Pioneer Drama is pleased to recommend these 437 plays and musicals, hand-selected for elementary school.
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Hard Boiled: A Nursery Crime
Cast: Flexible cast of 17 to 65
Set/Time: Interior interrogation room / About 60 minutes You don’t have to be an “eggs-pert” to love this series of nursery rhyme-inspired vignettes! More... |
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North Pole’s Got Talent
Cast: Flexible cast of 15-28 (2M, 3F, plus 10-23 roles that can be any), optional extras
Set/Time: Bare stage / About 25 minutes It’s just days before Christmas at Santa’s Workshop, and there’s still lots of work to be done — like getting the elves and reindeer in the proper holiday spirit with song, dance, and big belly laughs! More... |
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Twice Upon a Time
Cast: Flexible cast of 17-31, optional extras
Set/Time: Simple enchanted forest set / About 60 minutes You’ll remember Grumplegrapeskin and all the rest of the kooky characters in this charming and flexible one-act packed with five fractured fairy tales that will really crack you up! More... |
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The Fairy Tale Network
Cast: Flexible cast of 18 (3M, 4F, plus 11 roles that can be any), extras
Set/Time: Bare stage / About 30 minutes This hilarious play is wonderfully easy to produce with loads of humor for both kids and their parents. More... |
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Peter Pan
Based on the novel by J.M. Barrie
Cast: Flexible cast of 26, optional extras, doubling
Set/Time: Simple interior and exterior sets / About 75 minutes This superb adaptation captures all the magic and charm of everyone’s favorite story. More... |
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After Hours
Cast: Flexible cast of 16 (5M, 5F, plus 6 roles that can be any), optional doubling
Set/Time: Interior clothing store set / About 25 minutes All is quiet on the storefront as the owner of a small clothes shop locks up for the night. Little does she know that when the lights go out, activity in her store really picks up! More... |
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Dr. Experimentor and the League of Evil
Cast: Flexible cast of 13-32, optional extras
Set/Time: Simple interior and exterior sets / About 55-70 minutes The director has great control over both the cast size and running time in this hysterical, action-packed tale of friendship, betrayal, and power. More... |
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The Ever After — A Musical
Cast: Flexible cast of 16 (2M, 9F, plus 5 roles that can be any), chorus
Set/Time: Interior talk show 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... |
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Dorothy in Wonderland
Cast: Flexible cast of 20-33 (3M, 7F, plus 23 roles that can be any), optional extras, doubling
Set/Time: Simple interior and exterior sets / About 75 minutes The worlds of Oz and Wonderland collide in this fantastically fun romp, cleverly and carefully adapted from the works of L. Frank Baum and Lewis Carroll. More... |
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Happily Never After
Cast: 4M, 7F
Set/Time: Interior office 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... |









