Christmas musical for young children
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Topic: Christmas musical for young children
Posted By: lessismore
Subject: Christmas musical for young children
Date Posted: 7/04/07 at 10:29am
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I am in the process of selecting a Christmas musical for younger children to perform. I have some criteria: it needs to have a small number of speaking parts (5-6 max.), it needs to have 5-6 chorus numbers, and it should be one act in length. The show is performed by the primary division of an elementary school, and they use our community theatre. There are generally a few speaking roles, and then 'classes' of students perform the different chorus numbers. This system works really well as it involves everyone - bit of a traffic headache on and offstage, but all of the 680 seats in the audience are filled! Thanks for any suggestions!
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Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 7/04/07 at 10:18pm
Do a 'Panto' - check out 'Lazy Bee' or 'P M Sales' members of this site.
Easy to learn & stage, usualy loosly based on fairy stories, you
can localise to suit. add you own music or as the script suggest.
Chuck in a bit of panto tradition & make it your own &
including audience participation. Where the 'Dame' being a Male &
the Principal Boy is a Girl.
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Joe
Western Gondawandaland
turn right @ Perth.
Hear the light & see the sound.
Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"}
May you always play
to a full house}
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Posted By: Lazy Bee
Date Posted: 7/09/07 at 10:58am
Please elaborate a bit more:
You say "Christmas Musical" - does that mean it should have a theme relevant to Christmas, or is it just that it is staged at Christmas?
Do you really mean a maximum of 6 speaking parts, or do you mean 6 principal parts (with other people having a line here and there)?
(Also, for those of us living on a different continent, please can you clarify "primary division of an elementary school" by age or grade.)
With the above in mind, which tell you I don't quite know what I'm talking about, then you might consider:-
- " http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/YouthTheatre/Greece_Musical.htm - Greece - the Musical " by Sue Gordon, (yes, that is the correct spelling - it's a musical parodying Ancient Greek legends, using Greek drama structures - so not Christmassy)
- " http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Musicals/Jungle_Rock.htm - Jungle Rock " by Sue Gordon (more speaking roles than you want, but most of them are small - the biggest roles are the five narrators - so not Christmassy)
- " http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/YouthTheatre/A_Letter_to_Santa.htm - A Letter to Santa " by Sue Gordon (again, more speaking parts, but not many. Structured to divide into two groups - a school class and Santa's elves)
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Stuart
Lazy Bee Scripts
http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk - http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk read complete play scripts on-line
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Posted By: lessismore
Date Posted: 7/09/07 at 4:19pm
The grade levels are grades 1 through 3, and the musical does need a Christmas theme. For example, in the past we have done "The Nutcracker". There are really only 4 speaking roles, but as the 2 principals travel through the night they encounter different 'lands'. Each class involved was able to do one song. There were a few lines here and there that I gave to a student from the class that was performing at the time. I guess a better way to phrase it would be 6 principal roles. Any other suggestions you may have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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