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New Clothes for the Empress

Book, music and lyrics by Eleanor Harder


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CAST:  2M, 4F, optional chorus
SET:  Bare stage
TIME:  About 90 minutes
Script:
$8.50 each (Click for more items) Piano score:  $27.50 each


ROYALTY:
$95 First Performance
$95 Each Additional Performance

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Young audiences will love this twist to the well-known tale The Emperor’s New Clothes.  The clothes-conscious empress is constantly demanding that her talented seamstress, Carlina, devise ever-fancier and gaudier costumes in hopes of making the best-dressed list.  But her costumes are in such terrible taste, nobody can stand to look at them.  Enter Lucinda, the jealous lady-in-waiting who wants to overthrow the kingdom.  Lucinda disguises herself as Madame La Belle Mimi Fifi and offers the empress an imaginary fabric that only “honest” people can see.  When the empress parades in front of her entire kingdom in her long red underwear (instead of the gorgeous Paris gown she thinks she is wearing), she learns an important lesson about vanity.  The flexible cast makes the play ideal for touring, or additional characters and a chorus may be added for an expanded production.


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Piano score:  $27.50 each

New Clothes for the Empress

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STRYKER LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
STRYKER, OH
KINSLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL
KINSLEY, KS
COHOES HIGH SCHOOL
COHOES, NY
MELISSA GEHLE
ROCKFORD, OH
CLINTON-GRACEVILLE-BEARDSLEY
GRACEVILLE, MN
ACT ONE YOUTH THEATER
SCOTTSDALE, AZ
PAGE UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST #8
PAGE, AZ
FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
QUAKERTOWN, PA
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