| | | |  | |  | | | | ALICE IN WONDERLAND - URBAN EDITION
A look at the city version of Lewis Carroll's classic story. Alice and her sister go to the park. While her sister is on her cell phone, Alice follows Rabbit down a subway tunnel and encounters a host of strange urban-type characters, including a Rat, a Caterpillar, a Cook, the Queen of Hearts, and a Grinning Cat. She also encounters subway passengers and joggers who speak in... | | |  | |  | |
| | | | | | BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
“Beauty and the Beast” delivers the classic story we have come to love with enough new twists and characters to keep you interested. Beauty’s two sisters, Babette and Begonia, and the Beasts statue servants; Cacciatorri, Watson and Mipsy, bring new life to the age-old story. Beauty’s pet cow Allan – yes, pet cow -- helps us laugh through the lessons we will learn, that what... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
A rambunctious American family buys a haunted manor in England. But they don't mind...they don't believe in ghosts. As the ghost tries to scare the Americans out of his home, he finds the tables are turned—he is being terrorized by the children in the family! A spooky comedy with some zany scenes, Oscar Wilde's story is also a sweet tale of the power of love. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
One of the creepiest stories ever written, Edgar Allan Poe's A Cask of Amontillado dramatizes the revenge of the obsessive nobleman Montresor against his friend, the wine lover, Fortunato. On carnival night in Venice, Montresor lures the tipsy Fortunato to his estate with the promise of a taste of rare Amontillado sherry. Down they go into the dank catacombs winding... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | A CHRISTMAS CAROL
In this unusually funny and dramatic adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic Christmas tale, comedic ghosts teach Scrooge that there is more to life than running a business and making money. Through the lessons that they teach, Scrooge is brought back to his humanity and realizes that the most important thing in this world is loving and caring for people. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | CINDERELLA
A hilarious retelling of a great old story! Poor Cinderella, belittled by her stepsisters Oofa and Murkatrina, overworked by her Stepmother, and no prospect of happiness on the horizon. Poor Prince Rupert, a mother pushing him to marry, a father trying to avoid anymore bruises from his wife, and a faithful steed with the unfortunate name of Daisy. What's a prince to do?... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | CINDERELLA AND THE BIRKENSTOCKS
Why would you send someone to a dance with glass slippers? They’re so uncomfortable! This pop-cultured addition of the classic fairy tale begins with an impossible Cinderella terrorizing her sweet grandmother and her studious sisters. When the prince announces he’s having a ball, they try to keep her home, not out of spite, but for fear of embarrassment. Things take a very... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | CINDERELLA AND THE FAIRY GODMOTHER'S SPELL
The familiar story of Cinderella gets a twist when Cinderella herself is responsible for her transformation from victim of her step family to young woman. Ideal for an ensemble approach to performance. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | CINDERSTEIN
Help! The local high school drama teacher wrote his own version of Cinderella by combining the Princess's tale with the story of Frankenstein, but the production is bombing: The Fairy Godmother wants to be called the Fairy Goshmother, three new stepsisters must be added to the cast, several actors quit, and the extras are fed up with being extras. Then, after... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | THE CLOUDS
In this hilarious, updated version of Aristophanes' classic, aging Strepsiades finds himself deep in debt, due to his son Phidippides's fascination with horses. When the creditors come, Strepsiades turns to Sokrates, the "peripatetic philosopher" who at his "Thinkery" teaches "newfangled" forms of logic—foremost among them a philosophy allowing one to talk out of debts.... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | CYRANO DE WALKER AND FRIEND
This comedy is a take-off on a scene in Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand, in which Cyrano belittles another actor for his lack of creativity when he comments on Cyrano's long nose. In this play, a fast-walker in the park (Cyrano de Walker) stops to playfully tease a stranger (Harold) who is sitting on a bench enjoying the day. There are some tense moments when... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | THE DAY BOY AND THE NIGHT GIRL
The Day Boy and the Night Girl is a free adaptation of a George MacDonald fairy tale about a boy raised never to see darkness and a girl kept always in the dark. The two children accidentally meet and eventually learn that they need each other. The story is framed by a parallel story of two children in a London orphans' hospital. This is a wonderful archetypal fairy... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | DRACELSTEIN
Dracelstein, a horrific vampire-ghost-mad scientist-werewolf, reanimates the dead to create himself a bride—but he can't stand her. She smells like an old corpse. Now this nefarious fiend seeks a new woman, someone young and beautiful, so he can put his bride's brain inside her youthful body! When innocent Jack and Jane go through the forest on their honeymoon, Dracelstein... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | EBENEZER!
Dickens got it backward—Scrooge was good, and everyone else was bad! In this wild adaptation, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, who sends three spirits to show Scrooge the world is horrible and there is no hope left. The Ghost of Christmas Past, a B-movie actor, forces Scrooge to relive old pains. The Ghost of Christmas Present, a die-hard... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Heeding the plea of his old friend, Roderick Usher, William Benson travels to the haunted House of Usher, where the very stones are alive with voices of trapped ancestors desperate for release. There, things are not quite as they seem. Roderick's sister, the beautiful Madeleine, seems to die, and Roderick is seized by the paranoid dread of what seems to be an imagined event... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | THE FROG PRINCE
In this fresh adaptation of the classic fairy tale, Princess Sofie encounters a frog at a well and strikes a bargain with him. When Sofie breaks her bargain, however, the frog (who is really a prince under a spell) decides to go to her father's castle to confront her. His mission is complicated, however, by the appearance of the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood. Tired of being... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | JOURNEY OF THE BIRDS
A beautifully moving and funny adaptation of Attar's Conference of the Birds, this work offers tremendous opportunity for actors, costumers, and makeup artists. This allegorical comedy dramatizes a journey of 30 unhappy and disenchanted American birds to commune with their spiritual forbearer, Quetzalcoatl, the feathered prophet of the Americas. Advised by Grandmother... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | LADY TESS
A faithful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic Victorian novel, "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" presents a compelling, exciting, and fast-moving story about Tess, of poetic beauty, proud and intelligent, that people can relate to today. Her spirit, tied to the past, causes her to live like a modern young woman, whose dilemmas, in this fast-paced story, are caused by three men in... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | LES MISERABLES
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo’s timeless classic, dazzles in this exciting new adaptation that is perfect for high school and community theater groups.
Beginning with Inspector Javert’s opening words, “You are free,” Jean Valjean leaves Toulon prison after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread. With nowhere to go and rejected by everyone he meets,... | | | | | | |
| | | | | | LITTLE WOMEN
Based on the cherished novel by Louisa May Alcott, Little Women tells the story of the four March Girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as they grow to adulthood in Civil War era New England. The girls endure hardships and privations, and eventually even a tragic loss, but their courage, their love for each other, and the strength of their family bond never fade. This... | | | | | | |
| All Genres | | ALICE IN WONDERLAND - URBAN EDITION | ( : 40  ;  : 4  , 23  , 27  ;
 : 3-6  ,  ,  ) | | BEAUTY AND THE BEAST | (: 80 ; : 8 , 4  , 2 , 14 ) | | THE CANTERVILLE GHOST | | (: 90 ; : 9 , 5 , 7 , 21 ) | | THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO | (: 25 ; : 1  , 2 , 3 ; : 1-5 ) | | A CHRISTMAS CAROL | | (: 75 ; : 4 , 5 , 5 , 14 ) | | CINDERELLA | | (: 90 ; : 9 , 4 , 13 ) | | CINDERELLA AND THE BIRKENSTOCKS | (: 80 ; : 9 , 5 , 2 , 16 ;
: 0-8 , , ) | | CINDERELLA AND THE FAIRY GODMOTHER'S SPELL | (: 55 ; : 9 , 2 , 7 , 18 ;
: , ) | | CINDERSTEIN | (: 80 ; : 12 , 8 , 13 , 33 ;
: , ) | | THE CLOUDS | (: 40 ; : 1 , 3 , 5 , 9 ;
: , ) | | CYRANO DE WALKER AND FRIEND | | (: 10 ; : 2 , 2 ) | | THE DAY BOY AND THE NIGHT GIRL | (: 50 ; : 4 , 4 , 8 ;
: , ) | | DRACELSTEIN | (: 90 ; : 6 , 2 , 7 , 15 ;
: ) | | EBENEZER! | (: 85 ; : 20-30 , 20-30 ;
: , ) | | FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER | | (: 60 ; : 2 , 2 , 4 , 8 ) | | THE FROG PRINCE | (: 35 ; : 7 , 3 , 1 , 11 ;
: ) | | JOURNEY OF THE BIRDS | (: 60 ; : 30 , 30 ;
: , ) | | LADY TESS | | (: 100 ; : 10 , 6 , 3 , 19 ) | | LES MISERABLES | (: 90 ; : 18 , 20 , 3 , 41 ;
: , ) | | LITTLE WOMEN | (: 120 ; : 8-15 , 7-11 , 15-26 ;
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