Puckett Publishing

Space Rangers and the Viper Menace

6 Men, 6 Women, additional Space Rangers.
2 Acts, 103 pages
18 songs

Space Rangers And the Viper Menace is a science fiction musical. The Space Academy is where Space Rangers learn their craft. The greatest Space Ranger of all time is Strat Lancaster, a man who holds the record for the number of times he’s single-handedly saved the Galactic Federation. The fabulously wealthy Cosmo Biggs, inventor of the GigaBigaTron, who has provided huge funds to the Academy, has funded a grand reunion for Strat and his fellow Space Rangers. During the celebration, also attended by Queen Urana Sidharkol, it is discovered that there are no records of Strat having taken his final exams, and he is stripped of his Space Ranger status. This is fine with Urana and Cosmo: they are secretly in league to conquer the galaxy using Urana’s Viper Squadrons, which Strat has always managed to defeat. Add in a mutating being (Mutato) who can assume any person’s DNA and appearnce, and you have the basis for Space Rangers and the Viper Menace. Will Strat and his fellow Rangers be able to overcome their greatest challenge?

Cast of Characters

• Strat Lancaster. Handsome, daredevil Space Ranger: Guardian of the Galaxy!
• Venus deMille. His beautiful, but not particularly bright, girlfriend. Her clothing is as skimpy as her intellect. Skimpier.
• Sparks McBeamish. Strat’s Scottish sidekick, always ready with a quip and a swig of Scotch. Wears a kilt and sporran.
• Milkita Vayovich. A deadly serious Space Rangerette, of Russian lineage.
• Professor Nebulon. Head of the Space Academy, a short, white-haired, seemingly bookish man, who wears robes and who harbors a secret desire for…
• Stellina Frost. The aloof, ultra-logical, and quite tall Assistant Dean of the Academy, who can, shall we say, “open up” in private.
• Cosmo Biggs. Owner of Interspatial Universal Dynamics (“We put the worm in your wormhole”), ostensibly a captain of space industry, but secretly in league with Evil.
• Urana Sidarkol. The evil in which Biggs is in league with, the Queen of the Nephilia Sector, who has designs on Strat, IUD, the Academy, the Galaxy, and anything else she currently does not hold in her sway.
• Count Quasaro. Urana’s henchman, a man not without designs of his own. Passionless, but still flamboyant, with a sort of perverted Jack Benny mannerism.
• Mutato. A sort of mutating monster, the creation of Biggs.
• Halley Oort. Another Space Ranger.
• Astrid Lazeron. A freshman "cadet" Ranger, a naturally wide-eyed hero-worshipper.
• Other Space Rangers.

Musical Numbers

“Space Rangers”
“All-Star Reunion”
“Saved Again”
“Grounded”
“Who Am I Now?”
“This Galaxy’s Not Big Enough”
“Logical Conclusion”
“Girls From Space”
“Space Jam”
“Wrapped Around”
“Space Rangers (Reprise)”
“Have You Seen the Stars?”
“You Send Me”
“Invincible”
“You Need a Name”
“Power”
“Power Redux”
“Saved Again (Reprise)”

Running Time: 2 hours plus one intermission