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Aesop's Fables - The Musical by Gerald 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. [Estimated!] |
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!) |
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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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Billionaire School by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 25. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for ten original songs is supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Simple musical for kids - an excuse to dip into a few historical topics! |
Synopsis | Billionaire Gil Bates is a smart man when it comes to computers, but has trouble with remembering basic history and culture. He and his wife hatch a plan: combine a group of teachers and Gil's love of musical theatre, and present some of history's greatest moments in musical form! |
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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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Bullies by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 15. Chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children. (Could all be played by children.) |
Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Scores for eight songs are included with the Producer's Copy of the script |
Style | One-act musical play for performance by children or a mixture of adults and children. Very simple set and no specific requirements for props. |
Synopsis | A review and also a revue! A series of linked musical sketches presenting an investigation of issues surrounding bullying at school, covering reasons for bullying and approaches to dealing with it. |
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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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Drama Club Must Die! by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 13. Minimum total with doubling = 26. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Characters are a mix of adults and children, but all could be played by children. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Complete set of original lyrics and musical arrangements based on traditional tunes supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | Musical play set in an American High School (but could be played by younger children). Simple sets. |
Synopsis | The High School budget needs to be cut. The drama club is under threat from the unsympathetic principal. Can the Drama Club save themselves by creating a production of The Wizard of Oz from scratch? |
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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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Echo and Narcissus by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Simple piano/vocal scores for four original songs are supplied with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
Style | A fifteen-minute musical based on Ancient Greek myth. |
Synopsis | Hera, the queen of the gods, is furious when she discovers that her husband Zeus has been unfaithful, and she takes it out on the object of his affections, the articulate Echo. Echo falls for the handsome Narcissus, but she cannot make him understand because of Hera's curse, which confines Echo to repeating the words of others, and meanwhile Narcissus is in love with his own reflection. (Not a happy lot, the Ancient Greeks!) |
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The Fish and the Ring - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 10. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs plus an instrumental reprise. |
Style | One-act musical fable for kids. |
Synopsis | When Baroness Gertrude adopts a peasant's baby daughter, a travelling hermit prophesies that the girl will marry Gertrude's son. Gertrude has already planned to marry her son to a Princess, so she tries to get rid of the child - only to find that fate brings them together again soon enough... |
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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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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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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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Frankenstein, A Musical Comedy by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | The producer's copy of the score comes complete with piano & vocal scores for five original songs. |
Style | Playful, farcical version of the Mary Shelley story with eight silly songs, in one act. Modern jokes but in keeping with the gothic setting. |
Synopsis | Victor Frankenstein creates a creature out of dead body stew, against the advice of his mentor, Professor Gabriella Waldman, and declares himself a god. The creature, spurned by its creator, enacts its revenge, leading to a long game of follow the leader - and a surprising happy ending. |
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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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Gruff - The Musical by Gerald P. Murphy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. The troll is nominally male. One male goat and two female goats. The narrators are elves. (The elves could be played by two choruses - the mode of narration is song!) |
Run Time | Around 15 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | Sheet music for two songs (one reprised three times) are supplied with the Producer's copy of the script. |
Style | Very short musical play for kids. Single set - a troll bridge. |
Synopsis | Overweight goats meet greedy troll. The troll's dinner menu changes when Billy Goat butts in. |
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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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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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