Fannish Plays and Musicals

Fannish plays and musicals are most commonly parodies of mundane plays and movies. They are frequently faan fiction.

Plays

(ordered by date)

Play	Perpetrated by	Presented at	Notes
Legions of Legions	Art Widner and L. R. Chauvenet	Boskone II (1942)	First fannish play ever performed.
The Birth of a Notion	Robert Bloch and Karen Anderson	1950s
The Demolished Null-A and Now You Don't	Bill Venable and Jack Harness, Fanvariety Enterprises and the Pittsburgh Science Fiction Association‎	Chicon II, September 1, 1952
The Fall of Fen, or Paradise Lost	Dave Hammond and Sol Levin, PSFS	Chicon II, September 1, 1952
Christmas play	Damon Knight, Anthony Boucher, Fritz Leiber, and Robert Bloch	Clevention (1955)	See Sam Moskowitz' Clevention reminiscence for a description.
The March of Slime	Liverpool Group’s MaD Productions	Kettering (1955)	A tapera
Mag Net	Karen Anderson	1956
Beyond the Unknown	Unknown	Detention (1959)	See Sam Moskowitz' Detention reminiscence for a description.
Alice in Thrillingwonderland	Karen Anderson	Solacon (1958 Worldcon)
The Purple Pastures	Carl Brandon	Pittcon (1960)	First published at Solacon
Stage Wars and other skits	Moebius Theatre	Windycon 4 (1977) and other Windycons and Minicon 13 (1978)
Star Wars' Roots	Alexis Gilliland	Disclave 22 (1978)	Avedon Carol played Darth (wheeze, wheeze) Vader.
The Greatest Gondorian Hero		Chicon IV (1981)
Faans	Larry Tucker	ConFusion 101 (1983)	A fannish video shot at various cons in 1981–82
Fanotchka	Andy Hooper	L.A.Con III (1996) and Corflu Wave (1997)
Lucas Back in Anger	Phil Raines & Ian Sorensen	Interaction(2005)	nominated for the 2006 Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Hugo
Shattered Like a Clockwork Orange	Meade Frierson and Penny Frierson

• Plays at FANAC

Musicals

Fannish musicals (also called filk operettas) are usually spoofs of mundane musicals with fannish or stfnal themes, and have a long and honored history in fandom.

Title	Composer	Performed	Notes
1986	Richard Kolker	Lunacon 23, March 14-16, 1980
Asteroid	Julian May and Bob Johnson	Chicon II, September 1, 1952	A ballet danced by the Univer­sity of Chicago Knights of the Ballet, under the direction of Guy Bassett.
Another Part of the Trilogy	John M. Ford	Boskone 34, 25th World Fantasy Convention
Back to Rivets or, Mik Ado About Nothing	Mark Keller and Sue Anderson	Boskone 14	Collected in Rivets!
The Booze Brothers	Ian Sorenson
Captain Future Meets Gilbert and Sullivan	Steve and Virginia Schultheis	1967: Westercon XX, 1972: Boskone 9
The Decomposers; or, Rivets Has Risen from the Grave	Mark Keller and Sue Anderson	Boskone 16	Collected in Rivets!
Enterprise		Minicon 9
Faans II	Book and lyrics by Leah Zeldes Smith		Published as a script in 1988
The Fandoliers, or the King of BaraTAFFia	Ruth Berman
Fundament!	Maria Hamilton	Conine
The Galactic Gaieties	Hal Lynch, Steve Schultheis, and Virginia Schultheis	Pittcon 1960 (Worldcon)
Happy Birthday Doctor!	Katherine Phelps	2014 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Hatty, or St. Simon's Bride	Karen Anderson	1995
H.M.S. Trek-a-Star	Karen Anderson	Baycon	What a Star Trek episode might have been if it had been scripted by Gilbert & Sullivan
Inside 2001: A Space Opera	Alexis Gilliland
Joe Phaust	Lee Harding	Eastercon '73
Jophan!	Erwin S. "Filthy Pierre" Strauss		Based on The Enchanted Duplicator
"Legion of Legions"	Widner adaptation of a burlesque by Chauvenet	Boskone II
Midwest Side Story		Minicon 12, Minicon 33	First performed in 1977. Script published in Midwestside Story
The Mimeo Man	Debbie Notkin, Eli Cohen, Moshe Feder	Minicon 11, Disclave 19, PgHLANGE VI
My Claire Lady	Ian Sorenson	Novacon 28	A send-up of Croydon Fandom
The Pirates of Fenzance	John Pomeranz (with additional lyrics by Mary Bentley)	LoneStarCon II (revived at BucConeer)
Requiem for a Fake Fan	Jim O'Meara	Pittcon (1960)	Performed by CHIAC and LASFS
Rivets Redux; or, What Ever Happened to Helminth of Boskone?	Mark Keller and Sue Anderson	Boskone 15	Collected in Rivets!
Smoflahoma	John Pomeranz	Noreascon 3
Songs from Space	Laurence Sandfield	1957	Not performed as a musical but a collection of songs with a fannish SF frame
Spock in Manacles	Kate Davies & Ian Sorensen	BECCON '85	Collected in The Beccon Plays
Stringworld	Shelby Bush III and Bernard J. Willinger	Rivercon III
Untitled Christmas musical	Damon Knight, Anthony Boucher, Fritz Leiber, and Robert Bloch	Clevention	A fannish version of A Christmas Carol. See Sam Moskowitz' Clevention Reminiscence for details.

• Musical scripts at FANAC

See also Fannish Film, Tapera, Burlesques, Drama, Ian Sorenson.

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