Montana Molly and the Peppermint Kid

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.