Sleeping Beauty's Dream - By Nick Toczek
Product Description
As she wanders through Pantoland in search of her Prince, Beauty encounters 3 bears, a wolf, a fairy and 14 frogs!
Sleeping Beauty's Dream is a fun and flexible panto, including popular songs for everyone to sing and parts for all. With all the traditional elements of the classic pantomime story, this retelling also introduces a host of other well-known characters and some novel twists.
Perfect for Upper Primary/Lower Secondary, it also offers scope to include younger children and adults, with parts to suit a broad range of abilities, aptitudes and experience. Its inventive comedy and lively characterisation also make it eminently suitable for amateur dramatic, semi-pro and professional performance.
There are twenty-seven speaking parts (including a chorus of ten) and a total of around three dozen parts (could be slightly less if chorus members also play guests and forest creatures or many more if others are given parts as Baby Beauty, extra guests, extra chorus members, extra creatures, extra frogs and so on).
The Teacher's Book contains the cast list, props and scenery list and full piano and vocal score (with chords), along with educational information on the history of Pantomime and a CD containing both demonstration and backing tracks (no musical experience required!). The script and song lyrics are available separately in the Pupil's Book (GA11517).
Approximate Duration: 60 mins
Contents/Songlist
1) Sing Baby Sing
2) Just An Old Fashioned Girl
3) If My Friends Could See Me Now
4) Nellie The Elephant
5) Jingle Bells
6) We Three Bears
7) Somethin’ Stupid
8) We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Cast List
Town Crier (loud voice required)
King (brief speaking parts, with brief solo singing)
Queen (non-speaking part, with brief solo singing)
Baby Beauty (non-speaking, probably a doll but could be a small person … or a very large one if someone wants to play a humerous part!)
Guests (non-speaking parts for several extras or could be played by other cast members)
Good Fairies (7 all with speaking parts; see also Eighth Fairy below)
Eighth Fairy (evil) / Old Woman / Fairy Grandmother (substantial speaking part with large solo singing part)
Chorus (minimum of 10 people, could include young actors)
Big Brother (the King's brother, Beauty's uncle)
Beauty (main part, with a key speaking role in all scenes except first and last; large solo singing part)
Forest Creatures (at least half a dozen, all non-speaking parts to include elephant, wolf, bear, elf-list creature and others)
The Three Bears (good parts for lively and confident, even over-confident performers!)
Frogs (played by Chorus and other cast members wearing frog masks, with plenty of parts here for extras)
Two Cleaners (speaking parts, nice character roles open to free interpretation)
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