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The Adventures Of Goldilockpick [Family Edition] by Todd Barty |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. Includes the three bears and the occasional wolf. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy play in two acts and in verse. This edition designed for performance by a company of kids. (There is also a version designed to be performed by adults.) |
| Synopsis | The Adventures Of Goldilockpick And Little Red Riding Hoodlum A rhyming romp for some familiar characters in unfamiliar juxtaposition. |
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Alice in Wonderland by Richard Coleman |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Besides the various principals, there are unspecified numbers of (animal) jurors and (up to) a whole set of chess pieces. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming fantasia on a theme of Carroll. A whirlwind tour of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass told as a verse play. |
| Synopsis | Dreaming on a river bank, Alice sees a White Rabbit who is late for an appointment. She follows him down a rabbit hole where a Hatter, a rather decisive Queen, a thieving Knave, a couple of Kings and a host of others await. |
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Androcles and the Lion by Peter Bond |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Chorus. The chorus - of soldiers, slaves, Christians and lions - is optional. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming fable for kids. |
| Synopsis | Androcles is a man who loves all living things - he's even reluctant to kill a lamb to feed himself. So when a lion appears, he's less worried about it eating his sheep and more concerned that there's a thorn in it's paw. Helping this lion turns out to be a good move in the long term... |
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The Billy Goats Gruff by Sharon Stace-Smith |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Chorus. Seven principals plus narrator and chorus. The script allows for multiple narrators, a chorus of courtiers and villagers and possibly an additional choir - thus the numbers are very flexible. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for an overture and 14 original songs (including a couple of reprises). |
| Style | One-act musical - rhyming script plus songs - for kids (and children!). Multiple locations, but can be done with minimal scenery and very few props. |
| Synopsis | The time-honoured tale of troll meets goats given an additional twist as we learn of the history of how the troll became what he is (and the goats have more talents than just butting-in). |
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Cagic Mup by Gerald P. Murphy |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Characters include a pantomime cow. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A fable told as a Spoonerising verse play for children. |
| Synopsis | Captain Spoon's family are starving. Their cow must be sold. The exchange for a magic cup provokes delight and disaster. |
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Camelot - The Knights of the Square Table by Richard Coleman |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Characters include various knights (one of whom is definitely female, and others who could well be) and a dragon. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A comic compilation of Camelot characters in a rhyming romp round the realm. |
| Synopsis | Camelot is under attack from the Black Knight - not only that, there's the dietary requirements of a dragon to take into consideration. |
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The Dancing Princesses by Peter Bond |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 28. No chorus. The numbers are very flexible. There are three speaking princesses, but this could be reduced to 2. However, there is scope for a much larger number of (non-speaking) princesses and an equal number of dancing princes. |
| Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Verse play, with some elements of panto, based on The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces or The Twelve Dancing Princesses (depending on which translation of the Brothers Grimm you prefer). Several locations, but no major set requirements. |
| Synopsis | A King offers the usual rewards (marriageable daughter, bits of kingdom, that sort of thing) for anyone who can discover why each of his daughters ruin a pair of shoes every night. Enter a wounded soldier and a helpful old lady to solve the mystery. |
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The Elves and the Shoemaker [Verse Play] by Peter Bond |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Characters include two elves. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short rhyming play. Single set (mainly a workbench). |
| Synopsis | A Grimm Fairytale brought to the stage. An honest cobbler is helped to make ends meet by a pair of hard-working elves. |
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The Gossip by Gerald P. Murphy |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are adults, intended to be played by children. (Two of the female characters could be switched to male by changing two words.) |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Simple play in rhyming couplets. No specific set requirements. One prop (a wedding cake!) |
| Synopsis | Mrs. Grey tries to stop a rumour spreading by telling everyone that it isn't true. The result is that the rumour spreads rapidly, and her daughter's wedding is ruined. |
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Hansel and Gretel - A Short Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. Characters include humans, birds, rodents, dogs and four wheels (although we never get to hear the singing of the tyres!) |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for four original songs is supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | A modern version of the Grimm Brothers' story told as a verse play with four songs. Simple props, no specific set requirements. (A version without music is also available.) |
| Synopsis | In an update to the original fable, Hansel and Gretel's parents want to get rid of them, not because the family is poor, but because the parents are selfish. This leads to the encounter with the witch with the confectionary cottage. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script: ** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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