Catalog of Plays, Musicals & Radio Plays
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Tower by the Thames
A Musical Comedy by Jack Wann and Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.
There’s real Magic in that Tower by the Thames! Meet American Egyptologist Reggie Wilson and his spunky, newly-appointed London Museum curator daughter, Beth, as they decide to join forces with a famous ancient Roman playwright, newly arrived via the Magic of the Tower by the Thames. There, they round up a zany and elusive comic villain who has recently escaped from one of the Playwright’s long-lost plays. The imaginary and the real combine in a goofy, but surprisingly thought-provoking story to provide a fanciful and interesting evening of theatre enjoyment. The outlandish characters and screwball chases, a blossoming love interest, and an offbeat, but earnest understanding of what it really means to be free, make Tower by the Thames a “mysteriously musical, mighty and magical” evening of delightful theatre.
Jubilee Barndance
A Musical by Jack Wann and Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.
Jubilee, Kentucky, is not a real place, but is depicted as a salute to the many, many stars, hopefuls, producers, technicians, audiences, listeners, and fans of the “little guys” in the history of country music in America.
This new musical hopefully gives long-overdue credit to the values, ideals, and aspirations of the live and radio-based Hoedown and Jamboree shows, which were such a reflection of traditional culture in the rural United States in the 1940s and 1950s.
“They had to come from somewhere…
maybe it was from Jubilee!”
The Dawn of Dusk
Three One-Act Plays
Three One-Act Plays by Jack Wann and Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.
The Dawn of Dusk is a creative combination of the “fiction-science” and magic realism of Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr., and Jack Wann's lifetime of theatrical production on stages all over the country. The three plays in this volume transform performance spaces into other worlds, often surreal, but always provocative and exciting. Get ready to experience everything from talking hedge apples through mysterious solar ecplises to efforts to reassemble the fragmented spirit of humankind. The Dawn of Dusk will rouse your curiosity and feed your imagination.
Cosmos the Stellar Stalker
A Radio Play in Five Episodes
By Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.
Adapted by Dr. Jack Wann
“Cosmos: The Stellar Stalker” might be called “uncanny,” “strange,” and “totally off the charts.” But equally apt reactions to this drama are “amazingly thought-provoking,” “mind-boggling,” and “one heck of a fun journey.”
In a hidden place, we find the evil Marloth projecting his need for survival out into the universe in search of nourishment. He does this in the form of his son and clone, Adrian. The nourishment he requires spells annihilation for its target.
We are now that target. Here on Earth, a special young lad, battling serious limitations, has been singled out as a force potentially powerful enough to join with other more benevolent powers in the universe to confront the nefarious Marloth. To ready the young boy for that which will be required in this effort, the powerful Cosmos and others like him, have arrived to prepare the way.
Bouncing from advertising agencies, television studios, and industrial sites of all kinds to abandoned tunnels employed for the construction of very advanced technologies, the action never lets up as we see that either the evil Marloth and his clone must be defeated or the world we know faces destruction.
Side Step
A Radio Play in Four Episodes
By Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.
Adapted by Dr. Jack Wann
Side Step takes us on a breathtaking adventure into a world of fiction-science where jumping through the Multiverse is not only possible, but necessary in the struggle to defeat the Void and the Great One Marloth. Order must be protected, or our world's face violent digestion and annihilation.
In this tale, our storyteller recounts the dangerous prelude and frightening confrontations that lead to the birth of a very special child.
In the battle between Chaos and Order, it will become clear that this child may provide the key to everything!
Return to Mars
A Radio Play in Four Episodes
By Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.
Adapted by Dr. Jack Wann
Side Step takes us on a breathtaking adventure into a world of fiction-science where jumping through the Multiverse is not only possible, but necessary in the struggle to defeat the Void and the Great One Marloth. Order must be protected, or our world's face violent digestion and annihilation.
In this tale, our storyteller recounts the dangerous prelude and frightening confrontations that lead to the birth of a very special child.
In the battle between Chaos and Order, it will become clear that this child may provide the key to everything!
Voyage Through The Impossible
A Radio Drama in Five Episodes
By Dr. Jack Wann and Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.
Imagine the heroic explorers of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and From the Earth to the Moon joining forces with the son of Polar explorer Capt. John Hatteras to do battle with the nefarious Dr. Ox! Jules Verne left the realm of reality and entered that of fantasy in this 1882 Paris play. What he has to say might surprise you in this modern adaptation by Dr. Jack Wann and Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.!
Pappa Dovey
A Play with Music
By Dr. Jack Wann and Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr.