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'A Midsummer Night's Dream The Pantomime' by Matthew Harper - songs and additional information.


'A Midsummer Night's Dream The Pantomime' by Matthew Harper
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Songs
The following songs are suggestions; other songs may be used at the discretion of the production. Performance rights for the script do not include rights for songs.
Song #Song
1Slam (Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen & Paul Harding)
2At The End Of The Day (Opening Choral Section Only) (Schoenberg, Boubil & Natel. Translated By: Kretzmer)
3Love Is All Around (Reg Presley)
4Scherzo (Mendelsohn)
5Trouble (Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller)
6Summertime (Music: George Gershwin. Lyrics: DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin)
7The Quartermaster's Stores (Traditional. Alternative Lyrics: Matthew Harper)
8aWishing You Were Somehow Here Again (Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics: Charles Hart)
8bOn My Own (Schoenberg, Boubil & Natel. Translated By: Kretzmer)
9The Waltz Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (Tchaikovsky)
10I Whistle A Happy Tune (Music: Richard Rogers. Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II. From: The King And I)
11You’re The One That I Want (Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey. From: Grease)
12Gimme Gimme Gimme (Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson. Sung By: Abba)
13aWaltz No 2 From Suite For Stage Variety Orchestra (Shostakovich)
13bLet It Be (John Lennon & Sir Paul McCartney. Sung By: The Beatles)
14aOom Pah Pah (Lionel Bart. From: Oliver)
14bHey Big Spender (Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields)
15Mr Blue Sky (Jeff Lynne)
16The Quartermaster’s Stores Reprise (Traditional)
17Rocking All Over The World ( John Fogerty)
Period and Geography
Location: a fictitious country. Time Period: Timeless
Settings and Set Complexity
Number of Sets: 5
Setting: Park, Forest, Castle Exterior, Street, 'Other Location' and Front-of-Curtain
Set Requirements: Backdrops/simple flats, Multiple locations in one set and Elaborate Set Dressing
The script includes characters in the following age range(s):
Unspecified ages
 Language Advisory:Help
Swearing rate: less than 1 known rude word per thousand.
We have identified the following types of language in the text:
Mild swearwords
In addition to the text, the "Producer's Copy" of the Script includes the following:
A list of the required properties
A list of the suggested songs
A lighting plot
Descriptions of the characters
A description of the set requirements
Costume notes
Style:
A full length pantomime, with the Shakespearean storyline
Synopsis:
This adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream includes all the usual pantomime characters and fun, making the original play easily accessible without losing the essence of the story.

 
 

 
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