| Jerry R. Montoya is currently the Associate Producer of the B Street Theatre in Sacramento, California. He has worked as a director, writer, actor, designer and stage manager in professional theater for the past seventeen years. Mr. Montoya's adaptations of Treasure Island and The Secret Garden played to sold out houses for the Children's Theatre of California, which recently premiered his original work, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based upon characters from the Arthur Conan Doyle novels. He lives in Sacramento with his wife Erika and their son Malachi. |
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Drama
Full-length, 60-70 minutes
3 females, 5 males (8-12 actors possible: 0-8 females, 0-8 males)
$75.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
Special 33% book discount!
An inspired adaptation of the holiday classic, reimagined through highly theatrical storytelling. Actors whimsically transform from narrators into characters, and beloved carols are sung to alternately joyful and sinister effect, giving this familiar Christmas story a fresh and energetic feel.
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The Secret Garden adapted by Jerry R. Montoya
based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
 
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Drama
Full-length, 65-75 minutes
3 females, 4 males, 1 either
(8-10 actors possible: 3-4 females, 4-7 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
After Mary Lennox is orphaned, she becomes the ward of an uncle in England she has never met. As she adjusts to her new life at secluded Misselthwaite Manor, Mary discovers a secret garden. If she can uncover the mysterious circumstances behind the garden, she might be able to save her sickly young cousin and melt the heart of her emotionally distant uncle. A touching coming-of-age story, based on the classic novel.
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| "Burnett's story has always worked on many levels, and this clean adaptation
goes straight to the redemptive heart of her purpose." |
| --The Sacramento Bee |
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