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AUDIENCE MATURITY: C=Child, Y=Youth, T=Teen, YA=Young Adult
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| THE UGLY DUCK
Books $7.00
Royalty $50.00/$40.00
Printed Music Score (piano/vocal) $40.00
69 pages text
Y
Book and lyrics by James Still. Music by Christopher McGovern. A family musical that champions creativity and individuality through an Americanized, contemporary thematic adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's THE UGLY DUCKLING. Unit set, several locations. 4 men, 2 females plus others. Original production toured with five actors.
Ten year-old Max is thrown into crisis when he is forced to spend his summer vacation with his Great Aunt Junie - - a true original who lives in a faraway place called Kansas. Notorious in town as "Loony Junie the Crazy Duck Lady," Aunt Junie makes purple popcorn balls, practices karate, lives in a house with playful furniture (played by actors) and sings to her ducks. Maximum, as Aunt Junie calls him, is a city kid trapped in a small town who slowly overcomes homesickness and his own intolerance, ultimately transforming his fears into love and enthuiasm for creativity and individuality. As Aunt June tells Max, "People think everything has got to be one way and one way only. No matter how crowded it is - - there's always enough room to be yourself." |
| THE UNWICKED WITCH
Books $7.00
Royalty $40.00
34 pages text
C Y
By Madge Miller. Original comedy about "witches." 4 women, 2 men. One set. Witch and folk costumes.
Hobble, Gobble, and Wobble are three zany witches who love to play tag on their broomsticks. They try to teach young Winona to be a witch, but she cannot get the hang of it - - and when Grandfather Simon and Young Luke move into their untidy house, and start to clean out the dust and cobwebs that have been so lovingly preserved, Winona is hard put to conceal their presence - - especially when Great Grandmother Wobble finds the grandfather clock, inside which she is accustomed to sleep, actually ticking. When the two parties finally confront each other, Luke charms the ladies with his gallantry; and Grandfather restores the broomsticks to three changed witches, when they give him back his granddaughter. |
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