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Another of Tony Layton's works, this time
in association with John Bilsborough and Dulais
Rhys. This superb one-act musical is ideal
for school actors between 9 and 13.
A group of present-day youngsters decide to
make up the fairy tale story of King Felix
and Queen Sophia from the Kingdom of Winkelstein.
The play is enacted through the eyes of two
of them (Clare and Tim). Their roles are intertwined
with the fairy tale throughout the play as
they develop their own story.
They start by deciding that it is the time
of the King's birthday and the whole of the
town is alive and busy preparing for the forthcoming
festival ('Busy Song'). In the castle, the
servants are preparing a feast and cleaning
the silver under the highly critical eye of
the Royal Housekeeper ('Kitchen Song'). The
King is a kindly man and is much liked by
the servants. He is generous and warmhearted.
He praises their efforts, and rewards each
of them with an extra farthing.
Grenvold is a wicked witch who lives in a
cave on the mountain with her creatures, and
because she got a spell wrong once, turning
the milk sour ('Witches Song'), she is never
invited to the King's birthday festivities,
an omission which has become very annoying
to her over the years. This year she decides
to give the King one last chance, failing
which she will cast a spell on him. Visiting
him the day before his birthday, the King
tells her that "she smells
and has
a grotesque face" which the Witch takes as
a refusal, and casts a sad spell not only
on the King, but all those in the castle too.
Everyone is sad and miserable, except Queen
Sophia, who was not affected having being
in the castle gardens when the spell was cast.
The next day, the whole town visit the castle
for the annual birthday festivities ('Song
Of The March') but the King is decidedly offhand
about the whole thing. He moans at their speeches,
rejects their presents and can't wait for
them all to leave. Grenvold who has now invited
herself along, casts another spell and freezes
the whole Kingdom.
Clare now invents a land far away wherein
lives a young girl (could be a boy though
if required) called Kalaphinproxaphonia, or
Kal for short. Kal is a misfit here as she
is only happy when dancing, when all around
her are content with their lot of breaking
rocks. Such is the shame felt about this by
Kal's family that she is sent away "
to the
world beyond the big mountain
" in an attempt
to bring Kal to her senses. On the way she
meets a well-educated goblin who has been
tricked by Grenvold into thinking that he
is more ugly than he really is. Kal reassures
him that he is only ugly, not revoltingly
ugly which makes him so happy that he starts
to make up new words ('The Goblin Song').
He wants to get his own back on Grenvold and
enlists Kal accordingly. However, they need
some magic for this and to get this, Kal must
first pass a test set by the Great Byng of
Bong.
Byng, and his 'walking thesaurus' assistant,
Ting appear and Kal, having passed their rather
simple test, gets magic protection; Grenvold
cannot now harm her. She moves on and, reaching
the outskirts of the castle, meets Grenvold
who offers her a wager. If Grenvold cannot
'guess' Kal's name in three guesses, Kal will
be given the keys to the castle. If however,
Grenvold does succeed in guessing Kal's name,
she will become one of the creatures and live
forever in the cave with Grenvold. Knowing
that she is safe from Grenvold's evil ways,
Kal agrees, and submits to being hypnotised.
She stays awake throughout, and tricks Grenvold
by giving the wrong name when asked.
Grenvold then 'wakes her up' and proceeds
to guess her name in three guesses with the
inevitable result. This latter exchange is
overheard by the Goblin, Byng and Ting who
enter and make sure that Grenvold keeps to
her promise; the spell on the Kingdom is broken
and everybody who was frozen wakes up. Kal
dances for the King who is so happy, he gives
everybody an extra weeks holiday a year, and
makes Kal his Lord Of The Dance. Clare and
Tim close by telling us that Kal settled in
Winkelstein, married a handsome prince and
had ten fine children, at which point their
nanny enters carrying their baby. The nanny
suddenly uncovers her face and the baby to
reveal Grenvold carrying a hideous black cat.
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| Clare - a
girl or young woman, modern day |
| Tim - a boy
or young man, modern day |
| King Felix
- the King of Winklestein, a character in
the minds eye of Clare and Tim |
| Queen Sophia
- the wife of King Felix, another character
in the minds eye of Clare and Tim |
| Grenvold -
a mischievous witch, another character in
their play |
| Kal - a teenager,
either male or female, lives for dance, another
character in their play |
| Goblin - a
well-educated creature tricked by Grenvold
to believe he/she is uglier than in reality |
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| Plus a 42 strong supporting cast of mostly
either-sex parts which could be doubled if
required |
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| 1) Opening Dance |
| 2) Procession Music |
| 3) Busy Song (Cast) |
| 4) Kitchen Song (Cast) |
| 5) Macabre Music |
| 6) Witch's Song (Grenvold, Creatures)
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| 7) Spell Music |
| 8) Funny Walks Music |
| 9) Marching Song (Cast) |
| 10a) Freeze Music |
| 10b) Unfreeze Music |
| 11) Fanfare |
| 12a) Sad Music |
| 12b) Exit Music |
| 13) Goblin Song (Goblin) |
| 14) Chanting Music (Byng) |
| 15a) Kal's Dance |
| 15b) Cast's Dance |
| 16) Closing Dance (Same as Opening Dance)
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| 17) Finale (Goblin, Cast) |
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| NOTE
: There are no backing tracks for this musical.
Piano accompaniment is required. |
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| Schools who
wish to order using Official Orders
and Invoicing may do so by adding
those items required to the Shopping
Basket as normal. Please make sure
you have an Official Order Number
and the school e-mail address BEFORE
you get to the Checkout. |
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Royalties
The royalty fees below are payable for
each performance
given to an audience, where the seating
capacity of the venue does not exceed
200. Obtain a quotation by either completing
the Application at the Credit Card payment
Checkout, or mail-in our printed Application
Form. |
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Schools
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£
25.00 |
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Amateur Groups : |
£ 25.00 |
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| Duration |
: 45mins |
| Acts |
: 1 |
| Principals |
: 2m, 3f, 2m/f |
| Sets |
: 1 |
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