Gerald P. Murphy

A collection of the brief animal tales with specific morals which are attributed to a wise Greek slave. Includes The Fox and the Grapes, The Crow and the Pitcher, The Dog in the Manger, and The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, among many others.

Perseus and Medusa is a fast moving one act musical comedy based on the Greek myth about a young man on a quest to bring back the snake-haired head of Medusa!

Bullies is a one act musical dealing with the problem of bullying in schools. The high school drama club appears before the school board to appeal for transportation money to take their anti-bullying message to middle schools. The board insists on a preview of their message before funding their needs, and the drama club acts out their skits with great success.

One act musical comedy. The orphanage is about to be taken over by a pair of Old West charlatans. Will the nuns and the orphans be able to survive?

Peggy Pullet is doing all the work around the farm while her lazy fowl friends continually take advantage of her wonderful work ethic. However, Peggy finally is rewarded while the others end as a dinner for a wily fox!

One act musical. The Pied Piper saves Hamelin from a plague of rats, but the citizens of the town refuse to pay the piper. When the piper marches their children away, the townfolk learn a lesson about honesty!

One act play based on a Chinese folk talk. A poor family is treated horribly by an evil landlord. Then a magician gives a little girl a magic paintbrush. Anything she paints becomes real, including an island made entirely of gold!

The Prince would love to marry Cindy, but she seems so thick. He decides to search the country to find three people even sillier than Cindy.

A princess must choose the fate for her lover--the lady or the tiger.

The drama club is in big trouble. Unless they can come up with an original musical version of The Wizard of Oz in one week, the school board will cancel this club. Can they pull it off?

Pride and Prejudice is a one act play adapted for the stage from Jane Austen's novel.

One act musical comedy. The king will only allow his son to marry the princess who is able to sleep easily on a bed of rocks. However, one princess balks at this plan, and the prince fall in love with her!

One act play based on the works of Mark Twain. Adam wants a helpmate, but Eve is hardly the helper he was hoping for!

One act musical dramatizing the myths of Echo and Narcissus.

A musical comedy on the rise of Lotta Crabtree, a very young star of the Old West. Lotta Crabtree, well loved singer and dancer during the Gold Rush, became one of the most famous entertainer of her era.

One act play. The Jones family is about to lose the farm and Hardy Scrabble is more than willing to buy it from them on the cheap. How can they keep their farm and still not starve to death. And what in the world is stone soup?