Fractured Fairy Tales: Colorful, Humorous Retellings of Classic Stories Brought to Life

	Fractured Fairy Tales Folk and fairy tales have entertained theater audiences for hundreds of years. From one act touring plays to full length musical theatre productions, these humorous takes on favorite tales full of colorful characters and plot twists will be sure to keep your audiences grinning from ear to ear! Pioneer Drama’s large selection of fractured fairy tale productions will enable your middle or high school, community theatre or church group to find their funny bone!
	Pioneer Drama Service is pleased to offer 41 hysterically funny fractured fairy tales, available as both plays and musicals.
	Best of Both Worlds Cast: Flexible cast of 31-37, chorus Set/Time: Area staging / About 60 minutes The best — and worst! — of both worlds meet when fantasy meets the harsh reality of school in this toe-tapping, pop musical adventure! More...	Sort by: Title Minimum cast size Running time Narrow your results: Non-musical (31) Musical (10) One act (37) Full length (5) 1-5 characters (1) 6-10 characters (7) 11-15 characters (13) 16-20 characters (11) 21-25 characters (8) 26-30 characters (2) 31 characters or more (5) 30-55 minutes (24) 60-85 minutes (16) 90 minutes or more (3) Children's theatre (37) Melodramas (1) Spoof or farce (27) Audience participation (2) Literary classic or adaptation (5) Melodrama/Western (2) Folk or fairy tale (32) Decade based (1920's - 1970's) (1) Start a new search

	Big Bad Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (3M, 5F, plus 6 roles that can be either) Set/Time: Simple courtroom set / About 45 minutes The most notorious criminal in the fairy-tale world, Big Bad Wolf, is being slapped with a class-action lawsuit by the countless quirky characters he has wronged. More...

	The Big Bad Musical A Howling Courtroom Comedy Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (about 3M, 5F, plus 6 roles that can be either), chorus Set/Time: Simple courtroom set / About 60 minutes The jury — your audience — must decide the outcome of the biggest trial ever in the fairy-tale world! More...

	Brothers Grimm: Out of Order Cast: Flexible cast of 17 (5M, 8F, plus 4 roles that can be either), extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 50 minutes When brothers Jake and Will Grimm can’t agree on a script, they end up in a fight — pages are swapped, plots intermingled... it’s a complete mess! More...

	Cinderella Caterpillar Cast: Flexible cast of 10-14 Set/Time: Simple set / About 50 minutes This savvy spoof turns the age-old love story into a modern-day bug story with a fresh and original twist! More...

	Cinderella Goes Disco Cast: 1M, 3F Set/Time: Minimal set requirements / About 45 minutes This play combines three traditional fairy tales in a most unusual fashion. In the end, Cinderella attends a disco dance. More...

	Doc, Doc... Goose! Cast: Flexible cast of 6-15 (2-6M, 4-9F) Set/Time: Simple set / About 45 minutes Just think about those old-fashioned nursery rhymes and it’s easy to see why Mother Goose went to medical school and opened up a clinic in Nurseryland. More...

	Doo-Wop Wed Widing Hood A 50s Musical! Cast: 8M, 10F, plus 3 roles that can be either, chorus Set/Time: Area staging / About 75 minutes It’s the 1950s, hula-hoops are in high demand, and so is Little Red Riding Hood! Complete with the Big Bad Wolf and a sock-hopping ‘50s score, this show is guaranteed to end happily ever after! More...

	The Emperor’s Birthday Suit Cast: 5M, 11F, plus 4 roles that can be either Set/Time: Area staging / About 60 minutes The emperor of Thyswood is looking for a new suit of clothes, but you probably already knew that. More...

	The Ever After — A Musical Cast: Flexible cast of 16 about 2M, 9F, plus 5 roles that can be either, chorus Set/Time: Simple set / About 50 minutes Is Ever After really as happy as everyone expected? In a hilarious parody of daytime TV, host Sally Lizzie Jesse Donatello-Griffin wonders if time truly heals all wounds. More...

	The Ever After Cast: Flexible cast of 16 (2M, 9F, plus 5 roles that can be either) Set/Time: Simple set / About 30 minutes From Snow White and the Evil Queen to Cinderella and her middle-aged Ugly Stepsisters, this TV show parody asks the question, “Can’t we all just get along?” More...

	The Frog Princess Cast: Flexible cast of 13 (5M, 5F, plus 3 roles that can be either) Set/Time: Simple area staging / About 45 minutes A queen wants to turn over the throne to one of her sons. When she sends them off to find wives, one son is lead to a brave warrior. Another finds a vain woman. However, one son finds a frog! More...

	Goldilocks and the Three Pigs Cast: 5M, 8F, plus 1 role that can be either, extras Set/Time: Simple area staging / About 60 minutes Mix in a classic chase scene and a little bit of a moral and the end concoction is a delightful take on a couple of old storybook standbys full of energy and enough humor and adventure for children of all ages. More...

	A Hairy Tale Cast: Flexible cast of 22 (6M, 10F, plus 6 roles that can be either) Set/Time: Area staging / About 60 minutes This show will have your audience laughing until the curtain falls and everyone (okay, almost everyone) has learned the meaning of true love, true sacrifice and truly hilarious storytelling. More...

	Hairy Tale Rock Cast: Flexible cast of 22 (6M, 10F, plus 6 roles that can be either) Set/Time: Simple representational sets / About 90 minutes You can’t go wrong when you have the magical formula of Charlie Lovett and Bill Francoeur, especially when every single character gets their moment in the spotlight in this musical comedy! More...

	Happily Never After Cast: 4M, 7F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes When Sleeping Beauty will do nothing but nap and the Frog Prince refuses to give up his amphibian ways, a marriage counselor has no choice but to rewrite the endings of famous fairy tales. More...

	If the Shoe Fits Cast: 12M, 15F Set/Time: Single interior set / About 60 minutes A prince is depressed. He’s ready to go to college and study computers. (His kingdom doesn’t even have a webpage.) But the tradition is that he attend a ball and choose a bride. More...

	Law and Order: Nursery Rhyme Unit Cast: Flexible cast of 22-30 (about 7M, 8F, plus 7-15 that can be either), optional extras Set/Time: Multiple very simple sets / About 60 minutes Is there a bigger group of psychotics and sociopaths than nursery rhyme characters? Read some nursery rhymes — you know it’s true! More...

	Little Red and the Riding Hoods Cast: Flexible cast of 4M, 3F plus 3 that can be either, extras Set/Time: Bare stage / About 40 minutes A stagehand wants to bring in a truly talented actress to play Little Red, the leader of a motorcycle gang called the Riding Hoods! More...

	Mirror Image Cast: Flexible cast of 31-36, optional chorus Set/Time: Area staging / About 100 minutes Fantasy comes face to face with the hard reality of high school in this pop musical adventure where the best — and worst! — of both worlds meet. More...

	Mother Goose Has Flown the Coop Cast: 6M, 9F Set/Time: Simple area staging / About 30 minutes The Mother Goose characters in this delightful mystery are familiar to young children, but older kids will love the puns and tongue-in-cheek humor flying through this fractured fairy tale farce. More...

	Mother Goosed Cast: 9M, 9F, plus 3 roles that can be either Set/Time: Exterior fantasy set / About 45 minutes Loaded with tongue-in-cheek humor for audiences of all ages, this creative and witty play does not disappoint! More...

	Not-So-Grimm Tales Cast: Flexible cast of 8-19 (3-8M, 5-11F) Set/Time: Simple set / About 30 minutes A working mother creates modern and empowering adaptations of Grimm's classics to tell her daughter, who has picked up some not-so-great lessons from the original fairy tales. More...

	Once Upon a High School Cast: Flexible cast of 36 (7M, 16F, plus 13 roles that can be either), optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior sets / About 75 minutes You’ll love this complex, rich tapestry of enchanted fun woven with a poignant, meaningful thread about what it means to be alive and in control of your own destiny. More...

	Porridgegate Cast: Flexible cast of 23 (8M, 8F, plus 7 roles that can be either) Set/Time: Area staging / About 60 minutes A hilarious send-up of not one, but two fairy tales, Porridgegate will have your audiences aching with laughter... though possibly not wanting to eat porridge ever again! More...

	Poultry in Motion Cast: 4M, 7F Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 35 minutes This fractured fable scrambles the stories of Chicken Little, who believes the sky is falling, and the Little Red Hen, who tries to get her friends to stop loafing around and bake some bread. More...

	The Quest: A Fairy Tale With Attitude Cast: Flexible cast of 19 (3M, 8F, plus 8 roles that can be either) Set/Time: Simple representational sets / About 50 minutes What do you get when the teacher at the exclusive Fantasy Academy challenges her fairy tale character students to embark on a quest to cure Grandma? You get a lesson in helping others, plenty of silliness and sight-gags, and lots of fun for all! More...

	The Quest for Quasi How Little Red Got Her Hunch Back Cast: Flexible cast of 20, optional doubling Set/Time: Simple sets / About 40 minutes When Red Riding Hood wins a date with Quasimodo, the famous Hunchback of Notre Dame, on “The Dating Game,” she has a hunch she may have found the man of her dreams. More...

	The Real Story of Little Red Riding Hood Cast: Flexible cast of 10 Set/Time: Simple settings / About 60 minutes It's rare we get a chance to get the infamous Wolf's point of view of this popular story. In this hilarious musical, however, our compassionate and sympathetic beast is understandably upset. More...

	Red vs. the Wolf Cast: Flexible cast of 10 Set/Time: Simple settings / About 45 minutes The kind, sensitive wolf gentleman from the Little Red Riding Hood story is upset, He has been maligned by society because of a story that has been repeated to generations of children. More...

	Revenge of the Pigs Cast: Flexible cast of 12 (4M, 3F, plus 5 roles that can be either) Set/Time: Simple interior and exterior sets / About 45 minutes Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Not these little pigs in this fun and funny fractured fairy tale! More...

	Snew White Cast: Flexible cast of 19 (7M, 5F, plus 7 roles that can be either) Set/Time: Area staging / About 30 minutes When Snew White hides out from the evil queen with an odd assortment of dwarves (Snippy, Sloppy, Spiffy, Twitchy, Nosey, Sticky and Brad the Surfer Dwarf), hilarity ensues. More...

	Super Duck Cast: Flexible cast of 24 (8M, 10F, plus 6 roles that can be either), optional extras, doubling Set/Time: Exterior pastoral sets / About 45 minutes It’s the beloved tale of The Ugly Duckling with a super-powered, action-packed twist! More...

	The Three Little Pigs Out West Cast: Flexible cast of 17, optional extras and chorus Set/Time: Two simple exterior sets / About 90 minutes The younger pigs have just lost their houses to the Big Bad Wolf. The two pigs and their older brother decide that it is the perfect time for a vacation and head out west to Baby Bear's Dude Ranch. More...

	The Twelve Dancing Princesses in Metaphasia Cast: 4M, 15F, plus 3 roles that can be either, extras, optional doubling Set/Time: Area staging / About 60 minutes With a gentle message about accepting changes in our lives, the exciting adventure will captivate imaginations of all ages. More...

	Twinderella Cast: Flexible cast of 31 (about 12M, 10F, plus 9 roles that can be either), optional extras, doubling Set/Time: Simple area staging / About 50 minutes Cinderella's cruel stepmother and evil stepsisters make her rotate tires. Bob, her long lost twin brother, is forced by his evil stepfather and cruel stepbrothers to organize their sock drawers. More...

	Twinderella — The Musical Cast: Flexible cast of 31 (12M, 10F, plus 9 roles that can be either), chorus, optional doubling Set/Time: Simple area staging / About 70 minutes This hilarious musical send-up of Cinderella will delight actors and audiences alike. More...

	Unhappily Ever After Cast: 5M, 11F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes When Sleeping Beauty will do nothing but nap and the Frog Prince refuses to give up his amphibian ways, a marriage counselor has no choice but to rewrite the endings of famous fairy tales. More...

	A Walk in the Woods Cast: Flexible cast of 20 (5M, 8F, plus 7 roles that can be either) Set/Time: Simple interior and exterior sets / About 60 minutes With a large, flexible cast, plenty of onstage time for all actors and lots of energy, there’s fresh humor and fun for every generation in your audience! More...

	The Wizard of Oz in the Wild West Cast: Flexible cast of 15 Set/Time: Several simple sets / About 60 minutes A spell cast by the wicked witch sends Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tim Man back through time and into the western frontier of the 1880s. More...

	Wooing Wed Widing Hood Cast: 8M, 10F, plus 3 roles that can be either Set/Time: Area staging / About 50 minutes Wise Prince Jason, Strong Prince Justin and ordinary Loud Prince Frank all want to woo Little Red Riding Hood, who has two sisters, Big Green Riding Hood and Medium Purple Riding Hood. More...