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On March 23 , 1989, Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleischmann put on their best suits, combed their hair, and headed out to announce to the world that they'd discovered the Holy Grail of energy research, a cheap and pollution-free power source -- cold fusion.

Cold Fusion: The Musical is a comedy about scientists and energy companies and anomalous phenomena in isotopic separations. If Arthur C. Clarke had written for Mad Magazine it might have been something like this.

"An entertaining and funny evening!"

-Colin Maclean, Edmonton Sun

"Chemistry jokes are not an open book to me, but I can tell you that watching them drag a Tupperware bottle of heavy water across the stage like it weighed as much as Gibraltar is a hoot."

-Liz Nicholls, Edmonton Journal

"Go see this show. Definitely worth its weight in dark matter."

- comment posted on sci.physics.fusion

Cold Fusion: The Musical is a two-act play. It was co-produced by Atomic Improv and Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie in 1995. It was written by Wes Borg and Paul Mather.

If you're interested in re-mounting the show, or just want to read it, you can download the script through these links:

Macintosh .sit format:

ASCII format
RTF Format (Much Prettier)

Windows (yuk!) .zip format:

ASCII format
RTF Format