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A Christmas BoxAuthorSharon Jenman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 10 songs and 2 instrumentals is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Short one-act musical play for (young) children.
Synopsis A school child gets his wish to see the Romanian child open the present he is sending. A Christmas play for infant schools.
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Plus The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
A History Lesson for Turkey BoyAuthorOlivia Arieti
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus.
Run time Around 10 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Short play for young children - a simple history of the Thanksgiving festival. No set or props required.
Synopsis Mr Corn, Mrs Sweet Potato, Mrs Pumpkin and Mrs Squash make sure the young Misses Apples and especially Turkey Boy know their History before Thanksgiving is celebrated.
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A Letter to SantaAuthorSue Gordon
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 15. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Two of the characters are nominally adults. It is written so that the cast can be divided into two - a school class and Santa's elves.
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 5 original songs is provided with the producer's copy of the script.
Style A light musical for young children. Basic sets.
Synopsis A school class write Christmas letters to Santa, and we discover that they are dealt with by Mrs. Santa and a bunch of fractious elves.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Plus The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
A Magic Paint BrushAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Whilst Chen is written as a girl, the character could easily be switched to a boy (likewise Old Sing and the Magician are written male but could be female). Cast includes a cow and a small flock of (talking) chickens.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for children, based on a Chinese folk tale. Simple set (the set calls for a hut upstage, but that could merely be implied by an upstage exit), simple props.
Synopsis In feudal China, Chen and her mother are oppressed by their landlord and his greedy, vindictive family. Then a magician arrives and gives Chen a magic paint brush, painting with it makes dreams come true...
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A Musical Mother GooseAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 21. Chorus. Very flexible cast size, with the option of a non-acting chorus singing the songs (or even different groups singing different songs).
Run time Around 20 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for 8 original songs is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Musical play (a series of linked sketches) for young children. Minimal set requirements
Synopsis This is 'Mother Goose' in the American sense - a vehicle for stories and rhymes, rather than the English sense of a particular story about a character called Mother Goose. (For anyone curious about this difference, the American sense is taken from Charles Perrault's collection of fairy stories 'Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye' - literally 'The Tales of my mother the Goose' whilst the English version is the tale of the Goose that laid the golden eggs - generally given the English pantomime treatment, for which see elsewhere on this site.)
Anyway, in this case it's a collection of original stories and songs based on nursery stories and characters.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Plus The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
Aesop's FablesAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. Characters include a wolf, a lamb, a lion, a mouse, three ants, a grasshopper, an owl, a dog, a tortoise, and a hare.
Run time Around 35 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for children - a narrated dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific props or set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set.
Synopsis Four tales in which wolf bullies lamb, mouse befriends lion, ants ignore grasshopper and tortoise out-runs hare.
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Aesop's Fables - The MusicalAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Characters include mice, a cat, a wolf, a lion and four foxes.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music (piano and vocal) for five songs and two instrumentals is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script.
Style Simple one-act musical for kids - a prologue and four of Aesop's fables.
(A version of this collection of tales is available without the songs as Aesop's Fables II.)
Synopsis A group of mice are delighted by their plan for constraining the local cat - until it comes to executing the plan.
Meanwhile, a lion falls in love, a boy ruins his chance of promotion in the shepherding business, and a fox tries to make the most of a fashion disaster.
(They all make a song and dance of it!)
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Plus The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
Aesop's Fables IIAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus. Characters include mice, a cat, a lion, sheep, a wolf and foxes.
Run time Around 30 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for children - a dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set.
Synopsis A group of mice are delighted by their plan for constraining the local cat - until it comes to executing the plan.
Meanwhile, a lion falls in love, a boy ruins his chance of promotion in the shepherding business, and a fox tries to make the most of a fashion disaster!
(A musical version of this set of stories is available as Aesop's Fables - The Musical)
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Aesop's Fables IIIAuthorGerald P. Murphy
Roles Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Characters include farm animals, crows and various rodents. (Whilst they have gender-specific names, they're animals, and the gender of the actors is irrelevant!)
Run time Around 25 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style One-act play for children - a dramatisation of four of Aesop's fables. Very flexible format - no specific set needed and the stories could be presented individually or as a set.
Synopsis Tales of resourceful crows, splitting hares, bovine buffoonery and meals for mice.
(If Aesop lived today, he would be inspired by the video of Tool-Making Crows on YouTube.)
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
Androcles and the LionAuthorPeter Bond
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. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
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...
Price Please click on the Price link to find the cost.
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