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"Amelia Earhart was excellent and created a real interest in
turn-of-
the-century American history."

Preble County Arts Council, Eaton, OH


Touring Show for Middle Schools, High Schools, Touring to Young Audiences!


Winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award.


One-Act Plays for Middle Schools and High Schools, Students!


Winner of five Ohio Arts Council Playwriting Awards.


Top One-Act Plays for Educational Outreach and School Tours!


A Proven Winner for One Act Play High School Competitions & Thespian Contests!


"Amelia Earhart held our high school students spellbound throughout the performance."

Clark Academy Cincinnati, OH


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"Amelia Earhart was excellent and created a real interest in
turn-of-
the-century American history."

Preble County Arts Council, Eaton, OH


Expanded Cast Touring Show for Touring to Schools, Young Audiences!


Winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award.


One-Act Plays for Middle School and High School Students!


Winner of five Ohio Arts Council Playwriting Awards.


Top One-Act Plays for Educational Outreach and School Tours!


A Proven Winner for One Act Play High School Competitions & Thespian Contests!


"Amelia Earhart held our high school students spellbound throughout the performance."

Clark Academy Cincinnati, OH


ArtReach Touring Plays for Young Audiences (TYA)!


Expanded Cast Plays for Touring to Schools!


Plays for Kids, One Acts for Schools, Theatres, Youth Groups!


Playscripts for Young People, Kids  to Perform!


Scripts
for Young People's Theatre, Drama Clubs, After School Programs!


"Amelia Earhart was excellent and created a real interest in
turn-of-
the-century American history."

Preble County Arts Council, Eaton, OH


Expanded Cast Touring Show for Young Audiences!


Winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award.

 

One Act Play for High Schools! Amelia Earhart One Act play for Middle Schools!
One Act Play for Schools and Theatres!

One Act Play for Middle, High School Contests, For Young Audiences
Small Cast Play, Drama One Acts, Educational Outreach, School Tours!

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Cast List
The Best Play for You
CD Soundtrack Cues
Dialogue Sample


AMELIA EARHART
Small Cast (Touring) Version

CAST LIST
Running Time: About 40-45 minutes
Flexible cast of 3, 1 Male, 1 Female, 1 M/F
Easily adapted for larger cast.

AMELIA EARHART (AE): (F)

GEORGE PUTNAM (GP): (M) 
Amelia's husband.
(Also plays PAUL MANTZ, COMMANDER THOMPSON, other characters.)

REPORTER: (M/F)
Present day news reporter researching Amelia Earhart.
(Also plays other characters.)

Small Cast Script & Royalty - Please contact: Dramatic Publishing

AMELIA EARHART
Expanded Cast Version

CAST LIST
Running Time: About 40-45 minutes
Flexible cast of 11, 3 Male, 1 Female, 7 M/F
Easily adapted for larger/smaller cast.

AMELIA EARHART (AE): (F)

REPORTER: (M/F, 120 LINES)
Present day newspaper reporter researching Amelia Earhart.

GRACE: (M/F, 30 LINES)
History Teller.

EDWIN: (M/F, 32 LINES)
History Teller.

MURIEL: (M/F, 29 LINES)
History Teller.

SAMUEL: (M/F, 32 LINES)
History Teller.

GEORGE PUTNAM (GP): (M, 127 LINES)
Amelia's agent, publisher and husband.

PAUL MANTZ: (M, 13 LINES)
Hollywood stunt man, Amelia's tutor.

RADIO ANNOUNCER: (M/F, 12 LINES)

COMMANDER THOMPSON: (M, 24 LINES)
Naval Commander of the ship, Itasca.

ITASCA RADIO OPERATOR (IRO): (M/F, 15 LINES)


Exciting Drama for Young People! One Act Plays for Children - Amelia Earhart Great Play for Young People - Amelia Earhart!
ArtReach Touring Theatre, Cincinnati -- Florida Rep, Fort Myers
Excellent for Young Performers or Young Adult Audiences!


AMELIA EARHART
WHY IS THIS PLAY BEST FOR YOUR SCHOOL?

Easy Choice! Top Quality! All of these plays were professionally developed by ArtReach Touring Theatre or were commissioned by Professional LORTS like Florida Rep and Rep of St. Louis.  All have had professional tours to theatres and schools across the country.  Many have won awards in High School One Act Play Contests, Drama and Thespian Speech and Theatre Competitions.

Easy Staging and Travel!  Competitions rarely take place on your own stage!  These One Act Plays have been designed to travel to the Contest Host Theatre on that important competition day. All have easy staging, simple sets & costumes, minimal props, flexible tech for a mainstage or gym/open facility performance space.  At last your students can worry about their performance, not the set!

  Easy to Adapt with Flexible Casting!  When you license any of our One Act Plays you have permission to cut, adapt and adjust cast size!  You also have permission to make a video or DVD of the production!  At last, you are allowed to adapt a play to your students' needs!

Easy Budget!  These One Act Plays, can be successfully produced on limited budgets and by small or expanded student casts with little or no tech assistance.  Many have great background CDs for an easy, inexpensive professional touch! 

Easy Ordering!  Follow the steps to order and pay your royalty, once you've paid,  you're good to go!  No complicated applications and the endless trouble of getting permission to make changes for your students' needs!

Tried and True!  Our One Act Plays have been performed literally thousands of times by many professional theatres such as Stella Adler Theatre, Solano Youth Theatre, Nebraska Theatre Caravan, Singapore Repertory Theatre, George Street Players, Fulton Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Boarshead Theatre, Virginia Stage, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Kennedy Center and Sundance Children's Theatre, to name a few.  High Schools, Junior Highs, Middle Schools have been performing these plays for over 30 years!

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AMELIA EARHART
CD SOUNDTRACK CUES
Cues, sound effects, original background music

The CD Soundtrack contains special sound effects and background music (original music written for the play) that may be used to greatly enhance the performance. It does not contain music for the performers to sing along with. Cues have 10 seconds of silence at the end - times shown below include silence.

 1. AE THEME, RADIO  (4:42)

 2. JAZZY MUSIC 1  (1:35)

 3. AIRPLANE ENGINE, FANFARE  (1:59)

 4. APPLAUSE  (1:42)

 5. JAZZY MUSIC 1 (REPEAT)  (1:35)

 6. FLIGHT MUSIC, LANDING, APPLAUSE  (4:32)

 7. JAZZY MUSIC 2  (0:39)

 8. FLIGHT MUSIC  (0:42)

 9. AIRPLANE ENGINE  (0:53) 

 10. FLIGHT MUSIC, RADIO  (4:06)

 11. AE THEME  (1:59)

Music & Sound Resources Available on the Internet
( Sheet Music, Song Books, CDs, DVDs, Sing-along, Karaoke, Sound Effects )

 


AMELIA EARHART
DIALOGUE SAMPLE
Expanded Cast Version

Amelia Earhart is lively and fast-paced, with clever dialogue, well-drawn characters and lots of spell-binding drama.  This scene depicts her last flight, the moment she lost contact with the Itasca and the world.

COMMANDER: She's got exactly one half hour of fuel left. You know that?

IRO: (Increasingly urgent.) Itasca to Earhart. We can't take a bearing on you at 3105 kilocycles. Please send on 500 or 7500.

COMMANDER: Well?

IRO: Nothing. Nothing at all.

AE: (Suddenly and loud.)  KHAQQ calling Itasca! We must be on you but we cannot see you! Gas is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at an altitude of 1,000 feet.

COMMANDER: Ahh! She hasn't heard us at all!

IRO: Something's wrong.

COMMANDER: You can say that again. The sun just came up! Without radio help, she'll never find her way in that glare.

(AE shields her eyes.)

IRO: But how could there be anything wrong with her radio? I mean, this is Amelia Earhart - she's got to have the best money can buy!

COMMANDER: Try the other frequencies!

IRO: I am! Constantly.

COMMANDER: (Grabbing the microphone.) Itasca to Earhart. We are receiving your message. Please acknowledge. Please acknowledge.

AE: (Increasingly urgent.) We must be on you but we cannot see you. Gas is running low.

COMMANDER: We are transmitting constantly on 7500 kilocycles, 3105 kilocycles and 500 kilocycles!

AE: We are on the line position 157-337. Will repeat this message on 6210.

IRO: (Grabbing mic.) No! Please stay on 3105. Do not hear you on 6210!

COMMANDER: Oh, buddy, she is running out of time. If we don't get a bearing on her soon...

AE: (Frightened.) Fuel is running low. We are running North and South!

COMMANDER: North and South? North and South of what? We need another position!

AE: We are running North and South!

(SOUND CUE #11. Sudden silence. IRO and COMMANDER freeze. AE calmly and gracefully descends from cockpit and moves UC to get model plane. We hear the music used before but now it is more eerie. She lifts plane high above her head and "flies' it slowly around the stage, then silently carries it off. Music fades as COMMANDER and IRO exit.  REPORTER enters.)

REPORTER: And those were the last words anyone ever heard Amelia Earhart speak.

(GP enters as himself, out of the scene, distraught.)

G.P. was waiting for A.E. in San Francisco. He had a big Fourth of July Welcome planned. He told the Chronicle...

GP: (Very upset—trying to be calm for the press.) A.E. will pull through. She has more courage than anyone I know. I am worried, of course, but I have confidence in her ability to handle any situation.

REPORTER: Commander Thompson called out the big guns and they searched sixteen days. Every neighboring island, miles and miles of shark-infested waters. The world was in shock.

GP: World Flyer Lost! Fuel Supply Runs Low.

REPORTER: Warship Catches Faint Signal.

GP: Amelia Floating in the Pacific!

REPORTER: Amelia Missing in the Pacific!

GP: (Near tears.) Disaster Ends All Hope.

(GP is devastated and exits. Ominous music again, the high frequency of her whistle, sound that holds tension.)

REPORTER: What happened, Amelia?

Note: This is a sample from the actual script.  To review the entire play, order the PERUSAL SCRIPT (online instant download).

 Expanded Version:
Recommended for Jr High, Middle Schools, High Schools, Theatres.
(Flexible Cast of 11:  3 male, 1 female, 7 male/female.)
Touring Version:
Recommended for Professional Tours and Outreach Programs.
Cast of 3, for Adult Actors.  Larger Cast Possible.
(2 male, 1 female or 1 male, 2 female.)
READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, SOUND CUES


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Links

Heroes in History Amelia Costume

Amelia Earhart Costume Kit

Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart

Amelia (2009)

The Official Website of Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart, Young Air Pioneer

Amelia Earhart American Aviatrix 1897 - 1937

Surfing the Net with Kids -- Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart's Legacy Remembered

Ben Ney Makeup

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