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Nancy Drew and the Secret at Moon Lake
A Nancy Drew stage adaptation based on the 1930 novel The Secret of the Old Clock.
Wowie wow! Go on an ensemble-based, fast-paced ride with teen sleuth Nancy Drew and her boisterous crew.
She's meeting an array of entertaining characters! She's solving mysteries outside and inside herself!
A silly and heartwarming play with a bit of music that can accommodate a small ensemble or large group of eager performers.
- Genre
- mystery comedy with music
- Cast size
- Flexible: 13 F, 5 M, 7 any gender plus ensemble with group and solo lines. Roles may be doubled with abandon for a smaller ensemble.
- Running time
- 60 Minutes
- Ideal for
- younger performers, colleges and universities, middle and high schools, theater camp seasons
- Based on
- The Secret of the Old Clock (1930), public domain
Synopsis
Nancy Drew finds herself in the middle of a mystery about Josiah Crowley's will--and what a will it was! He left his fortune to the nasty Topham family rather than the kinder and more deserving members of the town. There might be another will, a hidden one, but wowie wow, it's going to take a lot of detective work to figure out this one. Thankfully, Nancy Drew is the teen sleuth for the job! With a little help from her lawyer father and her best friend Helen, she'll solve mysteries outside and inside herself as she reckons with life without her mother and the surprise charity ball date she never saw coming.
Roles
- NANCY DREW (she/her)
- a smart and thoughtful teen sleuth
- JUDY (any)
- a naïve and charming young neighbor
- EDNA TURNER & MARY TROXELL (both she/any)
- Judy’s kind great-aunts
- GHOST JOSIAH CROWLEY (any)
- beloved elder who left a will for the family
- ADA & ISABEL TOPHAM (both she/her)
- ops, the greedy & selfish daughters of Topham
- RICHARD TOPHAM (he/him)
- an arrogant and powerful father
- HANNAH GRUEN (she/any)
- patient housekeeper and mother figure
- CARSON DREW (he/him)
- humanitarian lawyer, Nancy’s dad
- HELEN CORNING (she/they), [and MIND HELEN]
- effervescent friend to Nancy
- ENSEMBLE (any/all/every)
- a single entity played by an ever-shifting group of performers and others!
- Playwright Monica Flory (she/her)