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  1. The Brave Little Tailor

    The Brave Little Tailor

    Adapted by Brian Guehring from the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

    Product Code: BL2000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | Community
    • 2 to 3m., 1 to 4w., 1 to 9+ either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    A young tailor is bullied for his small size until rumors about him spread around the village and get exaggerated. The king hears of a tailor who can kill seven giants in one blow. The tailor is brought before the cowardly king and must find his own courage to battle a rampaging unicorn, two troublesome giants and a fierce dragon. Learn More
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  2. The Wind in the Willows

    The Wind in the Willows

    Book by Scot Copeland, W.S. Gilbert and Kenneth Grahame. Music by Paul Carrol Binkley and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Adapted from the book by Kenneth Grahame and the songs of Gilbert and Sullivan.

    Product Code: WG7000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 7 to 13 either gender, extras as desired.

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    • 65 min.
    In this bubbling confection of a musical, Mole is introduced to the delights of life along the river by his new friend, Rat. Meanwhile, Mr. Toad is condemned to prison and Toad Hall is taken over by weasels. One clever jailbreak and a daring midnight raid later, and the world is once again set aright. Learn More
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  3. The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    Book and lyrics by Ric Averill. Music by Adrian Rees.

    Product Code: PL3000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 2m., 1w., 32 to 46+ either gender (doubling possible for smaller cast).
    • 50 min.
    Falstaff, a theatre cat, narrowly averts an all-out war by inviting the mean street rats and alley cats allies to join him to perform his own version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Mayhem ensues as Falstaff attempts to create believable performances from this raucous group. Learn More
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  4. The Bremen Town Musicians: Nothing Is Worthless

    The Bremen Town Musicians: Nothing Is Worthless

    By Ric Averill.

    Product Code: BK7000

    • Comedy | Farce | Satire
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 2m., 1w., 32 to 46+ either gender (doubling possible for smaller cast).
    • 60 min.
    This play presents the classic fairy tale about animal musicians who are kicked out of their homes as worthless, but find new strength and purpose as they band together, becoming an orchestra of musicians. The play then turns the same story into an urban fairy tale with human characters in a big city. Learn More
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  5. The Berenstain Bears on Stage BC6000

    The Berenstain Bears on Stage

    Book and lyrics by Stan and Jan Berenstain. Music by Elliot Lawrence and Jamie Broza.

    Product Code: BC6000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 8m., 4w. (doubling possible, gender flexible).
    • 60 min.
    The "world's foremost expert on the Berenstain Bears," guitar-strumming Cowboy Joe, is the show's stage director—introducing and commenting on the play's five episodes which are based on five classic books: The Berenstain Bears' New Baby, The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, The Berenstain Bears and the Double Dare, The Berenstain Bears Tell the Truth and The Berenstain Bears Get Stage Fright. Learn More
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  6. Gooney Bird Greene and Her True Life Adventures

    Gooney Bird Greene and Her True Life Adventures

    By Kent R. Brown. Based on the book Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry.

    Product Code: G77000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 24 actors: 7m., 9w. +8 actors; or 18 to 20 actors: 6 to 7m., 12 to 13w.; or 6 actors: 2 to 3m., 3 to 4w.; or 5 actors: 2m. 3w.

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    • 60 min.
    The classroom door bursts open and there, wearing pajamas and cowboy boots, stands red-headed Gooney Bird Greene. Class will never be the same again! She awakens her classmates' dormant imaginations with her improbable, outlandish stories. They come to realize their lives are as unique as Gooney Bird's and that they, too, can cast themselves as the heroes in their own true tales of discovery and adventure. Learn More
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  7. Dorothy Meets Alice or The Wizard of Wonderland D82000

    Dorothy Meets Alice or The Wizard of Wonderland

    By Joseph Robinette. Based on the musical by Joseph Robinette and Karl Jurman.

    Product Code: D82000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 3m., 4w., 4 either gender.

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    • 50 min.
    This version of the delightful meeting of two of literature's most famous young ladies unfolds when a young man suddenly finds himself in a strange place somewhere between Oz and Wonderland. It becomes his responsibility to unscramble the stories and steer the familiar characters to their ultimate destinations while avoiding the Wicked Witch and the Red Queen. Learn More
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  8. The Ash Girl Cover AA2000

    The Ash Girl

    By Timberlake Wertenbaker.

    Product Code: AA2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 8w., 9 either gender, doubling possible.

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    With her mother dead and her father away, Ashgirl lives with her stepmother and stepsisters. When the invitation to the ball arrives from the prince, Ashgirl finds the strength to go with the help of her friends, some of whom come from unexpected places. When she gets home, Ashgirl realizes that in order to regain the fleeting happiness she found in the arms of the prince, she must fight the monsters who have slithered and insinuated their way into her heart and mind. She must believe in herself for others to do so. Learn More
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  9. Humpty-Dumpty Is Missing! or The Mysterious Case of the Fallen Egg

    Humpty-Dumpty Is Missing! or The Mysterious Case of the Fallen Egg

    By Joseph Robinette.

    Product Code: H83000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 16-27, flexible, 5-7m., 9-11w., with doubling.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 50 min.
    An affectionate spoof of the private-eye thrillers of the 1940s and '50s. Sammy Scoop is a private investigator and faces the biggest challenge of his illustrious career with the sudden fall and disappearance of the jolly Humpty-Dumpty. Learn More
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  10. Zink-the Myth the Legend the Zebra Cover Z12000

    Zink: the Myth, the Legend, the Zebra

    By Cherie Bennett.

    Product Code: Z12000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Professional
    • 2m., 9w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    Zink is about true courage in the face of unpredictable predators. Imaginative, funny and heartbreaking, it's the story of the relationship of Becky, a lonely pre-teen girl with leukemia, to her guardian-angel herd of zebras on the African savannah. In Africa, Becky learns about Zink, a mythical polka-dotted zebra once an outcast but later a hero with the most courage and biggest heart. Becky's health worsens and she zaps back and forth between her real life and the zebra world until the shattering, breathtaking and uplifting climax. Learn More
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