Books in Musicals series

Play script by Monica Long Ross. Music and lyrics by Alan Ruch (Score available directly from the publisher, Anchorage Press Plays.) An exciting musical in a romantic wild west setting, bouncing with action assures every audience of rollicking entertainment. Cast of 3 men, 3 women, extras (all played by the six actors). Flexible settings suggest various locations in Coalville, Pennsylvania, and Dry Gulch, Arizona, in 1912.Molly Applegate, a recently orphaned farm girl from Pennsylvania, is lured out west in hopes of finding gold, a new life, and her hero, the Peppermint Kid, about whom she's read so much in THE WILD WEST GAZETTE. Molly ends up in Dry Gulch, Arizona, only to discover there is no gold there, and her hero is really a timid drifter hired to amuse tourists. How she becomes a glamourous star of the silent screen, and accepted the difference between her illusions of the West and reality, is all part of the audience-loved story.

It doesn’t matter how large or small How fat or how thin. What truly matters is what’s within. Being nice to each other and helping out . Even to those that yell and shout. To act like a bully is not right at all. Someday soon they will have their fall. Wilhelmina the Wolf is here to profess. Making fun of others certainly isn’t the best. We know Wilhelmina Wolf is not all bad. But what happened earlier is truly sad. So we choose, today, to forgive. To forget the past and let the future live! Bullies are beings with two halves But in the end…”