Not that they've mounted the same show. The rules of melodrama require it to tell the same story over and over again: The bad guy threatens the damsel, the hero intervenes in the nick of time ...

MANITOU SPRINGS — After centuries of swashbuckling ribaldry, the art of melodrama is facing the possibility of a very unmelodramatic finale: tied to the railroad tracks like a damsel in distress ...

There was a melodrama, of sorts ... This program is billed aptly as \"Damsel in Distress or How Dynamite Can Be Your Friend!\" It was put together by James Amos, acting as director and principal ...