| Comedy/Juvenile. 25 minutes. Two male actors, one female, plus guests. Can be done with minimal set. | ||
The ghost in the closet, the Tooth Fairy, even the bite of the bed bugs, these are real things for Johnny Mystery, public school private eye ... and for his friends, he'll solve anything. Johnny is a bright ten-year-old, who solves mysteries only a kid can understand. His “office” is the monkey bars at the school playground, his best friend is Bradbury, the boy who would rather take interpretive dance and fencing lessons than play basketball, and his favorite pastime is memorizing lines from old detective movies. When pretty and popular Cartier Smith comes to the monkey bars asking for help, Johnny’s first thought is “Of all the playgrounds in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
Unfortunately, he says these lines out loud, confusing almost everyone, including his parents. Written as half-hour radio plays, the JOHNNY MYSTERY MYSTERIES can be produced as children's theater in their original, live radio format or fully staged. |
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| from The Teddy Bear's No Picnic
JOHNNY: What I did find in the room is pretty conclusive, Cartier. I know who took your Teddy.
CARTIER: You do? Really? Hey -- and I bet I know who it was! JOHNNY: Oh, I suppose it's your sister again.
CARTIER: No. Those two, walking up the block! Hey, you! Cartier runs out of the room.
JOHNNY: Who did she see from the window? Oh, no— <dramatic sting> Sven and Bjorn Anderssen. Cartier, wait up!
Johnny runs after Cartier. Noises of a suburban street. CARTIER: (from far away) Hey, I want to talk to you! JOHNNY:
(From far away, breathless) Cartier, wait a minute! BJORN: Well, lookie here! Hey Sven, looks like our old pal Johnny Misery has a girl friend!
SVEN: Hey Johnny Misery, we didn’t see you in school today, I guess now we know why! JOHNNY: The name’s Mystery …
M-I-S-T-E-R-E. I heard about your little joke in the hallway at school this morning. I thought you’d be writing on the blackboard all day. You finished?
SVEN: No ... we’re Swedish— BJORN: Hah! That was so wicked, splashing all those puny third graders with the water fountain. It was like
one of those water parks— SVEN: Yeah! Like … Sven 'n' Bjorn World! BJORN: Yeah, except at Bjorn 'n' Sven World—
SVEN: Hey! BJORN: You pay us not to get wet! |
