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  1. OLIVÉRio: A Brazilian Twist

    OLIVÉRio: A Brazilian Twist

    Book and lyrics by Karen Zacarías. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma.

    Product Code: OA8000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | Community | TYA
    • 3m., 4w.

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    • 65 min.
    This joyful musical is a retelling of Oliver Twist set in modern-day Rio de Janeiro that tackles issues of poverty, inequity and injustice. Oli, an orphan girl, asks the goddess of the sea for a “little bit more” in her life. Con man Falcão and thief Zé Esquiva hope to use Oli’s sweet nature to steal from a rich widow. In the favela, Oli meets Nancí, who begins to teach Oli how to read. But when police officer Sykes gets involved, everyone has to choose between doing what is easy and what is right. Learn More
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  2. Don Quixote

    Don Quixote

    Adapted by Anne Ludlum and David Quicksall. Based on Don Quixote, Parts I and II, by Miguel de Cervantes.

    Product Code: D94000

    • Comedy | Drama | Farce | Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7m., 3w. (May be expanded to approximately 50 actors, with many opportunities for gender flexibility.)

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    • 120 min.
    Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are guided by their creator, Miguel de Cervantes, to deal with the inexplicable as they travel through the plains of La Mancha. Learn More
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  3. The Nightingale

    The Nightingale

    Book by William Electric Black and Amie Brockway-Henson. Music by Elliot Sokolov. From the story by Hans Christian Andersen.

    Product Code: N04000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • An ensemble of 12 m. and w. (not gender specific.)
    • 60 min.
    When Grandpa begins to tell his grandchildren about the emperor's nightingale, his back yard is transformed into the emperor of China's palace, garden and forest, and the three of them become characters in this humorous and moving story. Learn More
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  4. Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other Current Events

    Macbeth: A Kid's Cautionary Tale Concerning Greed, Power, Mayhem and Other Current Events

    Adapted by Nancy Linehan Charles. From Shakespeare.

    Product Code: MB8000

    • Comedy | Drama | Melodrama | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | TYA
    • 15+ either gender, expandable to include all.

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    • 45 min.
    This dramatic adaptation, sprinkled with comedic commentary, is a winner for elementary, middle, and early high school. Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy is told within a lively and humorous story-theatre frame. Macbeth and his Lady covet the crown while witches, ghosts, kings and soldiers sweep across the landscape, carving out the battle between good and evil. Shakespeare characters speak the Bard's words, while storytellers fill in plot and comment wryly on the escalating action. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

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  5. Things Can Always Be Worse!

    Things Can Always Be Worse!

    By Lois Kipnis.

    Product Code: TB5000

    • Comedy
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Professional | TYA
    • 30 roles for a minimum of 8 actors. may be further expanded.
    • 45 min.
    Rich with Jewish tradition, this is the story of an argumentative family living in a tiny hut who, following a Rabbi's advice, bring their animals into the hut. Learn More
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  6. Henny Penny

    Henny Penny

    By Joy Chaitin and Sarah Stevens.

    Product Code: H07000

    • Comedy
    • Elementary School | Community | TYA
    • 5 to the entire class. Very flexible.
    • 30 min.
    This madcap version is designed to fit you and your performers (you can adjust its length, cast size and complexity) and includes five hilarious songs (or chants if you can't find a pianist). Your performers and audiences will be delighted because you make this show your very own. Do whatever you need to adjust it to your group size and ability level. Make it work for you. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $40/perf

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  7. Amazing Grace

    Amazing Grace

    By Shay Youngblood. Adapted from the book by Mary Hoffman.

    Product Code: A64000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4m., 7w. (3 women, 4 girls and 4 boys, plus extra neighborhood children, adult offstage voice.)

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    • 60 min.
    Grace loves to act out the stories told to her by her Nana who believes Grace can be anything she wants to be. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  8. The Mummy Musical

    The Mummy Musical

    By Michael Tester.

    Product Code: M93000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4m., 3w. (extras as desired.)

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    • 80 min.
    Not to be outdone by her fellow classmates, Shirley decides to whip up an Egyptian summer adventure that never happened. As we flashback to her holiday, we see a battle with Dogman, the Tunnel of Terror, among many other fictitious situations. Learn More
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  9. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

    Adapted by Rosemary Nursey-Bray. From Lewis Carroll's classic.

    Product Code: TM2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Elementary School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 9+ (2m., 3w., 4+ either gender) with doubling or up to 35+ (4m., 5w., 26+ either gender).

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    • 90 min.
    One afternoon while playing chess by herself, Alice enters through the looking glass into a world of strange back-to-front magic where she meets the kings and queens of her chess set. The world inside the glass is marked out as a chess board, across which she must travel as a pawn. She meets Tweedledum, Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare in her adventures. She finally reaches the eighth square and becomes queen. Or is it all a dream? Learn More
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  10. Tales From the Arabian Nights

    Tales From the Arabian Nights

    Book and lyrics by Michael Bigelow Dixon. Music by Jan Cole.

    Product Code: TQ4000

    • Comedy
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | TYA
    • 4 to 5m., 3 to 4w., extras.

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    • 50 min.
    A bewitched sultan decrees that he will marry a new bride every evening and chop off her head the next morning until a clever woman breaks the spell by telling him never-ending tales. Learn More
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