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"SCROOGE MAKES UP!" A one-act Christmas comedy with an extremely flexible cast of 15! (5M, 6F plus 4 that can be either. Extras as carolers, if desired. Can also be done with an all-female cast) SET: Area staging (a bare stage with props!) RUNNING TIME: About 45 minutes One stormy Christmas Eve, a young cashier, named Ebenezer Scrooge, is rounding up grocery carts in a supermarket parking lot, when, suddenly, a busload of senior citizens, out shopping for their Christmas party, hits him! Young Ebenezer is hospitalized, missing Christmas, and spending an entire year in a body cast! Fast forward to the present: a now bitter Scrooge (who hates Christmas and shopping carts) is president of "Scrooge and Marley Cosmetics," a company whose toxic, anti-aging cream poisoned his partner, "Makeup Marley," and disfigured Bobbie Cratchit's daughter, "Tiny Kim", so severely that she is forced to wear a paper bag over her head. Oh well...at least profits are up! This Christmas Eve, however, an especially miserable Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his deceased partner. Carrying a long, chain, Makeup Marley tells Scrooge that "Mallmart", and the other superstores have cut a deal with the "Big Guy Upstairs," giving him a 75% discount, in exchange for free ghostly labor. Marley and some other shady characters are now doomed in the afterlife, to gather and chain together all the loose shopping carts from parking lots all over the world! And now, an angel has been seen embroidering Scrooge's name on a "Coshko" smock! Can Scrooge change his ways before he is doomed to the same horrific fate? Thus sets the stage for a host of loony ghosts, and daffy characters, all of whom arrive, determined to change Scrooge's outlook on life before it is too late! THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY PUBLISHED BY PIONEER DRAMA SERVICES. For more info, or to order a perusal script, please visit their website: www.pioneerdrama.com
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"Christmas Skits for Girls" A Holiday Comedy of Four Playlets RUNNING TIME: 35-40 total minutes CAST SIZE: 2-4 females in each of the four skits SET: Suggested Set With hip lingo, and fun subject matter, these four 10-15 minute holiday skits for teens/preteens, use 2-4 characters each, and may be presented together, or individually, requiring little, or no, set-up time. Props may, or may not be used. 1. "THE CHRISTMAS PLAY": Three friends try out for their school's holiday production, only to discover that the teacher's "pet," who didn't even audition, seems to have gotten the best part! 2. "A PRESENT FOR MOM": Two sisters discover that not only did they buy their mom the exact same designer perfume, but the present stinks! 3. "THE CHRISTMAS CRUSH": Two best friends are at a Christmas party, when one suspects, to her horror, that her Secret Santa is the nerdiest kid in school - and now he's calling for her to meet him under the mistletoe! 4. "LETTER TO SANTA": A babysitter realizes that two kids have taken Christmas song lyrics way too literally! (The cast for this playlet can be all male, if desired.) THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY PUBLISHED BY BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS. For more info, or to order a perusal script, please visit their website: www.brookpub.com
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"PAPA 'SHOE' AND THE CHRISTMAS ELVES!" A charming, full-length holiday play with traditional music, a flexible cast of 20, and optional directions for including life-size puppetry!
(3M, 12F plus 5 that can be either...or 8M, 12F...Extra carolers can be added.) SET: One interior set (Can also be performed on a bare stage with props!) Cobbler Freidrich Schuhmaker, and his wife, Elsa, are a poor childless couple, who live in a small cottage in a little Bavarian village. It is the week before Christmas, and, as customers bring in their last-minute requests for shoes, "Papa 'Shoe'" as Freidrich is called by four young orphans, is overwhelmed. To make matters worse, Elsa has sewn four elf dolls, as gifts for the orphans, with materials that Freidrich had put aside to finish his shoes. With only one piece of leather left in the entire shop, and the tanners out of materials until well after Christmas, the couple frets over how they will finish the shoes, and pay their taxes. Then suddenly, one night, a mysterious stranger appears, and soon afterwards, Papa's shoes seem to be magically finishing themselves! This adaptation of the Grimm brothers' timeless tale is a sweet, enchanting, yet comical bit of holiday entertainment, perfect for the entire family! Easy to produce, with minimal stage requirements and the most colorful characters since "Scrooge", this show is one that both schools and community theaters will have great fun performing! .
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"Jack 'n the Blarney Stone!"
A Full-length Play in Two Acts with Traditional Irish Music! GREAT FOR ST. PATTY'S DAY...OR AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR HALLOWEEN! (One tale actually takes place on All Hallow's Eve) Can be performed by a mixed cast of adults and children, all-adult, or all-youth casts. CAST SIZE: Flexible casting. 13 people (4 M, 9 F), with doubling, or (9 M, and 23 F) without, plus extras. RUNNING TIME: Two hours SET: One outdoor set MUSIC: An accompaniement CD is available for this show With his father lost at sea, a drought upon the local Irish farmland, and a sister and invalid mother to support, young Jack O'Donnell, inspired by his mother's enchanting tales, leaves home to seek out the ever-elusive leprechaun and his crock o'gold. But when Jack meets up with Paddy McKeen and his caravan of traveling theater gypsies, they caution Jack about meddlin' with the "wee folk" by pulling costumes from a trunk, and performing two of their favorite Irish folktales. In the first tale, poor, good-hearted Percy Finnegan is tricked by a leprechaun into trading his last cow for a magic bottle. Amazingly, the bottle brings Percy and his family great wealth, until one day, it stops working, and Percy loses everything. Luckily, Percy gets a second bottle from the leprechaun, yet while this bottle doesn't exactly bring riches, it does bring a comical form of enlightenment in that typical Irish way! In the second tale, poor Jamie Freel sneaks into an ancient castle on All Hallow's Eve, to spy on the faeries, and ends up traveling with them to exchange a beautiful young girl for a changeling. However, when Jamie becomes smitten with the girl, he steals her for himself, causing the fairies to place a curse on the young woman, and leaving poor Jamie to support a blind and deaf mute. This traditional tale takes on a hilarious spin! At the end of their reenactment, the acting troupe discovers, much to their dismay, that Jack is even more adamant to resume his quest, but, in doing so, the lad is forced to match wits with both fantasy and horror creatures directly from the annals of Irish folklore. In the end, friendship, and family prove to be Jack's real fortune, along with a wee bit of magic! With a wonderful array of traditional Irish folksongs, and an accompaniment CD, "Jack and the Blarney Stone" weaves the magic and fears of Celtic folklore into a lively show that will leave your audiences "charmed"! A full perusal script is available for purchase by contacting Sheri Flannery Verrilli at littlelostarts@yahoo.com.
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