals, regional theaters, community troupes, at colleges, high schools and elementary students. Pre-recorded dramatic underscore music based on Victorian Christmas carols, plus spooky ghost themes. Pre-recorded sound design available.
- For sample scripts, see the detailed webpages: 'Christmas Carol' as radio drama | stage-play | one-man-show
Auntie Scrooge - a BACKWARDS Christmas Carol [radio-play]
- by Anthony E. Palermo - A comic, modern sequel to Dickens' Carol with a largely female cast
DETAILS/SCRIPT SAMPLE/ORDER INFO: 'Auntie Scrooge' radio play
- Run time: 48-minutes
- Cast size: 3m, 3f, 8 m/f (gender-swaps are permitted)
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $60/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [24 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
- Pre-recorded sound effects tracks [16 MP3s]: $25 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $150 for unlimited streaming.
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
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ABOUT: A hilarious modern-day sequel to Charles Dickens' classic. Auntie Scrooge runs
an ice creamery in New London, CT and is a very nice old gal who loves
Christmas. However, she's being pressured by her money-grubbing underlings to be
more crass and commercial, exploiting the Christmas season. The spirit world
conspires to teach Auntie to be cynical and cold--but ultimately fails. In a
series of strangely-familiar-but-odd visitations, Auntie encounters Marley's
Ghost, ( BOB Marley, not Jacob), the Ghost of Christmas Past-Due, Ghost of
Christmas Presents and the chillingly cheery tech-support Ghost of Christmas
version 3.0. Throw in an ukulele playing, falsetto-singing Tiny Tim, a choir of
cow-carolers and a disastrous Christmas party and you get a topsy-turvy take on
Dickens--that still winds up as warm and sincere as the original. This is not a
snarky parody of Christmas Carol, it's an update!
Musical score includes an audience sing-a-long finale of "Eggnog! Who Spiked The Eggnog?"
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - 'Auntie Scrooge - A BACKWARDS Christmas Carol' - (Truncated) [PDF]
About that Ark... (OR... 'How to Save Pets from a Rain of Error') [short radio-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo -
a comic radio play inspired by the Bible story of Noah's Ark--AND Monty Python's Flying Circus
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 12-minutes
- Cast size: 4-5 actors (several non-gendered roles)
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $25/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music & sound effects tracks [3 MP3s]: $10 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $50 for unlimited streaming
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- ABOUT: short comedy where a certain 600 year-old
animal lover/amateur sailor seeks a mass "pet adoption" to take aboard his
"cruise ship" before the weather changes--but must first undergo a "Home
Inspection" by the local pet orphanage. This show was written for Peter Falk as
the Skipper, with Monty Python's Eric Idle as the suspicious home inspector
("What is this? A houseboat?"), JoAnne Worley as the zany loose-cannon wife,
Joan--of Ark, and Jane Russell as the cruise ships' Entertainment Director.
Sound effects include building the Ark, thunder, a stampede, rain, doors, and a
variety of animal "voices." This short program--about 12 minutes
long--plays like a Monty Python sketch, with a ridiculous twist ending.
The musical score sounds kind of Biblical, but religion takes a back seat to
comedy here. (There's nothing sacrilegious though.
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SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - 'About That Ark...' - (Truncated) [PDF]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo -
a comic radio play inspired by the Bible story of Noah's Ark--AND Monty Python's Flying Circus
Blast-Off! - 'Greetings From The Planet Killer' [radio-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - A pulpy Sci-Fi thriller with a
twist ending, and largely female cast
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 25-minutes
- Cast size: 7-10 actors (many non-gendered roles)
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $40/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [13 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $50 for unlimited streaming
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- ABOUT: An 1950s-style science fiction anthology series
similar to Dimension X. This story, “Greetings from the Planet Killer”
takes place 40,000 years in the future where women have evolved into fierce
space warriors. The show features a spy mission to "Planet X," evil blob
creatures, a doomsday machine, a space battle and startling twist ending a la
Twilight Zone or Black Mirror. The
electronic musical score features classic 1950s synthesizer sounds.
While our Sci-Fi heroine resembles Jodie Whitaker's Dr. Who,
there are plenty of good male roles including evil aliens, a
robot, and an ambitious minister of alien-tology.
NOTE: A 10-minute version of this story is available under the title "Tales of Outer Space," below.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - Blast Off! - 'Greetings From The Planet Killer' - (Truncated) [PDF]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - A pulpy Sci-Fi thriller with a
twist ending, and largely female cast
Bunny-side Up! (OR 'How NOT to Handle Hare Loss') [short radio-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - A humorous short radio-play based on an outrageous urban legend
about silly neighbors, a loud-mouthed dog, and an annoying, gargling rabbit.
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 15-minutes
- Cast size: 7 actors (many non-gendered roles)
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $25/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music/SFX tracks [13 MP3s]: $10 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $50 for unlimited streaming
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- ABOUT: A short, comic dramatization of an urban legend.
The goofy dog brings a neighbor's dead bunny rabbit home. The
dog's owners try to clean up the dead bunny and drop it back at the neighbor's--trying to make it appear that
the bunny died of natural causes. However, a twist ending
delivers a marvelous payback to the sneaks. This 15-minute show has
been enjoyed by workshops--and broadcast audiences--around the world. It employs
an authentic soap opera organ score, one pre-recorded sound effect and some simple
live sound effects. Teenagers
especially enjoy performing this short play. This is an expanded, sillier
version of my old Hare Dryer sketch.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - 'Bunny-side Up!' - (Truncated) [PDF]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - A humorous short radio-play based on an outrageous urban legend
about silly neighbors, a loud-mouthed dog, and an annoying, gargling rabbit.
Colonel Frothingham, Intrepid Antiquitist - 'Egypped Again!' [short radio-play]
- by Anthony E. Palermo - A silly thriller inspired by Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider and Monty Python's Flying Circus
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 12-minutes
- Cast size: 7 actors (many non-gendered roles)
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $25/performance/broadcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [7 MP3s]: $10 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $50 for unlimited streaming
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
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ABOUT: A comic adventure following the British know-it-all, Colonel Cuthbert T. Frothingham, as he seeks ancient treasures across the world to add to the collection of the British Museum. In "Egypped Again!", the Colonel, heiress/patron Harriet Nittlebee and Murgatroyd, the latest in a long string of ill-fated aides to the Colonel, stumble upon the tomb of the first Egyptian Pharaoh, Amen Ra, and run smack into the Colonel's dastardly nemesis, Leslie Slewmarten--as well as booby traps, a gibberish-spouting pastry chef, a mis-translated ancient tale, a pit of vipers, and Sekhmet, the Sphinx-monster that guards the tomb. This short program--12 minutes long--plays like a Monty Python sketch, with a cliffhanger ending.
NOTE: Col. Frothingham also appears in my 1930s Agatha Christie-style "Who-done-it" detective mystery, Inspector Rufflethorpe.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - Col. Frothingham - 'Egypped Again!' - (Truncated) [PDF]
- by Anthony E. Palermo - A silly thriller inspired by Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider and Monty Python's Flying Circus
Eureakan' Havoc! - Gold Rush Days of '49 [radio-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - from [original
author's name goes here, plus year and novel/story]
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 25-minutes
- Cast size: 11-36 actors (many non-gendered roles), 2-4 sound effects artists
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $40/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [16 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $80 for unlimited streaming
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- Demo audio clip:
Gold Rush Letters [MP3] (3 minutes)
- ABOUT: Depicts the history of California gold rush through the
lives of ordinary people. This episode "Golden Dreams, Golden Nightmares,"
recreates one man's adventures in the gold fields of 1849-1850. Our hero pans
for gold, meets other fortune hunters, tours the crowded camps and booming
cities, and gets caught up in gold fever--with all its enterprise, greed, and
hardships. This historical fiction is a dramatic and rollicking western that
features an authentic folk music score chock full of banjo, mandolin, guitar,
autoharp, dulcimer, harmonica and more.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - 'Eurekan' Havoc!' - (Truncated) [PDF]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - from [original
author's name goes here, plus year and novel/story]
'Grim Scary Tales' horror anthology radio series - 2 different episodes
Grim Scary Tales is a horror anthology series similar to Lights Out or the Inner Sanctum Mysteries. The series itself is set in 1955, so the horror is not as gruesome as contemporary horror films or fiction. We offer two different episodes; Both include humorous ads at the very end--to leaven the horror. The two episodes can be presented together to form a Halloween program.
'The Pirate's Curse' [radio-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - An adventure-filled mashup of the
horror and pirate genres
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 25-minutes
- Cast size: 8-12 actors (many non-gendered roles), 2-4 sound effects artists
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $40/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [13 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An addiitional $80 for unlimited streaming
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- ABOUT: Horror story set in 1720, where swashbuckling pirates, mired in the Sargasso Sea, find the Fountain of Youth... and its horrid curse! This classic-style radio drama features a thrilling naval battle, a mysterious sea of lost ships, a ghostly survivor of Columbus' first voyage, a raging tempest, and terrifying twist ending--all wrapped in a spooky orchestral score.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - 'The Pirate's Curse!' - (Truncated) [PDF]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - An adventure-filled mashup of the
horror and pirate genres
'Buried Treasure-Hunters!' [radio-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - Treasure-seeking crusaders in the
13th century run afoul of monsters from The Arabian Nights
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 25-minutes
- Cast size: 7-12 actors (many non-gendered roles), 2-4 sound effects artists
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $45/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [13 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $80 for unlimited streaming
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- ABOUT: Set in Turkey in 1205 A.D., a corrupt army
of knights conquers a city, but finds something truly terrifying in
the caverns below. The story serves as a subtle allegory for
the political “witch-hunts” of the McCarthy-era of the 1950s. This show is
especially popular with students who tend to be both horror fans and pirate
fans.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - 'Buried Treasure-Hunters!' - (Truncated) [PDF]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - Treasure-seeking crusaders in the
13th century run afoul of monsters from The Arabian Nights
Hawk of the West - Rustlers' War-Paint Feint [radio-play]
- by Anthony E. Palermo - A rip-roarin' Old West adventure
akin to
The Lone Ranger or Red Ryder, where the Indians ride to the rescue!
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 25-minutes
- Cast size: 11-15 actors (many non-gendered roles), 2-4 sound effects artists
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $40/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- NO musical score available
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $80 for unlimited streaming
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- ABOUT: Classic radio-style Western, similar to The Lone Ranger or Gunsmoke.
In this original episode, "Rustlers' War-Paint Feint," mysterious, night-time raids
threaten to spark an Indian war! (The "Injuns" are actually the white henchmen
of a powerful land baron.) Here, our fearless lawman, The Hawk, is
caught in a buffalo stampede while his Indian companion, Uzumati, is captured by
an angry posse! Only Prairie Rose, the tough lady rancher, and Chief
Thundercloud, can help our heroes survive this slam-bam action adventure. And
far from stereotype, in this Western, the Indians ride to the rescue! Please note, even though this
is a horse-opera, cowgals have plenty to do in this show.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - Hawk of the West - 'Injuns' At Coyote Creek - (Truncated) [PDF]
- by Anthony E. Palermo - A rip-roarin' Old West adventure
akin to
The Lone Ranger or Red Ryder, where the Indians ride to the rescue!
'The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow' [radio-play | stage-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - adapted from Washington Irving's
1820 short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
DETAILS/SCRIPT SAMPLE/ORDER INFO: 'Headless Horseman...' play as radio drama | stage-play
- Run time: 60-minutes
- Cast size: 12 actors (many non-gendered roles), 2-3 sound effects artists
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $100/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [22 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
- Pre-recorded sound effects tracks [17 MP3s]: $25 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $250 for unlimited streaming.
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- Demo audio clip: The Horseman's origin [MP3] (2 minutes) - Pages 2-3 of the script
- ABOUT: Adapted from Washington Irving’s classic short-story
of Ichabod Crane, bringing to life scenes and characters that were merely
described in the original, including the one-room schoolhouse, the Van Tassel
household, the country damsels, the townsfolk’s ghost stories, singing-master
Ichabod’s terrible choir, the quilting frolic, and the climatic chase by the
Headless Horseman. The treatment is both spooky and funny, with a poetry
duel, a rained-out pie-eating contest and several are-they-or-aren’t-they dream
sequences with the Horseman. As with my adaptations of Dickens’ Christmas
Carol and Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life!, this show is suitable for
all audiences, yet performable by students. However, it is not dumbed-down for
kiddies. I remain true to Washington Irving’s short story, bringing plenty of
authentic 1789 elements—from the traitor, Major Andre, to Isaac Watts, to
Jonathan Edwards, to spooky Hudson Valley folktales
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SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - 'Headless Horseman' - (Truncated) [PDF]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - adapted from Washington Irving's
1820 short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Inspector Rufflethorpe - 'The Twitshyre Murder Case' [radio-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - from [original
author's name goes here, plus year and novel/story]
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 25-minutes
- Cast size: 11-14 actors (many non-gendered roles)
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $40/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [16 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $80 for unlimited streaming.
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- ABOUT: A 1930s-style Agatha Christie-esque detective program similar to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Inspector Rufflethorpe is a classic Golden Age whodunit, with an
English manor and a fresh corpse. In this episode, "The
Twitshyre Murder Case," Inspector Rufflethorpe, of
Scotland Yard, and his assistant, Everett Frimly are called
to a country manor in Margate to investigate the mysterious
"locked-room murder" of Lord Archibald
Farquhar-Bensington. The list of suspects includes Lady
Margaret Bensington, Colonel Cuthbert T. Frothingham, the
mysterious Countess Valeska, Gretchen Laytherly--a West End
ingénue and her beau, Ralph Stellsmore, the rakish personal
secretary, Reginald Sklemsdale, and the family solicitor,
Kirwood Crumpton, Esq. There's a ghostly séance, a series of
baffling murders and a monument to deductive logic when the
dastardly culprit is finally unmasked. See the
program notes for
background info. A snippet/parody of this story appears in
episode 1 of my Rick Lowell, Private Eye
series. This "jolly-good show" features a classic 1930s-style radio theatre
organ score.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - Insp Rufflethorpe - 'Twitshyre Murder Case' - (Truncated) [PDF]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - from [original
author's name goes here, plus year and novel/story]
It's a Wonderful Life! [radio-play | stage-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - from [original
author's name goes here, plus year and novel/story]
DETAILS/SCRIPT SAMPLES/ORDER INFO: 'Wonderful Life' play as radio drama | stage-play
- Run time: TWO versions: 100-minutes & 60-minutes
- Cast size: 6-27 actors (many non-gendered roles)
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $120/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [50 MP3s]: (contact us for $$) - NOTE: 'Wonderful Life' music tracks available separately
- Pre-recorded sound effects tracks [27 MP3s]: (contact us for $$) - NOTE: 'Wonderful Life' sound effects tracks available separately
- Sheet-music for keyboard score (organ, piano, accordion): (contact us for $$)
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - from [original
author's name goes here, plus year and novel/story]
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $300 for unlimited streaming.
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- ABOUT: My very faithful radio and stage-play adaptations of
the 1946 Frank Capra classic film about dreams, sacrifice and redemption in
small town America. My adaptation retains the story structure of Capra's
film--no scrambled scene order like other adaptations, no inserted "business"
with hammy "radio actors" goofing-off before and during the actual "WL" story.
This laughter- & tear-jerker of a show features a pre-recorded score using 1940s
radio-theater organ and piano. Optionally, sheet music is available if you want
to play the score live. Script includes a 100-page appendix with details on
theme, presentation, mics, audition sides, costuming, blocking, how to work a
mic, sound effects "cookbook", theater organ settings and more. My adaptation has been performed and recorded by Hollywood
professionals, regional theaters, community troupes, and by college, high school and elementary
students.
- For sample scripts, see the detailed webpages: 'Wonderful Life!' as radio drama | stage-play
Life’s Little Ups & Downs [radio-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 20-minutes
- Cast size: 7-11 actors (several m/f roles), 4 sound effects artists
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $40/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [11 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $80 for unlimited streaming.
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- Demo audio clip:
Raymond's Jungle Safari scene (3 minutes)
- ABOUT: A 1953-style soap-opera similar to
The Guiding Light and Young Widder Brown. In this
episode, Barbara Jones copes with her brother Raymond’s
strange illness. In a clever use of radio, we venture
inside Raymond’s head to re-live his Safari plane crash
and jungle ordeal. Meanwhile, Barbara’s arch-nemesis, Audrey
Snead (manicurist and manipulator), plots revenge, and a strange package arrives. Our
lively show features classic soap-opera organ and several
commercials for “KlenSo--the modern way to clean.” See
program notes for more. Please note, even
though this is a soap-opera, boys have plenty to do in this show.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - 'Life's Little Ups & Downs' - (Truncated) [PDF]
The Lone Ranger - 'The Rustlers' War-Paint Feint' [radio-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - A rip-roarin' Old West adventure where the
Indians ride to the rescue!
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 25-minutes
- Cast size: 11-15 actors (many non-gendered roles), 2-4 sound effects artists
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $40/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- NO Music tracks provided: - But you can find a
recording of Rossini's "William Tell Overture" and use that for the famous theme.
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $80 for unlimited streaming.
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
- ABOUT: My original script for the classic radio Western
features mysterious, night-time raids
threatening to spark an Indian war! (The "injuns" are actually the white
henchmen of a powerful land baron.) Here, the Lone Ranger is
caught in a buffalo stampede while his Indian companion, Tonto is captured by
an angry posse! Only Prairie Rose, the tough lady rancher, and Chief
Thundercloud, can help our heroes survive this slam-bam action adventure. And
far from stereotype, in this Western, the Indians ride to the rescue! Even though this
is a horse-opera, gals have plenty to do in this show.
NOTE: For troupes worried about trademark permissions, I've created an alternate version of my script with a different hero and sidekick--see "Hawk of the West", above.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - Lone Ranger - Rustlers' War-Paint Feint - (Truncated) [PDF]
The Nativity Play [stage-play | radio-play | Christmas pageant]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - adapted from the Gospels of
Matthew and Luke
DETAILS/SCRIPT SAMPLES/ORDER INFO:
'The Nativity Play' as stage-play | radio drama | Christmas pageant- Run time: TWO radio versions: 30-minutes, 70-minutes (See stage-play and Pageant links above for that info)
- Cast size: 11-34 actors (many non-gendered roles), depending on which version
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $25-$60/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded sound effects tracks [18-23 MP3s]: $25 (one-time fee)
- NO MUSICAL SCORE (yet)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $100 for unlimited streaming.
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
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ABOUT: This retelling of the story of the first Christmas
takes verbatim accounts from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke and infuses it with
drama, pathos and some humor. Mary and Joseph are depicted as humble humans who
must journey through a grim landscape to bring the light of salvation to he
world.
- For sample scripts, see the detailed webpages: 'The Nativity Play' as
stage-play |
radio drama |
Christmas pageant
Radio Ranger - 'Invaders From Earth!' [radio-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - Rollicking super-hero tale of
tunneling mole-ites vs. men from M.A.R.S.
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 25-minutes
- Cast size: 10-13 actors (many non-gendered roles), 2-5 sound effects artists
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $40/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [11 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $80 for unlimited streaming.
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100s.
- ABOUT: A contemporary superhero with radio-like powers--he
can turn invisible, fly through the air, and has a sonic ray blaster, but his
powers fade when he goes under a bridge! This episode, “Invaders from
Earth," pits Radio Ranger and his brilliant scientist colleague, Betsy Blake, against
the invading Mole-ites of the subterranean warlord, Zorg, who seeks to steal Los
Angeles landmarks--including a certain famous mountain-top museum--to use as his
underworld palace. It features a retro-techno-synthesizer score.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - Radio Ranger - 'Invaders From Earth!' - (Truncated) [PDF]
Rick Lowell, Private Eye - 'The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of' - 3 episodes [radio-plays]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - from [original
author's name goes here, plus year and novel/story]
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: THREE episodes - 75-minutes (25-minutes each)
- Cast size: 13-27 actors (many non-gendered roles), 2-4 sound effects artists
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $40/performance-broadcast-zoomcast [$85 for all 3 episodes]
- Pre-recorded music tracks [16 MP3s/episode]: $30 (one-time fee)
$50 for all 3 episodes' music.
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $80/single-episode for unlimited streaming. $250 for all 3 episodes.
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100s.
- ABOUT: A Hollywood-set 1940s-style detective series similar to
The Adventures of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe.
“The
Stuff That Dreams are Made Of” consists of 3 episodes--you can do any single one
or all three. Here, private eye, Rick Lowell
searches for a movie-prop from The Maltese Falcon film
and runs into Nazi agents, crooked dames, snooty art
dealers, actors playing English detectives, and dangerous
gangsters. This exciting and often humorous show is packed
with classic 1940s Los Angeles settings, “hard-boiled”
dialogue, and colorful characters. It is especially popular
with adults, but kids get a kick out of it too. Please note
that it's not necessary to do the series in order--each show
is a complete thrill.
See 'Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of' synopsis and more.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - 'Rick Lowell, Private Eye - (Truncated) [PDF]
Tales of Outer Space [short radio-play]
- by
Anthony E. Palermo - from [original
author's name goes here, plus year and novel/story]
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
- Run time: 12-minutes
- Cast size: 7-10 actors (many non-gendered roles), 2-3 sound effects artists
- Minimum Royalty Rate: $25/performance-broadcast-zoomcast
- Pre-recorded music tracks [10 MP3s]: $20 (one-time fee)
- On-demand download license (audio or video): An additional $50 for unlimited streaming.
- NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF. Troupes
can print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving $100.
-
ABOUT: This shortened version of the full
Blast
Off! show listed above, was created for a
Jet Propulsion Laboratory teacher workshop. The short run time makes it suitable for production within
a single classroom period. This story, “Greetings from the Planet Killer,” takes
place 40,000 years in the future where women have evolved into fierce space
warriors. The show features a spy mission to the mysterious "Planet X,"
shape-shifting blob
creatures, a doomsday machine, a space battle and startling twist ending. The
electronic musical score is entirely 1950s-style synthesizer sounds.
SAMPLE RADIO SCRIPT - Tales of Outer Space - Planet Killer - (Truncated) [PDF]