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
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Legions of Legions |
Art Widner and L. R. Chauvenet |
Boskone II (1942) |
First fannish play ever performed.
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The Birth of a Notion |
Robert Bloch and Karen Anderson |
1950s |
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Who Goes Where |
S-F Soap Opera Company |
Festivention, May 1951 |
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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 |
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The Fall of Fen, or Paradise Lost |
Dave Hammond and Sol Levin, PSFS |
Chicon II, September 1, 1952 |
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Christmas play |
Damon Knight, Anthony Boucher, Fritz Leiber, and Robert Bloch |
Clevention (1955) |
See Sam Moskowitz' Clevention reminiscence for a description.
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The March of Slime |
Liverpool Group’s MaD Productions |
First Kettering (1955) |
A tapera
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Mag Net |
Karen Anderson |
1956 |
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Alice in Thrillingwonderland |
Karen Anderson |
Solacon (1958) |
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Beyond the Unknown |
Unknown |
Detention (1959) |
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The Purple Pastures |
Carl Brandon |
Pittcon (1960) |
First published at Solacon
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Stage Wars and other skits |
Moebius Theatre |
Windycon 4 (1977) and other Windycons and Minicon 13 (1978) |
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Star Wars' Roots |
Alexis Gilliland |
Disclave 22 (1978) |
Avedon Carol played Darth (wheeze, wheeze) Vader.
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The Greatest Gondorian Hero |
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Chicon IV (1981) |
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Faans |
Larry Tucker |
ConFusion 101 (1983) |
A fannish video shot at various cons in 1981–82
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Fanotchka |
Andy Hooper |
L.A.Con III (1996) and Corflu Wave (1997) |
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Lucas Back in Anger |
Phil Raines & Ian Sorensen |
Interaction (2005) |
nominated for the 2006 Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Hugo
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Shattered Like a Clockwork Orange |
Meade Frierson and Penny Frierson |
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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
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1986 |
Richard Kolker |
Lunacon 23, March 14-16, 1980 |
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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.
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Another Part of the Trilogy |
John M. Ford |
Boskone 34, 25th World Fantasy Convention |
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Back to Rivets or, Mik Ado About Nothing |
Mark Keller and Sue Anderson |
Boskone 14 |
Collected in Rivets!
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The Booze Brothers |
Ian Sorensen |
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Captain Future Meets Gilbert and Sullivan |
Steve and Virginia Schultheis |
1967: Westercon XX, 1972: Boskone 9 |
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The Decomposers; or, Rivets Has Risen from the Grave |
Mark Keller and Sue Anderson |
Boskone 16 |
Collected in Rivets!
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Enterprise |
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Minicon 9 |
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Faans II |
Book and lyrics by Leah Zeldes Smith |
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Published as a script in 1988
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The Fandoliers, or the King of BaraTAFFia |
Ruth Berman |
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Fundament! |
Maria Hamilton |
Conine |
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The Galactic Gaieties |
Hal Lynch, Steve Schultheis, and Virginia Schultheis |
Pittcon 1960 (Worldcon) |
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Happy Birthday Doctor! |
Katherine Phelps |
2014 Melbourne International Comedy Festival |
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Hatty, or St. Simon's Bride |
Karen Anderson |
1995 |
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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
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Inside 2001: A Space Opera |
Alexis Gilliland |
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Joe Phaust |
Lee Harding |
Eastercon '73 |
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Jophan! |
Filthy Pierre |
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Based on The Enchanted Duplicator
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Midwest Side Story |
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Minicon 12, Minicon 33 |
First performed in 1977. Script published in Midwestside Story
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The Mimeo Man |
Debbie Notkin, Eli Cohen, Moshe Feder |
Minicon 11, Disclave 19, PgHLANGE VI |
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My Claire Lady |
Ian Sorensen |
Novacon 28 |
A send-up of Croydon Fandom
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My Fair Femmefan |
Carl Brandon |
1957 |
Never performed but widely published
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The Pirates of Fenzance |
John Pomeranz (with additional lyrics by Mary Bentley) |
LoneStarCon II (revived at BucConeer) |
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Requiem for a Fake Fan |
Jim O'Meara |
Pittcon (1960) |
Performed by CHIAC and LASFS
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Rivets Redux; or, What Ever Happened to Helminth of Boskone? |
Mark Keller and Sue Anderson |
Boskone 15 |
Collected in Rivets!
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Smoflahoma |
John Pomeranz |
Noreascon 3 |
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Songs from Space |
Laurence Sandfield |
1957 |
Not performed as a musical but a collection of songs with a fannish SF frame
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Spock in Manacles |
Kate Davies & Ian Sorensen |
BECCON '85 |
Collected in The Beccon Plays
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Stringworld |
Shelby Bush III and Bernard J. Willinger |
Rivercon III |
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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.
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See also Fannish Film, Tapera, Burlesques, Drama, Ian Sorensen.
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