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| The Fisherman and his Wife by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script for three songs, three reprises and an instrumental. |
| Style | Short one-act musical play for kids (or for adults to play to kids). No set requirements, minimal props. |
| Synopsis | A humble fisherman reels in a talking flounder, who claims to be an enchanted princess. When he lets it go, the fisherman's wife insists he asks the flounder to repay its debt with a series of increasingly lavish rewards. Her ambition turns to greed and eventually the flounder princess returns to take her gifts back. |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Greece! - The Musical by Sue Gordon
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. This could be performed in Ancient Greek style, with three actors playing all the principal parts, or the principal roles could be shared amongst a larger company. The Greek chorus comments on the action, individually, in unison (chant) or in song. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for six original songs supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Modern version of Ancient Greek drama with a humorous interpretation of Greek myths and legends. No set requirements, few props. The text is identical to Greece! - The Play, except that some of the chants are replaced by songs. |
| Synopsis | There's trouble on Mount Olympus - the boiler has stopped working and Zeus isn't getting any hot water. Zeus is in a temper and Dionysus has a hangover. It's up to Hera to sort things out by calling for Heracles, the odd job man of Ancient Greece... |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** CD with instrumental backing tracks for each of the six songs (plus reprises) from 'Greece! - The Musical' by Sue Gordon. (Recording by Jonathan van Gennep.)
** CD with sung tracks for each of the six songs from 'Greece! - The Musical' by Sue Gordon. (Recording by Jonathan van Gennep.)
** Zip file containing instrumental backing tracks for each of the six songs (plus reprises) from 'Greece! - The Musical' by Sue Gordon. (Recording by Jonathan van Gennep.)
** Zip file of sung tracks for each of the six songs from 'Greece! - The Musical' by Sue Gordon. (Recording by Jonathan van Gennep.)
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| Hamelin Rats - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 17. Chorus. Flexibility for choruses of children, rats and cats. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music for six original songs (plus the piper's tune) supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Short one-act musical for kids. The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin told as a simple verse play with six songs. Minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Rats are taking over the rich town of Hamelin, so when an eccentrically dressed stranger offers to drive them away, the Mayor offers to heap him with gold. However, when the rats have disappeared, so has the Mayor's promise, till the stranger reminds the town of his musical prowess. |
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| Extras | 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 set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
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| Hamlet the Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 16. Chorus. The chorus play non-speaking roles of peasants, courtiers, onlookers and servants. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Sheet music (piano and vocal) for the five songs is supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Shakespeare's Hamlet retold in modern (American) English, with more jokes than the original.
In a normal tragedy, at the end, everyone dies. This is a musical - at the end, everyone sings. |
| Synopsis | Prince Hamlet's father reappears as a ghost to demand revenge for his murder. The prince vacillates, arranges a play to trap the murderer, and finally chooses to fight. |
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** A 'rehearsal CD' with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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| Hansel and Gretel - A Short Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
| 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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| Harvest by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Chorus. Characters are a mixture of adults and children (plus a bird, a bee and a mouse), intended to be played by kids. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for six songs are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Musical play for a school class with an educational theme. Multiple locations, but intended to be done with minimum sets. |
| Synopsis | A school class embarks on a village tour, exploring the theme of harvest. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| Hunting Death by Nicholas Richards |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The narrator's role could be split amongst several actors. There are opening and closing choruses which could be performed by the ensemble or by additional actors/singers. |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] (The estimated run time assumes the music; without music it could be performed in 12 minutes.) |
| Music | The music is designed to run continuously, so there is one 25-minute score. (It is divided into sections for rehearsal purposes.) |
| Style | A short musical play, retelling the Pardoner's Tale from the Canterbury Tales. (Could also be performed as a verse play without the music.) |
| Synopsis | This drama recounts the story of three young men who bestir themselves from their wine-sodden lives to hunt and kill Death, but instead fall victim to him through greed and treachery. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** CD with full backing track (25 minutes) and full sung demo for Hunting Death by Nicholas Richards.
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| It's Christmas Time! by Sharon Stace-Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. Flexible cast plus the option of a separate choir (otherwise choir pieces are sung by the acting ensemble.) |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] (Run time of the first production was 35 minutes!) |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for the 9 songs plus optional overture and 8 pieces of incidental music. |
| Style | A musical nativity play for schools, with minimal staging requirements. |
| Synopsis | A lop eared donkey who wants to be a horse, sets the scene for this nativity play with a difference. |
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| Jane Eyre - A One Act, Musical Farce by Gerald P. Murphy |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. One of the characters is a dog. (This is a speaking role, although most of the words are Ruff.) |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for four songs and three instrumentals are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Eyre on a G-string. A musical comedy treatment that follows Charlotte Brontë's story accurately (within the constraints of reducing 38 chapters to a single act). |
| Synopsis | The classic Brontë tale given a comic twist, reduced to one act and set to music! Unlike any other Eyre you've seen! |
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| Extras | 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
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| Jungle Rock by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 19. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. A cast of lots of animals, five narrators and three lumberjacks! Whilst some of the characters are nominally male or female (for example, the narrators are referred to as 'she'), gender is not integral to the plot. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Scores for six original songs are supplied with the producer's copy of the script. |
| Style | Simple musical for children with little required by way of set or props. |
| Synopsis | The lions, rhinos and monkeys inhabit different parts of the jungle, which is fine because they can't agree on anything. Fine, that is, until the lumberjacks arrive and the jungle starts to get smaller. Can a strange hybrid animal called Eddie save them from themselves? |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
** Soundtrack CD - vocal performances of songs from the show
** Backing tracks for the songs from Jungle Rock - by Sue Gordon.
** CD with sung tracks for the songs from Jungle Rock - by Sue Gordon. (Recording by Jonny Ardern.)
** A zip file of backing tracks for the songs from Jungle Rock - by Sue Gordon.
** Zip file of MP3 sung tracks for the songs from Jungle Rock - by Sue Gordon. (Recording by Jonny Ardern.)
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