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Miss Fancy: Elephant Queen of the Zoo

Product Code: MT4000

Comedy | Melodrama
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | TYA
Cast Size: 3 to 6m., 3 to 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

Travel back in time to the 1930s, when the once-popular Avondale Zoo has fallen into disrepair. With the Birmingham Parks Board threatening to close the zoo and sell off its remaining animals to the highest bidder, the legendary Miss Fancy must devise a plan to save the zoo before it's too late! Filled with music, magic, comedy and dancing to entertain people of all ages, Miss Fancy: Elephant Queen of the Zoo will have audiences' toes tapping and their imaginations shining! Learn More

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Proprioception

By Marilyn Millstone.

Product Code: PN2000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 2w.
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Kylie is a young prima ballerina with a torn ACL and a chip on her shoulder. Esther is an elderly widowed Holocaust survivor estranged from her only child. Both are patients of renowned Black physical therapist Mike Sheffield. When Sheffield decides that the two women should share appointments, attachments form, conflicts erupt, secrets surface and lives unravel. A play about how we heal … and how we don’t. Learn More

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Objects in the Mirror

By Charles Smith.

Product Code: OB1000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4m., 1w.
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Shedrick, a Liberian refugee living in Australia, explains his journey from his war-torn home to refugee camps, where he survived squalor, hunger and disease. He was rescued by his Uncle John and assumed the identity of John’s dead son. Now safe in Australia, Shedrick wants to reclaim his identity. Rob, a white attorney, believes it can happen with a simple legal procedure, but John is ferociously against it, forcing Shedrick to choose between reclaiming his identity and his loyalty to the man who saved his life. Learn More

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Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges

By Christina M. Ham. Music by Gary Rue.

Product Code: RD8000

Drama
Recommended For: Elementary School | Middle School | High School | Community
Cast Size: 11 to 16m., 11 to 20w., 5 to 9 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 55 min.

In 1960, 6-year-old Ruby became the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. When the white families learned of Ruby’s enrollment, they pulled their children from her class, leaving Ruby and her teacher the only ones in the classroom for the school year. Her family watched helplessly as federal marshals escorted Ruby to school each day past protesters jeering and threatening her life. This musical explores a little girl’s unbeatable courage in the face of adversity. Learn More

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The Seat of Justice

By Julian Wiles.

Product Code: S2R000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 12m., 7w., 4 boys, 3 girls.

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Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

In 1947, a small group of parents started a movement that would eventually lead to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. The Seat of Justice chronicles the historic Briggs v. Elliott desegregation case from rural Clarendon Country, S.C., to the halls of the United States Supreme Court and celebrates the brave citizens, both black and white, who fought for justice and equality, taking their turns in the seat of justice and making decisions that will change the course of history. Learn More

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River City

By Diana Grisanti.

Product Code: RD7000

Drama
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4m., 2w.

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Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

After his death, Mary discovers a photograph of her father from a past he never talked about. She goes on a quest to uncover a half-century of family secrets buried in Kentucky. Her investigation transports us to 1968, to an orphanage, across town from a once-burgeoning black business district. As Mary dives into a torrent of bloodlines and color lines, she confronts not only the memories of her family, but the ghosts that haunt one American city. Learn More

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Loving

By Peter Manos.

Product Code: LM1000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 2m., 1 to 2w., 1 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

In the 1950s, Richard Loving, a white man, loved Mildred Jeter, an African American. The story of an oppressed interracial marriage and a family torn apart by prejudice and hate, this title celebrates this triumph of love that led to a landmark United States Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia.

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Higgins in Harlem

By Lawrence Thelen.

Product Code: HG8000

Comedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 4m., 5w.

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Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is reset in Harlem in 1938 during the Harlem Renaissance. Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, discovers Eliza Doolittle, a homeless, Harlem girl and transforms her into a high-class woman. Eliza forgoes a relationship with Freddie Hill, who is in love with her, and must choose between a platonic existence with Higgins or a life on her own. Learn More

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Oh Freedom! The Story of the Underground Railroad

By Peter Manos.

Product Code: OA4000

Drama
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College
Cast Size: 2 to 10m., 2 to 10w., up to 10 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This play combines stories of men and women of the Underground Railroad who were active in the fight against slavery. Famous participants like Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe and other lesser-known heroes are included in this tale that celebrates a time when Americans were at their courageous best, supporting one another, regardless of background, ethnicity or gender. Learn More

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Black Sash

By Sarah Grammar, Emily Overmyer, Sarah Pendleton and Tonya Hays.

Product Code: BL6000

Drama
Recommended For: High School | College
Cast Size: 4 to 7m., 7 to 21w.

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Approx. Run Time: 45 min.

This play celebrates the work of the Black Sash women's organization, an independent, non-governmental human rights organization that has worked tirelessly for justice and equality in South Africa for more than 55 years. This historical drama will enlighten and empower audiences through the celebration of the organization's victories and, finally, in Nelson Mandela's release. Learn More

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