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Ohio Theatre Alliance Award: "Outstanding Contribution to Theatre" Winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award. Musical School Play for Teachers and Large Cast of Students! Winner of five Ohio Arts Council Playwriting Awards. Children's musical fairy tale made simple and easy for kids to perform! Ohio Theatre Alliance Award: "Outstanding Contribution to Theatre" Fun, Innovative,  Children's Musicals, Scripts! A Delight to Stage and Perform! Post-Corbett Award for "literary excellence in Playwriting." ArtReach Creative Children's Scripts, Musicals and Plays! Kathryn Schultz Miller's work has been Featured in Twenty Great Plays for Children, published by St. Martin's Press, Foreward Maurice Sendak Children's Musicals, Scripts and Plays Kids Love to Perform! "Thank you for such a wonderful script. Our performance was SPECTACULAR!  Thanks for your help in making it a magical evening for my kids." Molly Callender, Langley Christian School Large Cast Musical Plays and One Acts, Perfect for Middle Schools, High Schools,  Assemblies! "The children were fabulous! We had so much fun! Thank you! Thank you!" Rhonda Smith Bayside School Stevensville, MD ArtReach Plays.com, your source for the best in Children's Musical Theatre!   Winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award. Musical School Play for Teachers and Large Cast of Students! Winner of five Ohio Arts Council Playwriting Awards. Children's musical fairy tale made simple and easy for kids to perform! Ohio Theatre Alliance Award: "Outstanding Contribution to Theatre" Fun, Innovative,  Children's Musicals, Script! A Delight to Stage and Perform! Post-Corbett Award for "literary excellence in Playwriting."   Winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award. Musical School Play for Teachers and Large Cast of Students! Winner of five Ohio Arts Council Playwriting Awards. Children's musical fairy tale made simple and easy for kids to perform! Ohio Theatre Alliance Award: "Outstanding Contribution to Theatre" Fun, Innovative,  Children's Musicals, Script! A Delight to Stage and Perform!   The Little Mermaid Musical Play for Kids to Perform! Musicals, Plays and Scripts for Kids! School Plays, Large Casts! Children's Scripts for Students, Teenagers, Schools, Theatres! FULL DOWNLOAD - Entire School Play Package with Soundtrack Audio Files Children's Musical Play, Fairy Tale for Kids! Easy, Large Cast Play for Children, Teens, Middle Schools! Everyone Has a Role in The Little Mermaid! "I downloaded The Little Mermaid and fell in love with it!  We will be doing 4 performances!  I love your approach to your plays!  Thanks so much!" Scott Nelson, Drama Teacher, O'Gorman High School, Sioux Falls Everyone Becomes a Star! Hans Christian Andersen's Classic The Little Mermaid Teachers, ArtReach's School Play, Children's Musical Play, The Little Mermaid, is an affordable way to present this favorite fairy tale in your school!  The School Play Package includes the rights to adapt the play to your needs! Affordable Musical School Play Package!  Running Time: About 45 minutes. Flexible Cast of About 24-39, 10 Female, 7 Male, 23 F/M. Easily adapted for larger or smaller cast. READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, HEAR SOUND CUES   As the play begins...  In the magical Kingdom of the Underwater Deep, a beautiful Mermaid Princess longs to become a human being.  Bright Comedy and Funny Characters! Easy Dialogue Allows Kids to Give Their Best Performance! Musical Play Performance, Buford Elementary School, Lennox, CA During a frightful shipwreck a Prince is tossed in the sea and rescued by the Princess. When she sings him a haunting lullaby he falls in love with the girl with the beautiful, musical voice. "We love your easy to use scripts and short lines for kids to memorize!" Julie Echelmeier, Higginsville Theatre Company  Youth Theatre Academy Salty Dogs and Underwater Sea Creatures! Prince and Sailors, The Little Mermaid, Friends Finny and Aruba! Take A Bow Productions & St. Anthony School, Kailua, Hawaii "We did The Wizard of Oz, then Peter Pan, and this year, The Little Mermaid.  Your scripts are so great, simple to use and adapt, fun for the kids and the audiences, and perfectly geared to use with a young cast. The audience loved our production!" Greg Tutt, Teacher, Buford Elementary School, Lennox, CA Affordable Musical School Play Package!  READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, HEAR SOUND CUES Musical Fun for Middle Schools! "The Middle School students at Saint Anthony School in Kailua, Hawaii just finished wowing our school, church, and family community with your play, The Little Mermaid.  This is the third play of yours we have produced!  Each play has been a treasure." Laree Ott, Drama Teacher, St. Anthony Middle School, Kailua, Hawaii   The Little Mermaid defies her father the Sea King and makes a pact with Queen Odessa, trading her voice for humanhood.   Her friends, Aruba and Finny, are at her side through the adventure providing humor and fun to this children's musical play of the beloved Hans Christian Andersen story. Neptune Battles the Underwater Queen!   "We just finished performing The Little Mermaid, and I must say that was another amazing play you have written!" Mary Ellen Herder, Take A Bow Productions, Chatham, Ontario Featuring Lots of Audience Interaction!  Songs for everyone to sing together! A Very Happy Ending! READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, HEAR SOUND CUES Easy to Adapt to Your Needs! Add as many roles and lines you like!  Your School Play Package includes the rights to make a Video/DVD of the performance! "The children loved The Little Mermaid and so did the audiences!  I cast 26 children in the roles and they loved it and we had full houses!  We had so much fun with it and what makes it extra special is the CD with sound effects and songs!" Jennifer Black, Director, Children's Theatre Company, Goderich, Ontario Affordable Musical School Play Package!  Lots of Fun Characters for a Large Cast! "Philippe brought down the house.  The sailors were loved.  And Aruba and Finny stole the show.  The Reverend Gumbo made our own priest laugh!" Keith Wagner, Saint Paul School, Leesburg, FL This children's musical play includes the antics of Philippe the French Chef, salty dog Sailors, sidekicks Slithery Sirs and comical Castle Servants.  Fun and easy lyrics are set to familiar tunes such as Blow the Man Down, Brahms Lullaby and Alouette.  The CD of background music and sound effects gives it a professional touch! Chef Philippe, O'Gorman High School  "It was so easy to work with the script  and adapt it to my students' needs!" Sherri Alejandro, Teacher, Carden El Encanto School, Santa Cruz, CA READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, HEAR SOUND CUES Boys Love Playing the Salty Sailors! Sailors have fun dialogue and Sing Blow the Man Down! Children's Theatre Company, Goderich, Ontario Teachers, this musical children's play The Little Mermaid is written just for you and your students. It is a faithful telling of the story you know so well, simplified for young performers. Best of all, it's lots of fun for everyone! Simplified Script for Kids to Perform! Wicked Odessa has exciting scenes with her Slithery Sirs! The Little Mermaid, Buford Elementary School, Lennox, CA Just for Kids: Easy dialogue.  Speeches and vocabulary are appropriate for child performers ages 6 - 14. A Flexible Cast of 24-39 Students: Easily adapted for a smaller or larger cast. Every role has at least three spoken lines!  Add as many roles as you like! The Little Mermaid can be played by up to 6 girls to ensure that no one child is the "star".  Multiple roles are also suggested for several other roles. About 45 minutes long: Long enough to be a substantial project and short enough to accommodate your teaching schedule. Easy costumes and scenery: Many suggestions on how to create or find what you need to make a great looking production without breaking your budget! A beautiful musical soundtrack, backing track CD with familiar tunes.  Songs are easy for children to learn and perform. Young Sailors, Solano Youth Theatre, Fairfield, CA READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, HEAR SOUND CUES Kids Blossom on Your Stage! Even shy kids shine in this easy, fun musical play! Children's Theatre Company, Goderich, Ontario "There are so many things I love about ArtReach's plays.  The scripts are funny and so easy to memorize that even my students who struggle in English class can be stars in front of adoring crowds, and the expanded casts allow my shy students to blossom without fear of failure.  The scripts also suggest simple sets, props, and costumes that allow us to produce joyous, life-filled plays on a budget that excludes no one." Laree Ott, St. Anthony Middle School, Kailua, Hawaii  Affordable Musical School Play Package!  "What An Amazing Experience!" Sailors, French Chef, Castle Servants, Neptune's Underwater Court "What an amazing experience for the cast, crew, and audience!  My students ran with it on stage and behind the scenes.  I was so spoiled with the creativity of my student costumers. The script was so much fun and easy to perform." Scott Nelson, O'Gorman High School, Sioux Falls  "Thank you again and again!" Amazing Costumes! Oyster, Starfish, King Neptune, Merman READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, HEAR SOUND CUES "Kathryn Schultz Miller is arguably America's leading playwright  for children, with a career spanning more than 30 years."    David Jacobson, Life Newspapers, Sacramento, CA Kathryn Schultz Miller is the author of over 50 plays for young audiences. Her plays have received countless awards and have been produced by amateur and professional theatre companies around the world. Having served as Artistic Director of the professional ArtReach Touring Theatre for over 20 years, Ms. Miller is one of the nation's most produced playwrights for young people. "You offer a great product that is affordable for our school."  JoAnna Pillsbury, Brewster Elementary, Rochester Hills MI Recommended for Grades 1 and Up! Mermaid and Prince, Aruba, Finny & Little Mermaid Buford Elementary School, Lennox, CA This School-Play, Children's Musical Play, The Little Mermaid requires no professional experience in theatre. It is written in simple terms with lots of practical suggestions. Suggestions on how to use simple percussion instruments (raid the music room!) to excellent effect. Open staging! Your gymnasium, cafeteria or any other large room is perfect. Costume pieces and scenery can be made in the classroom. Lots of humor, fun and helpful tips! Lindsey Elementary School, Chesterland, OH SCHOOL PLAY PACKAGE (Everything) One payment for everything you need to perform the play at your school or organization. No need to purchase multiple scripts, no royalty quote, no separate royalty payment. Order the School Play Package and you're done -- start rehearsals immediately! The SCHOOL PLAY PACKAGE Includes: 1. Master Script ($9.95) 2. Teachers Guide ($9.95) 3. CD Soundtrack ($29.95) 4. Performance License ($60.00) (License: Rights to copy script, Royalty for one performance) Get Everything ($109.85 value) - Only $99.95 ( SAVE MORE $$$ WITH FULL DOWNLOAD - NO SHIPPING COSTS! ) Internet Music Resources: Karaoke CDs & Sheet Music Click to search Internet for karaoke cds or sheet music "Thank you for providing outstanding children's plays, adaptations, scripts, staging notes, background music and study guides.  Our school had 24 cast members and additional 20 kids involved in crew.  It is such a great way to engage so many children together."  Sarah Lambrecht, Teacher, Lincoln Elem, Wauwatosa WI READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, HEAR SOUND CUES Fun Musical for Cast, Crew, Kids! The Little Mermaid Musical, O'Gorman High School, Sioux Falls "We've done 2 of your scripts and I can't tell you how much I appreciate what you do. We cast 1st through 5th grade kids, in an inner-city school, all second language learners, and they loved it! Your scripts are well-paced, clear, and fun for all!"  Greg Tutt, Teacher, Buford Elementary, Lennox, CA Affordable Musical School Play Package!  Great Family Entertainment from ArtReach! The Little Mermaid, Children's Theatre Company, Goderich, Ontario "Thank you so much for providing such an excellent children's script for us! It was so easy even for two people with zero experience.  We had a cast of 90 children, grades K-5th, we had over 700 people attend! We had so much fun and the kids had fans, signed autographs, and simply had a great time. We never have experienced something so enjoyable. The whole community came together to make this production possible." DeWayne Durr, Teacher, Piner Elementary, Morning View, KY Everyone On Stage for Curtain Call! Sailors, Underwater Creatures, Odessa and Slithery Sirs! O'Gorman High School, Sioux Falls READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, HEAR SOUND CUES Info READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, HEAR SOUND CUES Audience Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Parents, Teachers, Families, Community Cast Flexible cast of 24-39: 6 male, 10 female, all others m/f, easily adapted for smaller/larger casts, grades 1-6.  Time About 45 minutes CD Cues, sound effects, background music (traditional-classical) Royalty Royalty & Performance License Required (Details) SCHOOL PLAY PACKAGE (Everything) - $99.95 READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, HEAR SOUND CUES   TEACHERS! Looking for large cast plays & musicals for your students to perform? We have scripts written just for you! Click on any title below... 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