Kit Goldstein Grant

A nervous, rules-obsessed juror falls into a panic when he hears the twist ending of a movie, and is told by the judge to disregard it. How do you forget the biggest spoiler of the year?

It’s July 27, 1788, and Colonel Van Leden is throwing a ball to celebrate the ratification of the United States Constitution. However, an unexpected guest arrives – Walters, a staunch anti-federalist, who opposed ratification. When Walters is murdered, the audience must help to solve the case in this murder mystery dinner theater, which was originally written for production at Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site in Albany, NY

Coppélia at the Animatronic Pizza Arcade is an adaptation of the 19th-century French ballet Coppélia, set in a 1985 Chuck E. Cheese-style animatronic pizza arcade, Charlie Cheddar’s.

Hilda and Franz are tweens who have been friends since childhood. It is Franz’s 12th birthday today, and he’s having a party at Charlie Cheddar’s - and the only person who showed up is Hilda.

A lovely ballet dancer, Coppélia, performs as a human guest star in the animatronic show.
Franz declares her the “perfect girl, and instantly falls in love with her. He asks Hilda to be a pal and approach Coppélia for him. Hilda goes backstage and discovers that Coppélia is, in fact, actually an animatronic as well. Shocker!

Hilda comes back to tell Franz, and discovers that the person disguised as pizza rat Charlie Cheddar is actually ballet-
enthusiast and mad scientist Dr. Coppélius! He’s drugged Franz and is about to steal Franz’s soul - using a complicated soul-stealing machine - in order to bring Coppélia to life!

Hilda must use her wits to save Franz - and herself - while sorting out what it means to be the “perfect” girl.

This short musical is fast-paced and fun, while dealing with larger themes of discovering and maintaining your own true
identity.

Philip Herriton's romantic notions of Italy are crushed when his sister-in-law marries the son of an Italian dentist. She soon dies, leaving an infant son behind, and Philip is forced to navigate the sordid work of attempting to buy the baby from its adoring father to give it a "proper" but loveless upbringing in England. This operatic musical is tinged with a dry, sardonic sense of humor as the battle of the prosaic versus the poetic come to a head in this battle over a baby.

Mary, Izzy and Russell don’t talk like you and me – or, as they’d say, youl andabatism meach. Ever since their parents died they’ve been living in seclusion with only one very peculiar book to read. When Russell brings home an unconscious social worker he found in the woods, tempers flare and family loyalties and vocabularies are about to be putage to the testa.

“THE COMMUTERS (AND OTHER CAUTIONARY TALES OF TRANSIT)” is a triptych of comedic tales about the horrors of New York City Public Transportation. Act One, “THE COMMUTERS, OR, A CAUTIONARY TALE ABOUT THE PORT AUTHORITY”, is a horror story set at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Act Two, “DUTCHMAN!”, is a pirate ghost story set aboard the Staten Island Ferry. And Act Three, “THE JAVITS SERVER”, is a post-apocalyptic nightmare centered around the New York City Taxicab.
Each act runs at about 30 minutes, and an ensemble cast of five (any age, any sex, any race) plays all of the roles.

When an eclectic group of neighbors discover their beloved but crumbling community center faces demolition, they hatch an audacious plan to save it by fabricating a crime wave to scare off developers, inadvertently turning their fictional felon into a folk hero and media sensation that threatens to expose the ruse.

A petty government clerk accidentally sneezes on his boss, and desperately tries to make amends before he loses his job. This absurd dark comedy is an experimental chamber musical based on a story by Anton Chekhov.

King Midas was a proud and foolish king who loved gold above all else. In return for helping him one day, a satyr grants the king his dearest wish….all that he touches will turn to gold. For a time the king enjoys his gift; but then the food served to him turns to gold so he cannot eat; and everyone he touches turns to gold so he no longer has a family. How King Midas learns his lesson and finds happiness is the heart of this classic Greek myth.

Children will laugh as the foolish King Midas judges a musical contest between the god Apollo and a tone-deaf satyr; and they will "ooh" and "ahh" as everything King Midas touches turns into gold. The script uses the simplest of stagecraft to create a truly theatrical magical experience.

It’s Christmas Eve in Dikanka, and a blacksmith must find fancy shoes like those worn by the Czarina in the next few hours or lose the heart of his lady love. But when the Devil comes to town, will he give up his soul for a sole? And what will he do about his mother, who is a promiscuous witch? No really, an actual witch.

This loosely adapted take on Nikolai Gogol’s story sets the show in a meta-theatrical universe which combines a Ukrainian 19th century absurdist tone and a modern sensibility, plus a lotta slapstick.

Turkey and Blue Eyes have always been good little girls… until they meet a Strange Girl who tells them she has two tiny dancers in a box, but they can only see the dancers if they are very wicked. They go home and try to be wicked, but their mother tells them if they don’t behave then she will have to go away and send them a new mother with glass eyes and a wooden tail. They don’t want to lose their mother, but they MUST see the dancers. What are two good little girls to do?

It's a contemplative order, but Sisters Edith and Edna never stop talking. Father Benedict is coming to consecrate the new bell tower today, and the Mother Superior is thinking she might have to ask him to excommunicate them, because they NEVER. Shut. Up.

Loosely based on the hagiography of St. Benedict, as related in The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine.

Petty bureaucrat Kovalyov has always prided himself on his good looks and laughed at disfigurement in others, but his tune changes when his own nose up and runs away! Disguising itself as a higher ranking bureaucrat with fancy uniform and plumed hat, his nose sets out on a mad dash through Petersburg, and Kovalyov finds that whatever the consequences, he must follow his nose.

The Nose is a whimsical family musical based on Nikolai Gogol's beloved tale. The Nose entertains with Russian-flavored music and family-friendly humor, while featuring themes and lessons that resonate from Imperial Russia to modern-day America.

The Nose is in English, and a Russian translation is also available.

Based on the true (?!) story of New York's famous Cardiff Giant

Step right up and enter a world of wonder! Emily, a bright young girl with an active imagination, has run away from home only to find herself in the employ of a shady showman, William "Stub" Newell, the owner of a petrified, prehistoric giant. But when P.T. Barnum threatens Stub's business with a giant of his own, Emily has to sort through what is fact, what is fiction, and what's all just a part of her imagination.

Hector and Inez have been poor all their lives—until Hector finds a bag of money hidden in the woods! Inez makes him promise to keep quiet about it: she's sure that a bandido must have hidden that money, and if he finds out they have it... But Inez knows her husband can't zip his lips for long, so she'd better come up with a scheme clever enough to fool a bandido...a scheme involving a peculiar downpour of tamales! Throw in a narrator-cat with a penchant for drama, a hard working miller and her daughter, and of course a bandido armed with hot peppers and squishy tomatoes, and you have a recipe for a tasty musical comedy.

Winner of third prize in the Jackie White Memorial National Children's Play Writing Contest. Finalist for the Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Competition.

A mysterious corpse is knocking about Victorian England, and two unscrupulous cousins are desperately trying to find it - except when they're desperately trying to lose it! If the corpse in the train wreck turns out to be Uncle Joseph then Cousin Michael wins the family inheritance, unless Cousin Morris can dispose of the body first. From pillar to post, from packing-case to piano, the hapless heirs scramble to keep up with the vanishing cadaver in this musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic farce.

In the Dutch city of Edam, famed for its industry, cleanliness, and cheese, they have no time for silliness and imagination. The Burgomaster runs a tight operation, and demands strict conformity. His daughter, Katrijn, longs to be a painter, but the Burgomaster insists she spend her time on housekeeping and cheese making instead.

One day there is a storm and a wave washes a mermaid into the town square. The Burgomaster feels it is his duty to keep her on land and train her to be a good housekeeper.

The Mermaid quickly wearies of these tasks, and determines to return to the sea. To get there she helps Katrijn to teach the Burgomaster a lesson about the importance of dirt!