Gold Fever Author:John Urquhart, Rita Grauer Play script. A popular participatory play of the highest quality for children of kindergarten-third grade. As always the characters, story, and plotting attract all ages, a hallmark of the Yellow Brick Road shows of these talented collaborators. Designed to tour with simple sets and suggested costumes. Flexible cast of four or more. — Old West hi... more »story and legend are humorously and imaginatively blended to make a powerful statement about the conflict between personal greed and compassion for others. Set in the historic California Gold Rush, GOLD FEVER brings together Ben Halladay, "King of the Stage Lines," and a notorious highwayman known as Black Bart, a "forty-niner" who failed to find riches in the gold fields. Now he turns to robbing Halladay's stagecoaches. Their ensuing misadventures reveal to both that "Gold Fever can make a man mad!"« less