Plays For Young Audiences Script Catalog 2011-2012

102 Pages·2011·18.06 MB·English

Photo from the Children’s Theatre Company’s pl L
production of Robin Hood by Greg Banks ay f oo
sforyoscripto r a Fk insid
u c R e
n o E
g u E
a p
u o
dien!
n
c
e
s.
o
r
g
Plays For Young Audiences
Script Catalog 2011-2012
s
t
p
e
r
e bl
c a
playsforyoungaudiences.org y ex vail e!
A Scipt-licensing Partnership of a a n
Seattle Children’s Theatre & Pl w nli
o
o
The Children’s Theatre Company - Minneapolis n
FY12_PYAcatalog_final3.pdf 1 9/21/11 8:43 PM
We are committed to creating a fresh canon of plays that speak to young people and their families. We celebrate the classics of
children’s literature, but we are also creating work that embraces the contemporary realities of young people in a world that is
complex and in a state of constant transformation. This is work that we hope speaks to young people in ways that challenge, uplift,
inspire and excite. We want to make theatre that is vital, that is alive and that honors the extraordinary young people that we all
serve. Being the two leading theaters for young people in this nation, it was important to us that the work that has been developed
at our theaters continue to have life beyond the world premiere.
We have also selected works that have been developed outside of SCT and CTC that have been successfully produced, critically
acclaimed and have been written by award-winning playwrights. We are happy to represent this important, innovative work.
We are thrilled that the work in this catalog is performed across the nation and around the world. It is so important that young
audiences receive the same high caliber work that any theatre-goer would expect. We believe the PYA catalog is an invaluable
source for theater professionals, actors, directors, educators, students, and anyone interested in quality scripts for young audiences.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Peter Brosius Linda Hartzell
Artistic Director Artistic Director
Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis Seattle Children’s Theatre
Our catalog continues to grow, and we add new collateral materials frequently. To be sure that you get the most updated
information visit our website www.playsforyoungaudiences.org often. Also, sign up for the mailing list to get our E-Newsletter,
which keeps you informed of:
-new plays in the catalog
-statements and quotes from authors, playwrights and composers
-links to sound samples for musical scores,
-special offers on perusal materials and royalty discounts
-and much more!
We work hard to serve you as quickly and effectively as possible. If you have any suggestions for improving our catalog,
website, or other services, please let us know!
Best,

Michelle Wright  
General Manager
Plays for Young Audiences
[phone]
[email protected]
www.playsforyoungaudiences.org
FY12_PYAcatalog_final3.pdf 2 9/21/11 8:43 PM
Plays for Young Audiences (PYA) is a partnership venture
between The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis
(CTC) and Seattle Children’s Theatre (SCT), the two lead-
ing theatres for young people in the nation. CTC and SCT
created PYA in 2004 to provide a centralized catalog of
scripts written for young audiences to professional the-
atres, amateur/community theaters and schools. Both CTC
and SCT are well known for commissioning work that is
topical, contemporary, fantastical, and written by today’s
leading playwrights. Through its service to the larger
children’s theatre community, PYA is a catalyst to drive the
field of theatre for young people to new heights.
The Children’s Theatre Company (CTC), located in Min-
neapolis, Minnesota, exists to create extraordinary theatre
experiences, and to advance theatre as a means of educat-
ing, challenging and inspiring young people. Established
in 1965, CTC has grown to become the leading profes-
sional theatre company for young people in North Ameri-
ca, and among the three largest in the world. Recipient of
the 2003 Tony® Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre
(the only youth theater ever to receive this award), the
Nickelodeon’s Parents Picks Award winner for Best Chil-
dren’s Theatre in the Twin Cities, as well as numerous other
honors, CTC is held in high esteem by its peers nation-
ally and internationally, and serves as an innovator for the
field. CTC serves over 200,000 people annually through its
artistic, education and access programs. For more informa-
tion on CTC, go to www.childrenstheatre.org or call (612)
874-0500.
Seattle Children’s Theatre (SCT), located in Seattle,
Washington, is the second largest resident theatre for
young audiences in North America, as listed in Time Maga-
zine. Founded in 1975, SCT has developed and improved
the caliber of plays available for young audiences in the
United States and abroad, developing and producing over
100 new works. The mission of SCT is to provide children
of all ages access to professional theatre, with a focus
on new works, and theatre education. SCT reaches over
250,000 people each season. For more information on SCT,
go to www.sct.org or call [phone].
Photo Credits- Cover : Vickielee Wohlbach as Green Dog, Carter J. Davis as Red Dog and Hana Lass as Blue Dog in Seattle Children’s Theatre’s 2011 production of Go, Dog. Go! Photo by Chris Bennion.
FY12_PYAcatalog_final3.pdf 3 9/21/11 8:43 PM
Plays For Young Audiences
New Additons to the Catalog! Snapshot Silhouette....................................................45
Baloonacy...................................................................72 Stamping, Shouting, Singing Home.............................24
Beauty & the Beast (Porter).........................................50 Stuck..........................................................................83
A Christmas Carol (Field)...........................................57 Ukranian Tales............................................................69
Cinderella (Porter).....................................................30 Wondrous Tales of Old Japan......................................70
The Day the Waters Came..........................................78 Musicals
Electric Darkness........................................................6 Animal Fables From Aesop.........................................49
The Flying Machine.....................................................8 The Beggars’ Strike....................................................50
Great Expectations.....................................................54 Boundless Grace........................................................38
Halt! Who Goes There.................................................54 The Brementown Musicians..........................................4
Hansel & Gretel (Porter).............................................32 Busytown....................................................................51
Harold & the Purple Crayon (Rivera)..........................33 Go, Dog. Go!...............................................................10
Ho, Ho, Ho...................................................................11 Harriet’s Halloween Candy.........................................34
Lizzie Bright and the Buckmister Boy..........................38 The Hoboken Chicken Emergency.............................55
Lucky Country............................................................80 Jack and the Beanstalk................................................36
Mirandy & Brother Wind.............................................39 Madeline and the Gypsies..........................................58
Missing.......................................................................81 Merry Christmas, Strega Nona....................................58
The Night Before Christmas.......................................15 Mirandy & Brother Wind.............................................39
Pirates!.......................................................................17 Not Without Laughter..................................................40
Scarecrow...................................................................19 The Old Man Who Loved Cheese................................40
A Single Shard............................................................44 Peter and the Wolf......................................................16
Skitterbang Island......................................................75 Peter Pan (Mason)......................................................62
Slap............................................................................83 Pinnochio (Henry)......................................................61
Smashed Eggs............................................................21 Pippi Longstocking.....................................................62
Stamping, Shouting Singing Home..............................24 Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy...............................42
Treasure Island (Kenny)..............................................47 Puss in Boots...............................................................63
The Whale Savers.......................................................70 Skitterbang Island......................................................75
Whose Shoes..............................................................27 Sleeping Beauty (Way)...............................................44
Multicultural The Sorcerer’s Apprentice..........................................66
Stellaluna....................................................................23
The Adventures of Mottel...........................................48
The Whale Savers.......................................................27
Average Family...........................................................28
The Wind in the Willows.............................................69
The Beggars’ Strike....................................................50
Boundless Grace........................................................28 Holiday Plays
The Day the Waters Came..........................................78 Halloween
Don Quixote...............................................................52 Bunnicula.....................................................................4
The Dutiful Daughter....................................................6 Canterville Ghost.......................................................29
Esperanza Rising........................................................53 The Devil and Daniel Webster....................................77
Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like.................7 Frankenstein..............................................................54
Iqbal...........................................................................36 Hansel & Gretel (Staffa)..............................................32
Iron Ring.....................................................................56 Harriet’s Halloween Candy.........................................34
The Lost Boys of Sudan................................................80 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Gaines)......................37
Lucky Country.............................................................80 December
Mirandy and Brother Wind..........................................39
Beatrix Potter’s Christmas..........................................49
The Monkey King........................................................59
A Christmas Carol (Field)..........................................57
The Nightingale..........................................................60
A Christmas Carol (Gaines).......................................51
Not Without Laughter..................................................40
Grandad’s Big Adventure...........................................11
Pharaoh Serket & the Lost Stone of Fire.......................41
Ho, Ho, Ho...................................................................11
Red Earth...................................................................18
The Little Match Girl..................................................13
Red, Red Shoes...........................................................82
Merry Christmas, Strega Nona...................................58
Sinbad: The Untold Tale..............................................20
Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas............................................59
Slap............................................................................83
The Night Before Christmas.......................................15
FY12_PYAcatalog_final3.pdf 4 9/21/11 8:43 PM
Plays For Young Audiences
The Night Before Christmas.......................................15 Hamlet........................................................................79
The Snow Queen (Kenny)...........................................21 Jason and the Golden Fleece......................................79
Short Plays The Lost Boys of Sudan...............................................80
Run time of an hour or less Lucky Country............................................................80
Antigone....................................................................77 Missing.......................................................................81
Apple to Grandma.......................................................1 Red, Red, Shoes..........................................................82
Bag Dancing................................................................2 Romeo and Juliet (Banks)............................................82
Big Sister, Little Brother................................................2 Romeo and Juliet (Giomi)............................................83
The Biggest Little House in the Forest.........................72 Slap.............................................................................83
Cinderella’s Sisters......................................................5 Stuck...........................................................................83
Cloud Pictures............................................................72 SCT Drama School Summer Plays
The Day the Waters Came..........................................78 Written Specifically for Young Actors
The Elves and the Shoemakers...................................73 As You Like It..............................................................84
Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like.................7 Dracula......................................................................84
The Gardener.............................................................73 Dracula: Origins.........................................................84
Glittra’s Mission............................................................9 Gulliver’s Travels.......................................................85
Goldilocks and the Three Bears..................................73 Macbeth....................................................................85
Goldilocks & the Three Bears & A Midsummer Night’s Dream.....................................85
Little Red Riding Hood................................................31 Much Ado About Nothing...........................................86
Jack.............................................................................13 The Odyssey..............................................................86
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle..........38 The Tempest..............................................................86
The Lost Child.............................................................38 Twelfth Night.............................................................87
One Dark Night...........................................................74
Punch & Judy and the Three Sillies..............................18
Reeling.......................................................................64
Scarecrow...................................................................19
Skitterbang Island......................................................75
The Song From the Sea...............................................22
A Special Trade..........................................................74
Stellaluna...................................................................23
Stepping on the Cracks..............................................23
Trouble.......................................................................75
Whose Shoes..............................................................27
Zagazoo......................................................................27
Plays for Pre-School Audiences
Balloonacy...................................................................72
The Biggest Little House in the Forest.........................72
Cloud Pictures............................................................72
The Elves and the Shoemakers...................................73
The Gardener.............................................................73
Goldilocks and the Three Bears.................................73
One Dark Night..........................................................74
Skitterbang Island......................................................75
A Special Trade..........................................................74
Trouble......................................................................75
Plays for Teen Audiences
Antigone.....................................................................77
The Day the Waters Came...........................................78
The Devil and Daniel Webster.....................................77
Eye of the Storm..........................................................78
Fashion 47...................................................................78
FY12_PYAcatalog_final3.pdf 5 9/21/11 8:43 PM
Cast Size: 6 or Less Cast Members
Aesop’s Fables
Playwright: Mike Kenny
33 pgs. 4 characters
Originally produced by Sherman Theatre, UK, in 2002
Run Time: 75 minutes
Audience Recommendation: All Ages
Synopsis: Wolfie, Syd, Barry, and Harriet invite you into their magical world where
anything is possible when you use your imagination. Whether it’s The Tortoise And
The Hare or The Boy Who Cried Wolf, everyone knows at least one of Aesop’s great
fables. In this spellbinding production, storytellers use song, dance, and drama to
bring these famous fables to life.
“A ground breaking theatrical experience for children.”
-Wales on Sunday, UK
Illustration by: Will Hayes
Classroom Reading Fee: $50 per classroom, per semester
Amateur/Educational Royalty Fee: $65 per performance
Professional Royalty Fee: please inquire for a quote
The royalty fee includes permission to make copies of the perusal script for your cast.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Playwright: Deborah Lynn Frockt
74 pgs. 6 actors
Originally produced in SCT’s 1995-96 season
Run Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Audience Recommendation: All Ages
Synopsis: It’s a very ordinary and rather boring day for Alice, until she spots a
White Rabbit with a pocket watch whizzing through a world that’s beyond imagination!
Her insatiable curiosity draws her into a madcap adventure in which she meets
remarkable characters like the Caterpillar, Talking Flowers, a Duchess and her Cook,
a Gryphon and Mock Turtle, a Mad Hatter, and a March Hare. When Alice finally catches
up with the White Rabbit in the Queen’s Court, she’s in for her biggest adventure of all.
The wonder-filled world of Alice is a fantastic journey for the adventurous of any age.
Jane Ryan, Chris O’Connor, Julyana Soelistyo,
and Allen Galli. Photo by Chris Bennion.
“This big, color-splashed show retains Carroll’s wonderfully
imaginative and familiar characters, and much of his playfully
nonsensical verse.” –The Seattle Times
Classroom Reading Fee: $50 per classroom, per semester
Amateur/Educational Royalty Fee: $65 per performance
Professional Royalty Fee: please inquire for a quote
The royalty fee includes permission to make copies of the perusal script for your cast.
Apple to Grandma
Author: Saskia Janse
28 pgs. 3 actors/puppeteers
Originally produced by: Speeltheater Holland 2001
Run Time: 55 minutes
Audience recommendation: All Ages
Synopsis: Josie is very disappointed. Since her grandma had to move to a nursing home,
she isn’t allowed to stay overnight with her anymore. When grandma was still living in
her own beautiful house they used to pick apples and Josie could bring them to the attic
for her. Josie decides to make a beautiful painting for her grandma, and bring her an
apple from the old apple tree, their favourite place.
“A charming and imaginative romp...” -Seattle Times
Performance at Speeltheater Holland
Classroom Reading Fee: $50 per classroom, per semester
Amateur/Educational Royalty Fee: $65 per performance
Professional Royalty Fee: please inquire for a quote
The royalty fee includes permission to make copies of the perusal script for your cast.
1 PYA Script Catalog www.playsforyoungaudiences.org
FY12_PYAcatalog_final3.pdf 6 9/21/11 8:43 PM
Cast Size: 6 or Less Cast Members
Bag Dancing
Playwright: Mike Kenny
33 pgs. 1 female, 1 male
Originally produced by Blah, Blah, Blah, UK, in 1988
Run Time: 60 minutes
Audience Recommendation: All Ages
Synopsis: Bag Dancing explores the touching relationship between Imelda, a bag lady,
and Neville, a hotel caretaker. Both are advanced in years and they develop a warm
friendship. While one is forever going somewhere, the other has nowhere to go. Through
Illustration by: Kyle Schuler
their conversations we learn about their experiences, and their personal and social
histories. Their tales are both humorous and poignant, challenging many
preconceptions about old age.
Classroom Reading Fee: $50 per classroom, per semester
Amateur/Educational Royalty Fee: $65 per performance
Professional Royalty Fee: please inquire for a quote
The royalty fee includes permission to make copies of the perusal script for your cast.
Beauty and the Beast
Author: LePrince de Beaumont
Playwright: Charles Way
78 pgs. 3 female, 3 male
Originally produced by The Library Theatre, UK, in 2001
Run Time: 90 minutes
Audience Recommendation: All Ages
Synopsis: Cassandra is wild and loves freedom; her sister Belle is timid
and afraid of the world. Their Father, George Godwin, loves them both.
On the day of Cassandra’s engagement, he learns that all but one of his
ships has been sunk, and in a desperate attempt to protect it from
looters he rides from London across Dartmoor not knowing what fate holds
in store. When his horse throws him, George is offered sanctuary in a strange
house. He is told he can take anything he wants but not to pick any of the roses.
Glad to be alive, but not realising the true nature of the master of the house,
Robert Vernon and Bethany Walker
he disobeys. The moment he picks the rose a great beast appears, half man
half wolf. The terrified merchant promises to send one daughter to the house
in return for his life, and thus he returns to London. The deadly promise makes
George a sick man, and it is Belle who goes to fulfil her father’s promise and save
his life. She is met at the gate by the housekeeper, who unbeknown to Belle, is a
woman who once loved the man inside the beast and in her rage at being scorned
put on him a dreadful curse. This is a story of overcoming fear and finding true love.
“The love story builds to a mesmerising scene of dance and musical rhythm where
Belle and the Beast run together through the forest with the wolves. By the time
Belle’s kiss transforms the Beast, the children are wide-eyed while adults are left
panting for more.” - Manchester Metro, UK
Classroom Reading Fee: $50 per classroom, per semester
Amateur/Educational Royalty Fee: $65 per performance
Professional Royalty Fee: please inquire for a quote
www.playsforyoungaudiences.org PYA Script Catalog 2
FY12_PYAcatalog_final3.pdf 7 9/21/11 8:43 PM
Cast Size: 6 or Less Cast Members
Beauty and the Beast
Author: LePrince de Beaumont
Playwright: Mike Kenny
50 pgs. 2 female, 2 male
Originally produced by Oxford Touring Theatre, UK, in 2005
Run Time: 90 minutes
Audience Recommendation: All Ages
Synopsis: This is a refreshing, funny twist on a classic tale. Beauty is a spoiled girl
who has never had to work. To teach her a lesson, her fairy Godmother creates
a series of challenges that ultimately trap Beauty in the estate of Beast. It is when
Beast releases Beauty that she realizes she loves him, and returns to Beast’s castle
just in time to save him from death. “The story that we came to tell of the ugliness
that beauty hides where only love can break the spell and show the person that’s inside.”
“Mike Kenny’s script takes both Beauty and her Beast on a voyage of
self-realization. As ever with Kenny, there is nothing twee. He makes his audiences
think and feel and chuckle.” – The Stage, UK
Katie Matthews and Dominic Gately. Photo by Keith Pattison
Classroom Reading Fee: $50 per classroom, per semester
Amateur/Educational Royalty Fee: $65 per performance
Professional Royalty Fee: please inquire for a quote
The royalty fee includes permission to make copies of the perusal script for your cast.
Big Sister, Little Brother
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Playwright: Mike Kenny
25 pgs., 1 female, 1 male
Originally produced by Visible Fictions, UK, in 1998
Run Time: 60 minutes
Audience Recommendation: All Ages
Synopsis: Rita and Archie meet a big-headed Emperor, a foolish chief-minister,
an exquisite Empress and a host of courtiers. In a vast palace, with rooms full of
clothes, they weave magic garments. But when everything goes wrong, whose fault is it?
Like any brother and sister, they blame each other and can’t even agree on which way
to run! Big Sister, Little Brother tells the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes with an
unusual twist, and is a funny, fast-paced, heart-warming tale.
“Big Sister Little Brother is sure to be a big hit... with all the fun and laughter that one Illustrated by Aimee Johnson
might expect in a morality tale for the very young.” -Canberra Times, UK
Classroom Reading Fee: $50 per classroom, per semester
Amateur/Educational Royalty Fee: $65 per performance
Professional Royalty Fee: please inquire for a quote
The royalty fee includes permission to make copies of the perusal script for your cast.
3 PYA Script Catalog www.playsforyoungaudiences.org
FY12_PYAcatalog_final3.pdf 8 9/21/11 8:43 PM
Cast Size: 6 or Less Cast Members
The Brementown Musicians
Author: Grimm Brothers
Playwright: Allison Gregory
Music: Hummie Mann
72 pgs., 3 female, 3 male
Originally produced in SCT’s 2009-10 season
Run Time: 90 minutes
Audience Recommendation: 6+
Synopsis: Billy, the goat, Slim, the pig, and cat Nell,overhear Farmer and his Wife
decide that their donkey, Donny, is past his usefulness and his time is up. It’s up to
them to warn Donny of his fate. Poor Donny! And he’s such a dreamer, too. In fact,
he has a dream of becoming a famous musician one day. That’s it! He’ll leave the
farm and follow that dream right to Brementown, the music mecca. As the animal
friends bicker and squabble their way along, we see foul things afoot in Brementown.
Jayne Muirhead, Hugh Hastings, Auston James and Julie Briskman
The newly self-appointed Mayor of the town, Fritz, and her brother, Karl the Crusher, Photo by Chris Bennion
have decided to banish music from Brementown forever. Rusty, the operatic rooster,
is flabbergasted. However will he be able to share his gift with the world? As Karl the
Crusher tries to, well, crush him, Rusty uses his wits, and witty word play, to flee the
clutches of the sour-tempered siblings. Soon Rusty stumbles upon the trio of furry
friends. This is it! This is how Rusty can get help to stop Fritz and Karl’s anti-music
madness. He talks the friends into letting him join their band. Once in Brementown,
it becomes clear, very quickly, that something is not quite right. Where are all the
people and music? They discover that Rusty has tricked them, but the friends realize
that only they can save music. With their individual talents pooled together, they are
able to thwart Fritz and Karl and bring sweet song back to Brementown.
“With The Brementown Musicians, the Seattle Children’s Theatre has once again does what it does best:
created a play that is every bit asentertaining for parents as it is for their children.” -Seattle’s Child
Classroom Reading Fee: $50 per classroom, per semester
Amateur/Educational Royalty Fee: $85 per performance
Professional Royalty Fee: please inquire for a quote
The royalty fee includes permission to make copies of the perusal script for your cast.
Bunnicula
Author: James Howe
Playwright: Jon Klein
Music: Chris Jeffries
24 pgs. 2 female, 4 male
Originally produced in SCT’s 1996-97 season
Run Time: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Audience Recommendation: 6+
Synopsis: It’s a dark and stormy night, and Chester and Harold sit waiting for their
owners to return home from the movies. Chester, the Monroe family cat, and Harold,
the family’s dog, are more than just pets, they’re good friends too. When the Monroe’s
finally get home, they come bearing a surprise; they’ve found a bunny in the movie
theatre. This is no ordinary rabbit; this is the extraordinary Bunnicula. When the family’s
produce starts losing its juice, Chester thinks he knows what’s causing the fantastic
phenomenon. Bunnicula is a vampire! Or maybe Chester’s imagination is getting the
better of him. Singing and dancing their way through this hilarious mystery, the furry
friends find room in their hearts, and in their home, for one very unique bunny.
“This semi-musical is a fanciful, non-scary Halloween treat for the kid inside all of us.” –Talkin’ Broadway
“Readers of all ages can rejoice for Bunnicula, a clever, careful stage rendering of Deborah and James Howe’s
much-beloved classic.” –The Seattle Times
Classroom Reading Fee: $50 per classroom, per semester
Amateur/Educational Royalty Fee: $85 per performance
Professional Royalty Fee: please inquire for a quote
The royalty fee includes permission to make copies of the perusal script and piano/vocal score for your cast. Reference CD available upon request.
www.playsforyoungaudiences.org PYA Script Catalog 4
FY12_PYAcatalog_final3.pdf 9 9/21/11 8:43 PM
Cast Size: 6 or Less Cast Members
Cinderella
Playwright: Mike Kenny
62 pgs. 1 female, 5 either
Originally produced by West Yorkshire Playhouse, UK in 2009
Run Time: 1 hour, 35 minutes
Audience Recommendation: All Ages
Synopsis: Cinderella has been sent to sleep in the kitchen by her mean step sisters
Thisun and Thatun. But she’s found some lovely new friends down there, who think
they can sort things out and make it all better – her new friends are Ears, Teeth,
Claws, Tail and Whiskers and they are rats! Cinderella wants to go to the ball because she really wants to dance,
her mum and dad taught her to dance and she never gets the chance to practice.
Thisun and Thatun have a different plan and they don’t want any competition in their
plans to marry the Prince! Clever and fun, this play will spark young children’s
Sophie McShera, Adam Baxter, Esther Biddle, SarahGoddard, Simon Kerrigan and
imagination as this classic tale unfolds before their eyes. Ivan Scott Photo by Toby Farrow
“An inventive, folksy version of the classic fairytale”-What’s On Stage, UK
“There will surely be an award nomination for this production. It is an utter joy and the best yet from Gail McIntyre and
Mike Kenny.” –The Stage, UK
Classroom Reading Fee: $50 per classroom, per semester
Amateur/Educational Royalty Fee: $65 per performance
Professional Royalty Fee: please inquire for a quote
The royalty fee includes permission to make copies of the perusal script for your cast.
Cinderella’s Sisters
Playwright: Mike Kenny
58 pgs. 2 female
Originally produced by Catherine Wheels Theatre, UK in 2005
Run Time: 50 minutes
Audience Recommendation: 6+
Synopsis: The wicked stepsisters of Cinderella have been misunderstood!
Pam and Penny are daughters of the ultimate stage mother. Though they
love to dance, they are continually pushed to a level of excellence that’s
painful. After their father runs off with a redhead, Pam and Penny’s mother
marries a man named Frank, who has a daughter of his own, Sophie (but you
can call her Cinderella). Even though they dislike their new stepsister, Sophie
loves to watch Pam and Penny dance. Imagine their surprise and dismay when
Sophie wins first prize at the big dance contest. This dance number is sometimes Illustrated by Kyle Schuler
funny, sometimes sad, but entirely captivating.
“The girls in Mike Kenny’s Cinderella’s Sisters are neither fat slags nor paragons of
slim-line beauty. They are a pair of lively young women trying to work out the
mixed-up emotions of adolescence. Their admiration for their stepsister comes
across as spite, their love as aloofness and their passion as competitiveness. If their
actions appear to be ugly, it is not how they feel on their vulnerable inside.” – The Scottsman, UK
Classroom Reading Fee: $50 per classroom, per semester
Amateur/Educational Royalty Fee: $65 per performance
Professional Royalty Fee: please inquire for a quote
The royalty fee includes permission to make copies of the perusal script for your cast.
5 PYA Script Catalog www.playsforyoungaudiences.org
FY12_PYAcatalog_final3.pdf 10 9/21/11 8:43 PM