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  1. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Cover A78000

    All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

    Based on the books by Robert Fulghum. Conceived and adapted by Ernest Zulia. Music and Lyrics by David Caldwell.

    Product Code: A78000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 3m., 2w. (1 pianist, expandable.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 135 min.
    Based on the best-selling books, this musical takes a funny, insightful and heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. It’s an evening of theatrical storytelling in revue format with monologues, dialogues and multiple voice narrations enhanced through the use of live piano underscoring, which provides fluidity, charm and emotional texture, and seven optional original songs. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  2. Jungle Book Cover J24000

    The Jungle Book

    By Joseph Robinette. Based on the book by Rudyard Kipling.

    Product Code: J24000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 10 to 25 either gender, flexible, doubling possible.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    Intertwined with the original tale of Mowgli and his jungle pals, comes the tale of Rudyard Kipling, a Bombay native sent to a boarding school facing a new kind of jungle. Filled with excitement and humor, the play highlights the struggle of good versus evil, the worth of friendship, and the importance of loyalty and other values required for surviving the "law of the jungle." Learn More
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  3. The Island of Dr. Libris

    The Island of Dr. Libris

    By Chris Grabenstein and Ronny Venable. Based on the book by Chris Grabenstein.

    Product Code: IF7000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 10 to 21 or more either gender.

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    • 120 min.
    Billy’s spending the summer in a cabin that belongs to the mysterious Dr. Libris. But something strange is going on. Besides the security cameras everywhere, there’s Dr. Libris’ private bookcase. Whenever Billy opens the classic books inside, he can hear sounds coming from the island in the middle of the lake. It’s almost as if the stories he’s reading are coming to life! But that’s impossible … isn’t it? It’s up to Billy and his magical imagination to come up with a happy ending for everybody, including himself! Learn More
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  4. Stepsisters

    Stepsisters

    Book by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus. Lyrics by Flip Kobler. Music by Dennis Poore.

    Product Code: S2S000

    • Comedy | Farce | Satire
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | Community
    • 3 to 23m., 8 to 30w., up to 22 either gender.

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    • 95 min.
    When Drew and Beth (who are not wicked, evil and ugly) are thrown into the dungeon for conspiring against the throne, they tell their fellow prisoners what really happened with Cinderella. Drew, Beth and Ella are really the best of friends and—spoiler alert—Drew is actually Ella’s fairy godmother. So bibbity-bobbity-boom! How can two sisters play matchmaker for their tomboy stepsister while trying to out-connive a conniving mother, outwit a sadistic chancellor and make everyone’s dreams come true before the jailer takes their heads? Learn More
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  5. The Hundred Dresses

    The Hundred Dresses

    By Ralph Covert and G. Riley Mills. Based on the book by Eleanor Estes.

    Product Code: HH1000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | TYA
    • 3 to 5m., 5w.

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    • 45 min.
    Wanda, a second-grader, wears a faded blue dress every day, but she tells her classmates that she has a hundred dresses at home. Soon Wanda's classmates make a game of teasing her about her hundred dresses until she doesn't come to school one day, leaving just an empty seat. As feelings of guilt overtake the children, they decide they must find out what happened to Wanda and make amends for the way they treated her. Bullying, friendship and forgiveness are touched upon in this adaptation. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  6. Stargirl

    Stargirl

    By Y York. From the novel by Jerry Spinelli.

    Product Code: S2F000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | Professional | TYA
    • 4m., 2w.
    • 100 min.

    All is copacetic in the fall of the new school year as junior Leo Borlock settles in to produce his moderately popular school TV show, The Hot Seat, and keep himself safely behind the camera and out of anybody's line of fire. His safe existence implodes with the arrival of the weirdly fabulous Stargirl, whose impetuous enthusiasm for all-things-Leo forces him to choose between his own secure conformity and the glories offered by the girl from the stars.

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  7. Crash

    Crash

    By Y York. From the novel by Jerry Spinelli.

    Product Code: CQ6000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | Professional | TYA
    • 5m., 3w.
    • 90 min.

    Crash plays football for his middle school. He runs and scores and is unstoppable. In life, he is self-centered and running so fast he can't see the chances for love and connection that are all around him. His new friend, Mike, cherishes his bold and bullying characteristics, while his old acquaintance, Penn Webb, sees a deeper, hidden Crash that circumstances threaten to bury forever. Life presents Crash with a chance to win really big, but in order to win, he's going to have to come in second.

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  8. Ramona Quimby

    Ramona Quimby

    Dramatized by Len Jenkin. Based on the books by Beverly Cleary.

    Product Code: R54000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 5m., 7w., 5 boys, 9 girls.
    • 90 min.
    Unpredictable. Exasperating. Boisterous and independent. That's Ramona Quimby for you. Always aggravating her older sister, Beezus and constantly getting into trouble. As narrator, Beezus sets the scene for the collection of vignettes that trace Ramona's tumultuous passage through third grade and through her family relationships. Along with the discovery that life is not always fair, eventually they come to realize that sisters may not always agree, but they can be good to have around. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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