Book by Tim Kelly

Music and Lyrics by Arne Christiansen and Ole Kittleson

A Musical Spoof of Radio's Golden Age

Characters: 6 male, 9 female. One simple set

A musical spoof that's delightful and easy to produce. Pretty Betty Parker receives a letter from her weird Uncle Philo imploring her help. She contracts America's number one hero, Dan Daredevil. Along with Woof, the Wonder Dog, they travel to mysterious Nightmare Castle where there are modern-day pirates, dangerous creatures, and an arch criminal known only as The Fog! See Dan defeat the beautiful, evil Countess Frederika! See Dan defy the death-ray gun! And when things get too frightening, there's a Crunchy Chews commercial or instructions on how to receive your personal secret decoder.

The catchy tunes are easy to sing, but clever. Songs like: "Think Like a Shark," "The Thrill of it All," "You'd Better Tell."

Suitable for all groups, from school to dinner theatre.

Characters: 5 males, 5 females, optional chorus

This is a delightful, audience pleasing, one-set, musical spoof based on Mr. Kelly's enormously popular hit The Butler Did It. Miss Maple, a flaky society dowager, invites a pack of zany detective writers to a spooky house on an isolated island and forces them to impersonate their fictional sleuths. For entertainment, she arranges some "classic" touches - a hairy face at the window, the threat of an escaped lunatic, no communications with the outside world. What she did not arrange was the body on the sitting room carpet It's up to seedy Chandler Marlowe to solve the bizarre case and he makes a side-splitting mess of it Ultimately, everyone has a guilty secret to confess and the real killer turns out to be the least suspected.

The happy score is dotted with likeable and show-stopping hits: "Murder, Mystery and Mayhem," "The Moth to the Flame," "Cherchez La Femme," "I Know My Stuff," and, of course, "The Butler Did It," among others. Production demands are extremely modest and the cast of ten can be expanded if desired.